Oh hell. Now I want one.
There are many photographs of the battlefield, and people have compared them with later photos to identify the witness trees. Really pretty...
Can't tell if it's original, but nice Rifleman's button!.
My wife and I hosted some of her cousins from California a couple of weeks ago, and they were looking for things to see in Alabama. I'm neither a...
Sad, tragic, but unfortunately true.
I know of at least two instances where remains of soldiers were found by backhoe at construction sites. One was reported, and archeologists...
Good point. I suppose they stamped their government property marks on just about everything, which at the time was pretty much everything, wasn't...
I'll start by saying I abhor the Nazis, and I'd be uncomfortable owning either original items or reproduction memorabilia. But they were stylish...
When I was growing up, just about everyone had family stories of ancestors burying the family silver to hide it from marauding Federal troops. It...
Did someone say Tik Tok? During the short time the pendulum swings, do the hands move? If it doesn't tick tock, they won't move. I vote for...
My first thought was a candle box, but then I saw the dividers.
I was thinking India when I saw the photos. Apparently, India bought a LOT of surplus brass after WW2 and turned it into all sorts of things....
I would guess that the monetary value of this particular image, being in an unusual, undamaged case, with the subject being at least tentatively...
Here is the wonderful octagonal union case, before and after cleaning: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The procedure I used for this was a few...
I recently did some conservation work on some ambrotypes and a tintype for a friend of mine. The images are all of her family members, but...
That was my first thought, also. Some sort of writing or marking instrument. If it was in a sewing kit, maybe a fancy chalk for marking material?
Here is the image corrected by flipping it laterally. As you can see, the mounted woman legs are now on the near side of the horse. Looking at the...
You were looking at a cropped image. Here is the whole image: [ATTACH]
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The one honest-to-gosh photo of Billy the Kid was a tintype. The cameras used reversted the image, and that's why people got the idea he was...
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