Lot of 16, consisting of 3 sixth plate daguerreotypes, 4 ninth plate daguerreotypes, 2 sixth plate ambrotypes, 5 ninth plate ambrotypes, 1 sixth plate tintype, and 1 ninth plate tintype, housed in either pressed paper or geometric union cases. Portraits show men, women, and children holding or posed alongside various props and accessories, including books, decorative furniture, and personal accessories. Several subjects appear with hats, including a young woman holding a floral trimmed hat, pictured in a well-composed tintype with an outdoor backdrop, as well as a young boy in a gingham tunic, who poses alongside a table topped with cloth cap, credited to Judkins. Other portraits show subjects with books, such as a sixth plate daguerreotype of a bearded man with a pocket watch chain and a sixth plate ambrotype of a young couple, identified as "Cornelius Clarke and wife / Helen E. Clarke / Taken Oct. 1858," posed with a small book or album. Also of interest are a ninth plate daguerreotype of a stylish young woman holding a book-style photographic case, possibly with mother of pearl inlay, and a charming ninth plate tintype of a little girl holding a doll. Provenance:Marvin Lieber Collection of Early Photographica Condition: Tintype of girl with doll under glass and preserver only.
Lot of 16, consisting of 3 sixth plate daguerreotypes, 4 ninth plate daguerreotypes, 2 sixth plate ambrotypes, 5 ninth plate ambrotypes, 1 sixth plate tintype, and 1 ninth plate tintype, housed in either pressed paper or geometric union cases. Portraits show men, women, and children holding or posed alongside various props and accessories, including books, decorative furniture, and personal accessories. Several subjects appear with hats, including a young woman holding a floral trimmed hat, pictured in a well-composed tintype with an outdoor backdrop, as well as a young boy in a gingham tunic, who poses alongside a table topped with cloth cap, credited to Judkins. Other portraits show subjects with books, such as a sixth plate daguerreotype of a bearded man with a pocket watch chain and a sixth plate ambrotype of a young couple, identified as "Cornelius Clarke and wife / Helen E. Clarke / Taken Oct. 1858," posed with a small book or album. Also of interest are a ninth plate daguerreotype of a stylish young woman holding a book-style photographic case, possibly with mother of pearl inlay, and a charming ninth plate tintype of a little girl holding a doll. Provenance:Marvin Lieber Collection of Early Photographica Condition: Tintype of girl with doll under glass and preserver only.
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