(CASED IMAGES) Group of 6 cased items comprising 5 Union cas

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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

(CASED IMAGES)
Group of 6 cased items, comprising 5 Union cases (2 quarter-plates, 2 sixth plates, and a ninth-plate), 3 with images, including a sixth-plate ambrotype of a Civil War figure with a holster, in addition to a ninth-plate tintype of a soldier in a leather case. Early 1860s

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Includes the following cases reproduced in Union Cases, A Collector's Guide to the Art of America's First Plastics: quarter-plates include: Sir Roger de Coverly and the Gypsies (without an image), pl. 29 Geometric Scroll (with an ambrotype of a couple), pl. 55. The sixth-plates include The Union and the Constitution, pl. 110 (without an image) Geometric Scroll, pl. 239 (with a daguerreotype of a couple). The ninth-plate is Scroll, pl. 467 (with a hand-tinted tintype of a Civil War soldier).