[Button], 1840s–50s, Daguerreotype, Image: Diameter 1.6 cm (5/8 in.), Photographs, Unknown, This miniature daguerreotype shows two hands resting on a book. The photograph is set into a two-piece gold-washed brass frame with a loop on the reverse for sewing to a garment. The case design with its simple, raised ornamental border is typical of the gilt-metal buttons mass-produced from 1830 to 1850 in several New England factories such as the Scovill Manufacturing Company in Waterbury, Connecticut, which also manufactured daguerreotype plates
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Button, 1840s–50s, Daguerreotype, Image, Diameter 1.6 cm, 5/8, Photographs, Unknown, miniature, daguerreotype, two hands, resting, book, photograph, set, two-piece gold-washed, brass, frame, loop, reverse, sewing, garment, case design, simple, raised ornamental, border, typical, gilt-metal buttons, mass-produced, 1830, 1850, several New, England, factories, Scovill Manufacturing, Company, Waterbury, Connecticut, manufactured daguerreotype, plates
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