A unique, one-of-a-kind tintype photograph, created as a direct positive on a metal plate—no duplicates or negatives exist.

Produced using the historic wet plate collodion process—a 19th-century photographic technique—the image was made by coating a metal plate with collodion, sensitising it in a silver nitrate bath, and exposing it while still wet.

Each plate is meticulously handcrafted in a darkroom, ensuring no two are identical. Subtle variations in tonal range, surface texture, and chemical artefacts result directly from the manual process, making each tintype an original artefact rather than a reproducible photograph.

* Original wet plate collodion tintype
* Size: 5×7”
* One-of-one (1/1) — no duplicate exists
* Created by hand using the traditional 19th-century process
* Signed.

Each tintype exhibits natural imperfections, chemical markings, and subtle tonal variations—these are inherent outcomes of the wet plate collodion process. Factors such as collodion flow, silver bath temperature, and development timing introduce unique surface artifacts and variations in every plate, ensuring that no two tintypes are ever identical.

This is an original, one-of-a-kind photographic object. Once acquired, it will be marked as sold and cannot be reproduced or recreated, as there is no negative or digital file—only the singular plate exists.