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Cream mounts were always popular, but bolder, dark colours like black, dark brown, green or burgundy began to appear in the 1880s and 1890s.

These photographs have a neutral image tone and were most likely produced on a matte collodion, gelatin or gelatin bromide paper.The front usually includes the studio or photographers' name and location.The back sometimes includes the same information, but more elaborate.Paper prints measuring about 5.5 x 4 inches were pasted to standard sized cardboard mounts measuring 6.5 x 4.25 inches.Mount Cabinet card mounts are usually thicker than those of cartes de visite.

Basically though, most cabinet cards are 6 1/2" x 4 1/4".