Daguerreotype, in a case, studio portrait of a manFisher, Robert B., 1919-2004circa 1842engSixth-plate daguerreotype Case has a green silk pad with a geometric pattern Brass mat with an acorn motif Pencil inscriptions on tape of image package: "Very early heavy Scovill plate & cut down on right side. 3 corners clipped & sides are flat. 3 initials are written [in the] copper & 'esq'; c. 1842. Retaped 9/8/96 by D.A.W. in Exeter, N. H." Conservation work completed by Dennis A. Waters of Exeter, New Hampshire, September 8, 1996