(CASED ART) Whole plate Union case with a relief entitled Wa

Sale 2097 - Lot 318

Price Realized: $ 4,080

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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

(CASED ART)
Whole-plate Union case with a relief entitled "Washington Crossing the Delaware," overall size 7 1/4x9 inches, with a "Silvertype" [tintype] of a bearded young man and the card of photographer H.P. Moore, Concord, N. H. laid in. Circa 1859

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Krainik (cover image, 2 and Berg 1-2).
Group of 6 cases, 5 of them Union cases, each with beautiful exterior motifs and multiple images (with 2 to 4 per case), and one customized wooden case. AND--Group of 5 black lacquer cases with mother-of-pearl inlay containing a total of 8 images, comprising a ninth-plate tintype with a study of 3 African-American men; a half-plate with double daguerreotypes (one of sisters in identical plaid dresses & their slightly older brother and the companion image a hand-tinted study of a man and wife); a quarter-plate with double ambrotypes; and 2 sixth-plates (one a double-images case containing daguerreotypes of a man and a woman). 1850s-70s.

Other Union cases include: Two Lovers Going to the Well (Krainik 33, Berg 1-16), Mother Embracing Child (Krainik 89, Berg 1-14), Flower Bier (Krainik 94), Children Playing with Toys (Krainik 559, Berg 1-48), and Family Party (Krainik 560, Berg 1-49).