LIEUT. WILLOUGHBY WALLACE HOOPER, OSCAR MALLITTE, WIELE & KLEIN and others

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LIEUT. WILLOUGHBY WALLACE HOOPER, OSCAR MALLITTE, WIELE & KLEIN and others

Hunting, shooting, sporting and animal photographs

Approximately 50 photographs, various processes. Circa 1861-early 1900s. One initialled O.M. in the negative, one mounted on card with credit Wiele & Klein Madras & Ootacamund, 3 with accompanying manuscript labels dated 1861/62, some mounted.

Varying in size from 3½ x 4 7/8 in. (8.7 x 12.4 cm.) to 8¼ x 11½ in. (21 x 29 cm.) (a lot)

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Lot Essay

A selection of curiosities including still-life subjects of a ram's head and multiple trophies (one illus.), bear and tiger skins, shooting camps, a snipe-shooting group by Hooper, an elephant howdah, horses, ponies and camels, cricket and tennis teams and matches, the Race Stand at Bangalore and others.

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