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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 9800687, member: 33&quot;]The surface of your photo appears to have some &quot;silvering&quot; around the edges, where there is a silvery sheen on the surface. This is a common type of deterioration that is typical of silver-based prints of the early 20th century. </p><p><br /></p><p>Albumen prints went out of favor in the mid 1890s, so it&#039;s unlikely to used for a photo print in the 20th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is more than one silver-based type of print. If it is important to you to know the exact type, you could look at this list from the Graphics Atlas: <a href="http://www.graphicsatlas.org/identification/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.graphicsatlas.org/identification/" rel="nofollow">http://www.graphicsatlas.org/identification/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Under Photographic section you can find out the qualities of all sort of photographic prints. You can click on each one to find details about the qualities of the prints, and also a range of years when each one was in use. Some of the names do not have the word &quot;silver&quot; yet were silver based. Matte Collodion is one of those.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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