A late Victorian embossed leather album with lithographic pages depicting bucolic countryside scenes. The many sartorial highlights within include boldly checked suits worn in St. Petersburg and Edinburgh and a flat cap sported in Vienna.
A small brown leather album with dark green lithographic floral pages. Wonderfully monikered paired photographers include Major & Darker of Plymouth and Takewell & Pretty of Walthamstow. Somehow a beard crept in…
A red leather German album dated 1910. Includes apertures for taller thinner cartes-de-visite and cabinet photographs both of which were a German speciality. One of these portraits depicts a butcher with his knife…
A black leather Victorian Nautical Album with wonderful lithographic pages. Look out for anchors, knots, seaweed, fish, ships, different kinds of ammunition and a whole heap of military portraits, many from India.
A large blue leather album of exceptional quality dedicated to one Josiah Thomas, President of the Llangollen Literary Society. Highlights include portraits of chefs, a Chilean dog, a florist and some Germans up the Eiffel Tower.
An exceptionally large leather album (41 x 32 cm) for both albumen prints and cabinet photographs. Includes a wonderful portrait from Ceylon, three men in a boat, and excellent group shots from India and the UK.
