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Lot 3069

Collection of Six Framed Cut Silhouettes of Gentlemen

Lot Details & Additional Photographs
19th-20th century, most unmarked, each presented behind glass and framed to include a larger oval example of a gent seated at a table, the silhouette likely later, and cut and mounted onto antique laid paper with crowned R watermark (9 x 11 in.); a hollow cut portrait of a gent with top hat (6 x 5 in.); a cut and mounted portait of a gent wearing tied cravat facing right with gilt oval matting (6 x 5 1/2 in.); one of a gentleman facing left, with Peales Museum blind stamp beneath (6 1/4 x 5 in.); a hollow cut full length portrait of a gent holding cane and top hat (5 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.); and a hollow cut portrait of a gent facing left, reverse card backing with old photo of a girl (4 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.).

From the Estate of the late Patricia W. Capps, Winston Salem, North Carolina

Some scattered wear to the frames; backings loose; areas of age toning to paper; most with later backing paper/satin.