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Lot 241
Sale 6431 - American Historical Ephemera & Early Photography Online
Lots Open
Nov 11, 2025
Lots Close
Nov 24, 2025
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$300 -
400
Price Realized
$305
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Lot Description
[EARLY PHOTO.] Album containing 100+ CDVs of European personalities, incl. royalty, ca 1860s-1870s.
(19th century)
Red morocco album with gilt brass fittings (closure clasps missing, wear to extremities) containing approx. 105 CDV portraits (some engraved) of men, women, and children, including royalty, dukes and duchesses, military figures, bishops, and civilians. Subjects include: The Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Berlin: L. Haase & Comp.) -- Prince Albert of Prussia (Berlin: L. Haase & Comp.) -- The Princess of Wales, later Queen Alexandra (Copenhagen: G. E. Hansen). -- Prince Robert d'Orleans, the Duc de Chartres. -- Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby (Paris: Disderi & Co.) -- Helmuth von Moltke the Elder. -- Dowager Lady Tichborne. -- And many others.
Overall: 12 3/8 × 10 1/4 × 2 1/8 in. (31.5 × 26 × 5.4 cm)
Property from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
This lot is located in Cincinnati.