Apr 18, 2013 - Sale 2311

Sale 2311 - Lot 23

Price Realized: $ 5,760
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
WITH A BRADY WHOLE-PLATE AMBRO (CASED IMAGES)
Group of 12 daguerreotype portraits, with 2 quarter-plates comprising a handsome gent and another of a woman knitting; and 10 sixth-plates including a male cross-dresser, 6 studies of children (among which are a boy and his dog, a girl holding a doll, a third holding a cased image, and a post-mortem), a mother holding infant twins (?), and miscellaneous portraits of well-dressed men and women; a few are hand-tinted; 8 in full cases. 1850s

Additional Details

with--Group of 9 hard images, comprising 2 Japanese ambrotypes in original wooden cases; 5 ambrotype portraits, including a Brady whole-plate of a beautiful woman, a quarter-plate of a mason, a sixth-plate of a woman and her concertina, plus a half-plate tintype of a man on horseback and a sixth-plate tintype portrait of a dandy; 6 in full cases. 1850s-1860s.