Oct 18, 2011 - Sale 2257

Sale 2257 - Lot 21

Price Realized: $ 4,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(VICTORIANA)
Beautifully tinted sixth-plate daguerreotype portrait of a fashionably-dressed young woman whose remarkable hairdo is enhanced with paper ringlets, posing with her guitar; her cheeks and floral adornment are hand-colored, her necklace gilted, and the entire plate evidences a gold wash; in a tortoise shell "Leaves and Flowers 1" case, with mother-of-pearl inlay and an ivory perimeter on the interior front and rear panels (Berg, #6-99, 309). 1850s