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two boxes of stamps and a box of stamps on a white surfaceseveral boxes of cigarettes are stacked on top of each othertwo black and white photos of men riding horses in a fieldan old black and white photo of a man holding a small planetwo old black and white photos of men standing in front of a mountaintwo black and white photos of a group of soldiers in a trenchan old black and white photo of a group of men in uniformtwo black and white photos of a man on a horsea wooden box filled with old books and a pair of scissors
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43 - PHOTOGRAPHS. A collection of approximately 800 glass plates …
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Estimate €200 - €250
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Description
PHOTOGRAPHS. A collection of approximately 800 glass plates measuring 4.5 × 10.5 cm, contained in 48 boxes, taken on the Western Front in 1915 and 1916, in the Maricourt and Bray sector, Verdun, the Avocourt redoubt, Champagne etc. trenches, ruins, prisoners, cemeteries, individual graves, dugouts, bivouacs, labour duties, aeroplanes, tethered balloons, guns, individual or group portraits, civilians (family?) etc. ABE Most of the photographs were taken by the auxiliary doctor Charles Galvin.
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About the sale MILITARIA 1914–1918 & 1939–1945
Auction location
Auction time 10/24/2026 at 10:00 AM
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