The ferrotype and how to make it - The Grian Press

THE FERROTYPE. 25
the meeting of the ^^ National Photographer's
Convention," in Philadelphia, in 1871, the writer
exhibited in a very quiet manner an album full
of his productions in these two sizes they ex-
cited the utmost admiration, and increased im-
mensely the respect of some of the members for
the Ferrotype.
But it was in the shape of the " Gem " Ferro-
type that the greatest number of these pictures
have been sold. These ^^Gems'^ are made by
the multiplying camera with four or more lenses,
and two or more consecutive exposures, and they
differ in size from that of sixteen on a quarter
plate to four on the same. They are made very
quickly and sold very cheaply, ranging from ten
cents the dozen, unmounted, to fifty cents with
paper mounts.
The writer has made of these, with his own
hands, as many as one hundred and twenty dozen
in one day, and sold every dozen at fifty cents,
never having before or since sold a dozen for
less.
These })ictures have a peculiar interest to the
children, and in the cities it is impossible to
compute the number or quantities which have
been made and sold since 1860. I suppose it
would exceed that of all other pictures put to-
gether.
As a branch of Photography, 'the production
of Ferrotypes has now attained to such magni-
tude that large establishments are fitted up and