Sold for $438

Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium

Lot Description

[CIVIL WAR]. Sixth plate tintype of a young Union infantry private with musket.

Sixth plate full standing portrait of a young Union infantyman. (Some scratches, other blemishes, and darkening to plate, spotting to mat and preserver; unsealed.) He wears a frock coat and Hardee hat. Housed in a full pressed paper case (surface wear, loss). The young private stands wearing a frock coat and Hardee hat, holding his bayonetted musket upright by the barrel.

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

Condition Report

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