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History and Description of the Processes of the Daguerreotype and the Diorama, By Daguerre
lot 1 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
Historique et Description des Procedes du Daguerreotype et du Diorama par Daguerre, Peintre, Inventeur du Diorama, Oficier de la Legion-d'Honneur, ... read more
Sold for £1,875 Result including buyers premium More details 23
lot 2 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
2 daguerreotypes in matching cases, one showing a well dressed male portrait, the other a well dressed lady. c1850s. Provenance: The John Randall (Qty: 2) ... read more
Sold for £44 Result including buyers premium More details 4
Daguerreotype and Tintypes. Humourous
lot 3 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
Sixth plate daguerreotype cased with a cartouche B mat c1847-54 (Nolan), showing a caricature of a well dressed man. Also, 2 rough cut, sixth plate (Qty: 3) ... read more
Sold for £106 Result including buyers premium More details 4
Mixed Lot. Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes
lot 4 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
Group containing a ninth plate and 3 sixth plate daguerreotypes, 2 quarter plate ambrotypes in gesso frames (damaged), ambrotype of a child mounted (Qty: 10) ... read more
Sold for £175 Result including buyers premium More details 12
Daguerreotype-Japanese Women Tea Drinking
lot 5 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
Sixth plate daguerreotype, showing Japanese women drinking tea from 1870-80s. Mounted in decorative case with clasp. Illustrated on page 165 of the (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £325 Result including buyers premium More details 10
Daguerreotypes by Antoine Claudet
lot 6 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
Two sixth plate, cased daguerreotypes by Antoine Claudet. The first is a gold toned portrait of a well dressed woman with her hair in ringlets. The (Qty: 2) ... read more
Sold for £138 Result including buyers premium More details 4
Quarter-Plate Daguerreotype Full Length Portrait
lot 7 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
English, c.1850, Quarter-plate daguerrotype, full-length portrait of a standing gentleman in a coat with red edging to the belt and shoulders in a ... read more
Sold for £88 Result including buyers premium More details 3
Collection of Ambrotype Photographs
lot 8 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
including a large photograph of an elderly couple (glass frame and image all loose) frame 20.5cm x 16.5cm, Ambrotype of a woman subtly coloured, ... read more
Sold for £75 Result including buyers premium More details 3
lot 9 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
Half plate ambrotype by Mathew Brady. (Dismantled) Portrait by Mathew Brady with preserver, mat, cover glass and half of frame. The mat is (Qty: 2) ... read more
Sold for £81 Result including buyers premium More details 4
lot 10 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
3 quarter plate and 1 sixth plate size ambrotypes in cases and mounts. Portraits of women and 1 showing a group of people. Included is a sixth plate (Qty: 5) ... read more
Sold for £112 Result including buyers premium More details 7
lot 11 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
2 large three quarter plate ambrotypes in red moroccan covered hinged cases with clasps. One is an individual portrait, the second a family portrait. (Qty: 2) ... read more
Sold for £150 Result including buyers premium More details 4
lot 12 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
Quarter plate ambrotype showing St. Lukes Church in Chelsea c1850-70s housed in a union case,"The Washington Monument, Richmond, Virginia by Peck & (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £81 Result including buyers premium More details 3
lot 13 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
Group of 8 ambrotypes in formats: 4x5in., sixth plate and ninth plate Seven individual portraits and one group. (Qty: 8)
Sold for £75 Result including buyers premium More details 9
lot 14 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
Group comprising of 4 ninth plate ambrotypes, 3 portraits of young girls and 1 of a woman. 1 quarter plate ambrotype showing a man. With a label (Qty: 5) ... read more
Sold for £188 Result including buyers premium More details 7
Collection of Union Cased Daguerreotype & Ambrotype Photographs
lot 15 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
Collection of Union Cased Daguerreotype & Ambrotype Photographs, to include a single Daguerrotype of a seated gentleman, ambrotypes of a seated boy, ... read more
Sold for £62 Result including buyers premium More details 8
A Collection of Good Union Cases
lot 16 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
including a union case with an image of George Washington to front and back, and 5 others
Sold for £188 Result including buyers premium More details 2
Ambrotypes with Horse Interest
lot 17 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
Interesting group comprising 2 ambrotypes and 2 tintypes. A half plate ambrotype copy of a print showing a harness racing print from the mid 19th (Qty: 5) ... read more
Sold for £150 Result including buyers premium More details 7
lot 18 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
Interesting example of vernacular photography showing 3 children in masks, reminiscent of work by Diana Arbus. Silver gelatin print (125x180mm) (Qty: 3) ... read more
Sold for £50 Result including buyers premium More details 4
lot 19 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
Charles Nègre albumen print (214x164mm). Untitled Bridge, South of France, c1860s. Provenance: The Miller-Plummer Collection sale at Christies, New (Qty: 1) ... read more
Estimated at £250 - £350 More details 1
Cyanotype. Portrait with Multi-Lens Camera
lot 20 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
Cyanotype print (173x130mm) 18 portraits on single sheet from a multi-lens camera. Unknown photographer and sitter. Provenance: The John Randall (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £225 Result including buyers premium More details 1
lot 21 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
Cyanotype print (167x215mm) pasted onto page (250x324mm), titled "Myurella Apiculata-M. Julacea" in ink on page with reversed titling and numbering (Qty: 1) ... read more
Estimated at £300 - £500 More details 2
Cyanotype. Frederick DeBourg Richards (Attrib.)
lot 22 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
Cyanotype print (185x140mm) with border, showing the grave of Horace Andrews 1819-1901, who produced a book of Virgil's work called,"Virgils Eclogues (Qty: 1) ... read more
Estimated at £200 - £300 More details 1
lot 23 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
Stereo cyanotype (163x83mm) mounted on card mount, showing 3 women and a dog on a riverbank. Unknown photographer. Provenance: The John Randall (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £88 Result including buyers premium More details 1
Cyanotype. Frederick DeBourg Richards (Attrib.)
lot 24 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
Cyanotype print (140x200mm) of unknown sitter attributed to Frederick DeBourg Richards. Frederick DeBourg Richards (1822-1903) was a painter of (Qty: 1) ... read more
Estimated at £200 - £300 More details 1
Eadward Muybridge Animal Locomotion
lot 25 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
Plate No.622 from Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements, 1887. Collotype Print on page (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £475 Result including buyers premium More details 2
lot 26 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
Salt print mounted on thin card, loose mounted in card mount with window. Print size 160x205mm, sheet size 250x350mm. Print made by Nicolaas Henneman (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £94 Result including buyers premium More details 2
lot 27 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
"Venturing out in the Rain", tinted albumen print,(190x245mm) pasted on album leaf. Image by K.Ogawa which was used in Illustrations of Japanese Life (Qty: 2) ... read more
Sold for £112 Result including buyers premium More details 6
Hill and Adamson Carbon Prints
lot 28 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
3 carbon prints from David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson calotypes. William Etty (1787-1849) from a calotype negative dated 16th October 1844. (Qty: 3) ... read more
Estimated at £120 - £180 More details 5
lot 29 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
Large albumen print (260x345mm) titled "No 7584 Rheims (Marne)-Cathedral Portall Occidental Statues." Signed, dated and numbered in the negative (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £275 Result including buyers premium More details 2
lot 30 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
Print showing the Sphinx and Great Pyramid at Giza, signed in the negative,"F M Good". Albumen print (210x160mm) pasted on album leaf and loose (Qty: 2) ... read more
Sold for £262 Result including buyers premium More details 5
lot 31 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
Group of portraits in various sizes and processes including albumen, carbon and silver. Notably an unusual marriage sheet containing tipped on (Qty: 10) ... read more
Sold for £31 Result including buyers premium More details 10
Édouard Baldus. Les Remparts D'Avignon
lot 32 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
Albumen print from a wet plate negative (215x150mm) c1856. Title and photographer signature in the negative, base of print. The image shows part of (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £338 Result including buyers premium More details 3
Miniature Photographic Formats
lot 33 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
Small group comprising of various miniature photographic formats. A sheet (185x117mm), containing 24 photo-button images with plastic protective (Qty: 4) ... read more
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 11
lot 34 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
A small album containing 19 pasted in cyanotypes (80x80mm), relating to family members on a homestead in the U.S.. Including an interesting image of (Qty: 12) ... read more
Sold for £100 Result including buyers premium More details 21
lot 35 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
3 tintypes showing dogs. 2 are approximately sixth plate, 1 oversized quarter plate. 2 are in large cardboard matte mounts (300x420mm). 1 ambrotype (Qty: 4) ... read more
Sold for £100 Result including buyers premium More details 5
lot 36 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
A group of 10, mainly large format tintypes, all being portraits. The largest is an overpainted portrait of a man (175x250mm). 6 plates of 160x220mm, (Qty: 10) ... read more
Estimated at £80 - £120 More details 12
Collection of Large Negative Plates of Scarborough & Malton
lot 37 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
large collection of full plate glass negatives of Scarborough and the surrounding areas by an unknown photographer, many dated between 1890-1906, ... read more
Sold for £138 Result including buyers premium More details 17
lot 38 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
42 tinted albumen prints mounted in album pages. Image size 210x270mm. Page size 275x400mm. Including street scenes, topographical and portraits by (Qty: 42) ... read more
Sold for £475 Result including buyers premium More details 48
Travel Albums incl China, Hong Kong and Japan
lot 39 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
Two photograph albums (390x265mm) containing over 50 images each. Album one begins with images of the S.S. Britannia, a peninsular ond Oriental Steam (Qty: 2) ... read more
Sold for £2,625 Result including buyers premium More details 130
Large Album Hong Kong, India, Malay
lot 40 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
Large Photograph Album (370x520mm), leather bound with "AC" brass initials on cover. The album contains over 50 large format albumen prints showing (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £1,750 Result including buyers premium More details 67
lot 41 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
10 albumen prints mounted verso and recto on loose album leaves, (215x265mm). 4 by Lai Fong -Making Calculations for Payment, Chow Chow, Hairdressing (Qty: 10) ... read more
Sold for £1,000 Result including buyers premium More details 13
Japan Described And Illustrated by the Japanese Mikado Edition VI
lot 42 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
Japan Described and Illustrated by the Japanese, (a large folio book, bound in brocade cloth covers with cord ties), written by Eminent Japanese (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £106 Result including buyers premium More details 39
lot 43 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
Large albumen print, c.1880, photograph 230mm x 290mm in card mount. Image shows a priest sitting cross-legged in a photographic studio. (Qty: 1)
Sold for £38 Result including buyers premium More details 5
China. William Saunders Chinese Porters
lot 44 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
Albumen print, 270mm x 210mm mounted on thin card, Chinese porters c1870, with inscription on the back reads that the image is on page 102 of History (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £75 Result including buyers premium More details 5
lot 45 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
Silver gelatin print titled,"Windsor R.D.C. Sunninghill and Sunningdale Main Sewerage", showing a sewerage pumping station c1924-26. Also a large (Qty: 2) ... read more
Estimated at £30 - £40 More details 3
lot 46 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
3 early 20th century glass plate negatives including; 2 halfplate negatives of early planes with one shown outside hangars marked Breguet Airplanes ... read more
Sold for £300 Result including buyers premium More details 5
Glass Plates Dover and Naval Review 1897
lot 47 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
2 boxes containing 24 quarter plate, glass negatives on dry plates. Box 1 containing 12 plates showing ships attending the Naval Review at Spithead (Qty: 2) ... read more
Sold for £138 Result including buyers premium More details 4
U.S.A, New York, Shipping, Glass Plate Negatives
lot 48 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
6 boxes containing 90 quarter plate glass negatives on dry plates. Scenes begin on board ship, including Quebec and ending up in New York, North (Qty: 6) ... read more
Sold for £438 Result including buyers premium More details 16
Storyboard Advertising Samples for Silent Cinemas c1920s
lot 49 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
A rare and unusual group of 70 1920s advertising sheets for use in silent cinemas. Each sheet, on photographic paper, is made up of 4 or 5 images (Qty: 74) ... read more
Sold for £212 Result including buyers premium More details 8
lot 50 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 12th May, 2026)
WITHDRAWN (Qty: 1)
Estimated at £30 - £50 More details