Apr 19, 2016 - Sale 2411

Sale 2411 - Lot 13

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(STEREOS)
Group of 48 exceptional Civil War stereos, including forts, battle scenes, naval vessels, views of the South, and military figures. With views aboard of the U.S.S. Monitor, The Great Eastern, and Sound Steamer Bristol; scenes of General Grant in the field and another of his inauguration; African American laborers; Confederate dead; and a later view of General Hancock and his party. Albumen prints on yellow, orange, cream, or pink mounts, overall approximate size 3 1/4x7 inches (8.3x17.8 cm.), and slightly larger, many with printed captions or labels on mount recto or verso or handwritten notations on mount verso. 1860s-85
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Additional Details

Includes:
A group of 12 scarce views on thin pink mounts depicting cannons and fortifications;
A group of 7 views on yellow mounts, 5 by Anthony, comprising historic naval vessels (the U.S.S. Monitor, Great Eastern, Double Turretted Monitor Onondaga, and the Sound Steamer "Bristol"), General Butler's Dutch Gap Canal, and General Hooker;
A group of 6 views of Charleston and Petersburg on yellow mounts, comprising 4 by Soule and 2 by Anthony, the latter 2 with tax revenue stamps on mount verso;
A group of 4 views of General Grant, comprising 3 Civil War-era scenes (one by Brady-Anthony) and a fourth of his 1873 Inauguration; and
A group of 19 views, 16 on Union orange Taylor & Huntington mounts, and 3 on cream-colored mounts, each with the printed The War For Union title.

ACCOMPANIED BY--Group of 16 stereo views of California, comprising 2 by Watkins, 6 by Taber, 6 by Thomas Houseworth, and 2 by Soule. 1860s-80s.

From the Collection of Harry Amdur.

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