Quote:
Originally Posted by Leon
Tintypes enjoyed their widest use during the 1860s and 1870s, but lesser use of the medium persisted into the early 20th century and it has been revived as a novelty in the 21st.
....
It began losing artistic and commercial ground to higher quality albumen prints on paper in the mid-1860s, yet survived for well over another 40 years, living mostly as a carnival novelty. [1]
|
Ebay sellers conveniently 'forget' the above. I would argue that despite Wiki's claim that their widest use was during the 1860s and 1870s, most of the baseball tintypes we see are from the 1880s and 1890s and I think it's a safe guess that most of the crappy blurry ones on ebay are closer to 1900. I can tell you - it's pretty special when you actually find one from the '60s or '70s.