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Portraits of children including one of a young boy with his mother, 1850s

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Portraits of children including one of a young boy with his mother, 1850s
One half-plate, two ninth-plate and one twelfth-plate daguerreotype, three mounted in Union cases, the twelfth-plate mounted as a brooch, gilt-metal mount with woven hair backing. (4)

Literature

Krainik and Walvoord, Union Cases, pl. nos. 9, 376 and 579.

Lot Essay

The half-plate portrait of a mother and her son is in the case titled 'American Country Life - Summer's Evening' by Littlefield, Parsons and Company; the other two cases comprise 'Beehive with Farm Tools, Figural Borders' and 'Mary and Her Little Lamb', each by Littlefield, Parsons and Company.

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