<p>Unstandardized plate size tintype on chocolate plate. Hand-tinted "rouge" on cheeks.
PH Coll 500.TN23</p>
<p>The chocolate plate emerged on the tintype scene in June of 1869 in Worcester, Massachusetts under the manufacturing of Phoenix/Phoenix Plate Company. An independent U.S. patent was issued in March of 1870 for the production of chocolate plates, in which the iron plate was coated with an India red and linseed oil varnish. Chocolate plates were highly successful, as they were heralded to provide "a more life-like appearance" to flesh and provide "more delicate shading" to drapery</p>
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circa between 1880 and 1884 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1884-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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