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Lot 259

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Estimate
$200 - 400
Price Realized
$313
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium

Lot Description

[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. Quarter plate daguerreotype featuring a portly gentleman with a cane, tentatively identified.


Quarter plate seated portrait of a rather large man sitting in an oversized chair, holding a cane between his legs. (Light spotting to plate, spotting to mat and preserver; unsealed.) Housed in a full pressed paper case (surface wear, some separation to spine, discoloration/soiling to satin pad). Modern note accompanying image tentatively identifies subject as "Abraham Noosum, Mt. Gilead Ohio, founder of Morrow County Ohio..." though this identity cannot be confirmed.

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