SOLD! for $288.00.
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Daguerreotype portrait of a gentleman in engine-turned, oval gold plated frame, with smaller oval daguerreotype portrait of a woman in window en verso. Larger image: 2 1/4" x 2". Smaller image: 1"x 3/4". American, circa 1850. Provenance: Found in a Nashville, Tennessee estate. 2nd item: Daguerreotype ninth plate portrait of a young girl in ringlets and white dress. Gutta-percha union case. 3rd item: Daguerreotype sixth plate portrait of middle-aged man and woman seated side by side, framed in an ogee wood frame, 10" x 9 1/2". 4th item: Sixth plate size tintype portraits of middle-aged man and woman in each side of a gutta-percha union case. All items mid 19th century; found in Middle Tennessee. Condition: 1st item: Overall excellent condition; one tiny spot to chest area of woman's portrait (under glass). Other daguerreotypes: some dust, grit, tarnish and haze. Tintype of man has some staining upper edge.