Sports Daguerrotypes and Ambrotypes

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Dags are kind of heavy, as they are photographs on copper plates. Ambros are constructed from two pieces of overlaid glass. Tintypes are photos on a thin piece of metal and are very light. Dags will create a mirror image, and tilted a certain way you can actually see your own reflection. You can't do this with an ambro or tintype.

There are literally hundreds and hundreds of known sports related tintypes, but only a handful of baseball or cricket ambros. As far as dags go, there are none known that definitively picture baseball, although there are a few known of children holding balls.

And dags are by far the most beautiful photographic medium ever created. But they were difficult to make and rather expensive, so they eventually became obsolete.