Posted 1 year ago
Benking
(35 items)
I have collected old photos.
But thus one scares me.
It is too old?
It's breaking already!
How to stop that?
Wonder if that person is important?
Help needed please...
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Looks like an 1880s tintype in a CDV paper mount.
It is interesting because of his height: "6 feet 5 in" which would have been huge in that era.
What scares you and what is breaking?
Scott
What is the complete writing across the bottom? Is there anything on the back?
Thanks Scott!
What's CDV?
Thanks Pack!
Yes, the back reads: Henry Collins Mothers first cousin Ted Barwick.
As one of my great uncles was in a circus, I wonder now about this one.
Was such Ted in a circus?
CDV stands for carte de visite.
Thanks USA!
But that can't be because of this size?
It is about 3 h by 2 inches. That is a CDV?
Size does not matter, the image is a tintype in a CDV mount.
A typical carte de visite (CDV) is about 2 1/2" X 4", with slight variations.
A CDV is a slightly smaller albumen print mounted on cardstock of the size mentioned above.
Albums were sold that had slots to fit these CDV cards. Late in the Civil War it became popular to put tintypes into these same size mounts, so that they too could be put into the albums.
The process of putting tintypes into CDV mounts increased in the post Civil War era, just as the use of wood or thermoplastic cases dropped.
Based on the the style of your mount and the man's clothing, your image is dated to about the 1880s.
Too much info??
Scott
Thanks very much Scott!
I appreciate greatly your info.
I have seen and let go many such albums as you mentioned,
in my 50 years of collecting!
But this one still puzzles me! It's so thin, take it breaks!
Maybe it's a negative?
Later era tins are on thinner metal.
Show some pictures of the entire image/ mount with both the front and the back.
Scott
Scott, you mean older than 1880's?
NO-- they get thinner.
An 1880s tintype is usually thinner than one from the 1850s.
Scott
Oh, thanks Scott!
I must look for that.
Thinner ones. Thicker is still older!