Quarter-plate Daguerreotype Family Portrait

Description:

Quarter-plate Daguerreotype Family Portrait, depicting a middle-aged couple with their five young-adult children, two sons and three daughters, mounted in one half of a Union case, (tarnish, scratch u.c., spiders, dust, case lacking cover).
Estimate $300-500


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