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MATT-OPAL TYPES (PATENTED). NEW PROCESS IN PHOTOGRAPHY. Messrs WHKmSWOfIffIH & SSffiffgi 1 ho<;ographers to His Excellency The Right Bon the Earl of Omlow, Governor of New Zealand. First Prize Medallists, Sydney, Mcl bourne, New Zealand, and Colinderiea Exhibitions. TVTESSRS Wrigglesworth & Binna beg iVJ - respectfully to call tho atteniion oi: visitorßto Wellington to the large display of specimens of the above Neio Process in Photography now an vie 17 in the vestibule of their studio, No. 7, Willis-street, Wellington, nearly opposite the Empire Hotel. OPINIONB OF THE PRESS. Tabanaki Herald, Deoember 14 ; — " The specimens sent are so exquisitely soft in tint, and the figures 80 artistically poßed, that they have the appearancw of mezzo-tinto engravings, splendidly executed, and printed on an opal surface. The press in all parts of tho colony speak in tho highest terms of this ' new process,' but ao beautiful are the pictures, that none of the newspapers, we consider, havo been able to do full justice to their merits." New Zealand Herald (Auckland), Nov 29. — " The delicate pearly surface given to the pictures by tho new process iB very pleasing, and a new departure from the old etyJe. There is every reason to believe that the clear Opal Type will come into popular favor, as being a great improvement on all other methods of silver printing. Tho new photos require only to be Been to be appreciated." Marlborough Express, Nov. 27. — " We have no hesitation in saying that the MattOpal Type will revolutionise photography, and be universally adopted." Otago Daily Times, Nov. 26. — "Thoro is little doubt the firm havo made an itnpor- J tant discovery." New Zealand Times (Wellington), Nov. B.—" The • Mutt-Opal Types,' while possessing all the character, and even more than the beauty, of the ordinary opal pictures, are perfectly free from the objectionable characteristics of the latter, being unbreakable, and a trifle less in weight than tho common enamelled photograph." a 792 je2o TO OTJR SUBSCRIBERS OUR Subscribers viould oblige 1 , by t once sending word to the office of any neglect or irregularity in the delivery ox one papers by the boys in order that it may be rectified.

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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8758, 21 April 1890, Page 4

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Page 4 Advertisements Column 5 Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8758, 21 April 1890, Page 4

Page 4 Advertisements Column 5 Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8758, 21 April 1890, Page 4