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MILITARY. Handsome half-plate daguerreotype of a Major, lightly tinted; in a gilt-detailed leather case with a stamped oak leaf on the blue-velvet lining. 1840s (WITH TWO CIVIL WAR ITEMS) WITH- -"two Civil War items: a quarter-plate ambrotype of a Major; in a half case; plus a sixth-plate tintype of a soldier holding a rifle; in an American flag leather case; separated at hinge. 1860s" [SEE ILLUSTRATION].