Antique Hand-Tinted Tintype Portrait Bearded Man 19th Century Mid-Victorian Era

Description

Antique Hand-Tinted Tintype
Portrait of a
Bearded Man
19th Century Mid-Victorian Era
Antique hand-tinted tintype portrait of a bearded man in 19
th
century mid-Victorian era garb.
This man wears a shirt and jacket and a bowtie at his neck.
He is bearded and wears a dark colored hat.
This image is approximately 2 x 2.5 inches.
The image and its glass and interior brass matting are in good condition.
The exterior brass matting is in good condition but darkened.
There is dust beneath the glass front of the case.
I have
not
disassembled the case for cleaning.
This image would have originally been in a padded closeable wood and leather case frame.
The front of the case is missing, and the remaining case is edgeworn and rubbed and the leather is torn and peeled away.
A tintype is a photograph made by creating a direct positive image on a thin sheet of metal coated with a dark lacquer or enamel that is used as the support for the photographic emulsion. Tintypes enjoyed their widest use during the 1860s and 1870s, the Civil War era and immediately afterwards.
In the 1860s and 1870s the price of tintypes ranged from 25 cents to .50 in the United States. (In 21
st
century dollars that is approximately to .)
At an additional charge customers could purchase cases, frames, or paper envelopes to protect and display their tintype images.
Cased images typically include the image plate and a cover glass, often wrapped together in a brass mat, then placed inside of a leather and wood case.
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