The ferrotype and how to make it - The Grian Press

THE COLLODION PROCESS. 103
the samples of work shown her, and decides to
take half a dozen instead of one. If you do a
large business, you immediately fill out a blank
with her order, and the amount it will come to,
doing it plainly, and passing it to her in such a
manner that she may take notice of the order
and the price, requesting her, at the same time,
to give it to the operator or artist in the glass-
room when he is about to make her picture.
This is for the purpose, in the first place, of sys-
tematizing business. All orders should be giv^en
at the desk or appropriate place in the reception-
room. The orders should be written on checks
or tickets, with the amount in money plainly ex-
hibited in figures, so that there may be no mis-
understanding in regard to the price, and it will
also be a hint to pay in advance, which, in my
opinion, ought never to be insisted upon, how-
ever desirable it is ; the hint, in a majority of
cases, is sufficient, the money is paid, when the
ticket is marked *^ paid," and, being numbered,
secures the lady a sitting in her turn. You
politely request the lady to prepare for her sitting,
showing her to the dressing-room, making what
explanations may be necessary for her guidance.
We now pass to the dark-room, where we
find the next part of the process is carried on,
that of coating the plates with collodion, and
then immersing them in a silver bath. We select
a plate of the desired size, see that the surface is
flat, brush it carefully with a wide, soft brush,