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Photographic Brooch

circa 1850

Photographic brooch

circa 1880

6 x 4.5 cm daguerreotype brooch with wooden mount heavily lacquered (partly missing) with 3.5 x 2c, Daguerreotype portrait of a head and shoulder of a man, inset with silvered copper surround (? Cut from unused Daguerreotype plate). Pin on back. General effect is crude but the plate appears to have been made for it since the edges are bent over etc.

Daguerreotype brooch

Watch style locket, gold plated, 35mm in diameters. Opens to reveal two circular daguerreotypes, 25mm diameter in sealed mount with bevelled glass. Head and shoulders view of a man and woman. Case decorated with geometric patterns. Engraved.

Locket containing two Daguerrotypes

Small watch type locket made of gilt, 2.5cm in diameter. Turned and chased decoration. 1.8cm diameter daguerreotype of a portrait of a woman full face and head shot, tinted.

Watch-type Locket with Daguerreotype

45 x 55mm gilt locket with rope work surround containing Collodion positive 25 x 35mm of a young man, originally coloured now somewhat faded.

gilt locket with collodion positive

Oval daguerreotype of a man's head and shoulder. With blue and gold embellishment. In oval swivel mount, empty rear compartment. In pinchbeck frame with twisted branch motif. Brooch pin and ring.

Daguerreotype in brooch mount

circa 1850

Brooch with two oval collodion positive portraits, head and shoulders of a woman wearing a lace collar and a young man. In a swivel mount in frame with leaf and twig motif. Brooch pin with ring for hanging.

Brooch with two collodion positive portraits

Hair bracelet with collodion positive. 21 x 27mm oval collodion positive (ambrotype) in gilded brass mount with three rope braided human hair band, c.1850.

Hair bracelet with collodion positive

circa 1850

Bracelet of five enamelled photographs of the children of H.P. Robinson.

Bracelet of five enamelled photographs of the children of H P Robinson

Silver locket case containing a circular daguerreotype. Subject portrait of a man looking to the left.

Locket With Daguerreotype Portrait of Man

Daguerreotype portrait of Charles Babbage, 1843.

Daguerreotype portrait of Charles Babbage, 1843.

Small pendant with head and shoulders portriat of young girl; ropework decoration to edge.

Button' Pendant

Gilt twisted wire frame, Two inset photographs of Canterbury.

Miniature Chair with Photographs

Gold sphere, 13mm in diameter with black enamelled band around the centre marked In Memoriam in gold lettering. Contains a stanhope lens with microphotograph of elderly gentleman, full length, in CDV type pose. Ring for fixing to chain or watch fob.

Gold ball containing microphotograph

Oval pinchbeck pendant with removable thick concave glass in mount, 2.2 x 3cm. Ferrotype portrait of young man, full face.

Pendant with ferrotype portrait

Oval locket, 32 x 26mm, made of gilt brass engraved with a flower motif. Initials J.A.F. Contains two albumen prints, on of a half length portrait of a woman and the other of the head and shoulders of a young man.

locket with two photographs

British made - Sword make'. Subjects; coach and horses, cricketer, runners, hockey players, cockrel,, wine bottle and glass.

Set of Buttons With Inset Photographs

Oval Collodion positive of a woman, half length, 32 x 40mm. In swivel mount back by carved ivory scene of two doves with foliage and urn. Pinchbech frame with leaf motif with brooch and pin ring.

Collodion positive in ornamental brooch

Gilt with gelatin (?) print of head and shoulders portrait of a boy wearing a cap, tinted.

Tiepin With Inset Photograph

Pendant containing photographic portrait of a woman, reverse contains a lock of hair, c.1850. Oval daguerreotype of middleaged woman, slightly discoloured, 45x55mm. In gilt mount with swivel ring; hair back on opal glass.

Pendant containing a photographic portrait

circa 1850

A photographic portrait of a woman set into a brooch, taken by an unknown photographer in about 1850. A second portrait of a man, appears on the reverse of the brooch. The woman wears a lace collar, and a large brooch featuring a stag and deer. The brooch holding the two daguerreotype photographs may have been a gift from husband to wife.

Photographic brooch

circa 1850