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Page 20 The Antique Shoppe September, 2017
Old, vintage AMBROTYPE PHOTOGRAPHS
ambrotype photo of
beautiful, young girl
(Southern Belle) that By Larry LeMasters
is valued at $5,000.
This ambrotype has LeMasters' Antique News Service
been hand-tinted and The ambrotype or amphitype photograph the glass images, producing “colored”
comes in its original
case. is a positive photograph made on glass. photographs. Hand-tinted ambrotypes are in
Ambrotype photographs are considered great demand to ambrotype collectors.
American Civil War variants of the wet plate collodion process and Prices for authentic ambrotypes are all
ambrotype of are highly collectible. over the board since price depends on the
General Philip St.
George Cooke; $3,500 Ambrotype photographs were introduced photographic image captured as much as
in the 1850s, replacing daguerreotypes and on the condition of the photo. Expect to pay
revolutionizing photography, but by the 1860s, $500 or more for run-of-the-mill ambrotypes
just ten short years later, tintype photograph and $5,000 or more for American Civil War
had replaced ambrotype since tintype was ambrotypes.
much simpler to process.
In its simplest form, ambrotype photographs
were produced by coating one side of a glass
plate with a thin layer of iodized collodion.
The plate was then dipped in a silver nitrate
solution. The plate was exposed in the camera
while still wet to the image the photographer
wanted to capture. Exposure times varied
from five to sixty seconds. The plate was then
developed, and the photographic image was
“fixed” onto the glass.
Ambrotype glass photographs were
mounted in a metal frame and kept in
protective cases.
All ambrotype photographs were
monochrome, gray or tan in their lightest This ambrotype photograph of a whaling captain with
areas, but some photographers hand-tinted whaling-themed background is valued at $4,200.

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