Opening: $85 Hammer Price: $140 SOLD Skylight Gallery 38 September 2014

Cabinet-card format advertising card showing a woman in wintry snowfall, by A. M. Allen, Photographer, Pottsville, Pennsylvania. With a variety of advertising notices for local businesses on reverse and indication "Compliments of Saylor's Pharmacy". The image on front identified by imprint as a "Permanent Artotype" by "A. M. Allen, Photographer, Pottsville, Penna."   ( Inventory# id846 )

An unusual cabinet card advertising both the photographer and a type of print he evidently offered. The "Artotype" is a variety of collotype with very fine grain and a glossy surface that closely resembles real photos.

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