Lot of 4, including 2 sixteenth plate daguerreotype portraits, a ninth plate portrait in oval case, and a sixteenth plate case. Portraits include a gentleman in a leather case with 2 bands, a woman in a pressed paper geometric case. The oval portrait is in an open-faced pendant, with window on rear for hair (not in this one). The fourth has blank plate, mat, cover glass, preserver in "Basket of Fruit" Union case [Krainik 623]. Condition: Leather and paper cases with wear, dags of woman and oval portrait with tarnish rings.
Lot of 4, including 2 sixteenth plate daguerreotype portraits, a ninth plate portrait in oval case, and a sixteenth plate case. Portraits include a gentleman in a leather case with 2 bands, a woman in a pressed paper geometric case. The oval portrait is in an open-faced pendant, with window on rear for hair (not in this one). The fourth has blank plate, mat, cover glass, preserver in "Basket of Fruit" Union case [Krainik 623]. Condition: Leather and paper cases with wear, dags of woman and oval portrait with tarnish rings.
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