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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 4151298, member: 33&quot;]Okay, I have checked a few books so far. I can&#039;t tell exactly which decade because it appears this is from the very late 1840s or the very early 1850s. The way the woman&#039;s dress appears to be open across the front was a &quot;trendy&quot; style during that time. The bottoms of her sleeves do open out, not tight all the way down. But as Debora noted, the tops of her sleeves are close fitting. So it seems to be a transitional style. Her hairstyle covers her ears in a way that seems to fit late 1840s or early 1850s. Later in the 1850s women often wore their hair puffed out more&nbsp; over the ears than the woman in this photo does. The man&#039;s tie and collar are more suggestive of 1840s but could also be early 1850s.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a book that gives possible date ranges for cases, mats, and preservers. I like this book a lot because the author has based these as much as possible on images that have dates written on them, and other sources where the date is known. Although I haven&#039;t seen the case cover, I did find the mat and preserver styles in the book. He calls that style of mat, with that shaped opening, a &quot;Cusped&quot; mat. He dates it from 1850-1854. The preserver design he has dated 1850-1856. Remember, these are carefully studied but he of course has not seen every photo that exists. So it&#039;s possible to be slightly different in reality.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=18802]@Jerry Coker[/USER] , if you want I can look in a couple of books for the case style, to see if any more info comes to light. Of course any time in the last 170 years somebody could have swapped the case. But so far everything is falling together into the same date range. So if you would add some photos of the outside of the case, I will get to it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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