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Ambrotype
A111

Size
Date
Country
Artist
Sitter
Case

1/6
ca 1862
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Unknown
Unknown
Full case

 

It's possible this photo was made in the UK and then taken to South-Africa but I think it's very likely to have been made in Port Elizabeth where this was originally sold from.

South-Africa had several early photographers. This photo has an English mat and an American case. From other South-African examples that I've seen, they too have a UK/USA combination of mat and case.

The Dutch have been colonizers in South-Africa since 1652, and the woman's bonnet does look to be Dutch.