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THE PURPOSE OF THIS GUIDE IS TO INFORM FOLKS THAT EVERY IMAGE FOUND IN A CASE IS NOT A DAGUERREOTYPE.....SOME CASES WERE LEATHER, SOME A HARD PLASTIC NOT GUTTA PERCHA AS SO MISTAKENLY CALLED BY MANY...THE PLASTIC CASES WERE CALLED UNION CASES...ONCE IN A WHILE YOU WILL COME ACROSS A CASE THAT HAS MOTHER OF PEARL AS A DECORATION IN AND ON IT.........THERE WERE MANY TYPES OF CASES MADE BACK IN THE 19TH CENTURY WHICH HOUSED THESE OLD IMAGES AND SOME OF THE OLD IMAGES YOU FIND IN THEM ARE ACTUALLY THE BEAUTIFUL DAGUERREOTYPE! (WHICH WAS MADE ON A COPPER PLATE AND APPEARED TO BE MIRROR LIKE WHEN YOU LOOKED AT IT)...SO FOLKS JUST BECAUSE THE IMAGE IS IN A CASE ! DOES NOT MAKE IT A DAGUERREOTYPE ! SOME OF THE OLD IMAGES ARE AMBROTYPES (ON GLASS A NEGATIVE IMAGE) .....THEN THERE IS THE TINTYPE...MOST TINTYPES WERE NOT CASED, BUT SOME WERE!...I PERSONALLY REALLY LIKE THE TINS THAT ARE CASED AND HAVE ONLY COME ACROSS A FEW IN MANY YEARS............SO BEFORE YOU BUY WHAT YOU ARE TOLD IS A DAGUERREOTYPE (JUST CAUSE IT'S A CASED IMAGE) DO A BIT OF RESEARCH ! ASK SOME QUESTIONS !
Guide created: 08/14/07 (updated 07/02/08)
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