Dec 11, 2014 - Sale 2370

Sale 2370 - Lot 7

Price Realized: $ 5,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
(MASCHER'S IMPROVED STEREOSCOPES)
Group of 8 rare cases with viewing devices and daguerreian portraits, comprising 4 quarter-plate Mascher stereo daguerreotypes, including one of a pretty girl in a pink dress; and 2 sixth-plate Mascher daguerreotypes, one with a single image and the second with stereo portraits; plus a stereo by the German photographer T. Schneider and what appears to be a French stereo daguerreotype; in the original leather cases, each with lift-up stereo glasses or a magnifying lens, and 6 with Mascher's imprint. 1850s