Quarter-Plate Daguerreotype of Herbert Philip de Kantzow, Captain of an Atlantic Slave Trade Suppression Ship in the West Africa Squadron. 1849

by KANTZOW, Herbert Philip de

$5,500 · Offered by Between the Covers

Unbound. Quarter-plate daguerreotype. In original leather case. The mat around the daguerrotype in inscribed "To Grace, Herbert Philip de Kantzow 1849". Presumably inscribed by Kantzow to a sweetheart or female relative. Some tarnish, mostly on the bottom and left margins, some wear on the case with the case's locking mechanism..... More

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