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Union Cases, 3-274, Scarce, G,chip by catch, Holmes, Booth, & Hayden, Scroll with rope border, circa 1860, 64mm x 75mm, Ambrotype, ninth-plate, seated young man; 3-241 Common, VG, Littlefield, Parsons & Co., Scroll with Fruit centre, circa 1860, 64mm x 75mm, Ambrotype, ninth-plate, seated young man; 3-272, Common, G, Littlefield, Parsons & Co, Geometric, circa 1859, 66mm x 76mm, Daguerreotype & Ambrotype, ninth-plate, 1/2 portrait of gentleman and seated 3/4 portrait of lady;

Union Cases, 3-176, Common, G-VG, two small cracks around catch, Littlefield Parsons & Co, Floral, Geometric & Scroll, late 1850s, 95mm x 84mm, Two Ambrotypes, sixth-plate, S Stolworthy, Artist, Shipley & Leeds, Yorks, elderly gentleman and young boy and girl; 2-71 Common, G, Holmes Booth & Hayden, Basket of Fruit, but recurrent theme in HB&H cases, late 1850s, 75mm x 65mm, Ambrotype, ninth-plate, unknown seated gentleman, bust; 3-484, Common, F-G Samuel Peck & Co, Scroll Pattern, before 1857, 50mm x 54mm, Ambrotype, sixteenth-plate, gentleman; 3-436, Common, F Littlefield, Parsons & Co, Bouquet of Roses, circa 1860, 65mm x 55mm, ninth-plate

Union Case, 1-88,Very Rare, G, chip to front top edge, Littlefield, Parsons & Co The Butterfly Chariot, late 1850s, 95mm x 84mm, Ambrotype, sixth-plate, seated young lady, with pencil inscription to inside of case "Property of Seeley E Mensch, Marshall, Mich. Please forward to Marshall, Michigan if found, and you will be well rewarded for it. Seeley Mensch"; see https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3988099/seeley-e_-mench sadly recording that Mensch died on 20th July 1861, in a Civil War engagement near Cheat Mountain, Virginia, aged 24; furthermore his wife had died just before the outbreak of war, on 12 April 1861. This may be his memento of her.

Union Case, 1-120/3-196, Very Rare Back, F-G, small crack to one corner, Littlefield Parsons & Co, Enjoying the Piano 2, A Schaefer, late 1850s, 95mm x 84mm, Ambrotype, sixth-plate, seated elderly lady in lace bonnet and lappets

Union Cases, 1-164a, Rare, G Holmes Booth & Hayden, Going to Market, text possibly removed, mid 1850s, 65mm x 76mm, Ambrotype, ninth-plate, seated gent; 1-144, Scarce, VG, Samuel Peck & Co Day, Aurora with the Genius of Light, Thorvaldsen medallions, before 1857, 64mm x 75mm, Ambrotype, ninth-plate, 3/4 portrait of lady seated, gilded & (faded) tinted; 2-100, Scarce, G, one corner chip, Bird in Flower motif, 64mm x 76mm, Ambrotype, P-F, small boy; 1-134, Rare, F-G Holmes, Booth & Hayden, Liberty in Profile, circa 1860, 68mm x 76mm, Tintype, ninth-plate, seated young lady

Union Case, 1-7/1-35, Scarce, VG S Peck & Co, The WashingtonMonument, Frederick Goll, Thos Crawford's Monument in Capitol Sq, Richmond, circa 1858, 127mm x 157mm, Ambrotype, half-plate, portrait of mother and baby daughter seated by table, tinted and gilded

Union Case, 3-139, Common, VG, A P Critchlow & Co, Geometric/Scroll, circa 1860, 83mm x 94mm, Ambrotype, VG & Daguerreotype, G-VG, sixth-plate, young lady, possibly mother, in heavily-patterned dress, and young boy

Box of assorted items including; scale rules and slide rule, collar box, opera glasses, two ambrotype portraits, wristwatch, pen knife, vesta case etc. (B.P. 24% incl. VAT)

Property of a lady - a group of six 19th century portrait miniatures including a pair in tortoiseshell circular frames (one miniature is a print, another is probably an ambrotype) (6) (see illustration).

A PHOTOGRAPHIC MISCELLANY, 19TH C-EARLY 20TH C to include forty various carte de visite, mainly children and an incomplete album, thirty four cabinet portraits, seven ambrotype and tin types, a small folder of cigarette card size negatives, three printing blocks, etc

THREE AMBROTYPE PHOTOGRAPHS IN THERMOPLASTIC UNION CASES, C1870 comprising two 9th plate hexagonal cased examples, the third sixth plate, portraits and a family++One hexagonal ca\se with small repair

* Hampshire ambrotypes. Portrait of a young soldier and his wife, 1850s, tinted sixth-plate ambrotype of a seated couple, the young man in uniform with the cap badge of the 67th South Hampshire Regiment of Foot, together with four further tinted sixth-plate ambrotypes of soldiers in red tunics, three wearing caps and one with a rifle and cap on table, all with original elliptical brass mats, but lacking cases, glass covers and preserversThe interesting collection of 54 ambrotypes offered here as lots 170-185 document the people of Hampshire in the mid-1850s. All are offered with the original brass mats as noted but otherwise without cases and cover glass. There is evidence of modern professional cleaning and light restoration to many of the ambrotypes.(Qty: 5)

* Hampshire ambrotype. Portrait of a farm girl, 1850s, tinted sixth-plate ambrotype of a three-quarter length young girl carrying baskets of potatoes and eggs, oval mat, without case or preserver (Qty: 1)The interesting collection of 54 ambrotypes offered here as lots 170-185 document the people of Hampshire in the mid-1850s. All are offered with the original brass mats as noted but otherwise without cases and cover glass. There is evidence of modern professional cleaning and light restoration to many of the ambrotypes.

* Hampshire ambrotype. Portrait of a young girl in a pretty frock, 1850s, quarter-plate ambrotype of a young girl standing next to a table with her hand on a book, elliptical brass mat, without case or preserver (Qty: 1)The interesting collection of 54 ambrotypes offered here as lots 170-185 document the people of Hampshire in the mid-1850s. All are offered with the original brass mats as noted but otherwise without cases and cover glass. There is evidence of modern professional cleaning and light restoration to many of the ambrotypes.

* Hampshire ambrotype. Portrait of a young boy, 1850s, tinted half-plate ambrotype of a young boy in a dress coat leaning on a table and holding a whip, elliptical brass mat, 13 x 10cm, without case or preserver (Qty: 1)The interesting collection of 54 ambrotypes offered here as lots 170-185 document the people of Hampshire in the mid-1850s. All are offered with the original brass mats as noted but otherwise without cases and cover glass. There is evidence of modern professional cleaning and light restoration to many of the ambrotypes.

* Hampshire ambrotype. Portrait of a fisherman, 1850s, ninth-plate ambrotype of a seated fisherman wearing a gansey sweater, smoking a pipe and holding a pewter tankard, nonpareil brass mat, without case or preserver (Qty: 1)The interesting collection of 54 ambrotypes offered here as lots 170-185 document the people of Hampshire in the mid-1850s. All are offered with the original brass mats as noted but otherwise without cases and cover glass. There is evidence of modern professional cleaning and light restoration to many of the ambrotypes.

* Hampshire ambrotype. Portrait of a worker and his wife, 1850s, sixth-plate ambrotype of a seated couple, the man with a stovepipe hat and holding an umbrella, the woman wearing a bonnet and holding a handkerchief, double elliptical brass mat, without case or preserver (Qty: 1)The interesting collection of 54 ambrotypes offered here as lots 170-185 document the people of Hampshire in the mid-1850s. All are offered with the original brass mats as noted but otherwise without cases and cover glass. There is evidence of modern professional cleaning and light restoration to many of the ambrotypes.

* Hampshire ambrotype. Portrait of a young male worker, 1850s, tinted sixth-plate ambrotype, oval mat, without case or preserver (Qty: 1)The interesting collection of 54 ambrotypes offered here as lots 170-185 document the people of Hampshire in the mid-1850s. All are offered with the original brass mats as noted but otherwise without cases and cover glass. There is evidence of modern professional cleaning and light restoration to many of the ambrotypes.

* Hampshire ambrotype. Portrait of a large gentleman, 1850s, half-plate ambrotype of a seated large man with muttonchops and top hat, elliptical brass mat, 13 x 10cm, without case or preserver (Qty: 1)The interesting collection of 54 ambrotypes offered here as lots 170-185 document the people of Hampshire in the mid-1850s. All are offered with the original brass mats as noted but otherwise without cases and cover glass. There is evidence of modern professional cleaning and light restoration to many of the ambrotypes.

* Hampshire ambrotypes. Portrait of a seated middle-aged man, 1850s, tinted half-plate ambrotype, original elliptical brass mat, together with a group of seven ninth-plate ambrotypes of Hampshire people, including four of women (three tinted) and three men, all seated, all with original brass mats present, but all lacking cases, cover glass and preservers (Qty: 8)The interesting collection of 54 ambrotypes offered here as lots 170-185 document the people of Hampshire in the mid-1850s. All are offered with the original brass mats as noted but otherwise without cases and cover glass. There is evidence of modern professional cleaning and light restoration to many of the ambrotypes.

* Hampshire ambrotypes. A group of eleven portraits of seated Hampshire people, 1850s, sixth-plate ambrotypes, including eight of women (five tinted), two of men (one tinted), and one of an older woman with a young woman standing beside her, plus two further sixth-plate ambrotype portraits in very poor condition, all with original brass mats, but lacking cases, cover glass and preservers (Qty: 13)The interesting collection of 54 ambrotypes offered here as lots 170-185 document the people of Hampshire in the mid-1850s. All are offered with the original brass mats as noted but otherwise without cases and cover glass. There is evidence of modern professional cleaning and light restoration to many of the ambrotypes.

* Shop Front. Quarter-plate ambrotype of a grocer's shop front, circa 1900, showing two men with aprons in the doorway of 'R. Roberts, Provision Merchant' (?Wales), the window display featuring tinned goods, cheeses and cured meats, original backing paper with new seal to top and bottom margins, 8 x 11cm (Qty: 1)

Group of Ambrotype Portraits of Gentlemen, Some with Hand-Colouring.[G]

Collection of Ambrotype and Other Portraits Including Female Portraits. One with broken glass.[G]

A Group of Early Daguerreotypes and an Ambrotype. One male portrait (clergyman?) with handwritten label giving date and photographer, mounted in a Kilburn case.[G]

A 19th century ambrotype photograph (cracked) of a gentleman, in a hinged case moulded with putto and deer (chipped); a lacquered papier mache fan with turned handle; a Chinese blue ground cloisonné bowl, on a wood stand; and a gilt locust grasshopper desk ornament (4)

A Beard Patent Daguerrotype of a young boy in gilt frame, embossed on reverse 'T Wharton no 791 24th August 1842', 7.5 x 6 cm to/w an Ambrotype portrait of a gentleman in red Morocco folding case (2)

A pair of Victorian vulcanite ambrotype photographs, circa 1860-70, each depicting half-length portrait of a man and woman, case h. 7.5cm; and one other single example containing a full length portrait of a child; and a half-length portrait of a young man, h. 7.5cm (3)

Ambrotype photograph frames (5)

A VICTORIAN QUARTER PLATE BLACK THERMOPLASTIC UNION CASE, c.1858, by Samuel Peck & Co., moulded with "Sir Roger de Coverly with the Gypsies", hinged and opening to a velvet interior with an ambrotype of four children standing against a house wall, 4" x 4 3/4" (Est. plus 21% premium inc. VAT)

English Naive School (second - third quarter, 19th century)A Portrait of a Young Girl and Her Doll, full-length, in profile, brown hair in ringlets, ribbon-tied blue dress, white stockings and black shoeswatercolour, wash and pencil on brown paper, indistinctly inscribed and dated 1857 to verso of backboard, 15.5cm x 11.5cm, contemporary rosewood frame; a pair of Victorian ambrotype family portraits, of John Jame and his daughter & granddaughter Clara Dufton, the latter two tinted in colour, contemporary gilt insets, later frames, [3]

An unusual Victorian topographical ambrotype, of a village church, contemporary gilt-metal frame, 8.5cm x 7cm overall, c. 1858; another, of a shopkeeper before her shop; another, ambrotype of a silhouette, a father and his daughter, full-length in profile; etc, [4]

A mid 19th century ambrotype portrait of a bearded gentleman:, photographer unknown, seated in a carved frame button back chair, hand tinted , in an arched gilt frame within a leather case, 12cm x 9cm.

A mid 19th century hand tinted 1/4 plate ambrotype portrait of a gentleman:, photographer unknown, seated beside a table with cane and book, in an oval gilt frame within a leather case, 12cm x 9cm, together with another ambrotype portrait of a seated gentleman, cased 14cm x 11cm (2).

A mid 19th century hand tinted ambrotype portrait of Elizabeth Peel (nee Hanten):, photographer unknown, arched frame and part leather case, 13cm x 11cm.

A family group of three daguerreotypes in red leather cases:, comprising individual portraits of a father, mother and daughter, together with a small gilt frame 'stamp' ambrotype of a father and son (4)

Outdoor Stereoscopic Ambrotype:, an interesting and excellent example of these rare stereoscopic ambrotypes showing an outdoor scene of a young boy sitting outside a house on a high backed chair, looking into a toilet mirror on a small table, the reflection of the boy's face is captured perfectly by the unknown photographer, very lightly tinted to hand and face, gold lined mount, 8.5cm x 17cm.* Notes- See Bonhams, Knowle 9th November 2004 lot 319 for a similar stereoscopic ambrotype which is of the same subject from a further distance, which sold for £390 plus commission.

J C Barrable, London an ambrotype portrait of a seated woman:, hand tinted to face, lace collar and jewellery, in an arched gilt frame within a leather case with gilt back stamp, 12cm x 9.5cm.

A box of 19th century Ambrotype, two silver cased fob watches, continental silver frame etc

A collection of 4x antique 19th century likely American ambrotype photographs. Comprising: one quarter-plate image of two ladies - appearing to have been taken in the street, with a rudimentary backdrop, a sixth-plate ambrotype of two ladies seated astride a table, a sixth-plate image depicting a lone girl with a posy of flowers (tinted), and a sixth-plate ambrotype of a female within a thermo-plastic frame (frame AF). All mounted in frames. Good collection. 

19th Century ambrotype depicting a seated gentleman in a floral decorated union type frame/case Condition:

Photograph, framed American Civil War Ambrotype image showing uniformed civil war soldier, no ID, 8cm x 9.5cm (gd)

Photograph, American Civil War Ambrotype image showing uniformed civil war soldier, in decorative wooden case, photo in gold coloured metal surround illustrated with flags, drum and cannon 6cm x 7cm (gd)

Photograph, American Civil War Ambrotype image showing uniformed civil war soldier, in boxed leather case, photo in gold coloured metal surround illustrated with drums, cannons flags and eagle, 6cm x 7cm (gd)

Works of art, to include a cased ambrotype, an eye glass, a lens, a frame a letter opener from the flag ship at Jutland and London, a sketch book, Adam and Charles Black 1912, (6)

PHOTOGRAPHERS UNKNOWN. TWO FOOTMEN AND THREE OTHER PORTRAITS albumen and other prints, framed as a set in contemporary Victorian gilt Oxford frames with metal rosettes, frames 30 x 27cm overall and two other contemporary Victorian albumen prints, a cabinet portrait of a couple and a whole plate photograph of figures before a country house, in oak Oxford frames (6)++One of the set of four (an ambrotype) cracked otherwise an attractive group in good condition

Major General Foster Stalker 1798-1857, Commander of the North Indian Division against Persia in 1857, his Punjab medal with Mooltan clasp, together with Ghuznee medal and miniature, plus his gold miniature Order of the Dooranee Empire (5.2g), also in the lot a daguerrotype photograph of him in full uniform, a large etching with card negative, two ambrotype images of relatives, original ribbon, and official hand written correspondence (parcel)here is only naming on the Punjab medal, the dagguerro type is badly faded with discolouration to the edges, and is only visible from certain angles, please see additional images, would suggest viewing if possible

PHOTOGRAPHS. Victorian monochrome photograph on glass (ambrotype) depicting two little girls, Elizabeth Jane Johnson, aged 2 & Mary Jane Darnton, aged 3, inscribed & dated Feb 14th 1859 verso. 9.5cm x 7cm (oval) in metal hanging frame with label 'G. Ashworth … Manchester'.

A PAIR OF 19TH CENTURY HAND-TINTED PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHS by Lock and Whitfield of Mr & Mrs Iltid Thomas in Morocco leather cases stamped 'Lock & Whitfield, 178 Regent St.', 7 x 5.5cm; and a Victorian ambrotype (3)

ENGLISH SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY) A miniature oval portrait of a lady, with black shawl and white lace edged cap, watercolour, oval, 7.5cm high; two further oval miniatures, one of a lady, the other a bearded gentleman; a 19th Century silhouette portrait; two photographic miniatures; and an ambrotype, cased (7)

COLLECTION OF MINIATURES, AMBROTYPE, PHOTOGRAPH AND SILHOUETTE, one portrait picture of a young girl, surrounded by a clear paste bezel and housed in a gilt frame with easel back, together with a photograph of "E D Verner and Earl William Dobson" (6)

A mid-19th century ambrotype photograph, of an elderly lady and a young girl, full-length, seated, 9cm x 7cm; English School (second-third quarter 20th century); a pair of Dickensian silhouettes, Mr Pickwick and Mr Pecksniff, from Charles Dickens's Pickwick Papers, full-length, titled in pencil, lithographed black ink, 10.5cm x 6cm [3]

A COLLECTION OF AMBROTYPE PHOTOGRAPHS and a drawing set in a fitted presentation case

A Collection of Victorian Ambrotype photographs

A tinted Ambrotype photograph of a seated lady, another smaller, also a pocket telescope with various gaming counters and a boxwood chess set, qty

ASSORTED COLLECTABLES comprising a Macfarlane Lang 'Granola' digestive biscuits promotional pocket mirror; a nickel-plated Cerebos Table Salt promotional vesta case; a small painted china doll's head, probably German, 5cm high; an H.M.V. extra loud tin gramophone needle tin; and an ambrotype portrait photograph of a lady, in a hinged case, (5).

A rare 19th century likely American made double ninth-plate size Ambrotype photograph set. The first depicting a gentleman with pipe and glass of beer. The second showing another gent, very well dressed, seated. Both mounted within a decorative case. Total size: 7.5cm x 6cm. 

An incredibly rare 19th century c1860 American Civil War era quarter plate tinted ambrotype photograph. Depicting a gentleman and lady sat facing the camera. Framed in beautiful gold surround, with gold wire braiding. Mounted within a cushioned thermoplastic case, with various Union symbolism ( Artillery ) - cannons, anchor and flags. Condition generally fine, with no damage to the ambrotype. Case measures a total size of: 10cm x 12.5cm. Rare.

A group of Victorian photographs and an ambrotype depicting a boy beside an armchair in oval, 9.5 x 5cm (8).

A mid-19th century ambrotype photograph, of an elderly lady and a young girl, full-length, seated, 9cm x 7cm; English School (second-third quarter 20th century); a pair of Dickensian silhouettes, Mr Pickwick and Mr Pecksniff, from Charles Dickens's Pickwick Papers, full-length, titled in pencil, lithographed black ink, 10.5cm x 6cm [3]