1860s Gem Tintype Album, 28 + 2, with Sailors, Soldiers, Sisters, Wounded, From Jaffrey, NH Estate bocce ball good for pointing towards all

good for pointing towards all sorts of things

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

especially that yellow

takes on deeper meaning

the Anaktuvuk Nunamiut began making Caribou hide masks--embellished with the fur of caribou

1860s Gem Tintype Album, 28 + 2, with Sailors, Soldiers, Sisters, Wounded, From Jaffrey, NH Estate bocce ball good for pointing towards allThis 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