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Ambrotype
A280

Size
Date
Country
Artist
Sitter
Case
Colour

1/4
ca 1858
UK
Unknown
Unknown
Thermoplastic case
Pink tinting

"A. P. Critchlow & Co., manufacturers of Daguerreotype Cases.
A. P. C. & Co. are the original inventors of the composition for the Union
Case (so called) including all the various shades of color and fineness of
texture peculiar to their manufacture and of the embracing riveted hinges,
thus securing them from breaking out as do others that are inserted with or
without a metal brace. Hinge patented Oct 14 1856 & April 21 1857."