Oct 15, 2015 - Sale 2393

Sale 2393 - Lot 278

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(GIRAFFES)
Group of nearly 70 photographs of giraffes, most showing mothers with their young, often with the young giraffe's feet sweetly splayed, and the mother standing by protectively; also including one jaunty photograph of a giraffe sporting a scarf, a few depicting the giraffes with their human friends, and others with the animals peeking over a fence; all taken in zoos. Silver prints, some ferrotyped, from 8 1/2x3 to 11x7 1/2 inches (21.6x7.6 to 27.9x19.1 cm.), and the reverse, approximately 12 with press retouching and some with captions in the negative; most with typed caption labels, notations, and hand stamps on verso; a few are copy prints. 1938-early 60s