I am wondering when the "high-gloss" photographic paper of better overall image quality than the "matte" type was introduced. I have a rather unfocused photo of Hitler dated 1935 on such glossy paper and many of the photos in the Reichspost/Postschutz/SS-photo album of mine are also on this kind of paper. I just became curious if anyone knew when this kind of photo paper came into use.

In my opinion the overall image quality is much better on the high-gloss paper than on the matte paper.

Here an example of high-gloss photo quality (my lousy photo of the photo can not capture the image quality properly):

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The Hitler photo on same type of paper:

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And a photo on lower quality matte paper (showing Hitler and Baldur von Schirach in the early days of the Third Reich):

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All input into this question of mine will be most welcome and appreciated!

Regards,

Kenneth S-H.