Originally Posted by
Neil Miller
550 panes - wow, thats a lot of glass! Sounds like it was a fine old pile. That old glass is quite different - a good source used to be old glass-houses, nicely weathered look. They say that in the late 1800s early 1900s when glass plate collodion negatives fell out of favour, a lot of the old full-plate size were used for glass-houses. Old vets would tell stories of seeing faded, peeling negs of civil war soldiers, red indians and the like looking out forlornly from greenhouses, the last trace in this world for most of them. Sad.
Regards,
Neil