Lot Essay
The woman wears a hair bracelet with a portrait on her wrist and holds a small case in her left hand.
A COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC JEWELLERY AND NOVELTY PHOTOGRAPHS
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Brooch with a portrait of a lady with ringlets, 1840s or early 1850s
Daguerreotype, hand-tinted with gilt highlights, 1 5/8 x 1 3/8 in., set in oval gilt-metal mount backed with hair in the shape of a fan with gold filaments and four pearls, interlaced gilt-metal surround with applied leaves, gilt-metal hanging ring.
Brooch with a portrait of a lady with ringlets, 1840s or early 1850s
Daguerreotype, hand-tinted with gilt highlights, 1 5/8 x 1 3/8 in., set in oval gilt-metal mount backed with hair in the shape of a fan with gold filaments and four pearls, interlaced gilt-metal surround with applied leaves, gilt-metal hanging ring.