{"id":31732,"date":"2025-06-22T01:03:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T05:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=31732"},"modified":"2025-06-21T23:19:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T03:19:40","slug":"the-french-canadian-trapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-french-canadian-trapper\/","title":{"rendered":"THE FRENCH-CANADIAN TRAPPER"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ambrotype of a “French-Canadian Trapper”. Believed to be a copy of the centre part of a larger plate.<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. It appears to me that many image collectors enjoy their finds briefly, then offer them at a bit higher price to the next collector. Some, like the owner of this image, and our own editor of the day, Bob Lansdale, \u00a0enjoy researching an image and discovering the rich history behind the photograph.<\/p>\n

Bob speaks about this particular image in his article, “The French-Canadian Trapper” which begins, “When an early image comes\u00a0on the market that is deemed to be\u00a0a French-Canadian trapper, it certainly will pique the interest of\u00a0Canadian collectors. Such was the\u00a0case when this 1\/9th plate\u00a0ambrotype<\/a> was offered by John\u00a0and Jelena McWilliams of One\u00a0Nation Historical Antiques\u00a0Auction in California. PHSC\u00a0member, Howard Tanenbaum of\u00a0Toronto outbid others to bring the\u00a0image to Canada adding to his\u00a0considerable collection.<\/p>\n

“The image is believed by\u00a0McWilliam to be a copy of a\u00a0much larger daguerreotype (possibly a 1\/6th plate) according to\u00a0his experienced judgement.<\/p>\n

“The\u00a0central portion of the photograph\u00a0is sharp while beyond that the\u00a0image becomes softer, as was the\u00a0pattern of early portrait lenses.” …<\/p>\n

Members can read all of Bob’s investigative article in the issue 24-2 pdf file on the free members-only DVD\/thumb drive. Joining is easy – see Membership above or to the right. Email Lilianne at member@phsc.ca<\/a> if you have any questions.<\/p>\n

And be sure to attend our 2025 events. You may not see this particular Ambrotype offered but you will see many items to augment your collection. Next up is our annual Trunk Sale<\/a> on July 13th – rain or shine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. It appears to me that many image collectors enjoy their finds briefly, then offer them at a bit higher price to the next collector. Some, like the owner of this image, and our own editor of the day, Bob … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[169,2937,253,495,182],"class_list":["post-31732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-ambrotype","tag-cased","tag-collodion","tag-photograph","tag-wet-plate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31736,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31732\/revisions\/31736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}