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.