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Ambrotype
A635

Size
Date
Country
Artist
Sitter
Case

1/9 (5x7cm)
ca 1860s
Germany
Unknown
Unknown
Notebook

Notes

Notebook with the original Johann Faber pencil.

Johann Eberhard Faber opened a stationay store in 1848 in New York. His two brothers also worked at pencil companies in Germany.

They produced stationay items, so it's likely they made the notebook as well, but the image insert was created by the owner.

Sadly the image has cracked. The last image shown is how the image would've looked like without any cracks.

A lot of the writing looks to be of a much later date, likely the 1920s. It's mostly lists of names and prices, so perhaps it belonged to a shopkeeper or dealer of some sorts.