Live auction - Lot 622
[Congo - Hunting]
Hunting album.
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
127 silver prints, diff. sizes, mounted on thick paper, some with ms. captions in pencil or ink.
Obl. 4to album with sm. label "Holstinsky, Wiesbaden".
Album with an impressive diverse amount of hunted, captured or decapitated animals often with their African or European hunters beside them. Among the animals: a grasshopper buzzard, an African crowned eagle, a pangolin, a porcupine, an aardvark, a crocodile, a giraffe, monkeys, a yellow-backed duiker, a wild boar, a harnessed bushbuck, a bongo and other antelopes, a lion, antlers, an African buffalo, a rhinoceros, an elephant, etc.