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Lot 369
A Sixth Plate Ambrotype and Seven Tintype Portraits
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The ambrotype showing a father with an open book while holding his young daughter, the case with an embossed eagle-shield device on both part (case's lid detached; some spotting); the tintypes as follows: quarter plate of an elderly couple; sixth plate of two likely brothers, in case (very good condition); quarter plate tintype of man with dog (no case, some emulsion loss to upper left field); quarter plate of a man with his daughter (image obscured by emulsion loss and rust, the gentleman is possibly a double amputee); three (3) small tintypes of gentlemen, one image in Littlefield, Parsons & Co. case (good condition).

Private North Carolina Collection