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Lot 218
Sale 6431 - American Historical Ephemera & Early Photography Online
Lots Open
Nov 11, 2025
Lots Close
Nov 24, 2025
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$300 -
500
Price Realized
$427
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. A group of albums, Union cases, wall frames, and other photograph housings.
3 empty CDV albums and one "Fairy Album" containing 12 gem-sized tintype portraits of people. -- One Rare quarter plate Union frame with geometric design [Berg 7-22] containing what appears to be an ambrotype (could be a tintype) portrait of a family. -- 2 quarter plate wooden frames, one having mat, glass, and preserver attached. -- 6 Union cases including a double-ninth plate figural case housing 2 ambrotypes, a ninth plate figural case containing a tintype, a ninth plate geometric/scroll case containing a hand-tinted ambrotype, a ninth plate oval figural case containing a tintype, a sixteenth plate oval floral case housing a paper portrait, and a sixteenth plate geometric/scroll case containing an ambrotype. Also accompanying the lot is a REPRODUCTION sixth plate patriotic case containing no image. -- 4 leatherette or pressed paper cases including an empty quarter plate example, 2 empty sixth plate examples (one by Wm. Shew), and a sixteenth plate example containing a daguerreotype. -- And one ninth plate daguerreotype portrait of a young lady housed under mat, glass, and preserver only; no case. -- Together, 19 image housings, some containing images. Conditions vary.
[With:] A small group of cased image "parts" including preservers, mats, and cover glass.
The Robert W. Lisle History of Photography Collection
This lot is located in Cincinnati.


