(CRIME) Set of 23 quarter plate tintype mug shots of photoge

Sale 1947 - Lot 20

Price Realized: $ 1,840

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,000

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Set of 23 quarter-plate tintype mug shots of photogenic ne'er-do-wells. Hand-tinted tintypes of period photographs, 4 1/2x3 inches (11.4x7.6 cm.), each subject is identified, with a brief handwritten caption indicating the nature of his crime, along with the subject's age, weight, and physical characteristics, and date. On 6 pages, comprising 5 pages with 4 mounted images and one with 3 images; overall size of each page is 15x10 1/2 inches. 1869-71

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A rogue's gallery of social outcasts whose nefarious activities included pickpocketing, burglary, sneak thieving, express robbing, forgery, murder, and grifting. The pictures are made all the more interesting by the use of hand-tinting, which imparts a healthy, rosy-cheeked appearance to these shifty characters. According to a photostatic copy of a local newspaper article about the photographs, they were removed from an album that originally contained tintypes of the Younger brothers.<