May 26, 2005 - Sale 2045

Sale 2045 - Lot 344

Price Realized: $ 2,640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
MOON, CARL (1879-1948)
"Old Nam-Pe-Yo, Most Famous of All Hopi Pottery Makers, Province of Tusayon, Arizona." Toned silver print, 71/2x91/2 inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), with Moon's signature and title, in ink, on mount recto and signed, inscribed, and dated, in ink, on print recto; tipped to a double mount; tipped again to a folding jacket with Moon's blind stamped chop on the cover. 1905; printed circa 1910
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This print was an engagement gift from Moon to his wife-to-be, Grace. It is inscribed to her and is reproduced in Tom Driebe's