Lot Essay
Including a good large daguerreotype family group (illus.) and a quarter-plate ambrotype portrait of a woman and child with an Asian girl holding a white cat.
Details
Parry & Mace (Liverpool), Bowman (Glasgow), Barratt & Stanley and others
Daguerreotype, ambrotype and tintype portraits, 1840s and later
Four daguerreotypes, sixth-plate to 5½ x 3¾ in., two hand-tinted, a third with gilt highlights, each cased or in part-case, one sixth-plate with credit Parry & Mace Artists 2 Paradise St. Liverpool on case; a quantity of ambrotypes, one 4 x 3 in., hand-tinted, the others ninth-plate to quarter-plate, including one stamped Bowman ..Jamaica St. Glasgow and another with credit of Barratt & Stanley, the majority in folding morocco cases; and two tintypes. (a lot)
Daguerreotype, ambrotype and tintype portraits, 1840s and later
Four daguerreotypes, sixth-plate to 5½ x 3¾ in., two hand-tinted, a third with gilt highlights, each cased or in part-case, one sixth-plate with credit Parry & Mace Artists 2 Paradise St. Liverpool on case; a quantity of ambrotypes, one 4 x 3 in., hand-tinted, the others ninth-plate to quarter-plate, including one stamped Bowman ..Jamaica St. Glasgow and another with credit of Barratt & Stanley, the majority in folding morocco cases; and two tintypes. (a lot)
Further details
See illustration