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I have an old antique tintype photograph. This type of photograph was used circa mid 1800's. It is about 3 inches by 2 inches. Very old and in a very distressed and used shaped. I have provided a brief history on what tintype photographs are. Comes from a smoke and pet free home. Thanks for looking.

A short history on tintype photographs: they 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.