May 15, 2008 - Sale 2146

Sale 2146 - Lot 239

Price Realized: $ 4,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(CASED IMAGES)
Group of 5 unusual images, comprising double quarter-plate daguerreotypes depicting students at Ingham (sp?) University for Girls, Lenox, Mass; two sixth-plate daguerreotypes, one of a couple posing with a bird and a tableau of a gentleman offering his wife a book; and a half-plate composite ambrotype of the Dickey brothers and sisters; in leather cases. 1850s

Additional Details

with--Group of 4 images, comprising double sixth-plate daguerreotype portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Burroughs (sp?) Phillips, Darmouth College (1850s), an early study of George W. Patterson II (1849), Lieutenant Governor of New York and another of his daughter, Hannah; in leather cases. 1849-50s.