Variations in historic and contemporary plate formats can be accomodated in the production of cases. Cases in a specific historical style can usually be reproduced, if images of a vintage example can be supplied. To obtain a quotation please contact CasedImage.com
Prangey Case
The case below was produced for an unusual plate format used by the early Daguerreian pioneer, Girault de Prangey. Surviving Daguerreotypes by this artist typically have no original housing, and here the owner opted for the intimate and controllable viewing a case provides rather than a wall mounted Passe Partout.
Autochrome Diascope
Although digressing from Daguerreotype case production, this autochrome viewer required many similar materials and skills. Protective and functional enclosures for hard images occur throughout the history of photography, and custom work by Casedimage.com can be relied upon to reproduce them faithfully. For this custom order I modeled the diascope on a vintage example kindly lent by Brian Ginns of Stereographica.com. Autochrome diascopes are viewing devices for the first commerically successful color photographic process, which was introduced at the beginning of the 20th century. The image is held in a glass-plate sandwich and is viewed in the diascope with light reflected from a mirror in the base of the enclosure.
Banknote Case
The plate format for this case is almost the same as that for a stereoscopic mount, but was created for a Daguerreotype of a banknote.
Rounded Rectangle Case
Here the original case was so warped that the Daguerreotype plate could not sit flat and the case would not close. It also had a broken spine and abraded surfaces. The case style had pronunced rounded corners due to the shape of the Daguerreotype plate. For the replacement case I stayed true to the original, to present the family portrait as it had been intended.
