Dec 11, 2014 - Sale 2370

Sale 2370 - Lot 13

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 4,500
(EARLY DAGUERREOTYPY)
Group of 13 early daguerreotypes, including a lovely half-plate of a fashionably attired woman in a bonnet and plaid dress; a quarter-plate of three well-dressed siblings; 10 sixth-plate portraits, including an unusual proto-modernist image of a man posing without a shirt and another of gentleman whose decorative vest is detailed with artful engraving-like scratching; and a ninth-plate close-up of a woman's face; one is gold-toned; all are in leather cases. Late 1840s-50s