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Lot 221

Sale 1069 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Lots Open
Aug 19, 2022
Lots Close
Aug 30, 2022
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$300 - 500
Price Realized
$688
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[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. A collection of pairs and trios of cased images featuring the same female subjects, including:


A quarter plate daguerreotype of three women housed in a pressed paper case (few spots to plate, great clarity, heavy spotting to mat, general wear to case), and a sixth plate daguerreotype showing one of the young women from the first image housed in a broken half pressed paper case (very minor tarnishing to edges, very light clouding to image, case with heavy damage). -- A pair of sixth plate daguerreotypes featuring the same woman holding a different child in each portrait, housed in identical bird motif pressed paper cases (tarnishing to edges, with spotting to plates and mats, general surface wear to cases). --  A trio of sixth plate ambrotypes of the same young toddler in different poses, each housed in a half pressed paper case (some spotting and crackling to images, general wear to mats and cases). -- And 4 other sixth plate daguerreotypes. -- Together, 11 cased images. 


19th-20th Century Historic Photography Collection of Dr. Joseph T. Pollock

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