Dapper Man in Black Suit Antique TIN TYPE Photograph Hand Tinted Color

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Up for sale is this antique vintage tin type photograph, 6th plate, showing a dapper young man in a black suit, flowers gently highlighted with green and pink, and the mans buttons and ring highlighted with gold. Nice clear image.
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History of Tintypes: Tintypes were a cheap and simple way of producing photographs using wet collodion on thin black painted sheet iron (not tin). Fast and easy to produce, they needed no special care and could be put into brooches, lockets and paper mounts as well as more traditional cases or frames. The metal plate was coated with collodion, sensitised with silver nitrate and then exposed for less than the time to produce a proper negative. A short development, fix and brief wash were then given, and the plate dried quickly as the metal did not absorb water. The tintype was an almost instant process, ideal for local and itinerant street photographers. Tintype photographers could still be found in remote areas of some countries at the end of the 20th Century. The interest in most tintypes is sociological, as they covered a much wider range of society than more expensive photographic methods such as the ambrotype or albumen print. The six plate tintype being approximately 2½"x3½" was just a little short of the standard carte size of 2½"x4¼" so it could in fact be inserted directly into an album carte slot without requiring a mount.