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    Sale 9087

    PHOTOGRAPHS

    London, South Kensington

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    11 May 2001

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    • VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS
    Lot 225

    VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS

    Photographic ephemera and "vernacular" photographs

    Price realised

    GBP 3,055

    Estimate

    GBP 300 - GBP 500

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    VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS
    Photographic ephemera and "vernacular" photographs
    Approximately 25 albumen prints, gelatin silver prints, a tintype and reproductions. Circa 1870s and later. Some titled and a few credited in the negatives or on the mounts. (a lot)
    Varying sizes from 2¾ x 4¼ in. (7 x 10.7 cm.) to 6¼ x 10¼ in. (15.7 x 26 cm.)

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    Lot Essay

    One photograph of lightning taken from on board H.M.S. Neptune (illus.), men in furs on stilts, curling on the Deveron river, Scotland 1895, two contact prints from negatives made using a Stirn's camera, photographers at work, a view of Brighton showing Mayall's studio and another of Burlington House Piccadilly showing Valentine Blanchard's studio, a double-exposed or 'spirit' tintype portrait of a child and miscellaneous photography-related illustrations.

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    No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.


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