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Lot 24
Two Antique Portrait Miniatures
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The first a profile of a matron, with inked inscription to paper backing, "copy miniature / of / M. Turner of Langford / aged 65, 1815 / by / Geraldine E. Martine---(indistinct) / (M. Harriet D Turner)," housed in an ebonized frame with brass liner and acorn finial (5 x 4 in.); the second of a white haired gentleman with beard and mustache presented in a likely gold filled oval locket frame and with its fitted case (2.5 x 2 in.) (fitted case with some wear).

From the Collection of Patricia Ann Leahy, Fayetteville, North Carolina

Good estate condition; with some minute surface debris; not examined out of frame.