Oct 22, 2020 - Sale 2548

Sale 2548 - Lot 244

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(CHEESE)
Album entitled Photographs Shewing Arrangements at The Surrey Commercial Docks for Warehousing and Handling Canadian Produce with 18 photographs.


The handsome photographs showcasing massive warehouses, docks, and ships, some images including warehouse workers and other figures. Most of the images having to do with unloading cheese from the ships, transporting it through the warehouses, to cold storage, including conveyor belts and other methods of moving the large wheels. With three "Anticipatory Sketches" mounted at the rear. Platinum prints, the images measuring approximately 7 1/4x9 1/4 inches (18.4x23.5 cm.), and the reverse, one 3 3/4x9 3/8 inches (9.5x23.8 cm.), on white mounts that are slightly larger, mounted recto only to thick gray pages with the gilt-lettered caption, the Surrey Commercial Dock credit, and the Engineer's Department credit, below each print. Large oblong gilt-lettered folio, lightly edge worn; a personalized gift plate with the printed date on the front pastedown. 1906