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Country Blues => Weenie Campbell Main Forum => Topic started by: BlindSockeyeSalmon on June 04, 2005, 08:41:22 AM
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Here's an interesting thread discussing a tintype photo for sale on eBay of an African-American guitarist:
http://www.guitarseminars.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/009722.html
Here's a cleaned-up version of the pic:
(https://weeniecampbell.com/yabbse/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fsugarinthegourd.com%2Fimages%2F2e_3.JPG&hash=a25432f64fae17d3c125b7c3d5d8341f7e09514a)
What do folks think? Might this be someone we've heard of?
John
P.S. The seller is offering some other amazing photos as well:
http://tinyurl.com/946u7
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Note that the auction item actually shows a left-handed guitarist -- important if you are trying to identify the artist!
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No - read through the IGS forum and the eBay posting - the original image is a tintype, and tintypes are always reverse images. So, assuming that he was holding the guitar as he would play it, then the tintype appearance of a left handed guitarist means he is really right-handed. What John posted was reversed on photoshop so that he appeared correctly.
That is all assuming it really IS a tintype!
tom
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Tom,
That's right. I should have clarified. The seller seems knowledgable enough that I assume he's correct about it being a tintype.
Odds are it's no one we've ever heard of, but it's an interesting picture all the same.
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very interesting subject here. i actually like the picture of the guy with guitar standing next to the peanut man better. what kind of guitar is he playin'? looks like its painted black.
gabriel