Early Photo on Ebay was Probably Ambrotype

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Posted By: jason

Barry, yes someone managed to pry the ambro off me. It was hard to part with but since my collection focuses more on daguerreotypes I thought it was logical to redirect the funds. On the picture front, I reckoned it was about time I reciprocate with my mug shot I think I saw one of you last year when everyone posted images of themselves.

Dan Yes, you are right you did buy those baseball images off me. It was always a pleasure doing business with you!

In terms of my collecting evolution....I was an early baseball image collector first but kept wanting to find earlier and earlier images. I started off with tobacco cards, then cabinets, then tintypes, then CDVs and then ambrotypes. I even had a few daguerreotype images of little boys holding lemon peel balls. Some of them were a bit non descript and could possibly have been apples but some definitely were identifiable as lemon peel or gusset type balls.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, as early baseball images dried up, I turned to the more readily available daguerreotypes and things evolved from there. It got to a point where my collection is made up 90% of daguerreotypes prior to 1843.

Rob, thanks for the congrats on the baby front. I will show my wife this threat and see if it has the desired effect. Somehow I think I am onto a loser though.

If I cant get a daguerreotype of my Wright brothers, then maybe it would still be a cool idea to make one anyway with adult posers.

I still have my 1850s flat bat and a lemon peel ball over here. If I and a friend can grow beards and done fireman uniforms, we can reproduce/originate the worlds 1st baseball daguerreotype with equipment. Thinking about it that might be quite an interesting project.