Oct 21, 2008 - Sale 2158

Sale 2158 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 4,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
(JAPAN)
Ornate album containing 50 photographs, including serene landscapes, important temples, and vivid portraits of tradesmen, geishas, and wrestlers. Hand-colored albumen prints, each approximately 8x10 1/2 inches (20.3x26.7 cm.), and the reverse, mounted, most with the original tissue guards; with a caption, in English, and an inventory number in the negative. Oblong folio, black lacquer with gilt highlights and ivory inlay depicting an elegant scene of a woman being pulled in a carriage, disbound; in the original cloth-covered box. 1880s