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[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. Sixth plate daguerreotype portrait of a possible horologist posed with tools and clock.
Estimate: $500-$700
Sold
$650
Live Auction
American Historical Ephemera and Early Photography
Location
Cincinnati
Description

[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. Sixth plate daguerreotype portrait of a possible horologist posed with tools and clock.


Sixth plate daguerreotype featuring a gentleman with a thick, dark beard, holding a book in his lap and posing next to a table surmounted by a clock and a collection of tools including a glass cloche and hand brush. (Tarnishing to edges and some stray tarnish lines throughout image, some spotting, minor weeping; unsealed.) Housed in a pressed paper case (surface wear throughout).


This lot is located in Cincinnati.