ferrotype

[fer-uh-tahyp]Photography

verb (used with object), fer·ro·typed, fer·ro·typ·ing.

to put a glossy surface on (a print) by pressing, while wet, on a metal sheet (ferrotype tin).

noun

Also called tintype. a positive photograph made on a sensitized sheet of enameled iron or tin.

the process of making such photographs.

Origin of ferrotype

First recorded in 1835–45; ferro- + -type

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Historical Examples of ferrotype

I put one on a piece of ferrotype plate, and that gave really the best result I ever got.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884
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I tried putting in a large number of these tubes, all in quantity, on the bottom of a ferrotype plate, but with no advantage.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884
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The prints treated in this way lose little of the gloss made by the ferrotype plate.
Harper's Round Table, August 6, 1895
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When they are thoroughly dry apply paste to the back of the print before removing it from the ferrotype.
Harper's Round Table, August 6, 1895
Various
More often a photograph is taken on a ferrotype plate and the outlines scratched into the plate.
What Philately Teaches
John N. Luff

British Dictionary definitions for ferrotype

ferrotype

noun

a photographic print produced directly in a camera by exposing a sheet of iron or tin coated with a sensitized enamel

the process by which such a print is produced

Systematic name: tintype

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