Opening: $20 Hammer Price: $20 SOLD Skylight Gallery 28 April 2009

Hand-colored CDV-format albumen print ca. 1870 showing two girls with dolls and toys, on whispering to the other. Titled on the reverse "Kinder-Album / nach der Natur photographiert. / No. 1604 / Le grand secret / Das Geheimniss / The secret. / Verlag von S. P. Christmann in Berlin / Phot. d'apres nature."   ( Inventory# ic462.1604 )

Image yellowed, with crazing in center and a few bits of coloring chipped off.

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