[Candelabra from Christofle Goldsmiths, Paris]
Photograph
[Candelabra from Christofle Goldsmiths, Paris]
ca. 1855
Daguerreotype
Image (each image): 2 5/8 × 2 3/8 in. (6.6 × 6 cm)
Overall: 3 3/8 × 6 3/4 × 1/4 in. (8.5 × 17.2 × 0.6 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
Inscriptions Reverse-printed on glass in ink, recto, R: W. THOMPSON, rue de Choiseul, 22.
Signage in image, BC: ORFEVRERIE CHRISTOFLE \ Paris
Inscribed on applied label in ink (Cromer's hand) on verso, TRC: Collection photographique \ de Gab. Cromer \ par Thompson [underlined] \ photo publicitaire. \ (remarquer les \ bougies allumées)
Stamped oval advertisement in red ink, verso, C [upside down]: DAGUERREOTYPE \ [illegible] \ W. THOMPSON \ a Paris \ Rue de Choiseul, 22.
Hallmark on plate: balance scale
Signage in image, BC: ORFEVRERIE CHRISTOFLE \ Paris
Inscribed on applied label in ink (Cromer's hand) on verso, TRC: Collection photographique \ de Gab. Cromer \ par Thompson [underlined] \ photo publicitaire. \ (remarquer les \ bougies allumées)
Stamped oval advertisement in red ink, verso, C [upside down]: DAGUERREOTYPE \ [illegible] \ W. THOMPSON \ a Paris \ Rue de Choiseul, 22.
Hallmark on plate: balance scale
