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Sixth plate moroccans

A stack of cases for a client stateside, deeper than my normal cases, not for ambrotypes but another glass based process – orotones.

Robert’s portrait cased

Case fitting

This a case a made earlier this year for a couple that had their portrait taken by Jerry Spagnoli. The norm is that I make cases with just measurements of the plate package and don’t require to physically sight and handle the the daguerreotype itself. With this order they were unable to send the measurements [...]

Quarter plate moroccans

More recent cases made for the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian.

Waharoa

Lately I have been treking back and forth to this scene to gain a quarter plate for the Morrocan case I made earlier this year. Through the Waharoa (gateway) and around the corner is the Pataka that I recently made a stereo of.

In situ

Images of the seven cases with their seven mats that I recently made for the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian. These images were taken in the Photo conservation dept which like its kind are white walled brightly lit spaces no conducive to viewing daguerreotypes. Also included is a view of one of the custom [...]

Seven half plates

This job for a client has been keeping me busy lately, its winter here so I have been making cases rather than daguerreotypes.