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Figurative Union cases, mid-late 1850s

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VARIOUS MANUFACTURERS
Figurative Union cases, mid-late 1850s
Twenty-four Union cases; comprising one half-plate, nineteen quarter-plate, and four sixteenth-plate; ten with ambrotypes, three with daguerreotypes and seven empty, revealing case-maker's printed labels. (24)
Literature
Krainik and Walvoord, Union Cases; Rinhart, American Miniature Case Art

Lot Essay

Holy Family (K & W no. 12); Cupid & the Wounded Stag (K & W no. 36); The Music Lesson (K & W no. 37); The Proud Elk (Rinhart pl. 82); The Faithful Hound (K & W no. 90); Escape of Gen. Putnam (K & W no. 98); USS Monitor at the Fort (K & W no. 99); A Fireman's Duty (K & W no. 118); Beehive, Grain & Farm Tools (K & W no. 122); The Calmady Children (K & W no. 129); The Hunter (K & W no. 131); Highland Chief (K & W no. 130); The Chess Players (2) (K & W no. 134); Voyage of Life, Old Age (K & W no. 152); Bobby Shafto (K & W no. 135); Profile of a Patriarch (K & W no. 156); Rebekah at the Well (K & W no. 155); The Masonic Emblem (K & W no. 159); The Meditating Monk (K & W no. 622); Rose and Buds in Oval (K & W no. 629); Moses among the Bulrushes (K & W no. 674); one sixteenth-plate scroll design, and one quarter-plate with sphynx

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