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Lot 724
Sale 1047 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Lots Open
Jun 17, 2022
Lots Close
Jun 28, 2022
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$200 -
400
Price Realized
$688
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Lot Description
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. A collection of 19 daguerreotypes of middle aged women, including:
A quarter plate portrait of a well-dressed woman wearing a brooch, necklace, black ruffled dress, and lace gloves. N.p.: n.p., n.d. (Some scratching and spotting to plate; cleaned and resealed 1992.) Housed in a half pressed paper case (heavy wear including some loss). -- A sixth plate portrait of a lovely middle-aged woman, identified as "Aunt Rebecca Bl[omer?] on accompanying paper scrap, wearing a floral bonnet and gloves, with a book resting on the table next to her. New York: Anson, n.d. (Tarnishing to edges, spotting throughout; unsealed.) Housed in a full pressed paper case (general wear). Photographer's stamp to mat. -- A ninth plate half portrait of a woman wearing a lace collar and brooch. Morristown, PA: W.M. Stroud, n.d. (Some clouding to image, with light tarnish to left edge; unsealed.) Housed in a fully separated pressed paper case (upper edge of case bottom missing, general wear). Photographer's stamp to mat. -- And 16 others, including one quarter plate example, 13 sixth plate examples, one ninth plate example, and one sixteenth plate example.




