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Haas, Philip | “Portrait of George B. Vashon”

Live auction begins on:

June 25, 02:00 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 90,000 USD

Bid

50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Haas, Philip

Active 1830s–1860s


Portrait of George B. Vashon

sixth-plate daguerreotype, signed P Haas NY and with hand-tinting and gilt-detail, push-button leather case, with extensive inscription in the interior of the case, 1856

Collection of Josephine Cobb

Collection of Lynn and Yann Maillet (acquired from the above 1980s)

Christie's New York, The Maillet Daguerreotype Collection, 26 June 2025, Lot 81 (incorrectly attributed to "Unknown Photographer" and identified as "A Well-Dressed Man with Spectacles")

Floyd and Marion Rinhart, The American Daguerreotype (Athens, GA, 1981), p. 233