Apr 18, 2019 - Sale 2506

Sale 2506 - Lot 273

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(PAPER MOONS)
A magnificent collection of 30 "paper moon" real photo postcards featuring an array of charmingly posed sitters, perched on the lunar studio props.
Featuring playful individuals, pairs of siblings, couples, close pals, and larger friend groups, unaninmously cheerful in their expression. Silver prints on carte-postale paper, the images measuring approximately 5 1/2x3 1/2 inches (8.9x14 cm.), each postally unused, though a few with period notations, dates, or indentification, in pencil or ink, on verso. 1900s-20s

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A comprehensive study of the cultural phenomenon and photographic trope.