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Lot 102

Sale 6356 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography
Lots Open
Jun 18, 2025
Lots Close
Jul 2, 2025
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$300 - 400
Price Realized
$427
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium

Lot Description

[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY] 5 likely postmortem images of children, some with parents, incl. daguerreotypes 


Lot comprised of 5 sixth plate images, including 4 daguerreotypes and one ambrotype, housed in full or half cases.

Subjects include: 2 sixth plate daguerreotypes of mothers seated with their infants resting in their laps (each with tarnish to edges, spotting on plates). -- 2 sixth plate daguerreotypes of infants resting peacefully (each image a bit dark, one with some light spotting to edges). -- Sixth plate ambrotype of a downtrodden looking man holding a gaunt-looking child, either near death or possibly after death, housed in pressed paper case with penciled notation behind image, "Robert M. Jeffers and Roby (?) Jeffers." (wear to image and emulsion; case fully separated at hinge and heavily worn). -- Together, 5 images. Conditions vary.



This lot is located in Cincinnati.

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