Anon

Best.-Nr. 372430 — Np. c. late 1850s. Ninth-plate Tintype. 2½ x 2 inches. Book-form burgundy morocco case with gilt and blind decoration and silk lining; with wallet-style binding with brass closure. Tintype with brass mat and hand-tinting. Near fine. Diminutive tintype portrait of a man with delicately hand-tinted cheeks and lips mounted in a leather book-form case. The case housing the tintype is decorated using many of the same techniques used to create a luxury bookbinding: blind ruling frames on the exterior “boards” gilt rolled designs on the “turn-ins” and edges and a silk “endpaper” which in this case folds over to protect the glass covered tintype. The tintype is an early example of the process; these were typically not case-mounted after the 1850s. unknown