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306 - Ambrotype portrait in a fine American case. C. 1860-1870 Quarter plate, details heightened in gold, finished with a gilt passe-partout in a thermoplastic case, inlaid with velvet (1 loose hinge). Portrait of a seated man. Casemaker: S. Peck and Co. (rare). Union case based on the painting "The Washington Monument, Richmond Virginia" by Thomas Crawford. After the Civil War, cases with this design were used as presentation boxes to house copies of the great seal of the Confederacy. Ref. Krainik, Clifford and Michele, Union Cases. A collector's guide to the art of America's first plastics, Centennial Photo Service, 1988, n.20, p.41.
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Ambrotype portrait in a fine American case. C. 1860-1870 Quarter plate, details heightened in gold, finished with a gilt passe-partout in a thermoplastic case, inlaid with velvet (1 loose hinge). Portrait of a seated man. Casemaker: S. Peck and Co. (rare). Union case based on the painting "The Washington Monument, Richmond Virginia" by Thomas Crawford. After the Civil War, cases with this design were used as presentation boxes to house copies of the great seal of the Confederacy. Ref. Krainik, Clifford and Michele, Union Cases. A collector's guide to the art of America's first plastics, Centennial Photo Service, 1988, n.20, p.41.
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