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637 - PHOTOGRAPHS 19th century – c. 1860 / 1900 – FIFTY-EIGHT PHOT…
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Estimate €275
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PHOTOGRAPHS 19th century – c. 1860 / 1900 – FIFTY-EIGHT PHOTOGRAPHS (58) of HANDSOME SOLDIERS, FROM VARIOUS REGIMENTS OF THE ARMY and NAVY, FRANCE and its COLONIES, mainly officers, a rich display of uniforms - Beautiful photographs by various photographers from French cities, Algeria and Tunisia - Visiting-card size (approx. 10 x 6.3 cm), bromide prints mounted on card. Images specially selected for their quality and subject matter. - PHOTOGRAPHERS: (where no town is specified = Paris) - G. GODART in LILLE - POUPAT in BOURGES - VICTOR COUE in SAUMUR, ‘painter of the cavalry school’ - WITZ in ROUEN - YRONDY in AVRANCHES - G. ROUILLER in VENDÔME - G. CARDINAL in VANNES (customs officer’s uniform) - EDOUARD in NEVERS - E. FLAMANT - DUVAL in CAEN - PIGNOLET - SUSSE Fres ETIENNE - BOURENS in NANCY (colourised view using coloured Indian inks) – MAGE in BREST – CAMILLE ARNOUX in AMIENS – François TILLY in PONTIVY – N. KARREN in CAEN, with a handwritten inscription: “Awarded to Second Lieutenant Barbier, in memory of the campaigns of 1870 and 1871, signed Barrault, commander of the 2nd Battalion of the Calvados Mobilised Forces” – RIDEAU in CHERBOURG – G. VESC in FOURMIES - PIERRE PETIT - EUGENE de PARIS in TOULON - W. MERIENNE in GRENOBLE - J. LE ROCH in SAUMUR - BUREAU - CHERI ROUSSEAU in St ETIENNE - NEURDEIN - PEULTIER in NANCY - LEVITSKY (portrait of Antoine Colin, 1864, infantry captain, lecturer at Saint-Cyr) - LEBRUN in LAVAL - ESPAGNET in ROUEN - THIRIOT in MALZEVILLE - L. and F. CARON in AMIENS - PERIN & SCHAHL in NANCY - FRANCK (portrait of a Polytechnique student) - Former MAISON GRAY, FONTAINE - FRERES MOUSSIER in ROUEN - DISDERI – DESLANDES – DURAND in LYON – Léon PINEAU “Photographie Dauphinoise” in GRENOBLE – ROSTAING-BIECHY in GRENOBLE – Ed CAYEZ in LILLE - JULIEN, known as LACROIX, in MOULINS (Légion d’Honneur recipient) - RESERVED in ALGIERS - A. EBERHARDT in BLIDA - J. COUGOT in CONSTANTINE - GAETANO RIVA in TUNIS.
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About the sale SALE OF COINS, BANKNOTES, MEDALS, CIVILIAN AND MILITARY HEADGEAR, INSIGNIA AND DECORATIONS – lots 300 to 598 Followed by OLD PAPERS, PHOTOGRAPHS, POSTCARDS, DOCUMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS – Lots 599 to 862
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Auction time 10/20/2026 at 2:00 PM
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