Oct 15, 2015 - Sale 2393

Sale 2393 - Lot 38

Price Realized: $ 1,690
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CARTES-DE-VISITE)
Approximately 34 cartes-de-visite, most Peruvian, depicting musicians practicing their trade, families, and people of various races in traditional Peruvian and late 19th-century European dress. Featuring the Lima studios Courret Hermanos (19) and Maunoury (3). Albumen prints, each measuring approximately 3 3/8x2 1/8 inches (8.6x5.4 cm.), and one the reverse, on period mounts measuring approximately 4 1/8x2 5/8 inches (10.5x6.7 cm.), most with the photographer's credit on mount recto and mount verso; some with identifying captions and messages, in ink and pencil, on mount recto. 1860s