Tintypes of People and Personalities for Sale | Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics

PPTT10. Sixth-plate Tintype of two women in ethnic outfits. Housed in a full leather case. VG. $125

PPTT13. Tintype measuring 3 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ of a woman on a prop horse in a studio. For your “silly horse” collection. VG. $35

PPTT55. Large framed painted wedding Tintype. Opening showing image measures 9″ x 7.” Entire frame measures 16.5″ x 14.5.” Beautifully matted and framed. Couple stand by table with their wedding vows. VG. $500

PPTT59. Tintype, 5 1/2″ x 4 1/4,” of David & Thomas Havens, as labeled on back of image. G-. $40

PPTT61. Tintype, 3 1/2″ x 2 3/16″ of a one-armed woman. VG. $75

PPTT71. Tintype, 4″ x 2 5/8″ of a man on crutches.VG. $150

PPTT75. Quarter-plate tintype of a family gathering around the table for a meal. Unusual topic for a tintype. Could this be the photographer’s family? We’ll never know. Housed in a half leather case. G. $250

PPTT83. Tintype, 3.5″ x 2.5″ housed in a quarter plate half case of two men with double-barrell shotguns. One has his gun open and is loading a new shell. Both men are adorned with strings of dead squirrels. VG. $275

PPTT95. Locket, 1.5″ in diameter, with two tintypes. Locket does not snap shut. VG. $65

PPTT110. Sixth-plate tintype of what I’m guessing is a mother and son. Fine pose, sad, thoughtful looks on their faces. Housed in a full leather case. VG. $75

PPTT113. Tintype, 3.25″ x 2.375.” Interesting and very modern pose of 4 friends. VG. $75

PPTT125-ss18. Impressive, excellent tintype of elderly gentleman housed in a half leather case. Has a folk art look to it. E. $75

PPTT141. Tintype, 3 3/8″ x 2 1/2,” in a paper mat, 4 3/4″ x 3 1/8.” VG. $125

PPTT148. Half-plate tintype of two attractive costumed gents before fine scenic backdrop. Housed in mat, glass, and preserver, no case. VG. $500

PHTT3. Tintype of gent leaning on photographer’s posing stand. In mat measuring 4″ x 2.5.” VG. $125

PPTT165. Tintype in CDV-sized paper mat of Capt. Wm. Baxter, ‘Sconset doffing his hat in Aug. 1875. Baxter was a whaling ship Captain and character on Nantucket for many years. Here is some information on him and his activities: Shanunga, the well-known public house and shop on Broadway run by Betsey Carey in the mid-nineteenth century, became the summer home of Betsey Cary Junior (1806-1883) and her husband William Baxter (1805-1898) after “Mother Cary” died in 1862. In the off-season, William and Betsey lived in one of Nantucket’s notable in-town mansions, 117 Main Street, built by Betsey’s grandfather, Edward Cary, and sold by him to William’s father, Reuben Baxter–but in the summer they were in the heart of ‘Sconset, in one of the oldest fish houses of the village, reputedly moved to its present location at 10 Broadway from the ancient whaling station at Sesachacha. The former Betsey Cary cottage became known as Shanunga when the quarterboard from the ship of that name, wrecked at Tom Nevers in 1852 on its way from New Orleans to Boston with a load of cotton, was nailed above the front door. When Captain Baxter retired from the sea after a voyage as master of the whaleship Martha in the late 1840s, he became a fisherman, and when the tourist industry began to grow he established a stagecoach line between town and ‘Sconset that coupled transportation with entertainment—preposterous sea stories, playful misinformation, and a bumpy ride. Phebe Ann Hanford, comparing him to another famous teller of tall talk, called Baxter “’Sconset’s own Munchausen.” Captain Baxter provided the first mail delivery to the village, and Shanunga became the unofficial post office, where Baxter and his daughter, Love, sorted and delivered the mail, charging a penny for each item. In 1872, an official U.S. post office was established in ‘Sconset, and Love Baxter was appointed the village’s first “postmaster,” her father was paid an annual salary for bringing the mail from town in his carriage, nicknamed the ”Lightning Express.” Crowds of summer folk, alerted by the tooting of Baxter’s horn as the coach came over the top of the hill on Main Street, gathered at Shanunga to collect their mail; the cottage’s location near Pump Square helped to reinforce that location as the news center of town. Quaint Shanunga, with its famous figurehead on the lawn, served as the village post office until 1883. Henry S. Wyer poked gentle fun at ‘Sconset’s favorite character in his poem “To Capt. William Baxter, of the ‘Side-Wheeler’ Swiftsure, Port of Nantucket:”

N’er known to fail, your “lightning mail”
Made steady trips a score of Summers;
To those who on you pinned their faith
Your sage advice was ne’er misleading,
E’en thouh you brought them home-made news,
And last year’s papers for their reading.

VG. $125

PPTT166. Fine, tinted tintype with two partial 5-cent tax stamps on verso. This was one expensive tintype back then, no doubt extra money for the fine tinting. Measures 4″ x 2.375.” VG. $125