2024-01 Raynors Americana Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/21/2024
Stunning CDV of Samuel Morse by Sarony, NY. Image depicts Morse with medals from various countries. Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) was an American painter and inventor. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. He was a co-developer of the Morse code, and helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy.
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