[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. Half plate ambrotype of attractive young women, possibly sisters.

Affectionate portrait of two young women turned slightly toward one another and touching hands. (Exceptional clarity, few areas of interrupted lacquer visible through dark spots in image; fabric seal remains affixed to lacquer on back of plate.) Housed in a fully separated painted case with mother-of-pearl inlay (split at spine, crackling to cover, surface wear throughout). Period ink inscription on paper label affixed to image verso reads, "Cassie V Tomlinson Ellis, Phillips on the right before marrage [sic]."

Early Photography Collection of Jules Martino, Silverton, Oregon

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[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. Half plate ambrotype of attractive young women, possibly sisters.

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