Apr 14, 2015 - Sale 2380

Sale 2380 - Lot 20

Price Realized: $ 910
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) Rinehart, Frank A. Thunder Cloud, Blackfeet. Platinum print, 9 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches, spot-mounted on original black paper; minimal wear, mount slightly faded; captioned, numbered 1385, and signed in the negative. Omaha, NE, 1898

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Thundercloud (circa 1856-1916) served as an Army scout in the 1870s, later served as a model for artists including Abbey, Remington, and Sargent, and is believed to have been the model for the five-dollar coin minted in 1909.