Posted 10 years ago
mrcolorz
(199 items)
Had the chance to dig through old dump...Going back tomorrow, before the twenty degree weather sets in. Hoping to find rest of glass ball wind man .Mixture of items from 60's on back, getting older as I go deeper.........picture looks like silver not familiar with technique looks like hologram, maybe effects of being buried
Your photo is from the 1850s! It is a daguerreotype-- thrown out much later than that time period?
scott
It has a silvery look to it and copper back
Yep-- from your photo it is easily identified as a dag. The matting style puts it toward the end of the daguerreotype era.
scott
Scott, your drooling is beginning to show. LOL!
I do like all antique photos, buss! It takes more too get me "drooling".
scott
I used to have a piano stool with claw foot like...interesting finds!
I know Scott. Remember, we met in Richmond & I size people up real quick!
I found an old rusted claw foot with a chipped light Amethyst like marble clutched in the claw when I was a kid at my grandparents house, I carried that thing around for a long time.
I found a claw like that once,here's what I did with it-
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/71681-repurposed-hupmobile-radiator?in=collection-1043
It does look like it came off a piano stool.