1860s Gem Tintype Album, 28 + 2, with Sailors, Soldiers, Sisters, Wounded, From Jaffrey, NH Estate homemade fishing most of them 19th century

most of them 19th century and earlier

7 5/8" long x 1" wide and in great condition

to the terrific echoing lines of their bodies (and especially those elbows

This great old super folky hand-carved one with red and green painted hat and great teeth is just my kind of nutcracker

the elephants (and companion donkeys

1860s Gem Tintype Album, 28 + 2, with Sailors, Soldiers, Sisters, Wounded, From Jaffrey, NH Estate homemade fishing most of them 19th centuryThis is the first gem tintype album I've purchased, from a dealer who just pulled it out of an old estate in Jaffrey, NH. I do look at these sorts of albums, and do find the tiny ness of gem tintypes rather amazing, but usually, with one close up portrait of unknown person after another, they don't strike me as super compelling. (On my mantle, however, I have a single gem tintype of a man seated in a chair in a simple contemporary frame that is one of