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Lot 240
Sale 1095 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography, Featuring Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana & Historical Documents
Day 1 Lots 1-403
Nov 3, 2022
10:00AM ET
Day 2 Lots 404-634
Nov 4, 2022
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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$563
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Lot Description
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. A sixth plate daguerreotype portrait of a possible Highland soldier armed with a Scottish dirk. Ca mid-1850s.
Sixth plate seated portrait of an unknown subject sporting aspects of Highland (Scottish) accoutrement, including what appears to be a Glengarry cap and a sporran. (Tarnishing to edges, significant scratching to plate, and oxidation to preserver; unsealed.) Housed in a half leatherette case (significant surface wear/loss). The subject wears a traditional sporran with metallic cantle visible near the bottom center of the image, beneath which are at least two white horsehair tassels, and holds a dirk in one hand.
With only certain details discernable it is impossible to say whether this is simply a civilian clansman in some variation of traditional Highland garb or a soldier representing one of the half dozen or so Highland Regiments then serving on establishment in the British Army.
19th-20th Century Historic Photography Collection of Dr. Joseph T. Pollock
