LITTLEFIELD, PARSONS & CO., S. PECK & CO., A. P. CRITCHLOW, SCOVILL MANUFACTURING CO.

Patriotic and other figurative Union cases, mid-late 1850s

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LITTLEFIELD, PARSONS & CO., S. PECK & CO., A. P. CRITCHLOW, SCOVILL MANUFACTURING CO.
Patriotic and other figurative Union cases, mid-late 1850s
Ten quarter-plate Union cases, one with a daguerreotype portrait, six with ambrotype portraits, the majority hand-tinted, two of the empty cases with manufacturers' printed paper labels. (10)

Literature

Krainik & Walvoord, Union Cases; Rinhart, American Miniature Case Art.

Lot Essay

The case designs are as follows:
Capture of Major André (K & W no. 17); The Washington Monument (K & W no. 18); Sir Henry Havelock (K & W no. 24); Crossed Cannons and the Liberty Cap (K & W no. 25); Union and Constitution (K & W no. 27); Sir Roger deCoverly and the Gypsies (K & W no. 30); Chasse au Falcon (K & W no. 32); Cupid and the Wounded Stag (K & W no. 36); and The Horse Race (Rinhart, pl. 34)

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