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Lot 62
Sale 6456 - Daguerreian Society Annual Benefit Auction
Sep 28, 2025
12:00AM
Live
Estimate
$200 -
300
Lot Description
[China - Early Shanghai] Photographer's Studios
Anonymous, probably Chinese or British.
AUCTIONEER’S NOTE: the pair of photographs are mounted back to back on a single sheet (one to each side of the mount)
A pair of albumen photographs, probably 1870s. One shows a nearly empty street corner with signs in English and Chinese advertising photographers. The other is a view of the Chinese "bund," an area of international trading and business in the 19th century. Each print mounted on larger board, circa 8 x 10.5".
Ex Arnold Crane Collection.

