Lot 595
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. 4 cased images featuring subjects holding or displaying cased images.
Sale 1252 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography Online
Lots Open
Nov 30, 2023
Lots Close
Dec 11, 2023
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$300 -
500
Price Realized
$378
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Lot Description
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. 4 cased images featuring subjects holding or displaying cased images.
Quarter plate daguerreotype portrait of two women, one of whom wears a daguerreotype brooch on her waist. (Chemical spotting, deterioration and tarnishing to plate; unsealed.) Housed in a leatherette case with gilt design (surface wear throughout). -- Sixth plate daguerreotype portrait of a young man holding a cased image up on a table, which also supports a large top hat. (Some tarnishing along edge, occasional spotting; resealed.) Housed in a Union case. -- And 2 others, including a cracked quarter plate ambrotype and a sixth plate tintype. -- Together, 4 cased images of people holding or showing off cased images.
[With:] Quarter plate ambrotype of a man, woman, and baby, housed together in a Union case with one of the above images.
[With:] Quarter plate ambrotype of a man, woman, and baby, housed together in a Union case with one of the above images.
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