Penrith Farmers' & Kidd's PLC
Lot 1
A PAIR OF LATE VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS of Whitehaven interest, in matching gilt-tooled and embossed leather bindings with brass clasps, each containing 88 items mainly carte-de-visite portraits of members of the Adair/ Douglas families who were associated by marriage, and who had a Booksellers' and Stationers' business in Whitehaven, but also including views of houses, literary and other figures including Charles Dickens, Sir Wilfred Lawson, et.al., a remarkable image of a much tattoed Maori with European jacket and tie, pork-chop sideburns, etc (inscribed in ink verso Hon Kingi, Wangonai(?), another of a young Maori with cloak and jade axe, the family photographs mainly by local photographers, Whiteheaven, Egremont, Maryport etc, also including two silhouette portraits, one or two school groups, 23cm x 16cm, (9in x 6.25in), (each in delapidated but original carton), and ANOTHER ALBUM, half-bound in black morocoand black buckram, 37c, x 29cm, (14.5in x 11.5in) vacant