Lot of 2 daguerreotypes, possibly postmortem portraits. A sixth plate daguerreotype of a gaunt-looking mother in a lace cap holding her child. Housed in a mother-of-pearl case. A sixth plate mother of pearl case containing two daguerreotypes of a mother dressed in black, holding her infant and a singular portrait of a young man with a hand-tinted gold watch chain. Condition: Very good, the man has some slight surface scratches on the margins of his image
Lot of 2 daguerreotypes, possibly postmortem portraits. A sixth plate daguerreotype of a gaunt-looking mother in a lace cap holding her child. Housed in a mother-of-pearl case. A sixth plate mother of pearl case containing two daguerreotypes of a mother dressed in black, holding her infant and a singular portrait of a young man with a hand-tinted gold watch chain. Condition: Very good, the man has some slight surface scratches on the margins of his image
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