Help dating photo, please

[JAP]

Hi JAP,
        A little bit off topic but it's good to see someone with a Thornton Pickard - do you still have it?
... Denn

Hi Denn,

The TP belonged to my ex-husband.  I'll email him and ask him whether he still has it (he lives in another state).  It was quite elegant with a lovely wooden tripod as I recall.  And a cloth to place over the photographer and camera ...

I have a lovely photocopy of a photo of his Warwickshire Gggparents (my children's Ggggparents) - probably taken in the 1860s (they died 1867/1868); I wonder what the negative was!

I also recall photos my father took - and developed out in the sunshine!

Those were the days, eh!

JAP

[PrueM]

Hi JAP,
The neg would have been one of these collodion plates, but by the 1860s some bright spark had worked out a way to get the silver salts to form a colloid in albumen, so we get our wonderful cartes de visite and the other albumen prints which lasted right up to nearly 1900.
 
Prue

[Zebbie]

Hi Prue & All,

Don't think my last posting got through, so posting again.

Prue, blow the highjacking of my posting, I have only been using Rootschat for a short time and it has been a fantastic learning curve for me and I am very appreciative of your time and efforts.

Plate has now been put in an acid-free archival wallet, surrounded by bubblewrap, surrounded by corrugated cardboard (belt & braces job).  It is normally stored in the top of a dark wardrobe in an unheated bedroom, but I will check which way up it is.

Previously I had thought the clothes shown in the photo beautiful, but the lady herself a bit of a plain Jane and the girl rather sulky-looking, but was pleased to have it.  I now see the plate in an entirely different light after your comments and realise I have a bit of a gem.

Thanks to all.

Zebbie

[JAP]

Previously I had thought ... the girl rather sulky-looking ...

Zebbie

Hi Zebbie,

Assuming she was a teenager - what's new!!

Especially remembering back to one's own teenage years ...

JAP

[Zebbie]

Hi JAP,

I also guess they had to stay still for a long while for the photo to be taken.

Thanks for estimating the girl's age - I am hopeless at this.

You've all been such a great help.

Zebbie

[dennford]

wrong posting

                                                   Denn

[PrueM]

Hi Zebbie,
It's been a pleasure     
Cheers
Prue