[drc]

I might pay the $25 to get it mounted, but not as the vintage style Horner mount. That's just kinda weird to me. I saw an 1860s non-sport albumen that was mounted on an obviously modern looking sheet and thought it looked nice that way. As albumen prints are thin and fragile, I don't think it an unwise thing to get it mounted for preservation purposes.

I tend to think if you're going to get something mounted or remounted, you might as well be creative and artistic and do something neat-- even if it looks modern. I'm also wary of things that are remounted on vintage looking mounts. It's getting close to something that will fool someone down the line-- ala 'selling as old reprint.'

I believe if you're going to remount something, you should make it so it's been recently remounted-- meaning the mount is not masquerading as vintage. If I recall correctly, Mastro Auctions had some remounted rare tobacco cards (Kalamzoo Bats?) but the mounts were clearly not original due to the color. The mounts were red or something like that. And, for the record, the auction description made it clear that they were remounted.

In practice, I've had a few skinned albumen prints and never felt compelled to mount them. To be honest, the thought of mounting them never even crossed my mind. That's the way they were when I got them, so that's the way they were.

Though, to get all technical, the Horner Wagner is a gelatin silver print.