Dec 11, 2014 - Sale 2370

Sale 2370 - Lot 118

Price Realized: $ 585
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(OCEANLINER TRAVEL)
Album with more than 135 photographs by a talented commercial photographer depicting the world cruise of the R.M.S. Franconia, with views of the smart set disporting themselves on board the ship (incuding the Ingenious Dress Dance and Neptune Day) counterposed with picturesque scenes in Trinidad, Bahia, and Rio de Janeiro, St. Helena (including Napoleon's residence and bathub), Capetown and Victoria Falls (South Africa), and the Seychelles. Silver prints, 4x6 inches (10.2x15.2 cm.), and the reverse, mounted one or 2 per page, many with a neat caption, in white ink, below the images; and 2 10x8-inch hand-tinted prints laid in. Oblong small folio, twin-bolt binding, leatherette, with a debossed image of a clipper ship on the front cover. 1937