Two Sixth-plate Ambrotype Portraits Depicting Four Sisters

Description:

Two Sixth-plate Ambrotype Portraits Depicting Four Sisters, with tinted cheeks and gilt highlights, in a brown "Highland Chief" (Krainik 130) Union case, (lacquer imperfections).
Estimate $200-250

Left side image with faint craquelure to lacquer; the right image with craquelure and small loss to lacquer (u.l.),


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