✅ SOLVED TinType on Leather?

[staceyanne]

First, I'd like to say HI! I've watched this site for a while and this is my first post.

I have collected old photography since I was a kid, and today at a local flea market I found this oddity mixed in with a box of fifty or so tin types. It's a collodian process, but on leather instead of metal.

Is there anything you can tell me about this process? What it's called?

What kind of photo is this?







(forgive if there is trouble with the photos)

 

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[turtlefoot13]

Congrats on finding a rather scarce image. I have collected and dealt in antique images since the late 1980's. This is the first image on leather that I have seen. I knew that they are out there, but have never seen them. I don't know if there is an actual name for the type of image, but it really is a great find!

Doug

 

[staceyanne]

Thanks for the info Doug, I have never seen anything like it. Do you have where I could get info about it? It's just so strange!!!

 

[clovis97]

Are you sure that it really is leather, and not just textured and colored paper?

If a person had the right equipment, and the imprinting/crash die to make it, this would be an easy project.

 

[staceyanne]

Are you sure that it really is leather, and not just textured and colored paper?

If a person had the right equipment, and the imprinting/crash die to make it, this would be an easy project.

Hey Clovis.

Yes I am certain it is on leather. It is not on any form of paper that has been glued down on the leather either, which is what I assumed it to be at first. It has the same color/texture and grainless nature of a tin type, only it is somehow affixed to leather. I'll post a photo of the side view so you can see!

 

[surf]

Hello staceyanne,

Welcome to TNet & thanks for showing your photograph. Here's a bit about the process: Chapter 23. Transfer Process of Collodion Positives on Japanned Leather, Linen, Paper, etc They were called Pannotype - George Eastman House : Notes On Photographs

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[staceyanne]

Hello staceyanne,

Welcome to TNet & thanks for showing your photograph. Here's a bit about the process: Chapter 23. Transfer Process of Collodion Positives on Japanned Leather, Linen, Paper, etc They were called Pannotype - George Eastman House : Notes On Photographs

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Golly Surf!

This is amazing! Thanks for solving the mystery. I have never even heard of these, and I've been buying photos since I was nine (quite a few years ago). Looks like I have something new to look for.

Thanks so much for the information and being so knowledgable! It's neat to know I rescued something rare before it got too knocked about in a box lot!