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| D11-182. "BLAIR . . . HINGHAM" . . . Was written in period ink on a piece of the original paper tape that secured this fantastic architectural sixth size street scene. Three male loungers were captured in front of a small wooden house that was somewhat diminished by its larger neighbor up the hill kissing the sky. As the men relaxed for the informal portrait, and one of them was an artisan judging by the long apron he wore, something strange occurred during the exposure. Parts of the buildings were mysteriously doubled exposed yet the remainder of the image is normal. Casey and I suspect that the plate might have been taken once without a satisfactory result and reused, with a ghostly portion reappearing. This is not your average outdoor view. The richness of the view, framed by a hand cut blue paper mat and a mid-1850s preserver with gorgeous patina too, is exemplary. The sweep of the dirt roadway in the foreground perfectly fills the bottom of the landscape. I placed the remarkable daguerreotype in a beautiful leather case that has a horizontal home identified as "Wolfert's Roost" impressed on the cover. $6,000 |
