[Early Photography] Group of 19 Sixth Plate Daguerreotype Paired Portraits, All Couples
Publishers and subjects mostly unidentified. All sixth plate size. Some without cases. Conditions vary. Including:
Seated poses of a man and woman. Identified as Simeon and Apluma Ives. Case split at spine; Seated poses of a man and woman. Light spotting and tarnishing to images; Seated poses of a man with glasses and a woman wearing a white bonnet. Man identified as John Porter. Spotting to both images; Seated poses of an older man and woman. Housed in decorated paper mache case, worn and split at spine.
And 15 other paired portraits. 38 photographs total.
19th-20th Century Historic Photography Collection of Dr. Joseph T. Pollock
This lot is located in Philadelphia.