SIXTH PLATE TINTYPE OF A CONFEDERATE OFFICER

SIXTH PLATE TINTYPE OF A CONFEDERATE OFFICER

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Item Code: 2025-3670

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A half-length, seated portrait of a Confederate officer. This is a 6th plate tintype, with ornately embossed gilt brass mat, cover glass, and gilt brass frame crimped around the edge, house in the bottom portion of a brown leatherette case embossed with foliate and geometric motifs and gilt stamped along the edges of the case. The case has wear, breaks and damage as shown, but came with the image and we have kept them together. The image itself has scattered gray spots and a few scratches, most noticeable at upper left and right. The officer is fairly young, with well trimmed mustache and goatee and neatly trimmed and combed hair. He looks off to the viewer’s right. The high collar of his frock coat is clearly visible, but he is posed frontally to the camera so his collar rank insignia is not visible, but he clearly wears a gray frock with the regulation two rows of seven button each, the space between the rows narrowing as they go down the coat.

There was no identification of the officer and nothing we can see about the uniform to narrow down a state or unit, but he is thus a good representative of the typical Confederate officer, one who could have served in the eastern or western theatre, and one whose fate was as uncertain to him when the image was taken as it is to us now.   [sr][ph:L]

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