The ferrotype and how to make it - The Grian Press

48 THE FERROTYPE.
Copying Stand.—The copying stand is an
important and necessary article of furniture in
the operating room. They are sold by most pho-
tographic stock and apparatus dealers in various
forms and designs, some of which are patented,
and others not. A copying stand, whicli is cheap
and as good as the best, is a narrow table strongly
made of pine, not over eighteen inches wide and
about four feet long. At one end an upright
piece of board about eighteen inches square should
be fastened perpendicularly, at a perfect right-
•'ngle with the table. Against one side of the
table a strip of board should be firmly fixed, to
form a guide to keep the camera in position,
when focused upon a picture about to be copied.
The picture to be copied is of course secured
against the upright piece of wood by two or more
tacks or sharp points kept for the purpose.
With such a stand much greater certainty is at-
tained, in securing more perfect copies. One or
more drawers may be fitted underneath the table,
to hold such centre stops and other articles as
may be necessary and useful for this part of the
business. I can not better illustrate the use and
value of such a stand, than by referring the reader
to an article on copying, on page 53 of " Photo-
graphic Mosaics'' for 1871.
Table Cover.—The table and cover can be
used with great advantage in many pictures, and
is quite indispensable in a well appointed gallery,
In selecting a table good taste, should be exhib-