http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/...2-million.html
Trying to match a found tintype to a famous person seems to be a current "jackpot" trend. I'm skeptical of most of them. I could buy 10 or 20 tintypes, then play "match the person" easily if all they go by is how the person looks. They put way to much credibility of "forensics" that just match up the facial dimentions of two photos. If you tried to match a tintype face to dozens of different people, you'd get matches. It's not that good a science yet.
We all see people on the street or in airports that look surprisingly like someone we know, but is not. There are only so many face types in the world. The buyer's, "He noticed a marked similarity between the youth in the picture and a photo of James in a book." is very...very thin.
Where is the provenance? Where was the photo shot? When? What town? Who owned it? No provenance at all but "gosh, he looks like...Jesse James!" ?
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