Lot of 19 ambrotypes, including 1 half plate ambrotype, 8 sixth plate ambrotypes, 7 ninth plate ambrotypes, and 3 sixteenth plate ambrotypes, most of which are housed in either pressed paper or geometric union cases. Notably includes a sixth plate of a man wearing a light coat and dark vest sitting sideways in a chair, housed in a patriotic leather case catalogued in Berg as Eagle in Flight [4-25]. Also with a sixth plate portrait of a man with a full goatee who wears a gold ring and tucks his hand into his jacket; a sixth plate portrait of a man with voluminous hair and a dark beard, housed in a case bearing the Bowl of Fruit design [2-31]; a ninth plate portrait of a man with tinted cheeks, credited to J. Bryant Cape Cod, Massachusetts; and a sixteenth plate portrait of a pleasant looking gentleman housed in a Flower Pattern case [2-122S]. Provenance:Marvin Lieber Collection of Early Photographica Condition: Two bare plates and one under mat, glass, and preserver.
Lot of 19 ambrotypes, including 1 half plate ambrotype, 8 sixth plate ambrotypes, 7 ninth plate ambrotypes, and 3 sixteenth plate ambrotypes, most of which are housed in either pressed paper or geometric union cases. Notably includes a sixth plate of a man wearing a light coat and dark vest sitting sideways in a chair, housed in a patriotic leather case catalogued in Berg as Eagle in Flight [4-25]. Also with a sixth plate portrait of a man with a full goatee who wears a gold ring and tucks his hand into his jacket; a sixth plate portrait of a man with voluminous hair and a dark beard, housed in a case bearing the Bowl of Fruit design [2-31]; a ninth plate portrait of a man with tinted cheeks, credited to J. Bryant Cape Cod, Massachusetts; and a sixteenth plate portrait of a pleasant looking gentleman housed in a Flower Pattern case [2-122S]. Provenance:Marvin Lieber Collection of Early Photographica Condition: Two bare plates and one under mat, glass, and preserver.
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