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Lot 95
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
$250 -
500
Price Realized
$244
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. Quarter plate ambrotype portrait of a group of 5 people and their dog.
Half plate ambrotype, likely a later copy, featuring a group of 5 men and woman, posed on either side of a large dog, sitting on a stool. (Rather soft focus, slightly tinged green/blue in color, chemical deterioration to edges, light spotting.) Housed in a fully separated pressed paper case (split at spine, surface wear).
The subject featured here are likely family members, as an older man and woman sit to the viewer's left of the dog, while a less mature man and woman sit to the right, with a teenaged young man on the far right. The dog's head is quite blurred from movement during the original exposure.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
