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Lot 38
Sale 1250 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Nov 30, 2023
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$500 -
700
Price Realized
$536
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Lot Description
[MILITARIA - EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. Sixth plate daguerreotype of a lieutenant of infantry. Ca mid-1850s.
Seated portrait of an unidentified regular infantry second lieutenant wearing a 9-button frock coat with shoulder straps, and an earlier Model 1854 dress shako with gold-highlighted hunting horn insignia. (Spotting throughout, slight tarnishing along mat opening; resealed.) Housed in a leatherette case. The subject also sports a gold-highlighted pinkie ring.
Early Photography Collection of Jules Martino, Silverton, Oregon