Four Sixth-plate Tintype Family Portraits in a Common Union Case

Description:

Four Sixth-plate Tintype Family Portraits in a Common Union Case, a father, mother, two boys, and four girls, with tinted cheeks and gilt highlights, in a brown double sixth-plate size "Spray of Strawberries" (Krainik 93) Union case.
Estimate $200-250

Images are clear but a little dark, only under very close (magnified) inspection, some of the emulsion shows some craquelure.


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