Antique Framed Daguerreotype of Young Woman Smudging Set With Pink Fluorite Cabochon

Set With Pink Fluorite Cabochon

Hand Painted in Australia

Each Measures 6 1/2" Across

Skeleton Measures ~10 3/4" Long

3 1/4" x 3 3/4"

Antique Framed Daguerreotype of Young Woman Smudging Set With Pink Fluorite CabochonAntique Daguerreotype Photograph Set in Embossed Leather and Velvet Frame Ca 1850s 1860s Photo Measures 2 3 4" x 3 1 4" Edge of Frame Has Been Repaired With Upholstery Tape 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