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of the khalifs, Tombs of the Mamelucks.
Beautiful portraits
of several ethnic groups
and street
views:
Arabic, Nubian, Jewish, Sudan women, a funeral, a Coptic church, markets, merchants,
a barber on the street, mother and child, musicians, etc. Vast part of this lot consisting of images
from handdrawn illustrations showing life, habits, gods, costumes, etc. with legend in white in the
image. Also images taken from (photo)engravings in a handbook documenting the archeological
surveys in the pyramid of Cheops and Gizeh, slides of handwritten calculations and research about
the pyramid of Cheops. Furthermore slides of
Egyptian cultural heritage
collected by museums
(the British Museum, Louvre, museums in Florence, Caïro, Turin, Alexandrië, the Boulaq Museum).
Labels: “Beernaert’s DPC” and “E.Mazo”.
247 [England]
-
951 diapositives
.
€ 1000/1500
Images (containing some glass negatives) of monuments in England, also some city and street views.
Among the monuments:
Westminster Palace
(interior and exterior), the meeting place of the House
of Commons and the House of Lords, the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Westminster Abbey
(interior as well as exterior): facade, statues, monuments, pavement, cloister,
chapels, tombs, etc.
St Paul’s Cathedral
(interior and exterior): library, chapels, tombs, monuments,
crypt, organ, Queen Victoria›s visit, etc. Furthermore
churches, cathedrals, castles and abbeys
in St Albans, St Asaph, Bournemouth, Bath, Beverley, Bristol, Chislehurst, Buckingham, Cristal
Palace (London), Canterbury, Chester, Cambridge, Chatsworth, Chichester, St Davids Cathedral,
Darmouth, Dover and Durnham, Exeter, Ely, Elgin, Finchdale, Gloucester, Glastonbury, Hampton,
Hereford, Hyde, Isle of Wight, Ilfacombe, Kilkhampton, Llandaff, Ludlow, Lincoln, Lichfield,
Liverpool, Lindisfarne, Manchester, Norwich, Oxford, Osborne House, Peterborough, Romsey,
Rochester, Ripon, Southwell Cathedral, Somerset, Salisbury, Salisbury Poultry Cross, Sandringham
Palace, the Temple Church (London), Tewkesbury, Winchester, Wells Cathedral, Windsor, Whitby
Abbey, Worcester, Wimbourne Palace, York, etc. Labels: “E. Mazo” and “Beernaert’s D.P.C.”.
We join: 27
(some double)
Tyler’s Topical slides
.
A series of photographic slide sets, produced by
Walter Tyler Ltd at approximately weekly intervals, showing British news events. Slides of series 32
and 34 (1909). It is not known how many slides were in each set.
- 27 slides
with images of
stained
glass windows
in churches and cathedrals. - 1 box heavily soiled and stained slides of
London.
248 [Family]
-
781 diapositives
.
€ 800/1200
Images depicting
the family de Smet - van Overstraeten
in 1895 (Frederic’s youngest sister dies
at the age of 3, his father died in 1885). Several images show Frederic? in painter uniform, busy
sculpting in his workplace or joking with his brother(s): 1 slide “Messieurs: Jules & Frederic de
Smet, 1896”. Other names occuring on the slides: André de Buck, George Heyman, L.J.J. de Smet,
Christian Crame, Madam de Smet van Overstraete and Marcel Amelot, Jules de Smet, Léon de
Buck, Marie-Louise de Smet, Fernand Van Acker, Elisabeth de Smet, Simonne Amelot and mother,
Marcelle de Prat, Henri Van Wetter,... Some images taken in a
factory
. Frederic’s father, Jean de
Smet, was a manufacturer and had a flax processing factory. Also slides of Château “La Klosse” in
Zwijnaarde (1896). Several images of
the brothers de Smet
posing in a funny way doing acrobatic
tricks or holding a medical skeleton. Friends and family on holiday (besides unidentified places
also the Ardennes, Germany, Venice, etc.), in and around automobiles, on horseback, in nature,...
Some slides with legend pasted on referring to “Voyage Allemagne-Christian, 1911” or to “A.
Crame-1911”. Some staged photographs depicting muses?, states of minds, etc.
We join
: Images of
private trips
showing mostly the same couple on the road, visiting a castle, in
nature, etc. Also some family (?) portraits, images of a city with destroyed houses (bombing?),...
Trips to
Germany
and
Italy
(Florence, Venice) deduced from captions and inscriptions on
photographed buildings. -
1 box
(water damage) of
private trips
to Como Lake, Döggingen,
Strasburg, Bludenz, Innsbruck, St Anton am Arlberg, Kitsbühel, Krimml, Mittersill, Zell am See,
Pötschen Pass, Venice, etc. Trips with the automobile. -
1 box
with title label “
Voyage L. Braun
”,
no further indications on the slides of whom this could be. Several images are possibly taken in