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Lot 643
Sale 1252 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography Online
Lots Open
Nov 30, 2023
Lots Close
Dec 11, 2023
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$300 -
500
Price Realized
$347
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Lot Description
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. 9 figural, floral, and geometric Union cases containing images of women.
Sixth plate daguerreotype of a full-figured middle-aged woman wearing a bonnet. (Significant spot to center, scratch to lower right.) Housed in a Rare Union case, The Daguerreian Gallery [1-1118]. Sixth plate daguerreotype bust portrait of an older woman with a serene smile. (Significant tarnishing around edge, spotting throughout.) Housed in a Very Rare Union case, The Voyage of Life, The Launching 1 [1-75]. -- And 7 other sixth plate Union cases containing 2 daguerreotypes, 4 ambrotypes, and 2 tintypes of women. Cases include The Indian Monument, Havana, Cuba [R, 1-60], Fireman Saving Child 1 [C, 1-96], Hunter with Kill 1 [S, 1-94], Stealing the Birds Egg [R, 1-102] (misalignment, non-functioning closure), Mixed Flowers in a Basket [S, 2-47S], Fan of Cornucopias 2 [S, 2-133], and Geometric [C, 3-126].
[With:] Sixth plate ambrotype portrait of a young woman. (Image rather dark, some spots of loss.) Housed in a fully separated pressed paper case (split at spine, wear).




