What do I think? I think you shouldn't waste time on this sort of nonsense. 1. He's wearing clothes of a style that didn't even exist until well after 1839. 2. The description sounds more like a tintype than a daguerreotype, which backs up point number one. 3. The piece of furniture he's leaning on is in a style popular close to the turn of the 20th century, but which wouldn't have been used in 1839. 4. He appears to be wearing a pinback button on his lapel. They didn't exist until well after Lincoln's death. If you want to authenticate a photograph, the first thing to do is take it to someone who knows about old photographs, not someone who claims to compare facial features. Ought to do that with this one. It'd give any historian of photography a good laugh.
1. He's wearing clothes of a style that didn't even exist until well after 1839.
2. The description sounds more like a tintype than a daguerreotype, which backs up point number one.
3. The piece of furniture he's leaning on is in a style popular close to the turn of the 20th century, but which wouldn't have been used in 1839.
4. He appears to be wearing a pinback button on his lapel. They didn't exist until well after Lincoln's death.
If you want to authenticate a photograph, the first thing to do is take it to someone who knows about old photographs, not someone who claims to compare facial features. Ought to do that with this one. It'd give any historian of photography a good laugh.