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Daguerreotype portrait of a man. c. 1840–1860. Half-plate, finished with a gilt passe-partout in a fine thermoplastic case, inlaid with velvet (minor oxidation). A striking portrait of a man standing and holding a cane. Case maker: Littlefield, Parsons & Co. (rare). Ref. Krainik, Clifford, and Michele, *Union Cases: A Collector’s Guide to the Art of America’s First Plastics*, 1988, p. 31, no. 9.
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