Daguerreotype brooch
- PART OF:
- The Kodak Museum Collection
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.
Details
- Category:
- Photographs
- Collection:
- Kodak Collection
- Object Number:
- 1990-5036/2616
- type:
- brooch, photographic jewelry and daguerreotype
- credit:
- The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford
