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Lot 24

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$500 - 700
Price Realized
$813
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[CIVIL WAR]. Sixth plate tintype of a Union sergeant holding a Sharps four-barrel pistol. 


Sixth plate seated portrait of a Union cavalry sergeant wearing a shell jacket with gold-highlighted shoulder scales. (Some faint lines of crackling to emulsion, few spots to plate; unsealed.) Housed in a full pressed paper case with patriotic motif (surface wear). The officer holds a Sharps breechloading four-barrel pepperbox pistol against his torso with one hand. 


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

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