Oct 27, 2005 - Sale 2054

Sale 2054 - Lot 85

Price Realized: $ 374
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
DAVENPORT BROTHERS and FAY. Albumen photographic portrait in carte-de-visite format, with the small photo on a standard mount with caricatures of the astonished audience around them; on a mount marked Alcazar of Paris. Paris, circa 1865.
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The Davenport brothers appear in this photo with their senior assistant William Marion Fay (1839-1921). Fay worked with the brothers until 1873 and again for a short period in 1875. This card was presumably issued during the first European tour by the brothers (1864-1868).