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Lot 561

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
$699
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[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. 9 daguerreotypes featuring men with haughty expressions.

Third plate full seated portrait of a man with long hair and a goatee seated next to a table surmounted by writing implements and a top hat. (Spotting throughout, some scratching to edges, no preserver; resealed.) Housed under mat and glass only, no preserver or case. -- Quarter plate bust portrait of an elderly gentleman with receding hairline and long hair combed back in curls. He wears an almost disgusted expression on his face. (Significant tarnishing to edges and in one horizontal line through subject's shoulders, wiping, preserver missing on one edge; resealed.) Housed in a fully separated leatherette case. Mat stamped for "MEADE & BRO." -- And 7 others including one quarter plate example, 5 sixth plate examples, and one ninth plate example. Some without full cases. Conditions vary. -- Together, 9 daguerreotype portraits of men with haughty expressions.

Early Photography Collection of Jules Martino, Silverton, Oregon

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