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<p>[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 3681212, member: 8267"]The smaller one looks like it might be either an ambrotype or a tintype. It is difficult to tell from your photo, but if you can identify what the "carrier" is (the material the photograph is made on) you can easily distinguish between the two. A tintype is made on a piece of lacquered iron. If you have a magnet you might check and see if it is attracted to the carrier. An ambrotype is made on a piece of glass, either clear glass with a black lacquer coating, or dark glass. </p><p><br /></p><p>The larger one looks more like a tintype, but from your photo we can't see the back of the carrier at all. The paper mat around the image is more typical of tintypes.</p><p><br /></p><p>A daguerreotype is made on a copper plate, with silver on the side that will receive the image.</p><p><br /></p><p>The earliest types of photographs - daguerreotypes, ambrotypes - were protected by being mounted in hinged cases. Early tintypes could also be mounted the same way. It is not uncommon to find photographs separated from their cases, and empty cases reused for photographs that they did not originally house.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 3681212, member: 8267"]The smaller one looks like it might be either an ambrotype or a tintype. It is difficult to tell from your photo, but if you can identify what the "carrier" is (the material the photograph is made on) you can easily distinguish between the two. A tintype is made on a piece of lacquered iron. If you have a magnet you might check and see if it is attracted to the carrier. An ambrotype is made on a piece of glass, either clear glass with a black lacquer coating, or dark glass. The larger one looks more like a tintype, but from your photo we can't see the back of the carrier at all. The paper mat around the image is more typical of tintypes. A daguerreotype is made on a copper plate, with silver on the side that will receive the image. The earliest types of photographs - daguerreotypes, ambrotypes - were protected by being mounted in hinged cases. Early tintypes could also be mounted the same way. It is not uncommon to find photographs separated from their cases, and empty cases reused for photographs that they did not originally house.[/QUOTE]
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