Lot of 20, including six daguerreotypes, six ambrotypes, and eight tintypes. Highlights include a pair of daguerreotype portraits featuring a mature man and woman, housed on either side of a panel in a book-style case; a pair of ambrotype portraits featuring a middle-aged man holding a document in his hands and a woman wearing lace gloves and black ribbons in her hair, housed in the same union case; and four tintype portraits, likely featuring the members of two related couples, one of whom is elderly and the other of whom is young, all housed in a double sixth plate geometric union case. Sixteen images housed in geometric union cases. Provenance:Marvin Lieber Collection of Early Photographica Condition: Various. Two tintype portraits with especially heavy crackling. Other portraits with varying degrees of wear, spotting, and discoloration to plates, with general wear to cases.
Lot of 20, including six daguerreotypes, six ambrotypes, and eight tintypes. Highlights include a pair of daguerreotype portraits featuring a mature man and woman, housed on either side of a panel in a book-style case; a pair of ambrotype portraits featuring a middle-aged man holding a document in his hands and a woman wearing lace gloves and black ribbons in her hair, housed in the same union case; and four tintype portraits, likely featuring the members of two related couples, one of whom is elderly and the other of whom is young, all housed in a double sixth plate geometric union case. Sixteen images housed in geometric union cases. Provenance:Marvin Lieber Collection of Early Photographica Condition: Various. Two tintype portraits with especially heavy crackling. Other portraits with varying degrees of wear, spotting, and discoloration to plates, with general wear to cases.
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