CDV, Tintype, Ambros & Dags

[bottlines]

For the collectors out there I would like to invite you to our site that we just launched this month. We have CDV's, Tintypes, Ambros, Dags and Cabinet photos as well as albums. Feel free to browse through the images, there are about 1200 so far but have over 20,000 to get posted. There are a lot of Civil War soldiers in and out of uniform as well as many notable persons. www.ancestryphotostore.com
Also, I have a site where I have posted all the photos from complete albums that are identified, once there hover over antiques and click on Identified Photos Main Page.
www.bllcorp.com

 

[chellers]

Welcome to CivilWarTalk.

 

[bottlines]

Thank you.

 

[E_just_E]

Interesting stuff, but I missed the Civil War Soldiers in Uniform. Do you have a link? Must be looking at the wrong place, since there is a single ambrotype from the ACW era (of an older woman) a couple antebellum and most of the rest are post 1865. And no uniforms. Must be looking at the wrong place

 

[bottlines]

Well, off the top of my head, you can type in leslie bassett and that should bring up 4 of him in uniform. I didn't put that any were in uniform in the descriptions. I guess maybe I should have done that!! Also try General Alfred Terry.

 

[Tumbleweed]

Welcome from Wisconsin.

 

[18thVirginia]

Welcome! Photographs are always popular.

 

[bottlines]

I will be posting 2 soldiers in uniform tonight from the Ohio 19th Light Artillery Battery. www.ancestryphotostore.com

 

[bottlines]

What do you think a Colonel Thomas Holt out of uniform would be worth. He was a big player in many
battles including Gettysburg. He rose through the ranks pretty fast, captain, major, lt. colonel, colonel and
after war was breveted brig. general. I cannot find a photo of him out there anywhere, and there is family
that have asked for a picture on rootsweb, so I do not believe there is one and I have him and his wife
as well as the entire family album with family names Nyce, Williams, Peters, Swartwood, Holt, Coolbaugh
and Deville. There are probably more family names once I research as the person who id'd these wrote Mrs. Holt, etc.
instead of full maiden name. I haven't done anymore research except for one of the Peters men and he was a private
in the war, but some of them look as they could have been ranking men. I am pretty sure I hold the only
known photos of this family, shame none are in uniform though.

November 1, 1861 Captain Thomas Holt of Company F promoted to major.

February 1, 1863 Lt. Colonel Farnum promoted to colonel, Major Holt to lieutenant colonel.

May 16, 1863 Lieutenant Colonel Holt transferred to 74th New York Infantry as colonel, Major Mahen promoted to lieutenant colonel but not mustered, and Captain William Hugo of Company C promoted to major.

May 16, 1863
Lt. Colonel Thomas Holt of the 70th New York Infantry transferred in as colonel.

July 1-3, 1863
Battle of Gettysburg
The regimet was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Holt. Captain William Chester and 17 enlisted men were killed or mortally wounded, Captain Charles Summers, Lieutenants William Bullard, Frederick Garnett, 2 other officers and 63 enlisted men were wounded, and 3 men missing in fighting north of the Peach Orchard.

November 30, 1863
Colonel Thomas Holt returned to 70th New York Infantry as lieutenant colonel.

July 7, 1864 Mustered out to date from July 1, 1864, expiration of term, under Colonel J. Egbert Farnum, Lieutenant Colonel Holt and Major William Hugo

I will be posting this album as a whole on www.ancestryphotostore.com later this evening once I have researched all of the photos in the album. It is full and all photos id'd....

 

[E_just_E]

What do you think a Colonel Thomas Holt out of uniform would be worth. .

Depends on who you are selling it and how you are selling it and how long you are willing to sit on it. It will be worth as much as the buyer is willing to pay. In the big internet auction site, well identified tintype portraits of ACW participants in civies cannot touch $50, even if there is a nice frame with it (and plenty or paper trail about the particular individual in that link.) I'd bet that it might worth more to some of his descendents. It is all about how much someone is willing to pay and how long you are ok for waiting to get a price you might think is reasonable.

 

[bottlines]

Thanks, I appreciate it.

 

[bottlines]

This painting came in this week. Anyone have an idea who this (looks to be a brig. general) is.

 

[E_just_E]

This painting came in this week. Anyone have an idea who this (looks to be a brig. general) is.

Different era.
Quick google look: single breasted vs. double breasted uniform jackets and rank

 

[bottlines]

Yep, I was thinking it was a GAR uniform, but very well could be Spanish war vet.
Found another one in the album. Col John Nyce. Still sadly no uniform.
Civil War Union Army Officer. He served during the Civil War as Major of the 4th Pennsylvania Reserves, and was Colonel and commander of the 174th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was wounded at the battles of Charles City Crossroads (June 30, 1862), Malvern Hill (July 1, 1862) and Antietam (September 17, 1862). Died from the effects of a wound received at Antietam.

 

[kel1985]

Welcome from Pittsburgh!

 

[bottlines]

Thanks Pittsburgh. I have finally got the album up. I have exhausted my research. Peters family is the brick wall.

http://store.ancestryphotostore.com/coming-soon-album-colonel-thomas-holt

 

[James N.]

Yep, I was thinking it was a GAR uniform, but very well could be Spanish war vet.
Found another one in the album. Col John Nyce. Still sadly no uniform.
Civil War Union Army Officer. He served during the Civil War as Major of the 4th Pennsylvania Reserves, and was Colonel and commander of the 174th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was wounded at the battles of Charles City Crossroads (June 30, 1862), Malvern Hill (July 1, 1862) and Antietam (September 17, 1862). Died from the effects of a wound received at Antietam.

I hate to burst your bubble, but he looks suspiciously like a member of a FRATERNAL organization to me! ( Especially the sword and sword belt, though it's a poor image for detail of both it and his uniform. )

Welcome to the forums from another period photo buff.

 

[E_just_E]

Here is a right side up and cropped version of that picture. If you can take detailed pictures of the buttons and the sword, we might get somewhere:

I think that the problem with paintings is that they leave out a lot of the details... This hat, for example, could potentially be a GAR kepi or a Knights of the Maccabees kepi. Or, it could be a non-US person...

 

[hiram in toledo]

For the collectors out there I would like to invite you to our site that we just launched this month. We have CDV's, Tintypes, Ambros, Dags and Cabinet photos as well as albums. Feel free to browse through the images, there are about 1200 so far but have over 20,000 to get posted. There are a lot of Civil War soldiers in and out of uniform as well as many notable persons. www.ancestryphotostore.com
Also, I have a site where I have posted all the photos from complete albums that are identified, once there hover over antiques and click on Identified Photos Main Page.
www.bllcorp.com

welcome to the forum.
I did not read all the small type, I'm not trying to start a raging debate on copyright laws or anything like that but I did see at the bottom of the home page for ancestry photo store where they say what they can do with your posted photos, which seems to be anything they want to do with them. how do you make any money? if they can make copies of your photos and sell them too that kind of leaves you getting nothing. I personally don't have any photos I wish to post or sell so their policy will have no affect on me, I'm just curious how someone makes a profit by being on their site.

 

[James N.]

Now that I can see it better, this is definitely a Masonic or other fraternal sword belt and nothing military. The large clip-on attachments for the sword belt slings ( and the CHAIN slings themselves ) are in no way a U.S. Regulation style; neither is the sword itself, nor the wreath on the kepi.