ORIGINAL! RARE! CIVIL WAR  CONFEDERATE PRESIDENT JEFFERSON DAVIS from BRADY NEGATIVE by E. ANTHONY NY 1861 CDV PHOTO

RARE! CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE PRESIDENT JEFFERSON DAVIS BY E. ANTHONY BEFORE HIS BROTHER'S   (Henry T. Anthony) NAME WAS INCORPORATED IN THE NAME OF HIS PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO IN 1862 AS

E. & H. T. ANTHONY. CDV PHOTO.


RARELY SEEN PINSTRIPES ON THE MOUNT ARE TARNISHED METALLIC GOLD INK.

RARE! SMALL PINK LABEL FROM THE TIME OF PURCHASE ON THE REVERSE :

WILLIAM SMITH. 

BOOKSELLER STATIONER & Co. 

43 Lord Street, 

Liverpool (ENGLAND).


BOUGHT BY A BRITISH BOOKSELLER DURING THE CIVIL WAR IN NEW YORK CITY AT THE E.ANTHONY BUILDING AT 501 BROADWAY IN 1861 AND BROUGHT BACK TO ENGLAND BY TRANSATLANTIC STEAMER TO SELL AT HIS BOOKSTORE. HIS STORE'S LABEL AFFIXED TO THE REVERSE.


SHARP FOCUS AND VERY GOOD CONTRAST.


CONDITION IS EXTREMELY FINE WITH LIGHT HANDLING FROM ITS 163 YEARS. 

SOME VERY LIGHTLY PENCILED DETAILS ON THE REVERSE (IN ENGLAND).

ONE OF THE PERIOD PENCILED DETAILS IS INCORRECTLY ID'd AS: FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT (HE WAS ACTUALLY THE FORMER CONFEDERATE STATES PRESIDENT.)

OUTSIDE DIMENSIONS: W 2 7/16" x H 4" 

PHOTOGRAPHER IMPRINT ON THE REVERSE:

                      Published by

                       E. ANTHONY  

                      501 Broadway

                        NEW YORK

      FROM PHOTOGRAPHIC NEGATIVE

                                 IN

                           BRADY'S

               National Portrait Gallery

(please see pictures).

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