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308 - KIMBALL, H. Myron Ambrotype portrait in a fine case by a pioneering American photographer. c. 1856–1860 Quarter-plate, details enhanced with color, finished with a double gilt passe-partout in a thermoplastic case, photographer’s name and address, and an advertisement for Union cases (broken glass). Portrait of an elegant seated man. Myron Holly Kimball opened (with George Iles) a large ambrotype and daguerreotype gallery studio at 347 Broadway in New York in 1856. Case maker: A.P. Critchlow and Co. (rare). Union case based on an illustration of “Sir Roger de Coverley and the Gypsies.” Ref. Krainik, Clifford, and Michele, *Union Cases: A Collector’s Guide to the Art of America’s First Plastics*, Centennial Photo Service, 1988, no. 30, p. 46.
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KIMBALL, H. Myron Ambrotype portrait in a fine case by a pioneering American photographer. c. 1856–1860 Quarter-plate, details enhanced with color, finished with a double gilt passe-partout in a thermoplastic case, photographer’s name and address, and an advertisement for Union cases (broken glass). Portrait of an elegant seated man. Myron Holly Kimball opened (with George Iles) a large ambrotype and daguerreotype gallery studio at 347 Broadway in New York in 1856. Case maker: A.P. Critchlow and Co. (rare). Union case based on an illustration of “Sir Roger de Coverley and the Gypsies.” Ref. Krainik, Clifford, and Michele, *Union Cases: A Collector’s Guide to the Art of America’s First Plastics*, Centennial Photo Service, 1988, no. 30, p. 46.
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