Opening: $85 Hammer Price: $85 SOLD Skylight Gallery 37 April 2014

Roughly CDV-sized tintype of a boy in Quebecois winter costume holding snowshoes, anonymous Canadian circa 1880. Print size 3.5 x 2.5 inches (9x6 cm).   ( Inventory# id718 )

This young lad appears to wear a version of the ceinture fléchée -- a finger-braided woolen sash that is a traditional French-Canadian garment . He carries a small pair of snowshoes at his side.

In excellent condition with a few tiny scratches.

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