Sixth-plate image of the Japanese sailor Sentaro

UK: This sixth-plate image of the Japanese sailor Sentaro, nicknamed Sam Patch, was a top priced entry in a successful section of early Daguerreotypes offered at Christie’s South Kensington on May 11.

The photographer has not been identified but it is possibly the work of Harvey R. Marks. Sentaro was…

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