Herold CDV by Berger?!

[BettyO]

Thanks to our own Joe Beckert who found online a supposedly interesting "sale item" - i.e. JWB's handkerchief for $5,000 ?!? It's not documented strongly; only purported to be JWB's hanky....who knows? Methinks the red plaid silk kerchief belonged to some dude named Authur in 1878.....

All things aside, I also was perusing the same eBay page and found, lo and behold, a "Berger" CDV of Herold; the same one used in the illustrated papers - is this indeed our frivolous boy?! You be the judge. Never seen this one before -

   

[John Fazio]

(09-03-2016 07:45 AM)BettyO Wrote:  Thanks to our own Joe Beckert who found online a supposedly interesting "sale item" - i.e. JWB's handkerchief for $5,000 ?!? It's not documented strongly; only purported to be JWB's hanky....who knows? Methinks the red plaid silk kerchief belonged to some dude named Authur in 1878.....

All things aside, I also was perusing the same eBay page and found, lo and behold, a "Berger" CDV of Herold; the same one used in the illustrated papers - is this indeed our frivolous boy?! You be the judge. Never seen this one before -

Betty:

If that's David Herold, then I am King Kong and you are Faye Wray.

John

[Thomas Kearney]

(09-03-2016 08:52 AM)John Fazio Wrote:  

(09-03-2016 07:45 AM)BettyO Wrote:  Thanks to our own Joe Beckert who found online a supposedly interesting "sale item" - i.e. JWB's handkerchief for $5,000 ?!? It's not documented strongly; only purported to be JWB's hanky....who knows? Methinks the red plaid silk kerchief belonged to some dude named Authur in 1878.....

All things aside, I also was perusing the same eBay page and found, lo and behold, a "Berger" CDV of Herold; the same one used in the illustrated papers - is this indeed our frivolous boy?! You be the judge. Never seen this one before -

Betty:

If that's David Herold, then I am King Kong and you are Faye Wray.

John

I'm with you on this one, John.

[Carolyn Mitchell]

(09-03-2016 07:45 AM)BettyO Wrote:  Thanks to our own Joe Beckert who found online a supposedly interesting "sale item" - i.e. JWB's handkerchief for $5,000 ?!? It's not documented strongly; only purported to be JWB's hanky....who knows? Methinks the red plaid silk kerchief belonged to some dude named Authur in 1878.....

All things aside, I also was perusing the same eBay page and found, lo and behold, a "Berger" CDV of Herold; the same one used in the illustrated papers - is this indeed our frivolous boy?! You be the judge. Never seen this one before -

The "Berger CDV of Herold" was part of a CDV group which included John Wilkes Booth, David Herold and Boston Corbett. It just sold on eBay for $455.

[Houmes]

(09-03-2016 07:45 AM)BettyO Wrote:  All things aside, I also was perusing the same eBay page and found, lo and behold, a "Berger" CDV of Herold; the same one used in the illustrated papers - is this indeed our frivolous boy?! You be the judge. Never seen this one before -

The CDV of "Harold" attributed to Anthony Berger was known, while working for a time with Mathew Brady, to have photographed President Lincoln at least 14 times in 1864. The copyright was submitted by Berger in New York (not Washington DC), and the CDV was "published" by him in his Brooklyn, NY, studio. Obviously not David Herold, I suspect Berger needed some quick $$$ and had a local artist in 1865 make up some rendition, much like another artist invented the spurious image of Mary Surratt.