Apr 18, 2019 - Sale 2506

Sale 2506 - Lot 268

Price Realized: $ 5,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(HOME SWEET HOME)
An comprehensive collection with over 250 topographic real photo postcards surveying all-American Victorian homes.
Many include period features such as wooden siding, bay windows, turrets, wrap-around porches, picket fences, ornate columns, and decorative trim. A few of the houses appear to be situated on farmlands, complete with barns, windmills, and weather vanes. Silver prints on carte-postale paper (257), the images measuring approximately 3 1/2x5 1/2 inches (8.9x14 cm.), some with captions, in pencil or ink, on verso, others postally unused. Circa 1907-20s

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