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Lot of 11. Includes 3 half plate ambrotypes, one quarter plate daguerreotype, one quarter plate tintype, one sixth plate daguerreotype, and 5 sixth plate ambrotypes. Highlights include a half plate ambrotype portrait of a woman adorned in all black including gloves and bonnet with mat marked for C.L. Howe and housed in a Scarce figural union case, Washington Monument with Seraphs and Eagles [Berg 1-3S]; a half plate artistically hand-tinted copy ambrotype of an elderly woman housed in a fob-style half case marked for Humphrey's & Halliwell; a quarter plate daguerreotype of a woman wearing a bonnet housed in a Rare geometric union case [3-37]; and a sixth plate daguerreotype featuring a middle-aged woman wearing a bonnet and sitting next to a pillar with mat marked for Weston, NY and housed in a Scarce figural union case, Clipper Ship [1-59]. One image housed only under glass. Six union cases in all. Provenance:Marvin Lieber Collection of Early Photographica Condition: Images and cases with varying degrees of wear and an array of condition issues including tarnish, discoloration, spotting, scratching, and general wear including chipping, nicking, discoloration, and surface soil to cases. One half plate image housed only under glass, one half plate image housed in fob-style half case. Quarter plate daguerreotype of woman housed in Rare case especially worn with heavy fading and scratching throughout plate. Half plate hand-tinted copy ambrotype with two large cracks in glass.