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Lot 739
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. 19 ninth plate daguerreotypes of men with interesting hairstyles.
Sale 1194 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography Online
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Jun 26, 2023
Lots Close
Jul 7, 2023
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$300 - 500
Price Realized
$473
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Lot Description
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. 19 ninth plate daguerreotypes of men with interesting hairstyles.
Seated portrait of a debonaire gentleman looking off camera and posing with his hand in his waistcoat. (Some tarnishing to edges, few small blemishes to plate; no preserver present.) Housed in a fully separated pressed paper case (split at spine, surface wear). -- Seated portrait of a man with a peaked hairstyle, full beard and mustache, gazing intensely into the camera. Boston: Fish & Co., n.d. (Few minor blemishes to plate, else good; resealed.) Housed in a hand painted case with mother-of-pearl inlay (repaired separation to interior spine, surface wear throughout). Behind image is an advertising card for Fish & Co's Mammoth Daguerreian Rooms in Boston. -- And 17 others, many without full cases, some loose. -- Together, 19 ninth plate daguerreotypes of men of various ages sporting interesting or notable hairstyles. 
19th-20th Century Historic Photography Collection of Dr. Joseph T. Pollock
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