For sale is this lovely leather-bound Victorian [and later] music box photo/postcard album with double-sided pages displaying 42 black and white photographs - portraits of individuals, children and families mounted in their decorative cut-out windows
Album titled – “The Seaside Album” - printed in Germany
Comes with its key
Plays as soon as it is wound and continues [opened and closed] to play until the end of the tune – tune unknown!
Some of the pages has interleave sheets
Comes with its original brass metal clasp fastener
The mechanism, which is protected by a glass cover, has rust and would benefit from a clean
Album incomplete
Approximate measurements:
29cm x 23cm
Weight – 2.708kg
Condition:
Album has wear and tear on the front/back covers
Inside of the album there are scratches, discoloration, stains, foxing and marks
Top of spine covering might need repairing
Fraying around the edges of the front/back covers [including the spine]
Tear and creases on some of the interleave sheets
Inside of the album there are scratches/stains, foxing and marks
Tear on some of the photos, and cut-out windows mounts
All white spots/dots are reflections/glare from the camera
Please see pictures as they form part of the description
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