The ferrotype and how to make it - The Grian Press

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THE FERROTYPE.
them by the bushel. These boxes are, or should
be, accompanied by printed directions for making
the various movements for the different sizes of
pictures, or for selecting and placing the openings
or diaphrams, which are set in the back of the
box immediately in front of the ground glass,
through which the picture is made.
It requires some few days to become familiar
with the management of a good multiplier, those
made by Wing requiring rather longer to learn
than others; but when once learned, they are easy
to remember and practice, and are very accurate
in operation.
The multiplier is chiefly valuable to the ferrotyper
to enable him to make pictures in num-
bers. Many prefer the ferrotype to the photo-
graph, and would pay as much for a dozen good
ferrotypes as for a dozen cartes-de-visite ; and by
the use of this box the operator can make and
deliver to a waiting customer a dozen pictures,
which will afford more satisfaction probably than
twelve cartes-de-visite made at the same price.
We have undertaken no history of the multi-
plier in this connection, but only wish to inform
the fraternity that there are a variety of sizes and
patterns of these boxes, and to illustrate the fable,
the moral of which is,
^^ Be sure not to grasp
too much J or you will lose all^
The multiplier may be used with one lens or
with four, six or nine. Generally the sizes lesa
than the 4-4 are not fitted to use more than four of