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(EARLY DAGUERREOTYPES)

Group of 40 beautifully-lit daguerreian

portraits.

Comprising cute kids, mothers and children,

pretty ladies, and handsome men; with 3 quarter-

plates and 37 sixth-plates (some are identified); a

few hand-tinted and most in leather cases. 1840s

[3,000/4,500]

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(CREDITED PHOTOGRAPHERS)

Group of 12 daguerreotypes by identified photographers.

With a half-plate of a serious-looking girl by Helia, a half-plate of a gentleman by Pollack (of

Baltimore), a hand-tinted quarter-plate of mother and infant by Root, a sixth-plate by Plumbe, assorted

sixth-plates by Philadelphia- and New York-based photographers, and a ninth-plate by Reimer’s

Gallery; plus a half-plate ambrotype by Brady; most in leather cases. 1850s

[2,000/3,000]

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