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The E-Sylum: Volume 15, Number 14, April 1, 2012, Article 10

19TH CENTURY U.S. PORTRAIT IDENTIFICATIONS PROPOSED

Last week Christopher Eimer asked for assistance in identifying the portrait on this high-relief bronzed electrotype. Here are our readers' thoughts. -Editor

Andrew W. Pollack writes:

Possibly Jacob Reese Eckfeldt?

Andrew provided a link to an Eckfeldt image - here it is, side-by-side with Chris Eimer's piece. -Editor

United States unidentified 19th century portrait

Gar Travis writes:

Looks like Jefferson Davis in a younger visage.

David Alexander writes:

Regarding Brother Eimer's electrotype, the facial features and the little chin beard strongly suggest a young Jefferson Davis, Senator and Secretary of War before the events at Fort Sumter led to his service as President of the Confederate States of America. Even if not Davis, the piece is a marvelous art work in any event.

So two votes for Jeff Davis, President of the Confederacy. I found a Jeff Davis image online, and here it is, side-by-side. -Editor

So what do we think now? -Editor

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see: QUERY: 19TH CENTURY U.S. PORTRAIT IDENTIFICATION SOUGHT (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v15n13a10.html)

Wayne Homren, Editor

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