The album constructed of a light close gran wood with a dark wood veneer to the front with a white overlay (ivory inconclusive very uniform white showing no grain but does not test positive for celoloid) with ivory geometric design to inside of cover and to rear, album with yellow end paper, card pages with manuscript descriptions to a32 albumen prints of a trip to India, starting with images of Gibralta, Malta, Port Said with pencil inscription reading 'Mid 1871 'Port Said' Panorama, photo Hippolyte Arnoux, one of the earliest photographs of the Suez Canal opened 17 Nov 1869, Ref: the photo historian Royal Photographic Society, No.191 Winter 2021' , Suez Canal, ismalia, Suez, Aden, Bombay Harbour, University of Bombay, Cathedral Bombay, Elphinstone College Bombay, Francis Frith*, Victoria Museum & Clock Tower Bombay, Bao Malung Hills - Matheran, Matheran, Reversing Station - Khandalla, Marble Rocks Jubbulpore, Memorial Well, The Residency, Francis Frith, stamped 'Frith's Serise' **, Taj Agra, Entrance to Taj, Sikundra, Fettehpore Sikri, Tomb of Humayan Delhi, Jumma Musjid Delhi, Kutub Minar Delhi, Iron Pillar at Kutub Minar, bathing ghats benares, burning ghats benares, Mount Abu, album 23cm x 31cm
* image by Francis Frith, see: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O214701/elphinstone-college--byculla--photograph-francis-frith/
** image by Francis Frith, see: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O216385/lucknow--residency-ruins-photograph-francis-frith/
Footnote: This lot contains ivory and has been registered in accordance with the Ivory Act (Section 10), Ref.KJ99FV7Z
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The album constructed of a light close gran wood with a dark wood veneer to the front with a white overlay (ivory inconclusive very uniform white showing no grain but does not test positive for celoloid) with ivory geometric design to inside of cover and to rear, album with yellow end paper, card pages with manuscript descriptions to a32 albumen prints of a trip to India, starting with images of Gibralta, Malta, Port Said with pencil inscription reading 'Mid 1871 'Port Said' Panorama, photo Hippolyte Arnoux, one of the earliest photographs of the Suez Canal opened 17 Nov 1869, Ref: the photo historian Royal Photographic Society, No.191 Winter 2021' , Suez Canal, ismalia, Suez, Aden, Bombay Harbour, University of Bombay, Cathedral Bombay, Elphinstone College Bombay, Francis Frith*, Victoria Museum & Clock Tower Bombay, Bao Malung Hills - Matheran, Matheran, Reversing Station - Khandalla, Marble Rocks Jubbulpore, Memorial Well, The Residency, Francis Frith, stamped 'Frith's Serise' **, Taj Agra, Entrance to Taj, Sikundra, Fettehpore Sikri, Tomb of Humayan Delhi, Jumma Musjid Delhi, Kutub Minar Delhi, Iron Pillar at Kutub Minar, bathing ghats benares, burning ghats benares, Mount Abu, album 23cm x 31cm
* image by Francis Frith, see: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O214701/elphinstone-college--byculla--photograph-francis-frith/
** image by Francis Frith, see: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O216385/lucknow--residency-ruins-photograph-francis-frith/
Footnote: This lot contains ivory and has been registered in accordance with the Ivory Act (Section 10), Ref.KJ99FV7Z
Flints Auctions CANNOT ship this item out if the UK, Please contact pack and send or mailboxes
Auction: The Fine Collectors Sale, 10th Oct, 2024
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