[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. A group of 4 daguerreotype and ambrotype portraits of babies and children, highlighted by a fine daguerreotype featuring a mother and her child, comprising:
Sale 1095 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography, Featuring Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana & Historical Documents
Day 1 Lots 1-403
Nov 3, 2022
10:00AM ET
Day 2 Lots 404-634
Nov 4, 2022
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
Estimate
$300 -
$500
Sold for $188
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. A group of 4 daguerreotype and ambrotype portraits of babies and children, highlighted by a fine daguerreotype featuring a mother and her child, comprising:
Sixth plate daguerreotype portrait of a mother holding her baby. (Minor imperfections, good clarity, spotting to preserver; resealed.) Housed in a full pressed paper case (surface wear). -- Sixth plate ambrotype portrait of a young girl with her doll. (Heavy spotting to plate, spotting to mat; unsealed.) Housed in a half pressed paper case (surface wear). -- And 2 ninth plate daguerreotype portraits of babies. (Tarnishing and spotting to plates.) -- Together 4 cased images of babies and children.
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