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Lambert, Gustav Richard, Group of Chinese Priests
lot 51 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
Lambert, Gustav Richard, albumen print, c.1875, signed in the print '66-chinese Priests & followers', showing a group of Chinese priests, followers ... read more
Sold for £200 Result including buyers premium More details 2
Japan. Sumo Wrestling, Albumen Print
lot 52 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
Hand-tinted albumen print, image/sheet 250mm x 180mm, mounted in matt frame, image showing Sumo Wrestling c1890.
Sold for £88 Result including buyers premium More details 3
lot 53 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
4 albumen prints 280mm x 210mm mounted on loose album pages. 3 show the Skeen & Co. inscription in the negative. Mandy Lane no.1016, The end of the (Qty: 4) ... read more
Sold for £100 Result including buyers premium More details 2
lot 54 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
Hand tinted albumen print, 265mm x 205mm mounted on an album page, showing a group of Japanese children. (Qty: 1)
Sold for £50 Result including buyers premium More details 3
Suanders, William, Fumeurs D'opium
lot 55 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
Saunders, William, Albumen print, c.1890, titled in manuscript 'Fumeurs d'opium' pasted to period card stamped '47' in top right corner, image size ... read more
Sold for £225 Result including buyers premium More details 1
Valentine, James, Stranded at Brodicks Bay Arran
lot 56 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
Valentine, James, albumen print, c.1880, signed in the negative along the bottom edge 'Stranded at Brodicks Bay Arran, J.V.' image showing masted ... read more
Sold for £44 Result including buyers premium More details 4
lot 57 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
Hand-tinted albumen print, 260mm x 180mm in matt frame, showing a shoemaker at work c1890s. (Qty: 1)
Sold for £62 Result including buyers premium More details 3
Suanders, William, Shanghai Dinner
lot 58 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
Saunders, William, Albumen print, c.1870, marked in the negative '53' titled in manuscript 'Shanghai Dinner' pated to period card, image size 21cm x ... read more
Sold for £200 Result including buyers premium More details 2
4 Photographs of Chemin De Fer Rigi Railway
lot 59 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
4 Albumen prints on 2 pages removed from an album, showing railway tracks, bridges and locomotives, images 25cm x 18cm with pen titles to each ... read more
Sold for £19 Result including buyers premium More details 2
lot 60 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
Albumen print, 265mm x 210mm unmounted showing workers in the courtyard next to his studio. William Thomas Saunders (1832–1892) was a prominent (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £138 Result including buyers premium More details 5
Saunders, William, Shanghai Chinese Wedding
lot 61 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
Saunders, William, Albumen print, c.1870, numbered in the negative '47' image with manuscript title 'Shanghai Chinese Wedding' showing a procession ... read more
Sold for £200 Result including buyers premium More details 2
lot 62 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
Albumen print 230mm x 180mm mounted on cardboard mount inscribed "The Philadelphia Museums" and showing a miner washing gold in Vancouver, British (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £25 Result including buyers premium More details 2
Arnoux, Hippolyte, Portrait of a Middle Eastern Woman
lot 63 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
Arnoux, Hippolyte, Albumen print, c.1870, singed in the print 'ARNOUX 1115', showing a Woman in traditional dress with a ceramic amphora and rug, ... read more
Sold for £56 Result including buyers premium More details 3
lot 64 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
Sébah, J. Pascal, albumen print, c.1880, costume study titled "Dame-Cophte" and numbered 329 in the negative, image 27.5cm x 21cmm Pascal Sébah ... read more
Sold for £81 Result including buyers premium More details 3
Fiji Lali or War Drum & Warrior
lot 65 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
albumen print, c.1885, titled in the nagative 'Fiji Lali or War Drum & Warrior' with photographers initials W.C.F., 21cm x 25cm Provenance: bought ... read more
Sold for £56 Result including buyers premium More details 2
Taber Photo. City of Peking in Dock
lot 66 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
Albumen print, 230mm x 185mm pasted on board in card mount. City of Peking at the Dock no.3707 by Taber of San Francisco c1880. Isaiah West Taber had (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £69 Result including buyers premium More details 3
lot 67 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
Large silver print pasted to a thin album page. Wilson, Lovatt & Son Ltd. A group of directors, engineers and contractors. Taken on June 20th 1899. (Qty: 1)
Sold for £69 Result including buyers premium More details 3
Bolton, Gambier, Collection of 21 Animal Photographs
lot 68 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
collection of 21 Photographs of animals including: Skeleton of the European Beaver, Castor Fiber Linn. Found Living in the River Rhone near Avignon, ... read more
Sold for £125 Result including buyers premium More details 2
Collection of Period Photographs of Nudes
lot 69 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
including 5 postcard sized images of nudes in a studio settings, stamp to rear of 2 for 'COPYRIGHT BY PARIS ART EDITIONS 32 RUE LOUIS LE GRAN PARIS' ... read more
Sold for £81 Result including buyers premium More details 1
A Collection of Period Negatives of Early Aircraft
lot 70 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
including 7 negative images of early aircraft, 3 of traction engines and one of a burnt out car Note: negatives have been made into positives for ... read more
Sold for £212 Result including buyers premium More details 7
Marconi Internal Company Documents & Photographs
lot 72 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
2 Folders marked Marconi containing images of their Sounding Apparatus, showing the apparatus mounted aboard ships, some images with dates putting ... read more
Sold for £312 Result including buyers premium More details 13
Album Simpson Family of Whitby with CDVs
lot 73 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
A leather bound photograph album with fitted clasp. The Simpson family of Meadowfield House, North Yorkshire, a family of bankers. With family images (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £238 Result including buyers premium More details 9
CDV Album incl. Silvy, Mayall, Disderi
lot 74 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
A very nice album containing 60+ carte de visites by notable photographers including Silvy, Claudet, Kilburn, T.R.Williams, an interesting group by (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £300 Result including buyers premium More details 20
lot 75 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
A mother of Pearl covered CDV album containing over 40 cdvs, mainly portraits from the Carlisle, Maryport area of Cumberland. (Qty: 1)
Sold for £100 Result including buyers premium More details 28
lot 76 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
Red morroccan leather cover with gold tooling, brass studs and fastening clamps. Most sitters are named and dated between 1861-64.. Photographers (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £94 Result including buyers premium More details 21
CDV Album Miscellaneous (100 CDVs)
lot 77 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
Portrait format album with lacquered boards with inlay. Miscellaneous selection of images including Royal Prince Leopold, Prince Alfred and Princess (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £175 Result including buyers premium More details 55
lot 78 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
Green morroccan covered album with red and gold ornamentation. Contains a collection of portraits on CDVs, a number showing officials in Bengal and (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £212 Result including buyers premium More details 18
A Pair of Carte de Visite Albums
lot 79 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
approx 29x24cm, bindings F-G, most spaces filled with an image, some unusual images, anda small selection of images from Italy.
Sold for £106 Result including buyers premium More details 29
Alfred, Lord Tennyson CDV Album
lot 80 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
Intriguing collection of carte de visites contained in a brown leather covered album with gilted clasps. 3 portraits of Tennyson, the poet laureat (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £312 Result including buyers premium More details 15
lot 81 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
Fascinating cdv album showing the people of the Bretagne area of France in their traditional clothes. Photographed mainly by Villard Jeune of Quimper ... read more
Estimated at £250 - £350 More details 27
John Jabez Edwin Mayall CDV Album
lot 82 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
Album containing cdvs mainly by Mayall c1861. Sitters include Queen Victoria and Prince Albert from March 1st 1861, Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £238 Result including buyers premium More details 28
lot 83 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
Small brown morroccan leather covered cdv album with brass decoration and clasps. Images of the Royal household, Queen Victoria and Albert, Edward as (Qty: 1) ... read more
Sold for £275 Result including buyers premium More details 14
Unmarked, Weplate Stereo Sliding Box Camera
lot 84 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
English, c.1860, camera unsigned (plaque missing from box), lens engraved 'A. Rofs, 5778', the case forms the support to the camera with a track on ... read more
Sold for £13,750 Result including buyers premium More details 3
John Benjamin Dancer, Exceptionally Important & Fine Tinted Stereo Daguerreotype
lot 85 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
English, c.1850, attributed to Dancer*, with black shellac passe-partout, contemporary taped edges grey paper back with trade lable for 'Carpenter & ... read more
Sold for £6,875 Result including buyers premium More details 3
The Kaiserpanorama Glass Stereoviews
lot 86 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
An interesting group of 8 glass stereo diapositives labelled," A. Fuhrmann. Hotlief , Berlin. Kaiser-Panorama." The views are hand tinted, showing (Qty: 8) ... read more
Sold for £212 Result including buyers premium More details 4
lot 87 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
3 stereoviews with circular images of 2 1/4inch showing a pea weevil, skin of sea-lemon and polyzoon. (Qty: 3)
Sold for £62 Result including buyers premium More details 2
Crystal Palace Glass Stereoviews
lot 88 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
3 glass stereo diapositives showing views from the reconstructed Crystal Palace at Sydenham. One with label of "F.L.West, Optician and Instrument (Qty: 3) ... read more
Sold for £162 Result including buyers premium More details 2
Glass Stereoviews and Autochromes
lot 89 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
5 glass stereo diapositives and 2 stereo autochromes. Including a reception in Ottawa , Canada and 4 European scenes. Stereo autochrome Hampton Court (Qty: 7) ... read more
Sold for £62 Result including buyers premium More details 2
lot 90 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
Collection of glass stereo diapositives of shipping interest. 1 No 2498 Sailing ships French inscription 2 Sailing ship at harbour, Bretagne? 3 (Qty: 11) ... read more
Sold for £475 Result including buyers premium More details 2
BRUNEL, Isambard Kingdom, Stereoscopic Card
lot 91 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
BRUNEL, Isambard Kingdom (1806-1859), Robert HOWLETT & George DOWNES (photographers), printed to the back 'Photographed by Special Permission of the ... read more
Estimated at £1,000 - £2,000 More details 2
Howlett, Robert, Captain Harrison, The Great Eastern
lot 92 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
Robert HOWLETT (photographer), printed to the back 'The Great Eastern in the Stereoscope, photographed by special permission of the board of ... read more
Estimated at £300 - £500 More details 2
Howlett, Robert, Pumps for Hydraulic Rams, The Great Eastern
lot 93 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
Robert HOWLETT (photographer), printed to the back 'The Leviathan Steam Ship, Pumps for hydraulic rams, Photographed by Robert Howlett & George Downs, ... read more
Sold for £375 Result including buyers premium More details 2
A collection of Stereo View Boxes
lot 94 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
including a box with 2 compartments, and an engraved lable for 'Stereoscopic Slides' to the lid, along with 3 other cases
Sold for £250 Result including buyers premium More details 5
Collection of Good & Unusual Stereo Cards
lot 95 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
including stereocard by William Morris Grundy signed in the negative 'G842' of 2 old men having a conversation on a bench; a card stamped 'COLLECTIO ... read more
Sold for £225 Result including buyers premium More details 3
2 Stereocards of Photographic Studios /Shops
lot 96 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
2 stereocards the first showing the studio of Alexis Gaudin, showing the interior of his shop at Rue de la Perle, 9 Paris, a note on the back of the ... read more
Sold for £238 Result including buyers premium More details 2
Stereocards, Complete Set WW1, Realistic Travels
lot 97 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
Cards numbered 1-100, all stamped 'Realistic Travels, By Royal Command to Their Majesties King George and Queen Mary, no case cards only
Sold for £112 Result including buyers premium More details 12
Collection of Various Stereoscards, Realistic Travels
lot 98 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
including stereo images of New York, Natives Hawaiian Islands, Italy & Venice, Egypt Pyramids, and others
Sold for £50 Result including buyers premium More details 9
Collection of 38 Stereo Cards of Native Americans
lot 99 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
38 Commercial stereo cards by 'Geo. Barker Niagra Falls N.Y.', 'Stereoscopes Amusants', 'J. F. JarvisPublisher Washington' 'Underwood & Underwood' ... read more
Sold for £225 Result including buyers premium More details 8
Collection of 24 Stereo Cards American Floods & Fires
lot 100 (Photographs, Optical Toys & Science, 15th Jul, 2025)
including: 2 cards of the Galveston Flood, 1900, by Keystone View Company, 2 stereo cards of the Baltimore fire in 1904, by H. C. White & Co. the ... read more
Sold for £188 Result including buyers premium More details 5