May 21, 2015 - Sale 2385

Sale 2385 - Lot 24

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(BIRDS)
A set of 11 photographs of dead birds, including a series of fowl hung post-hunt and 5 stereo views of stuffed displays. Vignetted oval albumen prints (6) and hand-colored albumen prints (2 arch-topped) on stereo cards (5), sizes ranging from 3 5/8x2 1/4 to 2 7/8x6 inches (9.2x5.7 to 7.3x15.2 cm.), one of the albumen prints cornered to an original mount, and each of these loose prints with notations identifying the birds, in pencil or in ink, on recto or verso, and 3 of the stereo cards with printed studio credits, one with a long caption label on mount verso. 1860s