[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...
PEOPLE OFTEN SELL AMBROTYPES, TINTYPES AND DAGS AND CALL THEM ALL " DAGUERREOTYPES " BECAUSE THEY ARE IN A " CASE "....... NOT TRUE ! THERE IS AN EASY WAY TO TELL WHAT YOU HAVE ! A TINTYPE WILL ATTRACT A...
From buying and selling photographs on eBay (and elsewhere) I realise many people have trouble identifying different types of photographs - If it is on glass is it a daguerreotype, ambrotype, or silver gelatin...
You can find them in the Antique Photography search on Ebay, but what is a TINTYPE? Tintype images appeared on the scene in the mid 1850s, and remained popular until into the early 1900s! A collodion...
I have of late noticed a very disturbing trend...let me explain ! daguerreotypes are delicate images which, when so much as touched by a finger can be ruined forever...they are a pictorial part of our history...
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...
BUY IT NOWS...I LIKE THE AUCTIONS WHICH OFFER BUY IT NOW ITEMS ! IF OFFERS ME A CHANCE TO OBTAIN AN ITEM I MIGHT LOSE IF I AM IN A BIDDING WAR WITH SOMEONE ! ((( THE DREADED SNIPER WARE COULD COME INTO USE IN...
I see a trend now,more often than not,of sellers removing the daguerreotype plate from it's protective case and either photographing it or scanning it. Please do not do this. It ruins the plate. A scratch on a...