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The Great Western Railway locomotive 'Damon', circa 1842 and others

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The Great Western Railway locomotive 'Damon', circa 1842 and others
Ninth-plate daguerreotype, 2¼ x 2¾ in., plain gilt surround with rounded corners, folding morocco case; with an oval daguerreotype portrait of a lady, 3½ x 2.7/8 in., the folding morocco case stamped Mson. B. Breveté SGDG; three sixth-plate ambrotype portraits, one with maker's advertising label R. Fisher......31, Westbourne Grove. Bayswater on back of simple frame, the others cased (one case broken), and one carte-de-visite. (6)

拍品專文

The daguerreotype shows the Firefly class (later Priam class) locomotive built by Nasmyth, Gaskell and Co., Manchester, build no. 36, which was brought into service in March 1842 and continued until scrapped in July 1870. It is likely that the photograph was taken when the locomotive was inaugurated in 1842. The image, which is laterally reversed, includes four or possibly five figures, two of which are gentlemen wearing top hats.