Ninth plate hand-tinted tintype. Leatherette case. Anonymous artist.

Intriguing tintype of a man wearing a star-shaped badge on his lapel. The subject, an older man dressed in a smart lined topcoat and beaver fur top-hat, stares directly into the camera’s lens. His badge may indicate a role as a constable or sheriff. Regardless of his occupation, this is a compelling character study with even fine lines on the sitter’s face visible to the naked eye.










[Daguerreotype, Ambrotype, Tintype, Carte-de-visite, CDV, Albumen, Mexican War, Mexican American War, Civil War, Slavery, Abolitionist, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Early Photography]

Provenance: Herb Peck assembled one of the first and greatest collections of historic American photography before it was stolen in 1978 from his Nashville home. Once thought lost forever, authorities recently traced an unexpected clue and discovered many of Herb’s images unscathed after nearly 45 years in hiding. These daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes comprise one of the most important collections of Civil War portrait photography ever curated. Herb Peck was a true pioneer who understood both the historic and artistic merit of portraits showing the common Civil War soldier at a time when they were often overlooked. These photographs are deeply important to our shared American history, and Fleischer's Auctions is proud to make them publicly available on behalf of the Peck family.

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