Moody, Much Tarnished Half Plate Daguerreotype Portrait of Woman with Ringlets tally machine 2 5/8" x 1 9/16"

2 5/8" x 1 9/16"

I'd love to see these put to good use

There are some light color flecks on some of them in the photos

perhaps holding a parasol but I prefer to think a magic wand

pretty beautiful in its much rusted and eroded state

Moody, Much Tarnished Half Plate Daguerreotype Portrait of Woman with Ringlets tally machine 2 5/8" x 1 9/16"It's not too often I come across a half plate daguerreotype 4 1 4" x 5 1 2" this one much tarnished, not surprisingly as it was clearly never cased. I like it for the color including deep browns and blues too, best seen in details and surface of gestural smudges and scratches, which together have the effect of making this young woman, already rather determined looking, feel as if willing herself into existence stubbornly resisting disappearing