Oct 17, 2019 - Sale 2520

Sale 2520 - Lot 370

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(EXAGGERATIONS)
Album with 31 humorous photo-postcards, featuring seamlessly montaged images of monumental produce and gargantuan critters.
The photographs fall into two categories: Agricultural and Hunting. The first including boastful scenes of erroneously harvested crops, fruits, and vegetables, and the second with dramatic action-shots capturing hares, jackrabbits, crickets, and fish, all record-breaking in size. Silver prints on carte-postale paper, the images measuring approximately 3 1/2x5 1/2 inches (8.9x14 cm.), and the reverse, cornered in recto/verso to decorative pages, each with humorous captions, and/or locations and dates, in the negative; some postally unused. 4to, beige cloth boards with a gilt-lettered title; ties. 1909-40s

WITH-- A selection of 12 photomechanically-produced postcards of the same theme. Sizes and dates consistent with the primary lot.

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