Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A photographic positive taken on a thin plate of japanned iron; a ferrotype.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
ferrotype .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An early, remarkably durable form of
photograph (technically a photographic negative), printed on a tin plate, then varnished.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Strothers, an 'tell' m not on the Boss's ugly tintype.
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"Maybe I don't know what God looks like, but take it from me I've seen a tintype of the devil," Mary gurgled, emotionally fluttering back and forth between laughter and tears.
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The tintype was auctioned off along with more than 400 other Western-themed items, including documents from Buffalo Bill's aborted divorce, Native American antiquities, and a painting from Andy Warhol's "Cowboys and Indians" series depicting a Navajo woman with a baby on her back.
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Billy the Kid gave the image to a friend, Dan Dedrick, and the tintype has been owned by his descendants, the Upham family, ever since.
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They are reverse images, and the Billy the Kid tintype led to the mistaken belief that Billy the Kid was a lefty.
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The black and white tintype of the 19th-century wild west outlaw was sold at auction in Denver, Colorado, and is believed to have been taken in 1879 or 1880 in Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
Billy the Kid photograph sold at auction in Colorado for $2.3m 2011
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The black and white tintype of the 19th-century wild west outlaw was sold at auction in Denver, Colorado, and is believed to have been taken in 1879 or 1880 in Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
Billy the Kid photograph sold at auction in Colorado for $2.3m 2011
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The tintype format was an early type of photography which used metal plates to create reverse images, and the photograph led to the mistaken belief that the outlaw was left handed.
Billy the Kid photograph sold at auction in Colorado for $2.3m 2011
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The tintype format was an early type of photography which used metal plates to create reverse images, and the photograph led to the mistaken belief that the outlaw was left handed.
Billy the Kid photograph sold at auction in Colorado for $2.3m 2011
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The tintype is believed to have been taken in 1879 or 1880 in Fort Sumner, N.M. It shows the outlaw dressed in a rumpled hat and layers of clothes, including a bulky sweater.
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