Live auction - Lot 471
[Portrait]
2 albums with portraits.
Hammer price: €
100
€ 80 / 100
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Lot description
1. 47 visiting cards with ms. legends. Kept in an 8vo ad hoc album in brown blind-stamped sheep signed Antoine Maitre, with gilt inside dentelles, purple silky endpapers and gilt closing pieces, a.e.g. Showing the families d'Hespel (Adalbert, Ludovic, Georges, Gaston, Hélène), de Gilles (Henriette, Arthur), Cousebant d'Alkemade, van de Kerckhove and some religious people such as Cardinal Wiseman, Mgr. Dupanloup, father Lacordaire, father Félix, etc. Some photographer's names E. Wettrens and Ghémar Frères (Brussels), Van Marcke (Bruges), A. Ken (Paris). - 2. 21 visiting cards without legends. Kept in an obl. 8vo album in brown cloth, white silky endpapers (closing piece gone, album leaves with def.). Some photographer's names: C. Bretagne, Th. Gedoelst, C. Mitkiewicz, G. Antony and L. Delin.