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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 819717, member: 33&quot;]The photograph of the last piece of jewelry posted, the one on eBay, shows the piece is sitting on an antique photograph,&nbsp; probably an ambrotype or a tintype. There&#039;s a chance it&#039;s a daguerreotype but those were going out of favor by the early 1860s. The photo is framed in a&nbsp; brass mat, which means it is or was in a case. Images that were taken in the early days were protected in hard cases, usually the type that could open like a book. That is why I used the word &quot;cased.&quot; I meant it was in a case.</p><p><br /></p><p>One thing I noticed was the disparity in dates between when the jewelry was probably made and when the cased photo was taken. Not sure why the seller chose to put them together. And also was pointing out that I love these types of antique photos!</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, and I meant that the cased photo of a woman was probably from the 1860s or a little before. There are ways to be more accurate in dating them but the date of the photo is not relevant to the conversation about the jewelry! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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