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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2634932, member: 19463&quot;]I used to collect antique photographs but stopped buying them to concentrate on coins and photography.&nbsp; From the 1850&#039;s:</p><p><br /></p><p>Gone but not forgotten</p><p><img src="http://m6.i.pbase.com/g1/88/582688/2/47077406.iWUUpq2U.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Dad will beat me if I move and ruin this photo.&nbsp; I am a boy!</p><p><img src="http://m0.i.pbase.com/v3/88/582688/1/47057870.dagboysm.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>1860&#039;s - Why is there a stack of banknotes just left of the dog?</p><p><img src="http://m4.i.pbase.com/v3/88/582688/1/47077694.0smambrodog2634.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Harrison Linn was blind in one eye and deaf as a doornail.&nbsp; At age 64, in 1877, the railroad built tracks across his farm.&nbsp; He died standing on the tracks.&nbsp; He was my great-grandfather.&nbsp; </p><p><img src="http://m9.i.pbase.com/g9/88/582688/2/153389649.Nn27JQKt.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, to make this a coin connected thread:&nbsp; I claim this is the oldest photograph of ancient coins.&nbsp; It is a French still life from the late 1850&#039;s.&nbsp; At the lower left is a bracelet made of antoniniani (Postumus?).&nbsp; Show me an older one.</p><p><img src="http://m1.i.pbase.com/g9/88/582688/2/164440571.9mNbC9wo.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>I still have a lot of old stereo views but this is the only one with coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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