Dec 13, 2011 - Sale 2265

Sale 2265 - Lot 17

Price Realized: $ 3,360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(JAPAN)
Pair of Japanese albums, with a total of 98 hand-colored photographs, including lavish images of landscapes, temples, occupationals, and street scenes. Hand-colored mounted albumen prints, each approximately 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), and the reverse; one with letterpress captions affixed to many of the mounts and the other with captions in many of the negatives; many with the original tissue guards. Oblong folios, one with a black lacquer cover with ivory inlay and the other a red lacquer cover with gilt highlights; leather backstrips perished and inexpertly reinforced with tape at the backstrip and hinges; all edges gilt. 1880s