?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Pair of whole-plate tintypes, said to be Ramapough Mountain Indians. Hand-tinted tintype photographs, each 8 x 6 1/4 inches, with no photographer marks or captions; thin line of corrosion at right edges, otherwise only minor wear. [Nyack, NY?], circa 1860
This man and woman are said to be members of the Ramapough Mountain Indians, also known as the Ramapo people, a multiracial group on the New York-New Jersey line with American Indian, European, and African ancestry. Provenance: Swann sale, 7 May 1987, lot 136.
