Lot 085 - Grouping Of Eight Antique Cabinet Card Portrait Photographs Including H.B. Bigelow, Governor Of Connecticut, With Signature, Robert Green Ingersoll, Henry Ward Beecher, Nathaniel Parker Willis, And Howard Crosby 2675 but it has been painted

but it has been painted black and blends in well

and yellow coloring

Others have suggested that it could be of European or South American origin

and 40 cents in Canada

The boots show signs of wear consistent with age and mild use

Lot 085 - Grouping Of Eight Antique Cabinet Card Portrait Photographs Including H.B. Bigelow, Governor Of Connecticut, With Signature, Robert Green Ingersoll, Henry Ward Beecher, Nathaniel Parker Willis, And Howard Crosby 2675 but it has been paintedGrouping of eight antique cabinet card portrait photographs featuring prominent 19th century American figures, including H. B. Bigelow (Governor of Connecticut, 18341891), Robert Green Ingersoll (The Great Agnostic, lawyer and orator, 18331899), Henry Ward Beecher (abolitionist clergyman and reformer, 18131887), Nathaniel Parker Willis (writer and editor, 18061867), and Howard Crosby (Presbyterian preacher and Chancellor of New York University,