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Alvin Langdon Coburn, St. Paul's from Ludgate Circus
lot 51 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
loose print from Alvin Langdon Coburn's book London, 1909, signed in pencil to bottom right corner, mounted in a modern card frame
Sold for £475 Result including buyers premium More details 2
Frank Meadows Sutcliffe, Returned from Sea & The Storm
lot 52 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Frank Meadow Sutcliffe (1853 - 1941) Retired from the sea, c.1880s, mounted carbon print, marked in pencil to the back 'Retiered from sea' numbered ... read more
Sold for £88 Result including buyers premium More details 4
Frank Meadows Sutcliffe The Dockend, Whitby
lot 53 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Toned carbon print on textured paper from Sutcliffe negative No.174, size 235x305mm (Image size 150x205mm). F.M.S.174 on bottom left corner. From an ... read more
Sold for £119 Result including buyers premium More details 3
Frank Meadow Sutcliffe Original Albumen Prints
lot 54 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
8 albumen prints, size 125x200mm, all with F.M.S. and negative numbers, showing scenes in and around Whitby c1880-90s. Including Whitby Harbour (Qty: 8) ... read more
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 9
Frank Meadows Sutcliffe "A Bit of News" Large, Signed Print
lot 55 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Carbon, Van Dyke Brown Print 310x250mm (Approx), framed and glazed 430x350mm, from negative no.81, with signature in pencil. The frame is the classic (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £538 Result including buyers premium More details 2
Frank Meadows Sutcliffe "A Bit of News", Signed.
lot 56 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Carbon Print from Sutcliffe negative No 81 or 91. Image size 215x160mm, glazed and framed (365x266mm) with Sutcliffe label. Titled "A Bit of News", (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £312 Result including buyers premium More details 3
Frank Meadow Sutcliffe Portrait of John Gray
lot 57 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Carbon print 320x270mm framed and glazed in oak frame 460x410mm with FM Sutcliffe signature in pencil. (Qty: 1)
Sold for £106 Result including buyers premium More details 2
Frank Meadows Sutcliffe "Excitement", "Stern Reality"
lot 58 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Sutcliffe carbon print from negative no. 507, size 165x215mm. One of Sutcliffe's most famous images. (Qty: 1)
Sold for £262 Result including buyers premium More details 2
Frank Meadows Sutcliffe "Alice and Roger" Large Print Signed
lot 59 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Carbon Van Dyke Brown print, 350x250mm glazed and framed 400x350mm. Alice and Roger from negative no.176 in Sutcliffe's classic oak frame with (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £375 Result including buyers premium More details 2
Frank Meadows Sutcliffe "Young Courting Couple"
lot 60 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Carbon print, 200x160mm, glazed and framed, inscribed in negative"F.M.S. 176 Rake's Progress"? with signature in pencil. Copyright No176Nice (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £288 Result including buyers premium More details 2
Dorothy Wilding Signed Portrait
lot 61 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Bromide print 220x165mm, showing a man in uniform. On card mount with Wilding's signature in pencil and Wilding's label on rear with no.011529 And a (Qty: 2) ... read more
Estimated at £50 - £80 More details 7
Frank Meadow Sutcliffe Signed Silver Print
lot 62 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Silver gelatin print 150x200mm with border from negative no. 143. Signed in pencil on image FM Sutcliffe and signed with details on the reverse. (Qty: 1)
Sold for £81 Result including buyers premium More details 2
Frank Meadow Sutcliffe "How Crabs are Caught" Signed Silver Print
lot 63 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Silver Print 150x200mm showing a fisherman with crab pots. An uncommon, later Sutcliffe photograph, signed on the rear and annotated in pencil on the (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £75 Result including buyers premium More details 2
Views of the Netherlands India. Series Tosari.
lot 64 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Views of the Netherlands India. Series Tosari. Published by Kurkojian Ltd, Sourabaya, Java, brown paper folder containing a set of photogravures ... read more
Sold for £56 Result including buyers premium More details 20
Frank Howards Personal Photograph Album
lot 65 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Album containing approx. 250 photographs, inscribed to the front board 'F Howard', with albumen platinum, and gelatin silver prints, some photographs ... read more
Sold for £775 Result including buyers premium More details 56
Frank Meadow Sutcliffe Whitby Harbour Prints
lot 66 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
5 prints on silver gelatin paper (165x215mm), showing maritime scenes in Whitby Harbour. Named on verso with Sutcliffe signature in pencil. 1 image (Qty: 7) ... read more
Sold for £262 Result including buyers premium More details 4
Frank Meadow Sutcliffe Chimney Sweep
lot 67 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Image on printing out paper (165x215mm). A lovely character study by Sutcliffe, handwritten in pencil on verso,"Black & White, copyright no.396", (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £50 Result including buyers premium More details 3
Frank Meadow Sutcliffe Views of Whitby
lot 68 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
4 prints (215x165mm) 2 carbon and 2 toned on textured paper showing scenes in Whitby, North Yorkshire. 2 Inscribed and signed in pencil on verso, 2 (Qty: 4) ... read more
Sold for £94 Result including buyers premium More details 3
Frank Meadow Sutcliffe People of Whitby
lot 69 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
2 Silver prints of Sutcliffe negatives no 124 and 126. Couple in a Doorway (210x155mm) with 124 FMS inscribed in negative Sunshine (155x210mm) (Qty: 2) ... read more
Sold for £62 Result including buyers premium More details 3
Frank Meadow Sutcliffe Milk Donkeys
lot 70 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Sutcliffe silver print (140x185mm) no.143 signed on image in pencil and with handwritten inscription on verso with title and Sutcliffe signature. (Qty: 7) ... read more
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 2
Frank Meadow Sutcliffe Flower Studies
lot 71 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
2 silver prints (205x155mm) on glossy paper. Flower studies, foxgloves and daisies. Both have FMS and negative numbers on recto, both have (Qty: 8) ... read more
Sold for £69 Result including buyers premium More details 2
Frank Meadow Sutcliffe Interesting Group
lot 72 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Group of 4 interesting Sutcliffe images (215x165mm), 3 are signed on image, all have handwritten pencil inscription on recto, with image title, (Qty: 4) ... read more
Sold for £112 Result including buyers premium More details 3
Frank Meadow Sutcliffe Clubb Hill Road 1886
lot 73 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Carbon print (135x200mm) with handwritten pencil inscription on recto, "Cutting the First Sod, Clubb Hill Road, Nov 24th 1886" and Sutcliffe (Qty: 10) ... read more
Sold for £88 Result including buyers premium More details 4
lot 74 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
David Scott, after David Octavius Hill, and Robert Adamson, carbon print, 1843-1848; published 1928, in later card mount
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 2
Archive of American Dancers, Actresses & Singers, 1920s
lot 75 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Part of a large archive of professional photographs taken in the 1920s of mostly New York dancers, actresses & singers, most images with photographer' ... read more
Sold for £100 Result including buyers premium More details 21
Archive of American Dancers, Actresses & Singers, 1920s
lot 76 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Part of a large archive of professional photographs taken in the 1920s of mostly New York dancers, actresses & singers, most images with photographer' ... read more
Sold for £200 Result including buyers premium More details 10
Abbe, James Edawrs, Photographs of Ida Rubinstein, 1920s
lot 77 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Portfolio of period photographs of Ida Rubinstein taken by the photographer Edward James Abbe, of her wearing the famous dress by Bakst in the ... read more
Sold for £438 Result including buyers premium More details 15
Abbe, James Edwards, Photographs of Harold Lloyd, 1920s
lot 78 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Collection of 3 photographs of Harold Lloyd with photographers stamp 'Photographed by Abbe' the photographs with descriptions in pencil to the backs ... read more
Sold for £88 Result including buyers premium More details 2
Carrol, Earl, Comedy Producer, 3 'Sensitive' Photographs
lot 79 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
3 large photographs with both with photographers mark 'George Maillard Kesslere, B.P.' marked in pen 'Sensitive New York' and in pencil 'Art Study of ... read more
Sold for £81 Result including buyers premium More details 4
Keaton, Buster, & other Photographs
lot 80 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
promotional photograph marked in the negative 'MPGP-474' of Buster Keaton with Margret Leahy, on the back of the photograph is a typed note that ... read more
Sold for £69 Result including buyers premium More details 2
Dietrich, Marlene, Photographs
lot 81 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
collection includes: A photograph of Marlene Dietrich and Conrad Veidt and director Kurt Bernhardt on the set of 'Die Letzte Kompagnie', A ... read more
Sold for £200 Result including buyers premium More details 3
Colman, Ronald, Actor, photographs
lot 82 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
collection of promotional photographs by Abbe, of Ronald Coleman in 'The White Sister' as captain Giovanni Severini and featuring alongside Lillian ... read more
Sold for £62 Result including buyers premium More details 3
Adel & Fred Astair, promotional Photograph
lot 83 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
photograph of Adel & Fred Astair with photograpers stamp - 'Photograph By Abbe' image 20.5cm x 26cm
Sold for £106 Result including buyers premium More details 2
A Collection of Photographs of Various American Films
lot 84 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
collection of photographs of various films and shows including: "On with the Show!" - was a 1929 musical film produced by Warner Bros., known for ... read more
Sold for £88 Result including buyers premium More details 5
Collection of Partly Dressed and Nude 1920's Actresses, New York
lot 85 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
a collection of large portrait photogrpahs of partly dressed danceres, actresses and singers most with names to the back in pencil which include: Ann ... read more
Sold for £600 Result including buyers premium More details 3
Archive of American Dancers, Actresses & Singers, 1920s
lot 86 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Part of a large archive of professional photographs taken in the 1920s of mostly New York dancers, actresses & singers, most images with photographer' ... read more
Sold for £188 Result including buyers premium More details 7
Patent Documents for the World's First PhotoBooth
lot 87 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Collection of documents relating to the patent of Anatol Marco Josepho of New York, consisting of Patent 231,926 - Improvements in and relating to ... read more
Sold for £175 Result including buyers premium More details 2
Unpublished Lifestory of the American Actress Pearl White
lot 88 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
White, Pearl, My Life Story, a typed manuscript of 15 pages detailing her life in early films, the document starts: There was a time when I thought ... read more
Sold for £112 Result including buyers premium More details 2
CCCP & NASA Image of Surface of Venus
lot 89 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
black and white photograph of the first image ever sent back from the surface of Venus taken by the Soviet Venera 9 lander, the picture also has a ... read more
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 2
lot 90 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Colour Photography and other developments of the art of the camera, 1908, Edited by Charles Holme, includes copies of photographs by Coburn, ... read more
Sold for £138 Result including buyers premium More details 11
CDV Album of Famous Victorians, Charles Dickens
lot 91 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
CDV Album of Famous Victorians photographed by Mason & Co, 7 Amen Corner, London*, including European Royalty, judges, politicians, Military persons, ... read more
Sold for £775 Result including buyers premium More details 33
European Tour Photograph Album
lot 92 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
A European tour album dated 1956 covering Salzburg, Yugoslavia, Bled,, Slovenia, Zagreb, Novska, Banja Luka, Jajce, Sarajevo, Jablanica, Mostar, ... read more
Sold for £94 Result including buyers premium More details 67
South France, 19th Century Part Album of Albumen Prints
lot 93 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
part album, missing boards, of albumen prints, including street scene of Anenue de la Gare, Cannes, Monaco - Monte Carlo La Salle de Jeu du Casino, ... read more
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 24
South America, Jamaica, Egypt, Part Album of Albumen Prints
lot 94 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
part album missing baords, of albumen prints including Egypt, Jamaica, showing street scenes and plantation workers, Vera-Cruz Mexico, Havana, Bahama ... read more
Sold for £238 Result including buyers premium More details 37
Australia, 19th Century Photograph Album
lot 95 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
A catalogue of photographs late 19th century, of a trip to Australia, with images from Gibraltar, Pompeii, Naples, Colombo, Fremantle W.A., Perth, ... read more
Sold for £75 Result including buyers premium More details 25
Album Algiers, Malta and Odessa Harbour
lot 96 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Album (255x300mm), containing over 60 albumen print photographs. 36 show scenes in Algeria (190x255mm), including street scenes with local people, (Qty: 1) ... read more
Estimated at £250 - £350 More details 16
Clinical Photographs Reconstructive Surgery, India
lot 97 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Album and prints entitled,"Harry W.Williams F.R.C.S.Ed. F.I.C.S. CLINICAL PHOTOGRAPHS, Depts. of Reconstructive Surgery of the Emery Hospital, Anand, (Qty: 1) ... read more
Estimated at £400 - £600 More details 9
Military Publication and Album. Venereal Disease Hospital
lot 98 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
A fascinating bound set of paper booklets (215x175mm), from 1st NGH (Northern General Hospital) Brighton Grove Military Hospital. Volume 1 numbers (Qty: 2) ... read more
Sold for £162 Result including buyers premium More details 26
Carte De Visite Album Hudson Family
lot 99 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Carte De Visite album, a number of pages decorated with shipping painting prints by Charles Edward Hern (1848-1894), an English watercolour artist (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £250 Result including buyers premium More details 18
Carte de Visite Album Family of Harewood Park, Herefordshire
lot 100 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 3rd Dec, 2025)
Carte de Visite album with Leigh Hoskyns hand inscribed on title page, containing approx. 100 cdvs and 2 cabinet cards. 69 cdvs are named with tags. (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £338 Result including buyers premium More details 14