1860s Gem Tintype Album, 28 + 2, with Sailors, Soldiers, Sisters, Wounded, From Jaffrey, NH Estate bocce ball and a bit of irregularity

and a bit of irregularity to one long edge from where it was cut out from the album

Drawing measures 8 3/4" x 7 3/4"

Really a very beautiful and from all I can tell very rare thing

Nothing as purely satisfying as old kid drawings of houses I think

1860s Gem Tintype Album, 28 + 2, with Sailors, Soldiers, Sisters, Wounded, From Jaffrey, NH Estate bocce ball and a bit of irregularityThis 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