Beschreibung:

Lot of 28 daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and other items, most housed in thermoplastic or pressed paper cases. Conditions range from very good to very poor. 10 daguerreotypes: half plate of three children; eight sixth plates, including a mother and child, a Marsters of Baltimore portrait of two children holding riding whips (?), a Marsters portrait of an old woman, a portrait of a young boy sitting in a chair, two portraits of gentlemen, and two heavily damaged portraits; and a ninth plate portrait of a woman. 5 ambrotypes: tinted sixth plate of a gentleman (in need of relacquering), heavily damaged sixth plate of two women; two partly damaged ninth plate portraits; and a ninth plate portrait of a man. 11 tintypes: 5 nice ninth plate portraits, including one by Baldwin of Dayton; a heavily damaged sixth plate; a decent and a heavily damaged ninth plate housed in a dual case; a damaged ninth plate portrait of a man; and two heavily damaged sixteenth plate portraits. PLUS an oval ninth plate painting on ivory, of an pastoral Italian landscape and a trimmed CDV in a oval Union case.