Dec 11, 2014 - Sale 2370

Sale 2370 - Lot 55

Unsold
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(ASSORTED PHOTOGRAPHS)
Group of fun vernacular photographs including a late 19th-century American family album with 95 photographs (many of them of cute children and family members); 3 uncredited, whole-plate autochromes (2 landscapes and a portrait of a mother and baby daughter); a few snapshots; 6 Victorian-era prints of children; and a portrait of an unidentified figure (Garibaldi--the "father of Italy"?). Albumen, printing-out paper, and silver prints, and autochromes (3), various sizes from 10x7 1/2 inches (25.4x19.1 cm.), and smaller. The album a small 4to, cloth, worn; photographs inserted into window mounts. 1870s-1910

Additional Details

with--Group of 8 commercial prints, with 6 depicting details of the 1936 Lincoln Zephyr automobile; an early color print still life by G.G. Grainger (dated 1941); and the last a Czech advertisement with matchstick figures by Oldrich Kindl (1930s). Dye-transfer (one) and silver (7) prints, the auto prints are 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), and the reverse, with hand stamps on verso; the Kindl print is 7 3/4x10 (19.7x25.4 cm.), and the Grainger is 13 1/2x10 inches (34.3x25.4 cm.), and both are signed on mounts recto. 1930s-41.