Antique Daguerreotype of Woman in Gloves apothecary Real Rhinoceros Beetle Embedded in

Real Rhinoceros Beetle Embedded in Lucite

Width: 1 5/8"

Agadir Fossil Ammonite

Phyllium pulchrifolium

Made by K

Antique Daguerreotype of Woman in Gloves apothecary Real Rhinoceros Beetle Embedded inMissing Front Portion of Union Case Ca 1850s 3 1 8" x 3 5 8" Daguerreotypes were a very early form of photography, a photographer would use a camera to expose light on a silver plated plate of copper, then develop the image using a mercury vapor. Widely used in the 1840s and 1850s, it was soon replaced by the ambrotype. Because the silver takes on a mirror like appearance, the subject can be viewed as either a positive or negative image depending on