1860s Gem Tintype Album, 28 + 2, with Sailors, Soldiers, Sisters, Wounded, From Jaffrey, NH Estate homemade fishing 7 5/8" long x 1"

7 5/8" long x 1" wide and in great condition

Damage to the exterior of the bottom of the box

the elephants (and companion donkeys

The yellow of what I guess is a field behind the trees gives the whole thing a bit of a warm glow

and the box is in perfect shape

1860s Gem Tintype Album, 28 + 2, with Sailors, Soldiers, Sisters, Wounded, From Jaffrey, NH Estate homemade fishing 7 5/8" long x 1"This 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