?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,800 - $ 2,200
(DE BEERS MINING OPERATION, SOUTH AFRICA) Album containing 21 photographs of diamond mining and trading operations in South Africa. With pictures of DeBeers executives assessing diamonds, crews underground at work, industrial machinery, segregated bathing and living facilities, recreational activities, and a view recording the astounding depth of the Kimberly mine. Printing-out paper prints, 20 of the images measuring 5 1/2x8 inches (14x20.3 cm.) and one 5 1/2x4 1/4 inches (14x10.8 cm.), mounted recto/verso with corners, several with captions in the negative. Oblong 4to, leatherette, ties. Circa 1900
