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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 10141916, member: 8267&quot;]No, not necessarily. Both types are paper prints, but albumen prints are on thinner paper than gelatin silver prints. To distinguish them by the paper, you would need to be familiar with the characteristic thickness of both, which I wasn&#039;t sure you could do. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The glass plates they are talking about are the negatives, from which the paper prints would be made.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=13430]@smallaxe[/USER] made some good observations about the format, and is probably correct that they are early amateur photos.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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