Historic and vintage portraits

[Eugen Mezei]

A shadow box is a picture frame that has some added depth to the space between the glass and the back. It is often used to accommodate the thickness of three dimensional objects of some size. Cased images like daguerreotypes and tintype/ambrotypes can be protected in such frames.

Thank you. Going only by the word I imagined a frame with some flaps around it protecting the image as much as possible from light.

[cowanw]

Not a bad thought as sometimes keeping light away from these old images in important. I have two Calotypes of ferns from a Talbot kinsman which are badly faded. I have a black cloth fraped over the frames when not viewing.

[Raymond Bleesz]

I have a paper weight, glass, with a small photo affixed to the botton of the paper weight--a small brown toned photo of "Washington's Headquarters, Williamsburg, Va.

I have no idea of its value but I would say "of value".

[Don Dudenbostel]

What is a shadow box?
I understand the word, I just have never seen such a thing. How does it look?

This is a shadow box. It’s around 4-4.5” deep.

[Tin Can]

How old IS old?

The Art Institute of Chicago
A museum in downtown Chicago that houses a collection of art that spans centuries and the globe. has a curtain that a viewer must open to prevent fading

[Don Dudenbostel]

I’ve seen a few Talbot images that were covered.