Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 285

Price Realized: $ 585
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(NEW ZEALAND.) Wheeler & Son. Album of 18 mounted albumen photographs of views in the New Zealand Alps, some captioned in the negative, measuring roughly from 170x220 to 175x230 mm apart from a composite panorama of 168x1050 mm. Oblong folio, plate mounts measure 269x360 mm, contemporary 1/2 leather, worn; plate mounts foxed, most prints somewhat faded. Christchurch, 1880s?

Additional Details

The photographs include views of Mt. Cook. Wheeler & Son was a Christchurch studio in operation from the 1870s to the early 1910s specializing in landscape photography.