This product is an original 1/4 daguerreotype square union case from the 1800s with a Tin Type of two women and a man, made in the United States during the Civil War era. 

Civil War-era Union case made from gutta-percha, a rigid molded material popular for photography in the mid 1850s

from a collector in NH

scrolled victorian design

two chips out of two corners of the case

4.5" x 5"