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A Large Cased Oval Daguerreotype Portrait
lot 1 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
English, c.1860, portrait of a seated gentleman, in a green velvet-lined oval case with a hand written lable to the rear which reads 'Stephen Henry ... read more
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 4
lot 2 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Half plate Daguerreotype by John Werge in red, moroccan leather case with red velvet interior. The mat is stamped "J.Werge" and "Monteith Rooms, (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £138 Result plus buyers premium More details 2
Daguerreotype Dr. Robert Wallace Snr, Surgeon.
lot 3 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Quarter plate Daguerreotype in a gilt frame of Dr. Robert Wallace Snr, Surgeon L.R.C.S., mentioned in the Medical Directory of 1881 as medical (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £188 Result plus buyers premium More details 4
Collection of 11 Opalotype Photographs
lot 4 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
11 framed opalotypes, all portraits, some, overpainted the 4 mounted on the board are now separated and the board in not included, with 4 Opalatypes ... read more
Sold for £75 Result plus buyers premium More details 11
The Great Imambarah at Lucknow, 1865, Photograph by Samuel Bourne
lot 5 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
The Great Imambarah at Lucknow, 1865. Bourne 1052 inscribed in the negative and in pencil to the mount 'Imambarah at Lucknow' 11 x 12 inch albumen ... read more
Sold for £100 Result plus buyers premium More details 5
lot 6 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Men of Mark, A Gallery of Contemporary Portraits. Seventh Series. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield and other eminent photographers with (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £62 Result plus buyers premium More details 42
W.G.Stretton Photographs of Calcutta
lot 7 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
20 albumen prints. 240 mm x 185 mm pasted down on loose album leaves and contained in secol sleeves. by W.G.Stretton, c1875. With signature inscribed (Qty: 20) ... read more
Sold for £525 Result plus buyers premium More details 10
Frank Mason Goode. Collection of Photographs from Palestine
lot 8 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
15 albumen prints from Palestine and the surrounding area. Mounted on loose, thin book leaves, titled with descriptions and quotes. Leave size 280mm (Qty: 16) ... read more
Estimated at £200 - £300 More details 8
lot 9 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Albumen print mounted on an album page. Image size 286mm x211mm. Labelled No.259 A.Street, Canton. The label is reminiscent of photographer Lai Fong, (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £175 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
lot 10 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Albumen print, 285mm x 202mm, mounted on a loose album page. titled CANTON No.399 Scene of Canton River with flower- boats at anchor. Unattributed. (Qty: 1)
Sold for £250 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
China Canton Dragon Boats No.371
lot 11 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Albumen print 285mm x 205mm mounted on loose album page with inscription CANTON No.371 People on the lookout for Dragon boats. Unattributed. (Qty: 1)
Sold for £250 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
lot 12 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Albumen prints mounted front and back of loose album page. One shows a busy river scene, 280mm x 200mm the other shows the Longhua Pagoda, Shanghai. (Qty: 2) ... read more
Sold for £200 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
lot 13 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Albumen prints mounted on album pages. One page has an image on the front and back. Showing a Chinese girl, The Great Wall and a scene in Shanghai. (Qty: 4)
Sold for £262 Result plus buyers premium More details 2
lot 14 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
2 Albumen prints285mm x 210mm, mounted on loose album pages. One page with an image on the front and back. Titled, No.1019 HONG KONG Tram way car (Qty: 2) ... read more
Sold for £275 Result plus buyers premium More details 2
lot 15 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
4 albumen prints 280mm x 210mm mounted on loose album pages. 3 show the Skeen & Co. inscription in the negative. Mandy Lane no.1016, The end of the (Qty: 4) ... read more
Estimated at £200 - £300 More details 2
Egypt and Holy Land. Bonfils, Sebah, Zangaki, Arnoux
lot 16 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Collection of 21 albumen prints mounted on loose pages, front and back. Including an Arab wedding, Le Pacha et san harem by Arnoux, Cairo and various (Qty: 21) ... read more
Sold for £106 Result plus buyers premium More details 10
Egypt and Abyssinia. Bonfils, Zangaki, L.Fiorillo
lot 17 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Group of 22 albumen prints mounted on album pages, various large format sizes. One image is possibly a Francis Frith self-portrait in a reclined pose. (Qty: 22) ... read more
Estimated at £200 - £300 More details 10
India Agra, Taj Mahal, Lucknow
lot 18 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Group of 12 albumen prints, 280mm x 210mm, mounted on album pages. Views of the fort at Agra, the Taj Mahal, the Kutub Minar and a striking image of (Qty: 12) ... read more
Sold for £125 Result plus buyers premium More details 4
lot 19 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Group of 15 albumen prints in various large format sizes, mounted on loose album pages, front and back. Including a picnic party at Darjeeling, (Qty: 15) ... read more
Estimated at £150 - £200 More details 4
Yosemite and Canada, Frank Bennett Fiske and Wm.Notman & Son
lot 20 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Group of albumen prints mounted on loose album pages. 6 images by Frank Bennett Fiske showing views at Yosemite. Image size 110mm x 185mm. 2 images (Qty: 8) ... read more
Sold for £125 Result plus buyers premium More details 4
lot 21 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Group of 5 albumen prints mounted on card, 255mm x 340mm showing scenes in Venice by Carlo Ponti and Naya. Including Ponti Dei Sospiri, Piazza Di S. (Qty: 5) ... read more
Sold for £88 Result plus buyers premium More details 10
lot 22 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Group of 8 silver prints, 250mm x 300mm mounted on thick card. Images of ballet dancers and theatrical players signed by Gilbert Adams. Including (Qty: 8) ... read more
Sold for £38 Result plus buyers premium More details 9
Mixed Collection including Dorothy Wilding and Vandyk
lot 23 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Collection of photographic portraits, various sizes. Some are contained in photographic studio folders including Vandyk. One image by Dorothy Wilding (Qty: A Lot) ... read more
Estimated at £50 - £80 More details 10
Japan. Sumo Wrestling, Albumen Print
lot 24 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Hand-tinted albumen print, image/sheet 250mm x 180mm, mounted in matt frame, image showing Sumo Wrestling c1890.
Estimated at £150 - £250 More details 3
lot 25 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Hand-tinted albumen print, 260mm x 180mm in matt frame, showing a shoemaker at work c1890s. (Qty: 1)
Estimated at £150 - £200 More details 3
lot 26 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Hand tinted albumen print, 265mm x 205mm mounted on an album page, showing a group of Japanese children. (Qty: 1)
Estimated at £150 - £200 More details 3
Java. Man and Boy with animals.
lot 27 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Albumen print, 215mm x 170mm mounted on album page. The image shows a man and boy with a pony, a tapir, and a hunting dog. (Qty: 1)
Sold for £475 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
lot 28 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Albumen print, 155mm x 130mm in matte frame showing a group of surveyors c1850s. (Qty: 1)
Estimated at £80 - £100 More details 4
lot 29 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Albumen print 200mm x 140mm in matte mount showing dancers of the Khmer Ballet in Cambodia c1875. (Qty: 1)
Sold for £188 Result plus buyers premium More details 4
India. The Maharawal of Baria c1875.
lot 30 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Albumen print 185mm x 220mm mounted on card with Indian inscription. The image shows H.H. Maharawal Shri Mansinhji Prithvirajji, The Maharawal of (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £175 Result plus buyers premium More details 2
lot 31 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Albumen print 270mm x 210mm with image in oval form. Mounted on an album page, showing a Chinese cooper at work. William Thomas Saunders (1832–1892) (Qty: 1) ... read more
Estimated at £300 - £350 More details 3
China. William Saunders Chinese Porters
lot 32 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Albumen print, 270mm x 210mm mounted on thin card, Chinese porters c1870, with inscription on the back reads that the image is on page 102 of History (Qty: 1) ... read more
Estimated at £300 - £400 More details 5
lot 33 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Albumen print, 265mm x 210mm unmounted showing workers in the courtyard next to his studio. William Thomas Saunders (1832–1892) was a prominent (Qty: 1) ... read more
Estimated at £300 - £400 More details 5
lot 34 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Albumen print, 270mm x 210mm mounted on thin card. The image is titled "Barbers at Work" c1875. This appeared as an engraving in the London (Qty: 1) ... read more
Estimated at £300 - £400 More details 4
lot 35 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Albumen print 275mm x 215mm mounted on an album page. Titled on the back as "Leading the Mandrin". (Qty: 1)
Sold for £275 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
lot 36 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Albumen print 200mm x 260mm mounted on card. The image shows a Chinese street seller. Unattributed. (Qty: 1)
Sold for £150 Result plus buyers premium More details 3
lot 37 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Albumen print 275mm x 210mm mounted on thin card mount. Image of a boat on the River in Canton and inscribed in ink "Canton Bateau fleur sur la (Qty: 1) ... read more
Estimated at £300 - £400 More details 3
Australia. Gold Mining, Queensland.
lot 38 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Albumen print 235mm x 180mm mounted on album page in card mount. Image showing Mount Morgan, a gold mining town near Rockhampton in Queensland. (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £200 Result plus buyers premium More details 4
lot 39 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Albumen print 230mm x 180mm mounted on cardboard mount inscribed "The Philadelphia Museums" and showing a miner washing gold in Vancouver, British (Qty: 1) ... read more
Estimated at £150 - £200 More details 2
lot 40 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Silver print 220mm x 170mm in card mount. The Klondike goldrush c1896. "On their way to the White Horse Gold Fields". Prospectors on their way to the (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £138 Result plus buyers premium More details 4
Australia. Captain Samuel Sweet
lot 41 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Albumen print 200mm x 150mm unmounted in card frame. An encampment of aborigines in South Australia. Captain Samuel White Sweet (1 May 1825 – 4 (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £175 Result plus buyers premium More details 6
lot 42 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Albumen print 205mm x 150mm mounted on album page with ink border. Titled "In the Bush N.S.W." c1880s. (Qty: 1)
Estimated at £150 - £200 More details 4
lot 43 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Albumen print 195mm x 150mm mounted on album page with ink border. Aborigines of the River Murray tribe sitting in the camp of King Billie. (Qty: 1)
Estimated at £150 - £250 More details 5
lot 44 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Albumen print 205mm x 130mm mounted on album page with ink border. A group of aborigines at their rough shelter. (Qty: 1)
Estimated at £150 - £250 More details 5
Taber Photo. City of Peking in Dock
lot 45 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Albumen print, 230mm x 185mm pasted on board in card mount. City of Peking at the Dock no.3707 by Taber of San Francisco c1880. Isaiah West Taber had (Qty: 1) ... read more
Estimated at £100 - £150 More details 3
lot 46 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Large albumen print, 230mm x 290mm in card mount. Image shows a priest sitting cross-legged in a photographic studio. (Qty: 1)
Estimated at £250 - £350 More details 5
lot 47 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Albumen print, 295mm x 215mm in card mount. Photograph showing Raguraj Singh, Maharaja of Rewa c1870s by Bourne and Shepherd. Bourne & Shepherd, (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £275 Result plus buyers premium More details 6
lot 48 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Albumen print 210mm x 250mm loosely mounted in card mount. Indian Maharaja in a seated pose, wearing a medal. (Qty: 1)
Sold for £475 Result plus buyers premium More details 4
Crupi, Sommer and Bonfils, Albumen Prints Of Egypt & Italy
lot 49 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Large blue cloth covered album (320mmx400mm), containing images pasted in and unmounted including Giovanni Crupi, Giorgio Sommer, Alinari, Felix ... read more
Sold for £400 Result plus buyers premium More details 114
lot 50 (Photographs & Optical Toys, 30th Apr, 2024)
Large silver print pasted to a thin album page. Wilson, Lovatt & Son Ltd. A group of directors, engineers and contractors. Taken on June 20th 1899. (Qty: 1)
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 3