Paul, I believe a lot of the richness is down to the materials that photographers had at the time, A lot of papers and negatives were self coated, and although very slow compared to todays materials, were very silver rich, much more so than today, also very often the smallest negatives were 10/8,sometimes larger, and mostly contact printed, just a combination of the times they lived in and materials they had which are long gone, sadly,Richard
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