$800
Eight Ninth-plate Daguerreotype Portraits of Gentlemen in Five Union Cases, one depicting two young men wearing stovepipe hats and smoking cigars, one of a man wearing a stovepipe hat and a heavy coat, three cases with two portraits: the first of a young man wearing a hat and a bearded man wearing an earring, possibly honing a knife, the second depicting two men wearing stovepipe hats, one with white hat, the other wearing a black hat and an overcoat, the last depicting two men wearing hats, one a stovepipe, the other a shorter top hat; mounted in four different "Scroll" pattern Union cases, and one "Geometric" (Krainik 511, 488, 425, 447, 541), Union case, (imperfections).
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-05-23