The Cobbs Auctioneers
Important
Antique and Fine Art Auction Saturday April 12th 2008
First Session Begins at 10AM
Second Session of Antique Toy Blocks & Games begins at 2:30PM
At Historic Noone Falls Mill, Peterborough NH
319. Jefferson Davis Tintype -
New Discovery, 6 7/8”
x 5”, tinted photograph, (circa 1861-1865). “Face Explorer” & “Beta
Face,” facial recognition software programs have taken the circa
1854 daguerreotype from the Museum of the Confederacy of Virginia &
the 1860 daguerreotype collection from the Chicago Historical
Society & confirmed this tin type to be the same person.
Provenance: A Massachusetts photo
collection. Found in a group of
Civil War era photos from an estate around Worcester, MA. Steven
Jerecki (Worcester – past curator of the museum) said it looked like
his last known image before the Civil War – note Davis got facial
erysipelas inflammation from a sickness (streptococcus) in 1858
which affected him throughout the Civil War and was noted in his
physical done upon his capture at the end of the war by the U.S. He
had also developed scars on chin area due to a fall when at West
Point. There was facial scaring to the left temple, swelling to the
eyes. Photos included: a.) Circa 1860 photograph of him courtesy of
Chicago Historical Society. b.) Circa 1854 daguerreotype from The
Museum of the Confederacy of Virginia. c.) The pose in the tin type
has his head tilted slightly forward (common in tin types). It shows
the scar under his mouth and left lower chin, swelling to eye and
eye affliction, ridge on nose, identical left side facial scars.
The computer analysis was done by Face Explorer and Beta Face, two
separate computer programs concluding that the early images as the
tin type are one in the same person.
Estimate $25,000-,40,000 |
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L-1 Identity Solutions Face Explorer Software
Brief explanation:
Biometrics uses an algorithm or numbering
system to map a persons face it does not include scars or other
facial irregularities in its determinations only uses landmark
points unique to a person such as corner of mouth or eyes the scars
and hairstyles tattoos etc are a completely separate data point so
in this case the biometric determination stands on its own and the
scars stand on its own and the hair stands on its own.
This tintype has the following supporting
evidence;
1 scars on the chin from injuries a
fall
2 biometric matching to known images of Davis
3 residual permanent butterflied markings from prior and
present erysipelas infection (noting post war scars which match the
tintype image and are not present in prewar images i.e. bridge of
nose and cheeks)
4 hair curls 1854
5 also a closer examination of the 1858 image and the
tintype reveals many other facial markings which are identical |
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