Printmaker: Meriden Gravure Company
Print Origin: U.S.A.
Approximate Image Size: 6.5 x 4 inches
Mount Board Size: 10 x 8 inches
Print Border: No - full bleed print
Condition Grade: Extra Fine ++
Verso: Professionally dry mounted with archival materials onto 4ply conservation mat board.
Registered Vintage Print Serial #: 680A8MM3
Certificate Of Authenticity (COA): Yes - Gallery Certified COA from Fine Photo Galleries.
Hologram Protected: Yes - tamper proof hologram certification affixed to print mount verso and COA.
Shipping: USPS with MUSEUM QUALITY ARCHIVAL PACKING
Guarantee: Always 100% Complete Customer Satisfaction Guaranteed!
FINE PHOTO GALLERIES is pleased to offer an original vintage (NOT a computer scanned reprint) 1925 Collotype print (also known as Photocollography). Whether you collect antique prints or are simply looking for extraordinary home or business decor, this atmospheric original collotype print will frame and display beautifully!
This collotype print is guaranteed to be authentic and comes with a hand signed Gallery Certified CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY (COA) with unique individual registered serial number from the Finephoto Archive & Database.
READY FOR FRAMING & DISPLAY! - The expensive Photocollographic process and the resulting fine prints make vintage collotype prints highly collectible and excellent vintage prints for framing. Your vintage print will arrive ready to be placed directly into a standard size frame.
HOLOGRAM CERTIFIED: Each vintage artwork comes with a fully authenticated gallery certified Certificate Of Authenticity. This COA contains a unique serial number and small corresponding tamper proof hologram with matching serial number affixed to the backside of the print with archival adhesive. Our exclusive authentication system and the ensuing COA/Hologram not only provides our clients with essential peace of mind but, adds value to the print in the future by providing provenance and the original gallery authenticity guarantee documents.
ABOUT VINTAGE COLLOTYPE PRINTS: Collotype printing (also called Photocollography) is a 19th century printing process that is considered one of the finest techniques for producing fine art images. It gives accurate reproduction because no halftone screen is employed to break the images into dots. In the process, a plate (aluminum, glass, cellophane, etc.) is coated with a light-sensitive gelatin solution and exposed to light through a photographic negative. A collotype print is similar to a stone lithograph in many aspects.
When properly executed collotype printing is capable of yielding prints which are difficult to distinguish from metal based photographic prints because of the microscopically fine reticulations which compose the image. It's possibilities for fine art photographs were first employed in the United States by Alfred Stieglitz. Other non photographic artists used the process to produce "original" prints, most notably Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst amongst others. Despite its unique and fine image fidelity, the labor intensive process and ensuing expense of the process caused it to give way in the latter half of the twentieth century to lower quality printing methods which were significantly less expensive.
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