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319 - 2 portraits of elegant men. Ambrotypes, sixth-plates, hand-c…

Estimation 200 € - 250 €

Description

2 portraits of elegant men. Ambrotypes, sixth-plates, hand-coloured, finished with a gilt passe-partout in cases inlaid with patterned velvet. - 1. Portrait signed Fred Archer. It could be attributed to Frederick Scott Archer (1814-1857), English chemist and photographer who invented the photographic collodion process, or a portrait of the famous English Jokey, Frederick James Archer (1857-1886). - 2. Portrait of a seated man in a fine thermoplastic case: "The deer and the Pine tree", casemaker: Peck and Halvorson, c. 1870. Scarce. - Ref. Krainik, Clifford and Michele, Union cases. A collector's guide to the art of America's first plastic, Library of Congress, 1988, n.167. -

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Date 24/06/2026 à 13h00

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