Figure 1.--This American cabinet card portrait shos James Calwell Jr. in 1888. The mount is an ivory or other off white color Note the colored rule border. The ivory mounts seem most common in the 1890s, but we see a few in the 1880s. |
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We are not yet sure about the precise chrnology of ivory or off-white mounts. We do not know where they first appeared or first became popular. We believe they may have been used to some extent in the 1880s, esopecially the late-80s, but we cannot yet confirm this. We are not yet sure about the 1880s, but they do not seem to be very common. The examples we have found come from the late-80s. We note an example of James Caldwell in Tennesseee during 1888 (figure 1). Darker colored mounts in several colors which seem to have been more commn in the 80s, but we do a few examples. Here are examples are still limited, but we believe that the ivory mounts were most commion during decade in the late-80s. This seems to be the general pattern in America, we have less information about Europe. Cabinet cards were not as common in Europe where DDVs were still common in the 80s.
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