I got back to a site early Sunday morning that I'd first detected this past spring, then again three weeks ago. But when I was driving by this week, I noticed the farmer had done a deep plow! I decided that it was worth one more try... at least until the spring when the corn will be rolled for the planting. My first find was a frozen dirtball which contained a bent up spoon, then came a decorated two-piece button, a couple of buckles (one iron & one brass with a silver wash). Then came the fork and an unusual bent up piece of brass, which I almost tossed into the scrap bucket in the truck until I noticed an engraved design in one corner. So when I got home I carefully straightened it out... I think it might have been the inside of an early Ambrotype photograph.
The ambrotype, also known as a collodion positive in the UK, is a positive photograph on glass made by a variant of the wet plate collodion process. Like a print on paper, it is viewed by reflected light. Like the daguerreotype, which it replaced, and like the prints produced by a Polaroid camera, each is a unique original that could only be duplicated by using a camera to copy it. The ambrotype was introduced in the 1850s. During the 1860s, it was superseded by the tintype, a similar photograph on thin black-lacquered iron, hard to distinguish from an ambrotype if under glass.
Also included pics of what I feel are the barn foundations on site and a picture of an ambrotype picture. Both the fork and spoon are marked 'Nevada Mfg., I find this makers cutlery often here in Ontario, they're heavy and well-made pieces of brass.
Thanks very much for looking,
Dave
PS. The last picture is of the woman I should've married!
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