619 Seven Assorted Daguerreotype Portraits in Oval Union Cases, five ninth-plate portraits of three young women and a husband and wife, two sixteenth-plate portraits of a young woman and a bearded man; mounted in six “Scroll,” combination “Fruit and Flowers” and “A Rose,” unlisted, “Scroll,” combination “Geometric/Scroll” and “Geometric/Scroll,” and “The Meditating Monk” (Krainik 685, 679 and 681, unlisted, 702, 719 and 722, 712) oval Union cases, (imperfections). $200-250 620 Seven Cased Daguerreotype Portraits, six sixth-plate size: three of young ladies, a young man, and a middle-aged woman; and a ninthplate portrait of a young woman, six mounted in book-form lacquered papier-mâché bijou or “jewel” cases with mother-of-pearl and abalone inlay, and one green velvet-covered case, (imperfections). $400-600 621 Eleven Daguerreotype Boston Area Sears/ May Family Portraits, the portraits depicting members of two Boston-area families associated by marriage, each sitter identified on inscribed labels pinned to the velvet pads, comprising two quarter-plate portraits of Samuel Pearce May (1828-c. 1910), a sixth-plate portrait and a ninth-plate copy of a portrait of Samuel’s first wife, Mary Jane (Sears) (1828-1860); four ninth-plate portraits: a portrait of the couple’s deceased daughter Lucy R. May (1857-1859), an image of three of Mary Jane’s younger siblings, a brother labeled “Richard W. Sears, 1835-1880 ‘Uncle Dick’ April 1854,” and a portrait of two sisters taken at a young age labeled “Emma Elizabeth Sears” (b. 1838) and “Adelaide (Addie) L. Sears” (b. 1840), and a portrait of a girl labeled “Mary Ann May”; each mounted in pressedpaper/leather cases, (imperfections). $800-1,000 622 Nine Round Sweetheart Union Cases with Eleven Assorted Ambrotype and Tintype Portraits, case patterns: “Geometric, Mother-of-Pearl Center,” “Scroll/Geometric,” “Scroll,” “Scroll” variant with gilt center, three different “Geometric,” and two unlisted (Krainik 752, 761, 771, 766, 739, 771, 753), (imperfections). $100-150 623 Twelve Ninth-plate Size Thermoplastic Union Cases, eight black cases: “Singing Bird,” “Mixed Fruit,” “Jardinière of Flowers,” “Geometric Scroll,” “Scroll,” “Geometric Scroll,” and two unlisted; four brown cases: “Angel with Flower Cornucopia,” “The Church Window,” “Geometric,” and one unlisted (Krainik 398, 405, 415, 462, 476, 477; 394, 396, 461, respectively). $200-250
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624 Four Daguerreotypes and an Ambrotype Family Portraits, daguerreotypes include a half-plate portrait of an elderly woman surrounded by her four young adult daughters and three sixth-plate portraits of a grandmother holding a baby, a young mother and baby, and a young couple; and a quarterplate ambrotype of a young mother seated with her young daughter on her lap; all in pressed-paper/leather cases, (imperfections). $300-500 625 Eight Daguerreotype Portraits of Ladies, a quarter-plate portrait of a young woman wearing cameo jewelry, and seven sixth-plate portraits: six of young ladies, one of whom holds a mother-of-pearl inlaid case, and two portraits of middle-aged women; each mounted in a pressed-paper/leather case, (imperfections). $300-500 626 Eight Daguerreotypes of Painted Portraits, a half-plate size portrait of a young woman identified on a note inscribed “Mrs. William Dwight of Brookline, Mass./Daughter of Judge White of Salem and Granddaughter of Dr. Wilder of South Lancaster...”; two quarterplate size: a folk portrait of a woman wearing a sheer white bonnet and a portrait of a young woman; five sixth-plate size: a folk art portrait of a woman wearing spectacles and a sheer white bonnet, two of folk portraits of gentlemen, one of an elderly gentleman identified in inscriptions on the reverse “Dr. William Paine born 15 June 1750/Died 19 Ap 1839,” and one of a folk painting of a lady wearing a bonnet with a striped sash; the first six portraits mounted in pressed-paper/leather cases, the seventh in a thermoplastic frame, the last portrait has no frame or case (clipped together), (imperfections). $300-500 627 Fourteen Assorted Ninth-plate Thermoplastic Union Cases, seven brown cases: “Beehive with Farm Tools, Figural Borders,” “Scroll with Grapes,” “Scroll/Floral,” “Geometric/Scroll,” “Scroll,” “Scroll,” and “Scroll/Geometric”; eight black cases: “The Ship’s Stern,” “Strawberry,” “Geometric,” “Scroll/Geometric,” “Scroll,” “Geometric/ Scroll,” and “Geometric/Scroll” (Krainik 376, 413, 449, 455, 457, 490, 492; 369, 409, 428, 436, 439, 459, and 460, respectively). $200-250 628 Sixth-plate Daguerreotype Portrait of a Deceased Child, half-length portrait, mounted in a pressed-paper/leather case, (scattered corrosion spots, case split). $200-250
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629 Half-plate and Sixth-plate Daguerreotypes of a Painted Portrait and Portrait of a Girl, both subjects identified on a note inscribed in the same hand “Isabella H. Dana born 1847,” the half-plate depicting a painted vignette portrait of a young girl, the sixth-plate depicting the same girl a few years older, in pressed-paper/leather cases. Note: Isabella Hazen Dana was the fourth child of Dr. Francis Dana, Jr. (1806-1872) and Isabella (Hazen White), born on February 9, 1847, in Boston. Her great-grandfather was Francis Dana (1743-1811), a Massachusetts revolutionary leader, Continental congressman, unofficial United States minister to the Russia of Catherine the Great, and chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. $200-400 630 Nine Daguerreotype Portraits of Young Women, a quarter-plate portrait of a young woman seated, holding a fan; and eight sixth-plate size, one of which appears to be of a painted portrait; mounted in eight pressedpaper/leather cases, (imperfections). $300-500 631 Twelve Assorted Ninth-plate Thermoplastic Union Cases, six brown cases: “Geometric/ Scroll/Floral,” “Scroll,” “Scroll,” ‘“Scroll/ Geometric,” “Floral/Scroll”; six black cases: “Scroll,” “Scroll,” “Floral/Scroll,” “Scroll,” “Scroll,” and “Geometric/Scroll, Cutout Center”; (Krainik 453, 479, 512, 518, 519, 525; 474, 506, 525, 530, 532, 555, respectively). $200-250 632 Five Daguerreotype Portraits of Children, a quarter-plate portrait of a girl wearing sausage curls and a pink-tinted dress standing beside a table, four sixth-plate size portraits of boys: a young teen wearing a suit with one hand resting on his vest, a boy seated with one arm resting on a stack of books, the case bearing a label inscribed “Alvin Rose Jr./My brother,” a boy standing with one hand to his chest tucked into his jacket, and a little boy wearing a dotted-patterned tunic, seated on a chair; each mounted in a pressed-paper/leather case, (imperfections). $300-500 633 Seven Sixth-plate Daguerreotypes Portraits of Young Ladies, mounted in pressed-paper/ leather cases, (imperfections). $300-500