Oct 15, 2015 - Sale 2393

Sale 2393 - Lot 73

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,800 - $ 2,200
(INDUSTRY)
Album of 65 photographs (11 of which appear to be photographs of renderings) related to rubber machinery of Bertrams Ltd, Edinburgh. The album is divided into 8 sections with ink titles on a linen tab. Each with images of various rubber machinery from plantation and rubber washing machines to a hyrdraulic sheeting press and spreading machines. Each complex piece of machinery has a "code word" which are all indicated on handwritten sheets mounted to the dividers at the beginning of each section. Printing-out paper prints (39) and cyanotypes (26), sizes ranging from 7 1/4x8 3/4 to 9 1/8x11 5/8 inches (18.4x22.2 to 23.2x29.5 cm.), and the reverse, the printing-out paper prints mounted recto to linen and the cyanotypes interspered throughout (not mounted), most with a caption in the image area. Oblong large 4to, cloth covers with gilt lettering and a twin-bolt binding. Circa 1914