?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
PARTNERS (PHOTOGRAPHY--EARLY AND CASED IMAGES.) Photograph of black and white seamstresses, apparently business partners (supplied title). Quarter plate tintype depicting two women, the white women seated; the black women standing with her hand on the white woman's shoulder; they are wearing the same dress, with slight variation. Np, circa late 1860's-1870's
This would be a most unusual photograph, simply because of the intimacy shown by the black woman toward her white friend. But there is something more striking yet: they are wearing the same dress pattern, one in a dark material, the other in white. 'Why,' you might ask? The answer lies in what the black woman is wearing on her wrist. Just beneath the diamond design on the cuff of her left arm, there is a round pin-cushion of the type commonly used by seamstresses for easy access to pins while hemming and measuring. Their intimacy suggests a real friendship, their clothing and the pincushion suggests a business partnership.
