Five-Point Quintangulation (Q-5)

Our eyes don't lie, but our brains can be fooled. Consider this. Have you ever noticed that you can recognize most people you know from behind? Just the back of the head is enough to tell. When we run into someone who looks like someone we know, and we go up to them, most of the time we immediately realize our mistake. It was the hair, or the posture, or just the general description. Then we say, "I'm sorry, I thought you were someone I know..." But if the real person was standing next to them, there would be no confusion, only a laugh at the similarities. Very few persons have ever encountered a true doppelganger, where they had to argue about the identity of the person, who insisted they were not who they were mistaken for. But doppelgangers do exist... I've processed and scored a few favorites on the Internet so you can see how rare it is.

So discovering a 140 year-old tintype of a person who "looks like somebody," as in EXACTLY, from THE RIGHT ERA IN history is not that common.

After a while, as my collection became burdensome, I devised a precise, mathematical method using Photoshop to satisfy myself that my “finds” were just that and not mysterroneous (my word) investments. And some indeed were.

I’ll show them all if you have the patience. But to my astonishment, a majority of my doppelgangers passed my fairly high burden of proof. I call it the “Q-5” process and will explain it briefly. I isolate a minimum of five unchangeable points on a face, then superimpose them with exactness on the doppelganger. I require a near 95% alignment to declare a success. (Due to many variations, especally the camera angle, it will very rarely be 100%) Then with any luck, odds are it is most probably the famous person in question. And my Q-5 process is not an easy one to gain that declaration.

Internet auctions are lousy with false claims, built on weak similarities, as sellers try to market their amazing finds and get a million bucks for yet another photograph of Billy the Kid. Hope springs eternal! Right here I offer any doppelcatcher out there the FREE SERVICE of putting their image through my process… if they want to know the truth. Just e-mail a decent-sized image and I will return it within a week, if not much sooner. If you’re like me, you hate being delusional, and you hate wasting your time and energy (and money!).