[Note: Your comments and corrections are very welcome!]Below are some brief tips for correctly identifying some of the antique photographs most commonly found for sale on eBay, along with a bit of history and...
TAX STAMPS ON ANTIQUE PHOTOGRAPHY You've seen them on the occasional carte de visite cdv image or tintype or even ambrotype or daguerreotype. They look like postage stamps. They may have initials scrawled on...
Why do they have pink cheeks? Although most antique photographs are found in black white, occaisonally you may find a cdv , tintype , or ambrotype with applied coloration. The sitter's cheeks might be tinted a...
As a Modern Day wet plate photographer, I make images of Civil War reenactors. I do both ambrotypes and tintypes. It is very important to realize that there are thousands of these images being made every year...
THE PURPOSE OF THIS GUIDE IS TO INFORM FOLKS THAT EVERY IMAGE FOUND IN A CASE IS NOT A DAGUERREOTYPE.....SOME CASES WERE LEATHER, SOME A HARD PLASTIC NOT GUTTA PERCHA AS SO MISTAKENLY CALLED BY MANY...THE...