Well, have just acquired two fantastic daguerreotypes from a local online auction. The first is an early British Royal Navy image of an officer. Am still researching this one but am informed by the vendor that this chap is the son of the Captain or First Officer on the expedition to the West Indies to test Harrison's H4 chronometer. He has promised to try to find the sitter's name. Fingers crossed. The second image is by Robert Vance of San Francisco and is a half plate dag. Full case but split at the spine. Still has most of the original seals in place. These two images can be viewed by clicking "Collection", "Album List","Daguerreotypes" ....page 3. Quite a few new cased images added to the collection over the past few months so will list these when I get time.