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Lot 993

Sale 961 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Nov 30, 2021 10:00AM ET
Online / Cincinnati
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$200 - 400
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$563
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[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY - UNION CASES]. A group of 7 red "oreo" cases containing assorted portraits, including: 


A Very Very Rare example [3-548a]; 4 Very Rare examples [3-510a, 3-514a, 3-525a, 3-525a]; and 2 Rare examples [3-499a (some surface damage to bottom half of case), 3-521M2at3 (discoloration to surface and chipping to edges)]. Conditions vary, though most have light to moderate chipping to edges and surface soil. 

Cases contain tintype and paper portraits of men and women, and one tintype portrait of a baby [3-525a], including a paper portrait of a young man with ink inscription on verso reading, "Perry Manly brother of Mrs. Elizabeth Everhard He died Sept 1868. Buried in Warsaw [indecipherable]" [3-499a].

One Perry Manly (1841-1868) is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Warsaw, IN. His date of death is recorded as 7 September 1868. Civil War draft registration records for 1863-1865 also record a Perry Manly, born in 1841, residing in Clinton Township, OH. 


Eugene R. Groves Collection of 19th Century Photography

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