Stunning antique photo album from the early 1900s. This Art Nouveau photo album has "Album" written on the red celluloid front adorned with flowers. It contains 12 pages of heavy/thick card stock paper to mount photographs. The binding and right front corners are covered in dark red velvet and the back is white plastic (celluloid). The book has a silver metal latch closure and the pages have gold gilt edges. The frames fit cabinet cards (6 1/2" x 4 1/2") and the last couple of pages hotsell hold CDVs (cartes des visites - 3 3/4" x 2 5/8").
The weighty photo album comes in its original cardboard box. This amazing find came from Humphrey's General Store in Southwestern Ontario.
Condition is remarkable overall. The exterior is quite clean with only some minor spots on the back and just slightly faded velvet. The gilt edges have lost a fair amount of gold color and this is perhaps the biggest issue though this is no way detracts from the album's beauty. The inside pages show lightly discolored edges and a bit of spotting. The box shows more wear and the box has a front side section torn out. The metal corner brackets on the box bottom to keep its shape are intact though 1 corner has split.
10 5/8" x 8 3/4"x 1 3/8" - 12 pages (or 24 back and front)
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Product code: Antique Photo hotsell Album Art Nouveau Red Photograph Book NOS