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(JAPAN) Ornate album containing 50

(JAPAN)
Ornate album containing 50 photographs, including serene landscapes, important temples, and vivid portraits of tradesmen, geishas, and wrestlers. Hand-colored albumen prints, each approximately 8x10 1/2 inches (20.3x26.7 cm.), and the reverse, mounted, most with the original tissue guards; with a caption, in English, and an inventory number in the negative. Oblong folio, black lacquer with gilt highlights and ivory inlay depicting an elegant scene of a woman being pulled in a carriage, disbound; in the original cloth-covered box. 1880s

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October 21, 2008 1:30 PM EDT
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