?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(CASED IMAGES--MILITARY) An early half-plate daguerreotype of a Mexican War-era West Point cadet with gold embellishments. Though unidentified, the handsome sitter of this portrait ranked as a color corporal, as identified by the star and two stripes on his uniform sleeve. Enclosed in a brass mat and a leather case with blue silk. Circa 1844-45
Provenance: The Estate of Richard T. Rosenthal, Philadelphia
