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Found in an 1870s Family Bible, most items being from the 1890s to 1910s.
I don't know how well this link will work, but for those of you who have a Gmail, you can view it here:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/116330719557860797242/stream/47ce29a7-0c64-4396-b580-798e0964e67fLook for, in "All Posts" or "Discussion," "Found in a Bible circa 1870! Photographs, cards, a banner, invitations, souvenir, coupons, newspaper articles over a century old, stamp, colored cut-outs, clover, program, ticket.... AMAZING! Most items I've so far been able to date are 1890s-1910s. Click the big picture then scroll through-- regardless of your religiosity, it's worth it! Items from Wisconsin and Michigan! Some have descriptions in the big white box to the right of the photos when you look through them. Some also have questions, for I need help!" to see all I've found in it.

15-cent stamps have been around since the 1800s, but most are supposed to be 1970s. As nothing seems to date to so modern a time, the age of the stamp is likely around the age of most everything else.

Help on age, who the guy pictured is, and value? P.S.: There is a section for bottles on the Google+ Community.
 

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They are printed on an early plastic, or so it would appear. Here is the general back of one:
At the bottom of the back, it also says, "N.B.-- This Negative preserved, and additional Pictures can be had at any time."
Front, below picture, reads, "Brown, 89 Wisconsin Street."
 

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There are various variations of the way the photos were made, the words, and styles, but they should be generally the same time-- it appears they were transferred over on to plastic?
 

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BINGO!
The photographs are Cabinet Cards-- for which I also conveniently have a coupon for!
Albeit blurry, they misspelled "coupon" in one part.
Two birds with one stone.
The photos are likely either a matte collodion or a gelatin bromide. I had mistaken it as a plastic product.
The time also perfectly fits: Main use between 1890s and 1910s with the two materials above.
The photographer I find references of in 1869/1870, but it seems obvious in my limited knowledge he continued for some time-- to about T.O.C..
Now about the stamp....
 

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The ones done by Mann of Waukesha are single-piece; the unidentified cabinet-card-makers in here are more of a sticker and seem more related to the older carte de visites; Brown's are a full covering (how I'd describe it....) This one I'm holding, not shown, I cannot read the signature on back-- maybe Tyler something of Waukesha.
Mann's are more attractive in the designs/color of the card itself.
Brown's look more pro.
One is from something Lee Goff(?) of Wausau, Wis..
Very unique items. I've never seen the likes before, but they were once incredibly popular.

Photo taken while sitting off-center in the photo-section of the Bible.
 

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Most interesting-looking character next to a creepy-looking woman. Her outfit is interesting--clothes and accessories, hairdo....
 

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Close to 1900 is this cut-out.
A few of the photos are, according to more research, real carte de visite--circa 1870.
 

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Probably the prettiest of them all. No offense, of course, to the others.
 

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