INTELLIGENCE ON ALTERED SILVER. Sometimes I observe people placed on their resealed quarter plates and KNOW that they were brilliant thinkers. Can anyone of you doubt that this chap was not? The unidentified daguerreotypist who made such a splendid example of the art, before the added embellishments of applied colors, certainly was in the first rank of operators. Although there are specks and spots, especially in the painted areas surrounding the gentleman, when his complete leather case is opened, the daguerreotype has truly magical properties.
