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Lot 107
Sale 926 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Aug 20, 2021
10:00AM ET
Online / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$200 -
400
Price Realized
$188
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. A group of 73 photographs, incl. tintypes, CDVs, and cabinet cards.
Lot of 73.
21 tintypes, most CDV sizes.
22 CDVs, with backmarks of J.A. Hill, Greencastle, Ind.; Anton Wiedling, Stolberg [Germany]; Plummer’s Wheeling, WV; J.C. Cahoon, Jackson C.H., Ohio; H.F. Heaton, Ironton, Ohio; L.T. Isamenn, Hillsborough, Ohio; A. Lettarte, Brooklyn, NY; O.H. Specer, Circleville, Ohio; J. Gaugler, Stuttgart [Germany];
6 cabinet photos, with backmarks or blind stamping of: [illeg.]mire’s Studio, Lincoln, NE; G.E. Mercer, Gallipolis, Ohio; R (?) Ashbaucher, Bluffton, IN; Erskine, Huntington, WV
“Gem” size oval image, mounted on card marked “Star Studio, Clearfield, Pa.” A tiny postcard, 2 x 3 in. and a 1.75 x 2.75 in. photo, identified on verso as Cecil Tolliver.
Group of 6 images with six men holding a line of fish, two of women in vintage bathing suits and people in 1930s automobiles.
Five small rectangular or square images, 2.75 x 4 in. people in a building, identified on verso as Glady Fork School; and four 3.25 or 3.5 x 3.25 or 3.5 in. of people having a picnic or just posing for the camera.
Ten more of varying sizes, the last being an image of Ronald and Nancy Reagan (color). One of this miscellaneous group has studio awards on verso: “Diploma awarded at the World’s Fair for Artistic Retouching 1893. / Medal awarded at the Photographer’s Association of America, New York, 1899.” Blin stamped on front Erskine, Huntington, WV. Five of this group are kids.


