Apr 17, 2014 - Sale 2345

Sale 2345 - Lot 68

Price Realized: $ 594
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(POP PHOTOGRAPHICA)
Pair of freestanding celluloid photographs, the first depicting a World War I soldier, who is posing against a patriotic backdrop, and the second a couple posing outdoors; each is hand-colored. Plus a small, oval celluloid mirror depicting an elderly couple, and with 5 salesman's sample sheets containing 16 different styles of backdrops. Circa 1918

Additional Details

with--Group of 7 paperweights, comprising 6 with photographs that are either albumen, printing-out paper or silver prints; 4 with a special cut-glass star motif that is reverse painted (3 of these with photographs), one is spherical (and the image is on milkglass), one is rectangular, and the last is freestanding. 1880s-1920s.
From the Collection of John Silverstein.