Mack the Knife
SOLD March 2006 |
Sixth plate daguerreotype of a fierce-looking gent seated in profile and holding a knife. With applied coloring in gilt to the knife and pink and green to tablecloth. Housed in a period geometric design thermoplastic case, Berg 3-181, with interior label for the Florence Manufacturing Company.
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