1848 Baseball Daguerreotype on Mastro..

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Posted By: barrysloate

In the twenty or so years that dags were in fashion (1839-ca. 1860) the copper mats that were used to house them evolved, with the plainest ones originating from the 1840's and the more elaborate filigree ones from the 1850's. But not all cased images that survive today are in their original holders; I for one keep spare dag cases and mats to use when I purchase uncased images. So that by itself is misleading. But those images don't look like dags, they are not baseball, they are misdated, etc. However, they are still attractive and as I said it is seldom one finds even an ambro with a child holding a ball, so that's pretty neat in itself. Further, there are two tintypes in the lot and in both cases no equipment is showing, so those two may not be baseball either. In short, five nice images with a description replete with errors. But it is what it is.