[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...
Antique photography opens a door to the past and gives us a glimpse into the lives of people who walked the earth before we did. There are as many reasons to collect the different varieties of antique photos...
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...
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 solution...
Preserve those ambrotypes , daguerreotypes , cabinet cards ,tintypes , and cdv images for the next 150 years! These photographs have survived many years of storage and handling. But images are delicate, and...
Guide to buying Vintage Photography With the advent of Digital the market for vintage or antique photographs seems to be growing everyday. There are many reasons for collecting or buying these ...
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...
Tintypes were a cheap and simple way of producing photographs using wet collodion on thin black painted sheet iron (not tin). Fast and easy to produce, they needed no special care and could be put into...