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Lot 231
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. Quarter plate tintype of a blacksmith posed with a hammer and anvil. 
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$350 - 550
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$531
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[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. Quarter plate tintype of a blacksmith posed with a hammer and anvil. 

Quarter plate seated occupational portrait of a blacksmith. (Some texturing to image surface, spotting to mat and preserver; unsealed.) Housed in a full pressed paper case (surface wear, repair to spine, discoloration to velvet pad). The blacksmith wears a loose-fitting shirt and holds his hammer above the anvil placed before him. 

Property from the Civil War and Militaria Collection of George Sanders of Albuquerque, New Mexico
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