Interesting Photo

[Johnny_Reb_1865]

Shop – Perry Adams Antiques

perryadamsantiques.com

What do you guys make of this?

 

[Cycom]

Shop – Perry Adams Antiques

perryadamsantiques.com

What do you guys make of this?

What do I make of it? It's going for over 11k

 

[lupaglupa]

It's the dog that makes it.

 

[connecticut yankee]

Save your money on this one.

In my mind, there is a lot of conjecture in the description and interpretation of this photo. No photographer, no date, no place of where photo was taken, no reference whether photo has ever been published, no provenance, etc, etc. The photo's association with the steamer Alice Price is alluded to, but again no proof of any sort is offered. To command a premium price such as 11k there should be much, much more tangible evidence that the photo is what it is claimed to be.

If I owned the tintype and offered it to you for let's say $25 claiming it is a "Civil War era photo depicting four men in a farm wagon" how would you go about proving elsewise to someone who intends to buy that it is indeed Union, Confederate, Navy, prisoners, and all the myriad of other "details" this sale has listed?!?

 

[Gary Morgan]

Whoever they were, the "prisoners" didn't end up at Andersonville. I went headlong into documenting as much as I could of the 400 or so sailors who were held there, and none of them were from a ship called the "Alice Price." The Alice C. Price was a side wheel steamer that struck a mine on the St. John's River, 8 miles north of Jacksonville, Florida on Sept 13, 1864.

 

[Ed Zeppelin]

Save your money on this one.

In my mind, there is a lot of conjecture in the description and interpretation of this photo. No photographer, no date, no place of where photo was taken, no reference whether photo has ever been published, no provenance, etc, etc. The photo's association with the steamer Alice Price is alluded to, but again no proof of any sort is offered. To command a premium price such as 11k there should be much, much more tangible evidence that the photo is what it is claimed to be.

If I owned the tintype and offered it to you for let's say $25 claiming it is a "Civil War era photo depicting four men in a farm wagon" how would you go about proving elsewise to someone who intends to buy that it is indeed Union, Confederate, Navy, prisoners, and all the myriad of other "details" this sale has listed?!?

"four men in a farm wagon"
That made me laff.
FJB


Sent from my Commodore 64 running Windoze 95

 

[chubachus]

Very interesting pair of tintypes there, thanks for posting.