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Lot 985

Sale 961 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Nov 30, 2021 10:00AM ET
Online / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$200 - 400
Price Realized
$500
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium

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[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY - POST MORTEM] A quarter plate tintype of a deceased young girl with 2 additional cased images. 


Quarter plate tintype full-length post-mortem portrait of a young girl. Quarter plate hand-tinted tintype. (Excellent tonality, soft focus at lower edge.) Housed in geometric union case [Breg 3-37]. -- Sixth plate daguerreotype half-length studio portrait of a man wearing a lacquered hat. St. Louis: J.J. Outley, n.d. Quarter plate hand-tinted daguerreotype. (Slightly lightened). Housed in full pressed paper case with geometric design (hinge split, light wear to extremities). Photographer's imprint on brass mat. -- Sixth plate ambrotype half-length studio portrait of a man and woman in mourning. Sixth plate ambrotype. (Spotting.) Housed in union case Fireman Saving Child. [Berg 1-97] (a few scuffs to raised design). -- Together, 3 cased images. 

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