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Lot 981
Sale 961 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Nov 30, 2021
10:00AM ET
Online / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$200 -
300
Price Realized
$375
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Lot Description
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. Sixth plate postmortem ambrotype of young girl.
Sixth plate hand-tinted ambrotype. (Some darkening). Housed in full pressed paper case with a floral motif (hinge split, scuffs). Interior has a lock of the subject's hair sewn to the velvet pad alongside two clipped poems on the subject of death.
Property from the Estate of Henry G. Lamont, Racine, Wisconsin