Two Ambrotype Group Portraits of Members of a Lodge

Description:

Two Ambrotype Group Portraits of Members of a Lodge, half-plate with gilt mat and printed liner cut from an advert on the verso Daguerrean [sic] Gallery ... Orvis' Rooms the Place to Get a First Class Daguerreotype, Ambrotype or Photograph, in leather case (lid detached); and ninth-plate image of the same group in leather case, (lid detached).

Note: Although both images show the same group, judging by the different placing of certain figures, they were taken by exposures several minutes apart.
Estimate $300-400