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Group of fun vernacular photographs including a late 19th-century American family album with
95 photographs (many of them of cute children and family members); 3 uncredited, whole-plate
autochromes (2 landscapes and a portrait of a mother and baby daughter); a few snapshots; 6
Victorian-era prints of children; and a portrait of an unidentified figure (Garibaldi—the “father of
Italy”?). Albumen, printing-out paper, and silver prints, and autochromes (3), various sizes from
10x7
1
/
2
inches (25.4x19.1 cm.), and smaller.The album a small 4to, cloth, worn; photographs inserted
into window mounts. 1870s-1910
[700/1,000]
WITH
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Group of 8 commercial prints, with 6 depicting details of the 1936 Lincoln Zephyr automobile;
an early color print still life by G.G. Grainger (dated 1941); and the last a Czech advertisement with
matchstick figures by Oldrich Kindl (1930s). Dye-transfer (one) and silver (7) prints, the auto prints
are 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), and the reverse, with hand stamps on verso; the Kindl print is
7
3
/
4
x10 (19.7x25.4 cm.), and the Grainger is 13
1
/
2
x10 inches (34.3x25.4 cm.), and both are signed
on mounts recto. 1930s-41.
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(HUMOR)
Quarter-plate American tintype of a fashionably-
attired dog whose spectacles are gilt-highlighted,
posing with a corn cob pipe and his stogie-
smoking master; in a leather case. 1860s
[1,000/1,500]
The headline in the newspaper reads “Lincoln ___,”
which is just readable under magnification.
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(FUNGAL POP PHOTOGRAPHICA)
Tintype portrait of a dapper fellow embedded
in hand-painted petrified mushroom.Tintype is
1x
7
/
8
inches (2.5x2.2 cm.), mushroom measures
approximately 5
3
/
8
x4
1
/
8
x1
1
/
2
inches (13.7x10.5x3.8
cm.), depicting flowering branches and a charming
seaside landscape; also includes a handcrafted
wooden easel made of carefully trimmed twigs,
some with gold paint overlaid. 1880s
[600/900]
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