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PORTRAITS. Group of 8 daguerreotypes, including 1 sixth-plate of a LATIN AMERICAN WOMAN, a sixth-plate of a young man and another of a child, 3 quarter-plates, and 2 ninth-plates; several with hand-coloring or gilt-details; all but one in cases or half-cases. 1850s WITH- -6 ambrotype portraits, comprising 2 wonderful half-plates, 1 of a young woman holding a diploma and another of a group of men sitting on a couch; a quarter-plate of siblings; an excellent sixth-plate vignetted profile of a bearded man, and 2 others of women; some lightly tinted; all in leather or thermoplastic cases; plus one gold-plated locket. 1850s-60s [SEE ILLUSTRATION].