I need help! 45-70 case with photo?

[rangerider7]

I pick this up a while back just because I thought it was very unusual. I have seen trench art but none like this. The glass over the man's photo is not glued but is under the crimped edge. What period is it from, Indian wars, WWI, Spanish American? Have you ever seen one like it? He is supposed to have been a Texas Ranger but no provenance so it does not count. Thanks ahead of time. RR7







A little stand I made for it.

[Griff]

Unusual. Never seen anything like it.

[shawn_c992001]

Great find!

[Chuck 100 yd]

COOL. Someone had some time on his hands.

[kimwcook]

Unusual. Never seen anything like it.

Boy, I'll say. Nice hanger too.

[jeepnik]

I don't see a dimple in the primer. Is it unfired?

[Ysabel Kid]

Now that is different!

[Borregos]

Neat

[Pitchy]

Cool, can ya tell how the glass was crimped in, wonder how ya make a picture that small. Interesting thanks for sharing.

[rangerider7]

Pitchy the glass is just under the square rim of the brass. Whomever made it knew what they were doing, probably a jeweler. It, more than likely, has a great story behind it that we will never know or it is a form of trench art that a soldier sent back to his girlfriend to wear around her neck. Being that the male is not in uniform I'm thinking the latter is not the case.

[Pitchy]

Pretty darn cool, will have to try and make one, that case is what they called a ballon head case isn`t it.
I don`t have one like that but i do have a old case that has that lettering on it.
No gotta figure out how to shrink a picture down that small.

[rangerider7]

Pitchy, when this was made photos were much smaller and he may have been cut out of a group shot. Now days you can make any photo smaller with the software like Adobe photoshop Elements 4.0 and a printer. I just don't understand how they got the glass in so well without cracking it?

[Sixgun]

What I do know is that the headstamp was no longer used after 1930.With the rebated rim it is somewhere around the turn of the century. I have some of those exact cases and they look very early to me, possibly 1890's-1905

Where's Jack Kort when we need him?------------Sixgun

[Pitchy]

Not to butt in on your thread but here`s a start of making one.
I wonder if they took a piece of broken glass and sat and filed it until it fit, i`m going to find out.

[Pitchy]

Plastic lens, we live in a generation where ya pay more and get less.

[rangerider7]

Good luck pitchy! I know I couldn't do it.

[Pitchy]

Figure i`ll make a glass lens for it when i get more time, thanks for the great idea, i gave it to my wife to remember me by when my inlaws drive me to a early grave.

[kimwcook]

Excellent job, Pitchy. I'm surprised you didn't work on nuclear fission.

[Rusty]

rangerider,

Is there any way to tell how thick the glass is?

Nice job Pitchy!

I have a jeweler here in town that I do business with several times a year. I might need to show him this and see if he could or would make some.

[rangerider7]

The glass seems to be the same thickness as most photo frame glass, which in the old days was a bit thinner than today.

[Rusty]

Well as I was getting ready for work this morning I remembered a necklace My wife had with a broken clasp so I figured this would be a good excuse to stop and see the jeweler. I pulled up this thread on my phone so he could see it. He said a piece of glass like that would most likely have come from someone who made eyeglasses. He says that's who he calls on to have add sizes watch crystals made today.
I hope that helps someone.

[Pitchy]

Well as I was getting ready for work this morning I remembered a necklace My wife had with a broken clasp so I figured this would be a good excuse to stop and see the jeweler. I pulled up this thread on my phone so he could see it. He said a piece of glass like that would most likely have come from someone who made eyeglasses. He says that's who he calls on to have add sizes watch crystals made today.
I hope that helps someone.

I was thinking that same thing, in fact if the eyeglass used could magnify the picture also.

[Borregos]

Hey Pitchy are you saying the good looking guy in your picture is you

[Pitchy]

Hey Pitchy are you saying the good looking guy in your picture is you

From 25 years ago