Dealer turns detective to reveal Ruskin

In last week’s ATG we revealed how a sketchily catalogued box of over 130 19th century photographs estimated at £80-120 in a Cumbrian auction house proved to be a cache of images made by the early daguerreotype process and ended up selling to Ken Jacobson for £75,000.

Then last week, an even bigger attraction of this sleeper was revealed when it transpired that the i…

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