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A vivid cross-section of frontier life captured in silver on iron — seven original tintypes bearing witness to the fashions, faces, and characters of the mid-to-late 19th-century American West, ranging from anonymous cowboys and their wives to a self-described vagabond outlaw with a revolver in his lap.
• Tintype (3.25 x 2.5), a man seated in a horse-drawn wagon holding a rifle aloft — an uncommon action pose for the format.
• Tintype (3.25 x 4.75), four men posing together in distinctive frontier fashions — hats, facial hair, and period garments throughout.
• Tintype (2 x 3.25), two men in wide-brimmed hats, jackets, and leather boots, housed in a CDV-style paper frame.
• Tintype (1.5 x 2), a man in a white shirt with messy hair and short beard, cheeks hand-tinted rosy, housed in a CDV-style paper frame.
• Tintype (2.5 x 3.75), two men dressed as cowboys in vests, wide-brimmed hats, and leather chaps, housed in a CDV-style paper frame annotated in pencil identifying the subjects as "Hearst" and "Glispy."
• Tintype (2.25 x 3.25), an outlaw in a suit and wide-brimmed hat holding a revolver in his lap, housed in a CDV-style paper frame annotated in ballpoint identifying the subject as "Joe Been, the (vagabond)."
• Tintype (2.25 x 3.25), a cowboy and his wife posing together — the man seated in wide-brimmed hat, bullet belt, and tall cowboy boots, the woman standing at his side in a floor-length dress.
Overall condition is very good to fine across the group, with light bends and surface impressions to select plates, minor emulsion irregularities to one example, and corner loss to one mount. The annotated examples — "Hearst," "Glispy," and "Joe Been, the vagabond" — carry the strongest individual identity.
The Western Americana auction of Jochen Zeitz.
