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<p>[QUOTE="Frank, post: 9486641, member: 5421"]I've seen ruby ambrotypes on red glass (probably the most common). The only one I have in my small collection, though, is of an unidentified Confederate soldier done on purple glass. </p><p><br /></p><p>Just for clarification, the images aren't "printed" onto the glass, rather the collodion emulsion is poured directly onto the glass, and is then sensitized in a silver nitrate solution. The glass, or tin, or whatever material used to support the collodion actually is part of the original image.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Frank, post: 9486641, member: 5421"]I've seen ruby ambrotypes on red glass (probably the most common). The only one I have in my small collection, though, is of an unidentified Confederate soldier done on purple glass. Just for clarification, the images aren't "printed" onto the glass, rather the collodion emulsion is poured directly onto the glass, and is then sensitized in a silver nitrate solution. The glass, or tin, or whatever material used to support the collodion actually is part of the original image.[/QUOTE]
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