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Lot 527

Sale 1345 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography Online
Lots Open
Jun 19, 2024
Lots Close
Jul 2, 2024
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$400 - 600
Price Realized
$826
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium

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[EARLY PHOTOG.]. 13 daguerreotypes in rectangular wall frames, some with French Daguerreian labels.

Undersized quarter plate portrait of a family including mother, father, and two children. (Tarnishing to edges, heavy clouding to glass; sealed in a passe partout mount). Housed in a thermoplastic wall frame (heavy loss, cracking, soiling). -- Undersized quarter plate portrait of a gentleman with sideburns. (Tarnishing to edges and in spots throughout image, heavy clouding to glass; sealed in a passe partout mount). House in a thermoplastic wall frame (heavy chipping, cracks, loss, retaped on verso) with affixed paper label for French daguerreotypist, Felix, located at Blanchet House in Nantes. -- And 11 others, including 2 with French paper labels affixed to versos, and one image entirely separated from frame. Conditions vary. -- Together, 13 daguerreotype portraits housed in rectangular wall frames.

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

This lot is located in Cincinnati.

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