Julius Caesar Daguerreotype Sculpture Erastus Dow Palmer or Hiram Powers? Rare music 5" with light bends and

5" with light bends and light surface wear

dates to around 1860 to very early Civil War period

The only other example I can find of this historic image is in the collection of the Library of Congress

he must know something the rest of them don't

Paper frame has a light crease in the lower-right corner

Julius Caesar Daguerreotype Sculpture Erastus Dow Palmer or Hiram Powers? Rare music 5" with light bends andSixth plate daguerreotype, marble bust of a man in profile. I believe, and I was also told by another collector, independently, that this is a bust of Roman Emperor Julius Caesar, though he is not identified anywhere on the image or case. The artist is also unidentified, but it resembles the work of the famous sculptors Erastus Dow Palmer or Hiram Powers. Dag is in excellent condition in full leather case. The underside of the glass is foggy and