Antique Daguerreotype from 1844 soapstone statue Antique Cheating Tool for Card

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Vintage Chinese Incense Burner

All Imagery Made of Real Human Hair

Specimen Measures Approximately

Antique Daguerreotype from 1844 soapstone statue Antique Cheating Tool for CardAntique Daguerreotype of Bearded Gentleman Original Paper Tape Frame Backing is Dated 1844 Measures 3 5 8" x 4 3 8" Daguerreotypes were a very early form of photography, a photographer would use a camera to expose light on a silver plated plate of copper, then develop the image using a mercury vapor. Widely used in the 1840s and 1850s, it was soon replaced by the ambrotype. Because the silver takes on a mirror like appearance, the subject can be