FAQ

Tintypes are direct-positive photographs made on a dark metal plate. First introduced in the 1850s, they became known for their distinctive character and durability.Today, each tintype is still made individually by hand.The plate is poured, sensitized, exposed, developed, fixed, washed, and varnished one at a time. Because the image is created directly onto the plate, there is no negative and no identical copy.Your tintype is the photograph.

Ambrotypes are direct-positive photographs made on glass.The image is created using the same wet-plate collodion process as a tintype, but instead of metal, the photograph is made on clear or coloured glass and viewed against a dark backing.The result is luminous, delicate, and unmistakably physical.Like the people and places they depict, every ambrotype is singular.