Opening: $450 Hammer Price: $450 SOLD Skylight Gallery 21 November 2005

Sixth plate daguerreotype of happy mother holding a gently dozing baby, anonymous American ca. 1850. Housed in a full leather and pressed paper case.   ( Inventory# ia993 )

This luminous, crisp image is the sort of daguerreotype which gives most collectors their first impetus towards collecting.

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