Dec 12, 2013 - Sale 2335

Sale 2335 - Lot 1

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(CHINA)
Group of 26 photographs of China, comprising occupationals, including a barber, furniture maker, street laborers, and a woman at a loom, plus opium smokers, assorted views of Shanghai and Hong Kong, Little Orphan Island (off Shanghai), details of temple statuary/architecture, a pagoda, the Great Wall of China, Mandarin women, criminals, and more. Albumen prints, 4 of Hong Kong measure 8 1/2x10 1/2 inches (21.6x26.7 cm.) and 22 measure 4 1/2x3 1/2 inches (10.8x8.3 cm.), and the reverse, mounted recto/verso; several with handwritten notations beneath the photograph. 1880s-1890s