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(CIVILWAR)
Group of 26 ambrotypes of officers and soldiers.
Including 5 half-plates, one purportedly of I.F.Wells, Maryland, who served in the Confederate
Army, others depicting a group of 3 drum corps members along with a Union officer, with a
handwritten letter (dated 1880) laid in, and a Confederate fifer and drummer; 4 quarter-plates (one
showing a bugler); 13 sixth plates; and 4 ninth plates; most in Union or leather cases (several
separated at hinge). Early 1860s
[4,000/6,000]
The image of the Confederate fifer and drummer is reproduced in William A. Albaugh, III’s
The
Confederate Faces,A Pictorial Review
(Broadfoot), p. 139.
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(EUROPEAN MILITARY)
Group of 6 British and French ambrotypes.
Comprising 4 sixth-plates of soldiers; a quarter-
plate of a French boy in uniform; and a
ninth-plate relievo-ambrotype of a bearded
officer; 3 in half cases; one in a leather case
and another in a passe-partout mat; and 3
framed. 1850s-93
[1,200/1,800]
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