1862 Beaver Wyk Albumen Photo

[Leon]

The photo came in. It's on paper stock like the page, with the die cut picture, was in an album before. You can see the albumen in the photo under magnification... My 2nd oldest baseball item. Very happy to add it to my eclectic collection... btw, it's not crayon

Originally Posted by dbrown

The coloring looks like it could be period, 1860s. There's lots of examples of very crude hand-coloring, especially on paper prints, especially by amateurs. (The daguerreotype colorists were much better!)

for example:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1448496...de-visite-hand

But if it smells and feels like crayon, it's crayon.

[Leon]

I asked the seller if he had any info on the photo, from his consignor. This is what he said -

"Not much else for information. It was kind of an odd situation that someone took some albumen photographs and glued them into some album pages with alot of law school students and New York City politicians and nothing at all baseball or fireman related for some reason. The people that had it last didn't know anything about it and just wanted to get rid of pages. Someone over time put all the pages in plastic sleeves. I did just remember that the album did have a dedication page that read- Thomas W. Cantwell Autograph Book 705 Broadway N.Y. January 1862. Hope this helps..Chuck"

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[BeanTown]

Very nice item Leon and congrats.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by BeanTown

Very nice item Leon and congrats.

Thanks...It's a very esoteric item, but I really like it, and it goes well in my collection of misfits!
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