Decorative mirror album, late 19th century
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Decorative mirror album, late 19th century
A cabinet portrait album, green plush velvet covers, the front cover with applied gilt metal corners and centre-piece of bells with a mirror, gilt clasp, g.e., the whole album hinged at base onto a similarly decorated stand, the album folding forward for use to reveal a large mirror behind (restored, the velvet replaced and supports to stand renewed); containing twenty-four cabinet portraits including Thomas Carlyle, Disraeli, Robert Browning, John Stuart Mills, Lord & Lady Randolph Churchill and fourteen cartes.
A cabinet portrait album, green plush velvet covers, the front cover with applied gilt metal corners and centre-piece of bells with a mirror, gilt clasp, g.e., the whole album hinged at base onto a similarly decorated stand, the album folding forward for use to reveal a large mirror behind (restored, the velvet replaced and supports to stand renewed); containing twenty-four cabinet portraits including Thomas Carlyle, Disraeli, Robert Browning, John Stuart Mills, Lord & Lady Randolph Churchill and fourteen cartes.