Lot Essay
The case titled 'The Butterfly Chariot' is described in Krainik and Walvoord's, Union Cases as being Very rare - Few examples are known to exist; extremely difficult to obtain.
Details
Littlefield, Parsons and Co., S. Peck and Company, Scovill Manufacturing Company
'The Butterfly Chariot'; 'Day, Aurora with the Genius of Light'; and 'Geometric/Scroll', 1850s-60s
One quarter-plate, one octagonal sixth-plate and one ninth-plate Union case, the first containing a printed bible scene, the sixth-plate containing an albumen print portrait, and the ninth-plate containing an ambrotype portrait of an elderly woman. (3)
'The Butterfly Chariot'; 'Day, Aurora with the Genius of Light'; and 'Geometric/Scroll', 1850s-60s
One quarter-plate, one octagonal sixth-plate and one ninth-plate Union case, the first containing a printed bible scene, the sixth-plate containing an albumen print portrait, and the ninth-plate containing an ambrotype portrait of an elderly woman. (3)
Literature
Krainik and Walvoord, Union Cases, pl. nos. 80, 339 and 391.