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R. Harmer

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R. Harmer
'Six Photographs. Untouched. R. Harmer 1862'
An album containing six whole-plate coloured albumen prints, three tipped-in mounted coloured stereo pairs, a loose broadsheet Unmounted Photographs, Illustrating a new method of printing on double albumenized paper, specially adapted for book illustration. Also six Chromo-Photographs. Untouched. R. Harmer, 1862', loose ink manuscript sheet detailing patent application 'Bi-coloured Stereoscopic Pictures..., the album title page with pencil inscription International Exhibition 1862. No. 907. RH' and paper label 69. Album containing six untouched Chromo-Photographs by Richard Harmer, 1862. 70. Three coloured Stereoscopic Pictures by Harmer's Patent, 1856'

Lot Essay

Richard Harmer was granted British patent number 2832 of 29 November 1856 for 'Improvements in stereoscopic pictures'. The patent related to a new method of colour stereo pairs, with each single image being coloured differently so that when viewed the differences blended together to 'produce beautiful effects'.

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