Restored tintype cases

I was gifted a hoard of old tintype cases that were pretty beat up.  I wanted to restore the cases and renew them in a way that I could use them to house some of my contemporary tintypes.

My first step was to take apart all of the old cases.  I then cleaned the individual components.  The metal matting was silver leafed, and the cases were painted black.

Reassembled, the cases are now ready for new tintypes!

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First the cases were disassembled, cleaned, and newly painted:

The restored cases: