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A highly decorative onyx album, late 19th century
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A highly decorative onyx album, late 19th century
A cartes and cabinet album (empty but for a few Victorian scraps and two Victorian Valentine cards pasted in), pre-cut windows with gilt borders, title page Album Photographique with maker's credit M. W. & Co., cream watered silk lining, [?binder's] label on back end page Henry Rodrigues, 43 Piccadilly, London, purple morocco spine and back cover, front panel of white onyx with gilt metal centrepiece and corner pieces, the centrepiece with applied malachite oval surrounded by raised ropework border (re-glued), g.e., lge. 4to.
A cartes and cabinet album (empty but for a few Victorian scraps and two Victorian Valentine cards pasted in), pre-cut windows with gilt borders, title page Album Photographique with maker's credit M. W. & Co., cream watered silk lining, [?binder's] label on back end page Henry Rodrigues, 43 Piccadilly, London, purple morocco spine and back cover, front panel of white onyx with gilt metal centrepiece and corner pieces, the centrepiece with applied malachite oval surrounded by raised ropework border (re-glued), g.e., lge. 4to.