Estimate: £200 - £400
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 792
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
7 cartes de visite, a cabinet card and 6 photographs of several Scottish regiments. 3 photographs are albumen, 2 are silver gelatin and mounted back to back on a single mount, the cartes include Francis Thomson a dentist, a member of the 78th Regiment, 2nd Lieutenant Conyningham McAlpine. Cabinet card of a Coldstream Guard, 1 photograph shows the Coldstream Guards in Egypt, the others are not identified. Some edge fading to one, overall fading to Egypt photograph, sizes range from 28.5 x 24cm to 17.5 x 12cm (14)
Formerly owned by the Late Murray Mackinnon, a renowned collector of photography documenting Scottish life from the mid-19th to early-20th century