Discovery
Description:
Three Sixth-plate Portraits of a Boy with a Drum and Two Bearded Gentlemen, an ambrotype of a young boy standing holding drumsticks with his hand on a drum which is resting on a chair; and daguerreotypes of a bearded man wearing a straw hat and a young bearded man, in "Grapes and Vine Motif," "Scroll/Geometric," and "Star and Peduncle Motif" (Krainik 185, 330, 343) Union cases, (imperfections).
Estimate $400-600
Ambrotype of a young boy with drum- minor craquelure to varnish, image is kind of dark.
Daguerreotypes of a bearded man wearing a straw hat- tarnish ring, minor corrosion spots and dust.
Dag. of young bearded man-minor edge tarnish, faint scratch c.r. edge, spiders, dust.
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