(RETOUCHED PRESS PRINTS) A group of approximately 100 press

Sale 2436 - Lot 279

Price Realized: $ 3,250

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Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

(RETOUCHED PRESS PRINTS)
A group of approximately 100 press photographs of various subjects, all with extensive hand retouching and overpainting.
Comprised of many photographs of animals, performers, and models in costumes, advertising imagery, trial photographs, and British political figures, including Queen Elizabeth, Winston Churchill, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Silver prints, most ferrotyped, the images ranging in size from 7 3/4x5 1/2 to 10 1/2x8 1/2 inches (19.7x14 to 26.7x21.6 cm.), the sheets slightly larger; all with period retouching and hand painting, on recto, and most with typed press captions, handwritten notations, and various press agency hand stamps, on verso. 1920s-50s

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