August 1, 2015

The 1880s top hat trio

Trio in top hats. Tintype. Private Collection.

Trio in top hats. 1/6th plate tintype. Private Collection.

This tintype is reddish tinted, and all three gents are wearing top hats. A fine trio, the dandy in the back posing with his hands on the shoulders of the two in the front, and with a leg tucked in between them.

The backdrop is worth noting. Nature themed it was tastefully done, conveying more the idea of trees than figuratively so.

Larger detail.

The previous owner of this tintype shared with me that he had it in his collection since 1981. And on it passes through hands.

This entry was posted on Saturday, August 1st, 2015 at 1:03 pm and tagged with 1/6th plate, 1880s, evening wear, top hat and posted in Groups, Tintypes. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Enter your comment here...

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Email (required) (Address never made public)

Name (required)

Website

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change )

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change )

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls.” Ted Grant
Sister tumblr @ bowlersandhighcollars.tumblr.com Content will vary between the two blogs.
Follow Bowlers And High Collars on WordPress.com
Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Email Address:

Join 5,055 other subscribers
Categories
- Types of Photographs
  - Cabinet Cards
  - Cabinet Photos
  - CDVs
  - digital art
  - Image Restoration
  - Others
  - Photobooths
  - Postcards
  - RPPCs
  - Tintypes
- Types of Subjects
  - Bad Boys
  - Boys
  - Couples
  - Gay Interest
  - Gentlemen
  - Groups
  - Humorous
  - Military
  - Teens
- Victorian
Recent Posts
Legal Notice:

All photographs with site watermark are in the private collection of Caroline E. Ryan and most are not presented "as is".
They have been digitally restored or modified to varying degrees.
Light restoration works are under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Creative Common License.
The more extensive restorations are digital derivative works copyrighted to Caroline C. Ryan. All Rights Reserved.

DO NOT remove the photographs' watermark/URL. Permission is not granted to modify digital files for online publication or publication of collections such as CDs.
Permission is not granted to do reprints or offer digital files for commercial use.
Please contact me if your website is of historical or educational nature.
Copyright for Bamforth & Co. postcards in this collection remain with the proper current legal license owner and I make no claims to the digital files.
Popular Photographs
Thank you, dear followers!
Blog Stats
- 173,902 hits
Blog est. March 19, 2015