Victorian Photograph Albums

An excellent brown leather album decorated with cross-hatching and metal corners. Features one F. Cläron, a strongman from Berlin, and a rather snazzy tweed cap being sported in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland.

A brown leather album with a beautifully decorated spine. Features a Bulgarian Prince from 1895, a lot of Bohemian soldiers and portraits by Del Tufo of Bangalore, India.

A working musical album with elaborately-designed high Victorian lithographic pages. Includes a magnificently suave Egyptian from Cairo and a rare carte de visite of a soldier based in Rawalpindi, India (now Pakistan).

A black leather album with Flowers of the Forest lithographic pages. Military men galore plus a cricket team and a football team. You will also discover a particularly superb moustache line-up on display from Pola in Croatia.

A brown leather album embossed with the initials C. B. and the date 1898. An unusual layout inside with space for four cartes de visite and one cabinet photograph on a single page.

Travel the world with this British Marine Album. Embossed leather with metal anchor motif. Filled with sailors and other marine types, which wasn’t easy because, unlike their military counterparts, sailors tend to be either clean-shaven or bearded. But as you’ll see, I got there in the end…

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