Apr 18, 2019 - Sale 2506

Sale 2506 - Lot 246

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,400 - $ 1,800
(EGYPT)
A group of more than 95 photographs of picturesque views of Egypt and archeological sites, including 60 from an unidentified professional expedition and 30 other views, several of which were reproduced in Baedeker's Travel Guide.
Includes a pith-helmeted figure posing alongside colassal statues, tomb interiors with elaborate hieroglyphics, native translators, exterior views of the Sphinx and other antiquities, and more. Platinum (65) and sepia-toned silver prints (32), the platinum images measuring 5 1/4x3 3/4 inches (13.3x8.3 cm.), and the reverse, the mounts 10 1/2x8 1/4 inches (26.7x21 cm.), several with handwritten captions on mount recto; the unmouted silver prints measuring 4 3/4x6 1/2 inches (12x16.5 cm.), many with a caption and 13 with the credit of G. Saif in the negative. Circa 1910

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