Nice Civil War Photo Lot

Love the ornate backstamp on the White's Exelcsior Hall. So many aspects of CDVs to get lost in from a collecting perspective. You have been warned!

You're so right Dan. The first batch, except for the Exelcsior which I purchased by itself, was part of a lot of 25 all with revs. All are from PA, and for most the subject is identified. Much fun research ahead.

My R17C CDV came in yesterday and I'm very happy with it's condition. For those interested in CDVs, photos below. Unlike many CDVs, the R17 wasn't precanceled.

What I find intriguing about these portraits are the people. Consider this couple. Given this is a circa 1862-3 CDV, these folks were most likely born about the time of Thomas Jefferson's presidency, possibly even earlier.

CDV bump! I lucked into this one today at CHARPEX. I haven't seen this one before...

That's a great cancel, Southpaw. I don't know if I've ever seen outlined letters like that.

Very nice! THat's one I don't have. Some of the diminuitive photographer cancels are really quite attractive.

Dan, I did notice you have a Farnham & Hull from Oxford, NY. Since tax on photos was for only two years, perhaps a competitive brother here?

http://www.revenue-collector.com/pages/3315.html

These aren't new acquisitions, but I haven't posted any images in quite a while and never any CDVs. Here are some of my favorites.

An R1a pair:



An R6c with freak perfs, which I think might be legitimate:



An R13c with a partial margin imprint:



The ornate White & Hyler back mark featured on the opening page of Bruce Baryla's famous Sun Tax exhibit:



A lovely hand-tinted photo:



The backwards "S" cancel of S.R. Miller:



And, finally, an R17c on a photo that looks like a cartoon image:

Thread bump! It's about time!

This came in an APS book yesterday. Too bad the photographer is not identified, but JP we now know was a photographer.

Dan - I have some CDVs identifying photographer cancels. Do you want high res images for you your CDV page?

Very nice! I would have jumped all over that.

I appreciate the offer of using the images, but right now that page on my site pulls only from material in my own collection. It's not an overall reference page like the bisect census or the double impression census.

These are great! I have a few my self, and I too always turn old photos over to see if there are stamps on the back. I like how any revenue stamp would do, playing cards, bank check, proprietary...didn't matter.

Actually it did matter according to the government. Proprietary articles were still supposed to have only proprietary or playing cards stamps on them. All the other stamp labels were interchangeable on DOCUMENTARY uses, but were not supposed to have proprietary use.

I recently came into a nice revenue collection which had a few interesting CDVs. First is this colorized photo of a Union soldier:





next is a #73 illegally used as a revenue:





I'm sure there were many copies of these stock CDVs sold. Interesting all the same








finally, another soldier (possibly)

Very nice. I like the two non-portraits, even though they do not have revenues affixed.