Nine Daguerreotype Portraits of Young Women

Description:

Nine Daguerreotype Portraits of Young Women, a quarter-plate portrait of a young woman seated, holding a fan; and eight sixth-plate size, one of which appears to be of a painted portrait; mounted in eight pressed-paper/leather cases, (imperfections).
Estimate $300-500

Quarter-plate seated young woman w/fan- minor tarnish, spider, minor dust.
Sixth-plate- all with some degree of tarnish, spiders, dust, and corrosion.
four cases are split., one case has two portraits.


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