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[Maori And Toogood Family Personages]

c1870s. Nine albumen paper photographs, carte-de-visite format, some images titled in ink or captioned using newspaper clippings on backing below image, some with studio lines on backing verso, sizes range from 7.2 x 5.5cm to 9.6 x 6cm. Minor foxing, silvering or discolouration overall, one image with old paper remnants to edges, all laid down on original backing.

Titles and captions read (1) A nice pair; (2) A peaceable Maori; (3) The same article, aroused; (4) Paws off, Pompey!; (5) Put that pip[e]; and (6) Charming woman.

Studio lines read “Photographed by H. Webster, Queen Street, Auckland” and “Johnstone, O’Shannessy & Co., Artist Photographers, 3 Bourke St East, next the post office, Melbourne” or “Photographer, G.W. Bishop, Auckland.”

Provenance: Toogood family.

A detailed list is available upon request.

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Item #CL185-9

Price (AUD): $7,700.00  other currencies