Herold CDV by Berger?!

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(09-03-2016 08:45 AM)BettyO Wrote:  All things aside, I also was perusing the same eBay page and found, lo and behold, a "Berger" CDV of Herold; the same one used in the illustrated papers - is this indeed our frivolous boy?! You be the judge. Never seen this one before -

The CDV of "Harold" attributed to Anthony Berger was known, while working for a time with Mathew Brady, to have photographed President Lincoln at least 14 times in 1864. The copyright was submitted by Berger in New York (not Washington DC), and the CDV was "published" by him in his Brooklyn, NY, studio. Obviously not David Herold, I suspect Berger needed some quick $$$ and had a local artist in 1865 make up some rendition, much like another artist invented the spurious image of Mary Surratt.