Glass Plate Negatives Value?

[ephus]

Value, as with most things, depends on the subject and condition/clarity.
Legendary has auctioned several over the past couple of years. You could check out their archives.
I personally think they are often undervalued. They are extremely delicate, remember they are made of glass. I also think they are really special since at one point in time the glass negative was within a few feet of it's subject. Not very many pieces of our treasures and valuable cardboard can argue that it was ever within that type of proximity of it's subject.

I only own one. Waner in 1932. It has the original filing envelope and notes from The Herald. Picture is showing it held up to the light.

[T206Collector]

Originally Posted by ephus

I also think they are really special since at one point in time the glass negative was within a few feet of it's subject. Not very many pieces of our treasures and valuable cardboard can argue that it was ever within that type of proximity of it's subject.

I agree that the glass being on the field with the player is pretty special. I am certainly persuaded by the concept of having the treasures I collect come within a close proximity of their subject -- which is why I still get a charge every time I hold one of my signed T206 cards. "Hello Tommie!"

[drc]

Ephus is correct.

As a general class, glass plate negatives are valuable. The preceed the film ones.

I've broken two Stanford football ones by dropping them on the floor. They're little but thick panes of glass.

If you're a team collector, or whatever, it would be neat to have one.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by drc

Ephus is correct.

As a general class, glass plate negatives are valuable. The preceed the film ones.

I've broken two Stanford football ones by dropping them on the floor. They're little but thick panes of glass.

If you're a team collector, or whatever, it would be neat to have one.

Funny. Awhile back I won a group of 5x7 glass negs of boxers on Ebay. They were smashed by the time they got to me.

[drc]

They have to be shipped in a box not a bubble envelope. A glass autochrome photo I once shipped within cardboard and bubble envelope broke into many pieces, so I learned the hard way.

[Fred]

The glass plate negatives are pretty neat, in my opinon. Henry had a lot of glass plate negatives of ball players many years ago. There were stars and the average player alike in the offering he had. The stars went for much more than the average players. Lucky for me Ernie Nevers wasn't a star baseball player.

Just saying.... if one of those glass plate negatives was associated with an image on a card it would probably have a pretty good premium.... again, I'm just saying....

[RGold]

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[YankeeCollector]

Originally Posted by RGold

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Im confused. This may be a stupid question but is the glass plate negative on the left or the right?

[CW]

Originally Posted by ephus

I only own one. Waner in 1932. It has the original filing envelope and notes from The Herald. Picture is showing it held up to the light.

I'm not sure if you've ever seen your Waner with the negative reversed, but here it is....