Beschreibung:

Lot of 11 cased images, including: 8 sixth plate daguerreotypes, including 2 portraits of young men, one posed with books, each housed in full pressed paper cases with some significant surface wear; daguerreotype portraits of a man and woman, housed together in same mother-of-pearl inlay case; 3 daguerreotype portraits of aged women, each housed in full pressed paper case (although 2 are completely separated at hinges), one with case's velvet liner stamped J.D. Wells/Artist/Northampton, Mass. 3 ninth plate daguerreotypes, including 2 portraits of young women, one wearing a headband and long, dangling earrings, housed in case with silk covered boards, the other, an attractive woman wearing a bonnet, housed in full case separated at hinge; and ninth plate daguerreotype of young man, with spot on plate, just above his head, few spots on mat, housed in full case with some wear. Sixth plate ambrotype of two young women, housed in full case separated at hinge. Some wear to plate and significant surface wear to case.