Vintage Albumens
5 April 2011
When a vendor is selling a vintage photograph and they claim it is a albumen how do they know? Anyway to tell?
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Pun intended?
I knew there would be a wise arse! he, he 
Albumen is an old process that used egg whites and metal salts. It fell out of favor as faster papers made from platinum and silver became more available.
http://cgi.ebay.com/HMS-Malabar-in-Drydock-Under-Construction-c1865-Albumen_W0QQitemZ320222453787QQihZ011QQcategoryZ14279QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Dunno, but I put all my photos in an albumen.
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1937 photo ]y part of the albumen or the ] scraped off the screen and again ] $9.99 1937 photo ]y part of the albumen or the ] scraped off the screen and again ]… |
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1937 photo The white of the egg or the albumen of the egg is sent thru a screen separating the heavy $9.99 1937 photo The white of the egg or the albumen of the egg is sent thru a screen separating the heavy from the thin. The more heavy the better the egg… |
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Photo Reprint …y part of the albumen or the … scraped off the screen and again à 1937 $7.99 The Harris & Ewing, Inc. Collection of photographic negatives includes glass and film negatives taken by Harris & Ewing, Inc., which provide excellent coverage of Washington people, events, and architecture, during the period 1905-1945. Photo Reprint .y part of the albumen or the . scraped off the screen and again à 1937. Reprint is 20 in. x 16 in. on archival quality photo paper…. |
