Lot 561
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY - PORTRAITURE]. A leatherette accordion album containing 8 tintype portraits of men and women in unusual poses and with interesting props, including:
Sale 960 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Nov 15, 2021
11:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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$300 -
500
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$625
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Lot Description
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY - PORTRAITURE]. A leatherette accordion album containing 8 tintype portraits of men and women in unusual poses and with interesting props, including:
A standing portrait of a young man dressed as a sailor and holding closed the mouth of a prop alligator standing next to him (some surface abrasions, minor spotting, bending, and wear to edges and corners). [Jacksonville, FL]: n.p., n.d. Verso with pencil inscription reading, "Jacksonville / Fla." -- A standing portrait of a young man dressed in a Native American costume, with red, yellow, and blue hand-tinting (wear to edges and corners, else good). N.p.: n.p., n.d. -- A standing portrait of a man and two women, each wearing a hat and posing humorously with a studio clamp purposed to keep sitters' heads in position (light crazing to image, with wear to edges and corners). N.p.: n.p., n.d. -- A seated portrait of two mustachioed performers wearing precisely hand-tinted striped and polka-dotted shirts and holding instruments including bones and a tambourine (light surface wear, with some bending, and wear to edges and corners, upper corners clipped). N.p.: n.p., n.d. -- And 4 others. -- Together, 8 tintypes, each approx. 2 1/2 x 3 3/4 in. or smaller, housed together in a leatherette accordion album (some wear including few spots of finish loss throughout, mostly at edges).
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