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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS
Photographic novelties, 1860-80s
A quantity of photographic novelties: one gilt-metal and two gold rings containing an ambrotype and two albumen print portraits of ladies, these hand-tinted, each approx. 5/8 x 1/2 in., one with decorative engraved belt-style border, engraved Mary Born 22nd April 1846, one with twisted border; seven pendants including one in the form of a fan with four spreading leaves each containg portraits of Tom Thumb and his family mounted back-to-back, gilt-metal with engraved decoration, and one in the form of a book with concertina-style folding gilt-metal pages with twelve albumen print portraitsof Heads of State; four Stanhope viewers containing micro-photographs, including one in the shape of a hand carved from ivory with an erotic scene, a carved ivory paper-knife and a metal pen holder; eleven hand-tinted photographs on ivory mounted as buttons; seven portraits, various processes, mounted as brooches; and two photographs of gentlemen mounted as cufflinks.(a lot)
Photographic novelties, 1860-80s
A quantity of photographic novelties: one gilt-metal and two gold rings containing an ambrotype and two albumen print portraits of ladies, these hand-tinted, each approx. 5/8 x 1/2 in., one with decorative engraved belt-style border, engraved Mary Born 22nd April 1846, one with twisted border; seven pendants including one in the form of a fan with four spreading leaves each containg portraits of Tom Thumb and his family mounted back-to-back, gilt-metal with engraved decoration, and one in the form of a book with concertina-style folding gilt-metal pages with twelve albumen print portraitsof Heads of State; four Stanhope viewers containing micro-photographs, including one in the shape of a hand carved from ivory with an erotic scene, a carved ivory paper-knife and a metal pen holder; eleven hand-tinted photographs on ivory mounted as buttons; seven portraits, various processes, mounted as brooches; and two photographs of gentlemen mounted as cufflinks.(a lot)