Opening: $110 Hammer Price: $110 SOLD Skylight Gallery 29 October 2009

Gelatin-silver print showing three deceased mice trapped at one blow by a Victor mouse trap. Vintage print ca. 1925. This photograph derives from a group of trap images supposed to show entries for a contest relating to multiple captures in single traps. Imprint on the trap reads "Victor Mouse Trap / Made by Animal Trap Co. of America / Lititz Pa / Made in USA." Print size 6.75 x 2.25 inches (17x6 cm).   ( Inventory# ic91 )

A superb image with innovative aesthetics. The positioning of the Victor trap and its victims against a white and featureless ground lends them a placeless, iconic status, perhaps as a first step towards their use in period advertising copy.

Print is clean and in superb condition.

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