A recent custom order for half plate double cases in the Boston case style

A just completed set of half plate Boston cases for a client. Cases with a push button closure require a very different approach to construction than those with hook and eyelet closures. The initial frame has a recess cut into to it for the L shaped spring steel clasp, as seen in the quarter plate [...]

Some more in situ shots with Southworth and Hawes plates in my Boston cases from the National Portrait Gallery in DC.

Last year as part of my project with the National Portrait Gallery I made 4 whole plate Boston cases. Here are images of two of them with the Southworth & Hawes portraits of Gaetano Bedini and Lemuel Shaw insitu.