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A portrait of a woman, two of gentlemen, one of a young boy and one of a couple.
Miscellaneous daguerreotype portraits, 1850s
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PROFESSOR PILLAS (Paris), BEARD PATENTEE and others
Miscellaneous daguerreotype portraits, 1850s
Two sixth-plates, two ninth-plates and one twelfth-plate, one lightly hand-tinted, one sixth-plate mounted as oval in passe-partout, with photographer's printed credit label Pillas, Professeur...Paris on verso, others with gilt-metal mounts, one stamped Beard Patentee, in folding cases. (5)
Miscellaneous daguerreotype portraits, 1850s
Two sixth-plates, two ninth-plates and one twelfth-plate, one lightly hand-tinted, one sixth-plate mounted as oval in passe-partout, with photographer's printed credit label Pillas, Professeur...Paris on verso, others with gilt-metal mounts, one stamped Beard Patentee, in folding cases. (5)