Opening: $150 Hammer Price: $200 SOLD Skylight Gallery 29 October 2009

Sixth plate daguerreotype of two sisters seated arm-in-arm and wearing dresses cut from identical cloth. Anonymous American, 1840s. Housed in excellent condition full leather case, partially separated spine, impressed with a maiden-tossing-flowers design perhaps derived from Botticelli's Springor a similar source (Berg 4-46).   ( Inventory# ic519 )

Very faint pink tinting has been applied to the two sitter's cheeks.

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