Opening: $110 Hammer Price: $220 SOLD Skylight Gallery 30 April 2010

Two cabinet-card format images showing a European couple dressed in Asian clothing, posed in an elaborate Asian decor and in front of an Asian-themed painted backdrop, by A. Kit, Haiphong, Vietnam. The first card imprinted in gilt front "A. Kit / Haiphong" and on reverse "A. Kit / Photographe / Portrait Al' Huile et Sur Ivoire / Rue de Commerce Haiphong..."   ( Inventory# ic661 )

Images in superb condition. The second image has a small stain on gent's "skirt."

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