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650 - VICHY – CHILD’S PORTRAIT, visiting card with a FERROTYPE ( *…
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Estimate €35
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VICHY – CHILD’S PORTRAIT, visiting card with a FERROTYPE ( * ) INSERTED in the CENTRE, oval, 24 x 19 cm, photograph of a young boy – 10.5 x 6.4 cm, salmon-coloured cardboard with a decoration of gold lines and arabesques. Work signed “English photograph, Rue de l’Hôpital”. ( * ) also known as a Melainotype, a photographic technique developed in 1852 by Adolphe Alexandre MARTIN, which supplanted the ambrotype due to the low cost of the materials used and the speed of the process: a thin sheet of metal coated with a black varnish and a collodion emulsion, producing a direct positive image after exposure and development. (Wikipedia).
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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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