April showers dilute the Coffee and Tea

[Silver Creek Slim]

looks like albumen print  due to it sharpness, which would fall into the dates you mention.
There may be a Studio mark under the mount

I'll see if I can get a hold of the picture, again, to see.

Slim

[Silver Creek Slim]

Of course.

I figure the silk should filter better than cotton.

Slim

[Major 2]

Just imagine Del, had someone walked into your former store front so equipped 

I was out Thursday in my silk scarf ( blue with white pukka dots ) shades of Teddy Roosevelt's in Cuba 

[Silver Creek Slim]

Jammed a finger playing basketball with Micah. Time to ice it. 

Slim

[Delmonico]

I figure the silk should filter better than cotton.

Slim

Question, if pharts pass through underwear and jeans, why do we think a mask will stop virus.  Test it, wear a mask and phart in a small area, yep, still stinks.

[Delmonico]

https://nypost.com/2020/04/20/can-the-coronavirus-be-spread-through-farts/

[litl rooster]

Slim does any one know when he passed on? Or where he rest? It appears the way he dressed that he may have been a lawyer or politician 

Out running errands, don't want to look like somebody from Hong Kong.

Instead you look like someone from Wuhan


I've got one of them blue with white polka dots-?i got it for wild bunch persona 

[Silver Creek Slim]

Slim does any one know when he passed on? Or where he rest? It appears the way he dressed that he may have been a lawyer or politician 

5/12/1826 - 6/6/1894 He died in Pine River, which is a mile from here. Buried in the Pine River Cemetery. He was a medical doctor.

Slim

[Silver Creek Slim]

Morning y'all.
Coffee and tea are hot.

'Tis 41 and sunny. High of 62.

Slim

[litl rooster]

5/12/1826 - 6/6/1894 He died in Pine River, which is a mile from here. Buried in the Pine River Cemetery. He was a medical doctor.

Slim

Thanks for the coffee Slim

So Dr. Jewels was 67 when he passed. The photo I am judging he was in his 30's by age. Like you and good Major submized. I vote for the Mid 50's to early 60's
My original post yesterday I started to say it looked like he was a gentleman of means like a doctor. It just didn't sound humorous. He was dressed pretty toney. Delmonico May have been his haberdasher   

[River City John]

I wonder if it is a daguerreotype, rather than albumen print.
Albumen print was invented 1850, yes, but most of the hard plate images, like daguerreotypes, tintypes and ambrotypes, were the ones being inset into those types of cases. Paper prints were often mounted on stiff card, such as cabinet cards, cart 'd visite, etc.

The silver tarnishing discoloration evident on the right occurred on daguerreotypes, too.

As to sharpness of image, - studio portraits, regardless of process used, tended to be in sharper focus, as the focal length, light conditions, exposure times based on those light conditions, subject being kept immobile, and darkroom developing processing were known factors any good likeness photographer had experimented with enough to know his craft.
The standing collar and cravat, and ubiquitous somber dark vest and waistcoat for a 'professional man' fit the era we've agreed as far as timeframe.

Yes, possible to be a paper albumen image stuck in a daguerreotype case, but short of carefully removing and checking the back, hard to say. Are those fly specks, or rust pinpricks? Is there a cover glass the image is behind, or the actual surface?

Regardless, it's a great image recording the dignity and status of the subject.

RCJ

[Silver Creek Slim]

There is glass over the image.

I'll see if my mother-in-law still has the photo.

Slim

[Silver Creek Slim]

I wonder if it is a daguerreotype, rather than albumen print.
Albumen print was invented 1850, yes, but most of the hard plate images, like daguerreotypes, tintypes and ambrotypes, were the ones being inset into those types of cases. Paper prints were often mounted on stiff card, such as cabinet cards, cart 'd visite, etc.

I have paper prints mounted on stiff card of my ggreat grand parents.

Slim

[Major 2]

I wonder if it is a , rather than albumen print.
Albumen print was invented 1850, yes, but most of the hard plate images, like daguerreotypes, tintypes and ambrotypes, were the ones being inset into those types of cases. Paper prints were often mounted on stiff card, such as cabinet cards, cart 'd visite, etc.

The silver tarnishing discoloration evident on the right occurred on daguerreotypes, too.

As to sharpness of image, - studio portraits, regardless of process used, tended to be in sharper focus, as the focal length, light conditions, exposure times based on those light conditions, subject being kept immobile, and darkroom developing processing were known factors any good likeness photographer had experimented with enough to know his craft.
The standing collar and cravat, and ubiquitous somber dark vest and waistcoat for a 'professional man' fit the era we've agreed as far as timeframe.

Yes, possible to be a paper albumen image stuck in a daguerreotype case, but short of carefully removing and checking the back, hard to say. Are those fly specks, or rust pinpricks? Is there a cover glass the image is behind, or the actual surface?

Regardless, it's a great image recording the dignity and status of the subject.

RCJ

John I considered daguerreotype and noted the discoloration on the right , you may be right.
It is in fine condition as to it clarity if it is.

Actually I think I meant ambrotype and misspoke saying albumen....still it is in very sharp focus

[Delmonico]

It's an ambrotype or else he's wearing wimmins clothing, l00k at the buttons.  Ambros, Darigs and tins are reversed because the picture is the negative.

[River City John]

The buttons are sewn on the left and button through on the right.

I know you're thinking the image is reversed, but I'm not convinced the rule that men's clothing buttons the opposite of women's is hard and fast.

RCJ

[Delmonico]

It is, easy way to tell if it's a reversed image.   Mans is made to be easy to do it yourself, wimmins by someone else, maid or lover.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Morning y'all.
Coffee and tea are hot.

'Tis 40 and overcast. "Rain likely. High 61F. Winds SSW at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 100%. Rainfall around a quarter of an inch."

Slim

[Major 2]

Thanks for the coffee.... Brass arrived I'll do some loading today

[litl rooster]

Thanks for the coffee Slim.


Kind of over did it yesterday- has a rough night.
We did get the new chicks out of the little brooder, though. Today we will make feed store run.