Daguerreotype of woman with cross

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Posted 5 months, 14 days ago

scottvez
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This crisp daguerreotype dates from about 1855 and shows a woman with a gold tinted cross on a necklace. Her cheeks show slight blush as do her lips.

The image is housed in a blue velvet push button case.

The image and case are in excellent condition, with some slight halo effect to the image edge near the brass keeper.

Reproduction of this image in any form is not authorized.

Scott

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1. Signaholic, 5 months, 14 days ago
   Hey Scott, Very cool! I just bought my wife a daguerreotype inside a ruby velvet case, very much like yours, for Christmas. Hope she likes it. The frenchman Daguerre really started a craze in 1839 didn't he? Before this process most pictures were done by portrait painters.
2. scottvez, 5 months, 14 days ago
   Yes-- 1839 is the year Daguerre published his findings.
   
   The craze really took off in the US in the 1840s and continued to the beginning of the Civil War when other forms of photography took over.
   
   I hope that your wife appreciates it.
   
   Scott
3. scottvez, 5 months, 14 days ago
   Thanks wolcott, signs and hedgewalker.
   
   Scott
4. scottvez, 5 months, 14 days ago
   Thanks for looking walksoftly.
   
   Scott
5. BeauxPurdy, 5 months, 13 days ago
   scottvez & Signaholic,
   Thank-You for your comments! I am thankful for everything I have learned. Now that I can look for clues, I can appreciate all of the old family photos so much more. Especially the ones that were never marked with names or dates, what used to be overwhelming piles of paper to me are now exciting journeys in history. I was so excited to find some CDV's with stamps on back from civil war, I never would have known that if it wasn't for all of your comments.
   Thank-You!
6. scottvez, 5 months, 13 days ago
   Thanks for your kind words BeauxPurdy.
   
   Scott
7. scottvez, 5 months, 12 days ago
   Thanks filmnet.
8. scottvez, 5 months, 11 days ago
   Signaholic-- Here is a new post that shows an ivory miniature that has been copied onto a carte de visite:
   
   http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/39491-cdv-of-an-earlier-ivory-miniature?in=activity
9. scottvez, 4 months ago
   Thanks for the love Purdy.
   
   Scott
10. scottvez, 3 months, 15 days ago
    Thank you much antiques!
    
    Scott

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