Daguerreotype 1/6th plate in a very beautiful period frame.
 Elegant man with a mustache, waistcoat, pocket watch, tie, and light-colored trousers.
 He poses, leaning on a small table, a cigar in his hand.
 On the back, the Victor Plumier (1821-1895) label indicates the Parisian origin of one of the most talented portrait painters of the time.
 The daguerreotype was the first photographic process, developed by Nicéphore Niépce and later Louis Daguerre, and introduced to the world (except the United Kingdom) by France in 1839. It is both a negative and a positive, hence its characteristic mirror effect. In the 19th century, they were also poetically called "mirrors that remember."