19th century Daguerreotype portrait of a lady, c.1849, approx. Half plate size, depicting a finely dressed young woman with lace fingerless gloves, with visible pocket watch and propeller pencil appendages, visible plate 12 cm, 9 cm, case 15 cm, 12 cm, deterioration to spine leather on case published: "How the watch was worn, a fashion for 500 Years', by Genevieve Cummins.