Real? Or really real?

When we look at these “Weegee Original Photograph”s (not Original Weegee Photographs), that are available on ebay, we think, “there is no way these are Weegee photos…” but then, the optimist in us thinks, “well maybe they are, it’s not impossible…”

How can one prove that they are “real”? How can one prove that they are “not real”?

Almost all, more than 90%, of the “Credit Photo by WEEGEE the Famous” stamps that we’ve seen are in a purple-pink color, not black, and they never have that ink residue. (We have to confirm the dates, but we believe that that stamp was used primarily around 1943 – but we have to double check that.)

The above example of a “real” Weegee stamp, is from the George Eastman House’s Note on Photographs, and can be found here.

Of course we could be wrong, but we think they are not Weegee photographs…