Sold for:
$900
$900
Half-plate and Four Quarter-plate Daguerreotype Portraits of Young Ladies, the half-plate portrait depicting a young woman seated with one arm resting on a table set with books, the tablecloth tinted blue; four quarter-plates: a woman wearing a floral and lace bonnet seated beside a table holding a book, a woman with a sausage-curl hairstyle, a woman wearing a striped dress with a lacy cape, and a woman wearing a cloak and lacy black mitts, seated with one arm resting on a table, the brass mat impressed "S. ROOT 363 BROADWAY N.Y." (probably Samuel Root, 1820-1889), each mounted in a pressed-paper/leather case, (imperfections).
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-05-23
