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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ladybranch, post: 95202, member: 44&quot;]My, Sarony (1821-1896) was an interesting person. Here&#039;s a site with info on him. The self portrait of him is something else. He and his company, Sarony, Major and Knapp Lithographer of NYC, certainly did a variety of work. Speaking of bitters from your last query on VD Bitter bottle, they even did bitters, liquor, tonic, bottles, Civil War stuff, sheet music, etc... Seems he was an illustrator for Currier &amp; Ives from around 1836 to c1843 when he &quot;joined with James Major starting his own business.&quot; The name stayed Sarony and Major until 1853. The company name from 1853-1857 was Sarony and Company and from 1857- 1867 known as Sarony, Major and Knapp. In 1867 Sarony left the firm and established a photography studio where he was noted for celebrity art and pics. It says some of the most famous pics of Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens were done by Sarony. Very very interesting website on Sarony, his art and celebrity photographers. Interesting trivia from website, it seems the photographers paid the celebrities to take their pictures!</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Photographers would pay their famous subjects to sit for them, and then retain full rights to sell the pictures. Sarony reportedly paid famed stage actress Sarah Bernhardt $1,500 to pose for his camera, the equivalent of more than $20,000 today.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.peachridgeglass.com/2012/09/the-great-work-of-sarony-major-knapp-lithographer-new-york/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.peachridgeglass.com/2012/09/the-great-work-of-sarony-major-knapp-lithographer-new-york/" rel="nofollow">http://www.peachridgeglass.com/2012/09/the-great-work-of-sarony-major-knapp-lithographer-new-york/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>As your lithograph has only N. Sarony on it, I wonder just when it was done - before 1843 when he was an illustrator for C &amp; I, 1853-1857 when the company name was only Sarony &amp; Co., or after 1867 when he left the company.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to Currier &amp; Ives, Nathaniel Currier bought out his boss&#039;s printing company in 1834 and around 1835 the name was N. Currier, Lithographer. Later his brother Charles Currier joined him. BTW, Charles Currier invented or whatever a lithograph crayon that he patented as Crayola! James Ives joined the company c1852 and a partnership was finalized in 1857 becoming Currier and Ives.</p><p><a href="http://currierandives.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://currierandives.com/" rel="nofollow">http://currierandives.com/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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