[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY - MILITARY]. Sixth plate ambrotype portrait of a British regular army officer with shako and sword.
Sale 960 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Nov 15, 2021
11:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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$300 -
500
Price Realized
$344
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Lot Description
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY - MILITARY]. Sixth plate ambrotype portrait of a British regular army officer with shako and sword.
Sixth plate ambrotype featuring a haughty-looking British officer wearing a single breasted 1856 pattern red tunic, belt plate, and 1845 pattern officer's sword, housed in a leatherette case. (Image with light wear to emulsion; unsealed; surface scratches to case.) Subject is posed with an 1856 pattern shako on the table next to him.
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