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For some reason, these three fit together.

Is there anything anyone can tell me about the time period, clothing, guns to piece this puzzle together? Two are tintypes and the 3 armed men is a glass slide with black around the edge. In total it's roughly 3" x 4". I'm kind of thinking it was used in a magic latern.
THANKS!

 

What size is the slide?

Debora

 

3" x 4"

 

WINCHESTER MODEL 1873 LEVER-ACTION

Approximately 720,000 Model 1873s were made between 1873 and 1919. Sometimes called “The Gun That Won the West,”

from the little I can see........!!!

 

Nice. THANK YOU!

 

It's no help. Both good guys and baddies carried them. If you lived out West you had a gun of some kind for varmint control and self-protection. The first guys were just guys in standard clothing of the time for Joe Average. The second photo is of someone in work clothes. I keep thinking he was a railroad worker. If so and we knew where, the value would go wayyyy up. The trio at the end could have been anyone posing with their prized weaponry. It's interesting that it's a glass positive.

 

anything anyone can tell me about the time period,

no earlier than 1873....... and those rifles are not new...... so later !!!

So...help...in fact it is !!!!!

 

Not an expert but... In the first photograph, the man on the left is wearing a frock coat. The man on the right has a slouch hat and a wing tip collar with a flat scarf. If I had to guess, I'd say 1880s.

Debora

 

The fellow in the second photo looks like he might be a mechanic, with a typical mechanic's cap. Perhaps railroad related. Too bad whatever he had in his left hand is obscured - it might have given another clue.

 

Could you tell us more about why you think so? I'm not seeing any connection among the three images, except that they are all men. But maybe you have more information.

 

I too see no connection between the three photographs. The men don't seem to be of the same class. The first is of two rather dandified middle class men from, most likely, an urban environment. The second is a blue collar man. And the third is three working class men in a rural environment.

Debora

 

I don't know. For me they just fit. Usually at flea markets, there's a box of photos or paperwork, and it's obvious it's from one person. There's family photos, deeds and all kinds of paper that these sellers get out of house clearings or storage units. These three were all together in the same little bag. To me, it seemed like the guys with the guns went after the pair in the one photo. That's pure speculation, nothing but my gut to go on. They just seem to be connected by where they were, how they seem, and gut.

The tintype I'm keeping. I can't start collecting glass slides. That would be insane.

 

My dad had glass negatives, but we gave them away years ago. Actually, mom thought she sold them (for not huge money) but never got paid. Oh well. The tintypes are really cool.