[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY] -- [MILITARIA]. Half plate daguerreotype of American ship's master.
Sale 960 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Nov 15, 2021
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Live / Cincinnati
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Lot Description
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY] -- [MILITARIA]. Half plate daguerreotype of American ship's master.
Half plate daguerreotype. (Some spotting, minor tarnishing to perimeter, somewhat soft focus.) Housed in full pressed paper case with grape motif (split hinge, minor scuffing to extremities.
A half-length studio portrait of a jovial-looking American naval officer wearing the cuff button arrangement and plain shoulder straps indicating the rank of Master under the 1852 Regulations.
Eugene R. Groves Collection of 19th Century Photography
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