05-03-200505-03-2005
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBolton MA
2283
May 3, 2005 10:00 AMCalender
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Multiple-Portrait Daguerreotype

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$2,938$2,500
Auction: Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments - 2283Location: BoltonDate / Time: May 03, 2005 10:00AM

Description:

Multiple-Portrait Daguerreotype, whole-plate, America, showing five rows of six individual male portraits in oval mounts, in gilt matt and (defective) folding leather case.

Note: The subjects are all young men, probably in their late-twenties. Neither their identities nor their occupation is known, although the similarity of age and style of dress makes an early graduating class photograph more likely than a political or military group. It is rare to find multiple daguerreotype portraits; this one was presumably taken from a montage of individual images.
Estimate $600-800