(PHOTOGRAPHY) Tintype of two women in matching dresses

Sale 2631 - Lot 270

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Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800

(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Tintype of two women in matching dresses. Sixth-plate tintype, 3 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches; minor wear. No place, circa 1870s

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An unusual photograph depicting two unidentified women wearing the same diamond dress pattern, one in a dark material, the other in white. The Black woman is wearing a round pin-cushion on her left arm, suggesting that she may have been a seamstress. Friends across the color line? Business partners? We may never know.