Opening: $30 Hammer Price: $130 SOLD Skylight Gallery 27 October 2008

CDV-format albumen print of a veiled peddler woman with tray of fruits balanced on her head, by Hippolyte Delié, Cairo, circa 1865. Card imprinted front "H. Delié & Cie. Phot." and on reverse "Photographie Universelle / H. Delié & Cie. / Caire (Egypte) / Succursale de la maison Pierson / Photographe de l'Emperor / Boulevart des Capucines, 3. / Paris."   ( Inventory# ic124.06 )

Image has one scrape at left edge and a smaller one lower down on right edge. The cardstock has a pinhole beneath image and a scrape in lower right corner.

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