Quarter-plate Daguerreotype Portrait of a Woman Holding a Cased Photograph

Description:

Quarter-plate Daguerreotype Portrait of a Woman Holding a Cased Photograph, mounted in a tortoiseshell veneer case inlaid with mother-of-pearl and abalone flowers, which appears to be the case she is holding in the image, (minor tarnish, dust).
Estimate $300-500


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