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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Australian History
• Sale Date:
  11 Dec 2017 ~ 10am
• Lot #:
  715
• Lot Description:
  A GRAND TOUR, CIRCA 1927 - Four art deco style large quarto photo albums
  original brown cloth boards with decorative device and ‘PHOTOGRAPHS” in gilt; each volume with contemporary manuscript paper title to spine: Vol.1 “New Zealand / S.S. Taiping / Canberra”: containing 97 window-mounted sepia carbon print photographs including views of Canberra (10), New Zealand (61), Thursday Island and North Queensland (13), Manila (6), etc. Vol.2 “Australia”: containing 97 window-mounted sepia carbon print photographs including Melbourne & Ballarat Botanical Gardens, Howard Hitchcock’s home in Geelong, Sebastapol Diggings, Mount Buffalo area, Sydney Harbour views including the Harbour Bridge at a very early stage of construction, Jenolan Caves, etc. Vol.3 “New Zealand”: containing 96 window-mounted sepia carbon print photographs including Castor Bay, Rotorua, Mt. Tarawera, Whakarewarewa, Wairakei, Dunedin, Lyttleton, New Plymouth, Christchurch, etc. Vol.4 “Aorangi / Kashgar” [ships]: containing 48 window-mounted sepia carbon print photographs including Capilano Canyon, Vancouver; Stanley Park; Fraser River Canyon; Honolulu; Suva; Suez Canal; Penang; and some scenes on board ship.
• Notes:
  Although taken by an unknown photographer, the images are of a uniformly high standard, displaying technical skill and a strong artistic sense.
• Estimate:
  A$600 - 800
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Memorabilia

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