[Tintype]: Image of Three Women Posed Driving a Very Early Automobile

Verlag: no publisher, [No place - New England, 1900

Beschreibung

Tintype. Approximately 3¼" x 2¼". A few small surface scratches, otherwise near fine. Three women in voluminous white dresses and top-hats seated in an automobile with a studio backdrop behind them. Two women sit in the rear seat, while the third woman sits in the front seat and mimics steering the car with a tiller-type apparatus. It is not our field and we can only speculate, but from our investigation, the tiller apparatus is similar to that of the Benz Patent Motorwagen, generally considered to be the first automobile to be manufactured commercially beginning in 1886 (as opposed to horse-drawn carriages that were adapted as a one-off, or home-made steam-powered autos). There are no other obvious points of identification in the image (photographer's marks, captions, or other clues) but from provenance we suspect that the image is American, probably from New England, and is likely a tiller-steered American car from around 1895-1900. The automobile was presumably parked in a photographer's studio, or at an exhibition or fair of some sort. Someone with more expertise than ours could better identify the make of the auto, although according to one distinguished auto museum curator we consulted stated: "Because the image shows only a small portion of the vehicle, we cannot identify its manufacturer, as many vehicles [of the period] appear almost identical.". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 538471

Bibliografische Details

Titel: [Tintype]: Image of Three Women Posed ...

Verlag: no publisher, [No place - New England

Erscheinungsdatum: 1900

Einband: Unbound

Zustand: Near Fine