Emile Berliner w/ Gramophone Tintype on Ebay

[fmblizz]

not mine.... wish it was...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/154088960653?f ... Sy7paex3Dw

blizz

[Roaring20s]

Wow! A very nice image!

James.

[gramophone78]

Actually, the image is in reverse. This is correct.... Why is there a circle on his finger...??. In my opinion, I don't think it's Berliner, Bell or Edison in the photo...

[TinfoilPhono]

Tintypes are always laterally inverted. It's the nature of the beast since they are positive images. There's no negative so the plate you see was the one that was inside the camera when the picture was taken. It received light through the lens directly, so it was 'struck' in reverse.

The seller put the circle around the ring to highlight it, thinking that it was significant that the person in the photo had a (presumably) expensive ring.

I agree that it doesn't look like Berliner. But it's a very rare image, all the more so given that tintypes went out of fashion in the 1880s with the introduction of gelatin silver dry plates. Tintypes from the 1890s are much more unusual than those from the 1850s-1870s.

[Garret]

There's a real resemblance in an image I found here of Berliner, but something about the nose just isn't quite there: https://bit.ly/33SKihe

[Roaring20s]

[gramophone78]

Not to mention some of the other tintypes sold by the seller are of the same man and at the same location.

[soundgen]

Not to mention some of the other tintypes sold by the seller are of the same man and at the same location.

Thee are hundreds of repro tin types out there and they make them to order and it must be pretty easy to age them

https://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?item=25 ... =600&rt=nc

[gramophone78]

Not to mention some of the other tintypes sold by the seller are of the same man and at the same location.

Thee are hundreds of repro tintypes out there and they make them to order and it must be pretty easy to age them

https://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?item=25 ... =600&rt=nc

Of course I'm not implying the seller is or has sold repro tintypes. Just an observation the same man is in serval shots that were sold.

[fmblizz]

Am I missing something... I fail to see where the seller has listed any tintype in the past???

blizz