Six Ninth-plate Daguerreotype Portraits of Women

Description:

Six Ninth-plate Daguerreotype Portraits of Women, four of young women, one identified as "Rebecca Merriam" on a paper with typed genealogy information; a middle-aged woman; and an elderly woman; mounted in "Geometric/Scroll," "Geometric/Scroll," and three variations of a "Scroll" pattern (Krainik 434, 483, 443, 481, 425),(imperfections).
Estimate $200-250

Most with tarnished edges, three of the young women with numerous spiders and dust.


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