Dec 11, 2014 - Sale 2370

Sale 2370 - Lot 32

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 450
(EPHEMERA)
Group of approximately 110 hard images with American photographers' printed backs from the post-daguerreian-era that advertise Picture Galleries, Portrait Rooms, Saloons, or Institutes; with the photographer's name, photographic services offered, business addresses and, often, period prices. With 19 ambrotype portraits, mainly produced in Massachusetts (Boston), which are housed in brass mats and preservers; and more than 91 tintypes, many by Brooklyn, New York or Northeast photographers, housed in period mats, a few with tax revenue stamps; and approximately 20 loose cards (without corresponding hard images). 1850s-70s