The ferrotype and how to make it - The Grian Press

VIGNETTES, MEDALLIONS, ETC. 145
equal in effect to the photograph of the same
Dame, and can be produced with much more
ease.*
I believe it has not been more than two years
since this popular style was introduced in pho-
tography, and at the present day there is not,
probably, a photographer in the country who has
not felt the demand for this pleasing style of
portrait and made an effort to comply with it.
In fact, so great has been the demand as to create
a new article of use, viz., the ^'cut-out," thou-
sands of which are made and sold every- where,
and the printed directions accompanying them
have probably been as eagerly sought after as any
thing else ; and as is always the case, the demand
for these simple disks of paper has stimulated
the ingenuity of the producers to the inevitable
result: (the patented article,) so that medallion
disks of metal and semi-opaque substances in con-
junction, to produce serrated and Mosaic borders,
which it is supposed would be a joy forever to a
Sandwich Islander, and well calculated to drive
an aboriginal South Australian into fits of admi-
ration.
The Medallion Ferrotype, however, is quite
another thing, it is not a patented article, neither
is the ajjparatus by which the effect produced,
and I hasten to lay the whole process before the
• See sample of medallion Ferrotype accompanying thii
work.
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