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Lot 368
A Gentleman's Silhouette and Five Early Portrait Photographs
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
All unidentified, as follows: the silhouette is in a likely maple veneer frame with an indistinct maker's stamp indicating it was made in Greensboro, NC (5-1/8 x 4-1/4 in.); the photographs consist of a 6th plate daguerreotype of a lady with a dormant child (hopefully just sleeping); two ninth plate daguerreotypes of ladies; a 6th plate ambrotype of parents with a happy child; a 9th plate ruby ambrotype of a young gentleman.

The daguerreotype cases lack lids; the 9th plate ambrotype's lid is detached; all photographs with marks and losses.