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...
What is a cdv photo? Those three letters are an acronym for the French carte de visite or visiting card. This style of antique photography took over in popularity from the daguerreotype or ambrotype of the...
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...
There is generally no such thing as an American Civil War cabinet card photo! Cdv, yes, as well as ambrotype and tintype. Well, yes and no. Actually, famed photographer Matthew Brady started to manufacture...
What is the Art cdv card? You may have noticed carte de visite images that are not photographs at all, but reproductions of paintings or drawings or engravings. Some may have a poem, or an emotional title. ...