Today, David visited the Scottish Conservation Studio at Hopetoun House, for a training session in cleaning photographic plates.
Thanks to the tremendous generosity of Janet Hughes, who donated the whole purchase amount for the John McGregor Collection, Andrew was able to go to Dumbartonshire today to collect the boxes of glass half plates from Malcolm Lindsay.
Wet Plates Supplies of RamseyBack in January we were contacted by Malcolm Lindsay who had acquired over four hundred photographic half plates by the Muthill photographer John McGregor and wanted us to know they were available for sale.
