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Lot 225

[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. Half plate daguerreotype featuring a telegrapher posed in front of an American flag. 
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Estimate
$1,500 - 2,500
Price Realized
$4,688
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[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. Half plate daguerreotype featuring a telegrapher posed in front of an American flag. 


Half plate portrait of a man standing in front of a large American flag with telegraph equipment. (Multiple wipe marks to plate, no preserver present; unsealed.) Housed in a full pressed paper case (surface wear, closing hooks missing). The subject rests one hand on the table next to him, upon which the telegraph equipment is also visible. The flag takes up the entirety of the background.

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