Opening: $85 Hammer Price: $120 SOLD Skylight Gallery 22 March 2006

Sixth plate daguerreotype of a young man wearing a tie-like cravat and adopting a jaunty pose. Housed in a half case. Anonymous American, late 1840s.   ( Inventory# ia995 )

A crisp plate with just the slightest touch of solarization to his shirt on left. There is a pinhead-sized plate eruption to the right of his head.

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