Details:

19th century ambrotype photography collection. The collection includes 20 portraits, some completed with case and some removed. Also includes is an additional case with missing image. The images range in size from Ninth Plate - 2"x 2 ½" through Quarter Plate - 3 ¼" x 4 ¼". 

Overall the lot is in excellent condition. One image featuring four gentlemen is cracked. 

The ambrotype also known as a collodion positive in the UK, is a positive photograph on glass made by a variant of the wet plate collodion process. Like a print on paper, it is viewed by reflected light. Like the daguerreotype, which it replaced, and like the prints produced by a Polaroid camera, each is a unique original that could only be duplicated by using a camera to copy it.

The ambrotype was introduced in the 1850s. During the 1860s it was superseded by the tintype, a similar photograph on thin black-lacquered iron, hard to distinguish from an ambrotype if under glass.

Authentication:
Includes a full letter of authenticity from JG Autographs, Inc.

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