A cabinet card and carte-de-visite album, late 1870s, 25 stiff card leaves, designed to hold 24 cabinet cards and 124 cartes de visite (only seven cartes de visite here present), the remaining windows blank, a few ink inscriptions to mounts, all edges gilt, leather-backed thermoplastic covers with bois durci moulded cover featuring three chamois on rocks set in relief against a beige leather background, the thermoplastic lower cover with oval geometric design, gilt clasp, 29 x 23cm, together with a thermoplastic album manufactured in France in the 1880s, with windows for 22 cabinet cards and 16 cartes de visite, here lacking only four cabinet cards, the studios for the unidentified portraits including Reutlinger and Langlois, both of Paris, all edges gilt, morocco-backed thermoplastic covers, the upper cover in relief with ornamental design and monogram MS, the lower cover with the same border but a plain ground, gilt silver clasp with patent dates of 1875 and 1881, 22 x 18cm Hannavy, Case Histories , pp. 133-135. (2)
A cabinet card and carte-de-visite album, late 1870s, 25 stiff card leaves, designed to hold 24 cabinet cards and 124 cartes de visite (only seven cartes de visite here present), the remaining windows blank, a few ink inscriptions to mounts, all edges gilt, leather-backed thermoplastic covers with bois durci moulded cover featuring three chamois on rocks set in relief against a beige leather background, the thermoplastic lower cover with oval geometric design, gilt clasp, 29 x 23cm, together with a thermoplastic album manufactured in France in the 1880s, with windows for 22 cabinet cards and 16 cartes de visite, here lacking only four cabinet cards, the studios for the unidentified portraits including Reutlinger and Langlois, both of Paris, all edges gilt, morocco-backed thermoplastic covers, the upper cover in relief with ornamental design and monogram MS, the lower cover with the same border but a plain ground, gilt silver clasp with patent dates of 1875 and 1881, 22 x 18cm Hannavy, Case Histories , pp. 133-135. (2)
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