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(CIVILWAR)
Group of 21 tintypes, including a half-plate of an officer and a woman seated before a tent
and a quarter-plate of a young enlistee.
Also with 14 sixth-plates of soliders (some holding weapons and including a boy drummer) and 5 ninth-
plates; most in half or full leather or Union cases. Early 1860s
[2,500/3,500]
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(UNION/THERMOPLASTIC CASES)
Group of 23 handsome Union cases, com-
prising 12 half-plates and 11 quarter-plates.
Some without images; in excellent condition
overall. Late 1850s
[3,000/4,500]
Nearly all of the cases are reproduced in Cliff and
Michele Krainik’s
Union Cases:A Collector’s Guide
to the Art of America’s First Plastics
(Centennial
Photo Service, with Carl Walvoord).
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