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215 - [Album amicorum]. An in-8 album, with beveled cardboard covers bound in olive-green percaline; the front cover is adorned with a gilded plate decorated with oak leaves and acorns and bearing the inscription “Album.” The interior pages are bordered with sepia-toned or full-color chromolithographs: landscape scenes, rustic vignettes, or floral motifs. They were used to collect poems by famous authors or short messages from high school girls, written in various handwriting styles.
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€50 - 70Sale fees
[Album amicorum]. An in-8 album, with beveled cardboard covers bound in olive-green percaline; the front cover is adorned with a gilded plate decorated with oak leaves and acorns and bearing the inscription “Album.” The interior pages are bordered with sepia-toned or full-color chromolithographs: landscape scenes, rustic vignettes, or floral motifs. They were used to collect poems by famous authors or short messages from high school girls, written in various handwriting styles. This is the keepsake album of a boarding school student who, in 1914, asked her classmates in the sophomore class and fellow boarders to write her a short note or transcribe a poem. Loose pages, an ink stain along the margin, fragile stitching. Experts: Loup Axmann and Jean-Luc Boisseau
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Once Upon a Time - Antique Dolls and Toys, Vintage Fashion, and Antique BooksAuction house
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