Live auction - Lot 650
[Carte de visite]
Victorian folding "carte de visite" screen.
C. 1865
Hammer price: €
300
€ 60 / 80
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Lot description
144 x 35 cm (unfolded).
Red morocco folding screen with 16 panels each holding 3 "carte de visite" (one panel detached; some tears and wear).
With 48 "carte de visite" dating from 1860-1890, mostly English origin, with a few from the Low Countries. Includes a man in Scottish dress, a Freemason and his family, and a fine portrait of three young ladies and a girl by Jabez Hughes. Victorian, around 1865.
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