1860s Gem Tintype Album, 28 + 2, with Sailors, Soldiers, Sisters, Wounded, From Jaffrey, NH Estate wide bottom vase Box: 4 7/16" x 2

Box: 4 7/16" x 2 1/2" x 2 1/8" t

I love the drama of this piece

General wear and a few stains but overall very good condition for being nearly 200 years old

and mid-century modern abstraction

1860s Gem Tintype Album, 28 + 2, with Sailors, Soldiers, Sisters, Wounded, From Jaffrey, NH Estate wide bottom vase Box: 4 7/16" x 2This 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