Beautiful Collection of Ambrotypes and Ferrotypes

Image tones in good condition. 1) Ambrotypes in various presentation forms: a dignified senior with his hand on a book in a brass frame 8.5 x 11 cm; a young man with a hat in a case 9 x 8 cm; a young man with a binder, colored with gold decoration, in a case 12 x 9 cm; a young melancholic woman and the picture of her relative in a union case 6.5 x 7.6 cm; a young man with a cheeky cigar in his mouth in a case 6 x 7 cm; a French lady with a bonnet in a frame 19 x 21 cm; an officer in a hanging glass frame 13 x 17 cm; a father and daughter in a stucco frame 12 x 10.5 cm (the back of the negative is painted black only where the people are, not the background, which, together with the gray background at the head, creates a slightly three-dimensional effect); young man in front of a river landscape in a stucco frame 16 x 18 cm, c. 1860; a girl with a book in a case 7.5 x 6.5 cm; a young man with checked trousers in a frame 16 x 18 cm. ÿ And: 2) Ferrotypes: a red miniature leather album, 5.5 x 8 cm, with 12 pages containing 48 ferrotypes 16 x 21 mm (postage stamp portraits); an oval union case 7.5 x 6 cm with a picture of a young woman; a frame 9.5 x 13 cm with two small frames 3.8 x 4.2 cm of a young couple (one glass cracked, inscribed on the reverse: Frederic Martin & Ann Parrott 1863); a married couple 10.6 x 8.1 cm; an elderly gentleman in a case 12 x 9 cm; a father with two daughters in a brass frame 14 x 11 cm ÿ a particularly beautiful picture.

布雷克拍品等级是为了方便竞买人判断拍卖品的成色而设置的。布雷克等级用1到6级来标注外观和功能的成色，(从非常好到非常差)。 在目录图册里用括号里的2个数字来表示，前一个数字表示外观成色的级别，后一个数字表示功能成色的级别。如(3/2)表示外观成色是3(满意的)，功能成色2(好)。 成色 定义参照下列标准： 1 - 非常好 (未使用过，没有使用痕迹) 2 - 好 (新，极少的使用痕迹) 3 - 满意的 (普通的使用痕迹) 4 - 及格的 (明显的使用痕迹，某个非主要部件是后配的) 5 - 有缺陷的 (极明显的使用痕迹, 某个主要部件是后配的，功能上有缺陷，需要修理) 6 - 非常差 (严重破损, 缺少重要部件)