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Ambrotype of a California Frontiersman by Vance,

Price Realized: $1,150.00

seated 3/4-length sixth plate portrait of a young gentleman dressed in a worn buckskin jacket and dark wool pants with a gold ring on right pinkie finger. Heavy stamped brass cover stamped lower left R.H. Vance/San Francisco and lower left Cutting's Pat./July 4 & 11 1854, mounted in an embossed paper covered wooden case.

Condition: Case nearly separated at hinge, and branching patterned spidering of emulsion with no loss.

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