An Olympia musical photograph album, manufactured in Germany, ca. 1900, 4° (295 x 225mm./12 x 9in.), with two-air movement by John Murdoch & Co., including 12 gilt chromolithographic pages of various sporting scenes (minor dampstaining to one corner throughout, slight soiling), contemporary morocco gilt with clasp, front cover embossed with a man and woman playing tennis (spine damaged, extremities a little rubbed), g.e.

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An Olympia musical photograph album, manufactured in Germany, ca. 1900, 4° (295 x 225mm./12 x 9in.), with two-air movement by John Murdoch & Co., including 12 gilt chromolithographic pages of various sporting scenes (minor dampstaining to one corner throughout, slight soiling), contemporary morocco gilt with clasp, front cover embossed with a man and woman playing tennis (spine damaged, extremities a little rubbed), g.e.

Lot Essay

The sports depicted are tennis, golf, cricket, bowls, angling, yachting, deer stalking, lacrosse, curling, baseball, swimming, rowing, cycling, polo, racing, fox hunting, skating, snowshoeing, sleighing, tobogganing and ice yachting. The album contains a number of carte de visite and cabinet photographs including one of a football team.

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