[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. 14 pairs of sixth plate daguerreotype portraits housed together in same case.
Sale 2067 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography
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Nov 6, 2024
Lots Close
Nov 20, 2024
Timed Online / Cincinnati
Estimate
$400 -
600
Lot Description
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. 14 pairs of sixth plate daguerreotype portraits housed together in same case.
A pair of portraits featuring a man with a scraggly beard and a woman wearing a lace collar. (Both images with minor spotting and imperfections, spotting to mats.) Housed together in a pressed paper case (heavy surface wear, some separation to spine). -- A pair of portraits featuring a man with a short, frizzy beard, and a woman wearing a bonnet and holding either a book, album, or closed cased image in her hand. (Both images with spotting and tarnishing, spotting to mat.) Housed together in a pressed paper case (surface wear). -- And 12 other pairs of images housed together. Conditions and state of housings vary (many cases fully separated at spine). -- Together, 14 pairs of sixth plate daguerreotypes housed together in the same case, totaling 28 total images.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
19th-20th Century Historic Photography Collection of Dr. Joseph T. Pollock
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