Button, 1840s–50s, Daguerreotype, Image: Diameter cm (5/8 in.), Photographs, Unknown, This miniature daguerreotype shows

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Button, 1840s–50s, Daguerreotype, Image: Diameter cm (5/8 in.), Photographs, Unknown, This miniature daguerreotype shows two hands resting on a book. The photograph is set into a two-piece gold-washed brass frame with a loop on the reverse for sewing to a garment. The case design with its simple, raised ornamental border is typical of the gilt-metal buttons mass-produced from 1830 to 1850 in several New England factories such as the Scovill Manufacturing Company in Waterbury, Connecticut, which also manufactured daguerreotype plates

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Size: 4804px × 4736px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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