Sold for:
$123
$123
Quarter-plate Daguerreotype Portrait of Two Young Women, in a brown "Bountiful Harvest" (Krainik 47) Union case, with embossed red velvet case pad "J. H. WHITEHURST GALLERIES/NEW YORK/WASHINGTON D.C./BALTIMORE/RICHMOND/NORFOLK/PETERSBURG & LYNCHBURG," (edges tarnished, spiders, dust, scattered scratches, wipes u.r. and l.l.). Note: Jesse Harrison Whitehurst (1823-1875) was working in the Baltimore area in the 1850s and 1860s as a daguerreotypist, photographer, and entrepreneur.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-05-23
