I have a daguerrotype I picked up in a junk shop. They are not rare at all, and are usually quite cheap. One of the things I intend to do someday - perhaps if the government ever allows me to retire - is to make some daguerrotypes myself.
-- Cheers, Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: Markus Maurer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 23 March 2006 08:23 > To: [email protected] > Subject: OT: nearly 100 year old photographs found > > Hi Pentaxians > > Last week I found some very old wooden framed photographs > hidden under a lot of paintings in a second hand store. > This are just qwuick scans from the framed photos, which are > too big to fit completely on the A4 scanner ;-) > > One is undated with a very nice golden passepartout with > rounded edges: > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4251934 > > > The second one is dated 1909 and shows "Mr. Johann Läderach" > a plumber from Zurich - made by Buchbinderei Adolf Mink Zurich: > (Again, a very beautiful oval passepartout with some ornaments): > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4251978 > > > > I will search for more of these old photographs and scan the > nice passepartouts to use them with my own Pentax photos! > I hope you like them as much as I do and maybe you have some very old > (Pentax) photographs to show here? > > > greetings > Markus > > > > > > > > >
