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WINTER 2026 FINE ART + DESIGN

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Featuring estate fresh artworks, fine silver, coins, and curiosities. Including an extraordinarily fine and rare 1715 Dublin, Irish silver tankard with impeccable provenance from a famed Newport, Rhode Island, family collection and not previously offered in over a hundred years, together with the family's Garret Forbes American Coin Silver four-piece tea set.
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Lot 22

Antique Photographs and Glass Slides Collection (19th to early 20th Century)

Estimate: $100 - $300
Starting Bid
$50

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A collection of photographs on various mediums, including one (1) unmounted albumen photograph portrait of an unidentified seated U.S. military cadet; three (3) circular button-style tintype portraits mounted in brass frames; a small albumen print photograph mourning brooch; a miniature tintype album containing eleven (11) gem-sized tintype portraits; two (2) small boxes of stereoscopic glass positives totalling thirty-six (36) slides; and seven (7) glass positive and educational slides featuring famous historical figures such as Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Czar Nicholas, etc. Various sizes, largest: 5 x 4".

Provenance: Property of a private Connecticut collection.

Condition

Various conditions consistent with age, one slide has a horizontal crack, the emulsion of many of the stereoscopic positive slides has flaked or faded significantly. The gem tintype book has seperated pages.

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