I was born in the US and grew up in Palo Alto, California.

I initially started collecting sports memorabilia in the early 1980's before embarking on a search for the earliest baseball photographs possible which took me back through cards, cabinets, tintypes, ambrotypes and finally the earliest form of photography – daguerreotypes.

From the late 1990's, I started to specialize in primordial American daguerreotypes from 1839-1844. I moved across to England and met my wife and it was here I stayed. I soon started to take a liking to early English daguerreians like Richard Beard, Antoine Claudet, Jabez Mayall and Kilburn to name a few. I particularly like the marketing aspects to Beard’s licensee business (all his packaging variations) and the sublime tinting perfected by England’s finest artists. My focus has now expanded to include all photographica from early paper to ephemera.

Incorporated in 2015, I now love what I do and enjoy uncovering, researching and restoring 19th century images. I happily share research on early photography – I welcome questions and/or feedback.