Who Were The Stickyback Photographers in England ?

By around 1902 the name "Stickyback" had started to become known, and was associated with a particular type of tiny inexpensive portrait. The three unique selling points of these photographs were: tiny size, gummed back and probably most important - very low price - at times you could get a dozen StickyBacks for 3d, more normally for 6d. The clientele attracted to the StickyBacks establishment would have been very different to those attracted to a top photographic studio; hence some of the the advertisements listed below for "doorkeepers" at StickyBacks establishments. The price was such that some in this hitherto untapped clientele would have been tempted to return and provide the photographer with repeat business. A newspaper report on a travelling sticky back photographer in Cookstown commented, no doubt with some exaggeration, that "the inordinate vanity of some of the local shop assistants has led them to get upwards of twenty dozen of photos taken".

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Links to Stickybacks and related pages on our other site: www.stickybacks.uk:

• Sub carte de visite size photographs
• Stickyback Photographs
• Stamp photographs
• Stickyback Photographers in England part 1 and part 2
• Stickyback Photographers in Ireland
• Stickyback Photographers in Scotland
• Stickyback Photographers in Wales
• Stickyback photographers in the rest of the world.
• Stickyback photographers, location not currently known
• Stickyback photographers by name
• Spiridione Nicolo Grossi, his family and his businesses
• Photo booths

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