Apr 19, 2016 - Sale 2411

Sale 2411 - Lot 8

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(CHILDREN)
Unusual sixth-plate daguerreotype depicting a boy standing by a column while a bonneted woman appears at the top right. Her large hand is juxtaposed to his smaller one on top of the column; hand tinted; in a half leather case. 1850s
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WITH--Group of 7 daguerreian sixth-plates of kids and young adults, including a "hidden" woman holding a sleeping child and a post-mortem of an infant; several are hand-tinted; each in full or half leather cases, and one in a black lacquer case. 1850s.

From the Collection of Harry Amdur.