Opening: $150 Hammer Price: $190 SOLD Skylight Gallery 34 September 2012

Anonymous sixth plate daguerreotype of man in a rustic miner-style shirt circa 1850, with applied coloring. Housed in a half case   ( Inventory# id361 )

Coloring applied to the shirt appears to have been originally blue, although from some angles it now has a more yellowish look. Attached to the reverse of plate is a label inscribed in blue ball-point pen, identifying the sitter as "Reuben Merchant / Son of Hiram and Jemima (Crabtree) Merchant."

Plate has some scattered tiny copper spots and very faint brushing through the shirt.

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