Lot Essay
A fine sixth-plate portrait of a young man seated in front of a landscape background with a sailing boat on a lake, mountains and trees; and a smaller portrait of a young woman.
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Decorative mother-of-pearl daguerreotype cases, 1850s
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Decorative mother-of-pearl daguerreotype cases, 1850s
One sixth-plate daguerreotype, hand-tinted and with gilt highlights, gilt mount stamped Weston 132 Chatham, in folding book-form papier-mâché case inlaid with mother-of-pearl, g.e., gilt clasp; and one ninth-plate daguerreotype, lightly hand-tinted, gilt mount, morocco-backed folding case with front cover of papier-mâché inlaid with mother-of-pearl. (2)
Decorative mother-of-pearl daguerreotype cases, 1850s
One sixth-plate daguerreotype, hand-tinted and with gilt highlights, gilt mount stamped Weston 132 Chatham, in folding book-form papier-mâché case inlaid with mother-of-pearl, g.e., gilt clasp; and one ninth-plate daguerreotype, lightly hand-tinted, gilt mount, morocco-backed folding case with front cover of papier-mâché inlaid with mother-of-pearl. (2)