Apr 16, 2019 - Sale 2505

Sale 2505 - Lot 141

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(MORMONS.) Joseph Smith, the Prophet. Albumen photograph of a drawing, 6 x 4 inches, on original mount with photographer's backstamp; minimal wear, small mount remnant on verso. Salt Lake City, UT: Charles W. Carter, 1885

Additional Details

An early cabinet card reproduction of the best-known image of Joseph Smith. The sub-caption reads "Copied from the original Daguerreotype taken at the city of Nauvoo in 1843." We find no other examples of Carter's photograph in the auction records or OCLC.