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| | | (Inc Covered Bridge & End Lot & Train) (By NW Pease) (3 no bid lots, total of 69 views) Lot A; END LOT: (27 views) 2 No#: “Cathedral Woods, N Conway.” and (attributed in modern pencil as #231) “Interior view of snow arch, Tuckerman’s Ravine.”, and #3, 6, 19, 22, 29, 34, 52, 63, 65, 67, 78, 102, 106, 109, 112, 123, 134, 136, 173, 175, 176, 182, 204, 215, 217. (A few bldgs, mostly pure scenics.) (Lot A; Images G TO G++, mts G TO Exc.), Lot B; (28 views) #5, 7, 25, 26, 48, 49, 56, 57, 60, 65, 90 - 93, 98, 99, 101, 108, 144, 145, 2 variants of #149, 150, 151, 190, 228 and two with pencilled-in #s; #234 & #236. (Inc White Mtn Notch, Tuckerman’s Ravine, falls and other scenics.) (Lot B; Images VG TO Exc., mts G+ TO Exc.) & Lot C; (14 views) #21 (mid-distant view of N Conway), #31 (Cathedral Woods, N Conway), #33 (hotels at N Con., Mt Kearsage looms beyond), #77 (House atop Mt Kearsage), #81 (Low overview from outside N Bartlett showing bldgs), #83 & #84 (Goodrich Falls & Covered Bridge), #103 (Frankenstein Cliffs), #109 & 111 (Willey House), #135 (Glen House), #159 (Bourne Monument), #172 (locomotive on Mt Wash, likely bringing construction material) and #188 (Crawford House, many tourists) (A few minor stains, otherwise images VG TO Exc., mts G+ TO Exc., Lot C) Previous starting bids $205 MB$120. | |
| $ 225 |
| | | (Inc 3 Tax Stamps & Trains & Stage Coach & Occupational & by John Soule) (2 no bid lots, total of 24 views) Lot A; (18 Soule) #17 - 19 (Thompson’s Cascades), #21 & 21 (Garnet Pool), #24, 26 & 27 (Carriage Road inc Halfway House), #30 - 32 (Tip Top House, dated 1861), #40 (First horse and buggy team driven to the summit, July 1861), #42 (Bourne Mon.), #47 & 48 (snow at Tuckerman’s Ravine in Aug. 1861), #52 (Artists’ Fall, N Conway) and #53 & 55 (Echo Lake) All the views have people, most in Soule’s fine detail. (Lot A; A few stains and some light soil in the lot. Tones VG TO Exc., mts G TO Exc.) & Lot B; (6 Kilburn) #23 (close-up of workman on mini-RR slide), 2 variants of #101 (RR Station at base of Mt W., both with a train, Crawford Notch Stage Coach seen in one), #135 (train on Jacob’s Ladder), #186 (close up locomotive and wo), rk crew) and #536 (Water Station) (Bit of emulsion missing is hardly noticed in sky of one view. Images and mts otherwise G++ TO Exc., Lot B) Previous starting bids $190 MB$100. | |
| $ 100 |
| | | (Inc one Maine & Maple Sugar Industry & Occupational & Snow Shoes & Trains & Stage Coach) (2 no bid lots, total of 26 views) Lot A;(20 Kilburn) No# (looks private) “Echo Lake House, GHW in the foregrnd.” (Not what I call in foregrnd. The last name Walker is seen also), No# “The Philosopher of the Pool.”, #55 “Making Maple Sugar.” (Snow shoes in foregrnd), #64 (top of Mt Wash), #81 (train on bridge at Woodsville), #109 (boating group close view, Profile Lake), #153 (Tip Top House, #154 “Camp on Clapboard Island, Casco Bay.” (Maine, some pencilled conjecture on back that this might be Kilburn’s camp, but I don’t see Ben or equipment in the view), #275 (Schoolhouse, Littleton), #448 (Trout Farm, Meredith), #1017 (not-close view of Colebrook), #1045 (farm bldgs in Randolph), #1263 - 1267 and 1271 (all science observers on Mt Wash in winter, inc the Observatory, returning with mail, outdoor ‘gymnasium,’ and more.) #2088 and #2117 (trains at Crawford Notch) (Lot A; Philosopher has tiny chip at top of right print. Images otherwise G++ TO Exc., mts G TO Exc.) & Lot B; (6 Kilburn) #538 (train, stain in sky and light soil, tones Exc., mt G++), #538 (train on exaggerated angle, Exc.), #682 (two trains), #693 (two more trains, one locomotive with an odd shaped tender, stain in sky, otherwise VG+). #750 (two men on the track, the water tower seen beyond. Image G++, mt VG+) and #841 (base, includes a stage coach and some bldgs, image G+ with better tones, mt G+) Previous starting bids $100. | |
| $ 130 |
| | | (Inc post Civil War) (Mono - related to stereo photographers) (5 CDV’s & 1 business card) The business card is for Moore’s Silvertype Copying House. The card says he copies dags, ambros, tintypes, photos. (Light pencil note on back may be original, ‘one picture to be enlarged, $4.’ Card is Exc.) & 5 CDVs; 3 by WGC Kimball (2 of Bean children, 1 unknown lady, VG to VG+), by Kimball & Son (unknown child, image G++, with tax stamp missing small chunk, mt cut-down) & the key item in the lot, by WGC Kimball “Capt WGC Kimball & Lt CH Kimball.” (In Civil War style uniforms, published later, possibly from an earlier negative. Image has serious peripheral browning but is VG to VG+ over the subjects, mt VG+ to Exc.) MB$100. | |
| $ 100 |
| | | (Inc Masonic & Phillips Angling Association & Insane Asylum) MISC (3 no bid lots, total of 39 views) Lot A; LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE & CONCORD (11 views) 9 WGC Kimball; 5 of the PAA fishing on the lake; 3 without title; (man pulling just-caught fish out of the ice as friend looks down, ‘X’ mark over the ice in left print, otherwise image about G+, mt VG) (Group of five men near the ice, overall G with better tones, mt VG) and (two men by a fire, one lighting his cigar, image VG+, mt VG), #16 “Lunch on the ice at Green’s Basin.” (VG) and #20 “The Lowell Party at rest.” (Image VG, mt about Exc.), “Back of Eagle Hotel.” (In front is a carriage with four men and a Stars’n’Stripes, sign reads ‘We Miss Him Most, Who Knew Him Best. We mourn his loss.’ (More lettering which I can’t read. Image has a couple of minor spots of no emulsion, tones VG+ to Exc., mt G+), (Untitled image of a floral anchor, image Exc., mt VG), (Untitled image of a home, on back in pencil, “RE French, Don’t give away.” (Image VG+ to Exc., mt VG) and (Untitled image in a Masonic room, G++) and 2 French & Sawyer; No# (Dr Barstow & wife, scrape over her dress in left print, moderate soil, tones G+, mt G+) and #143 “The Barstow’s Golden Wedding Aug 19, 1868.”(G to G+), Lot B; (Mostly NH Asylum for the Insane) CONCORD: (15 views) Alden Sherburne (Concord address) “NH Asylum for Insane and Grounds.” (Nursery and bldgs), (7 HA Kimball; #11 (State House), the rest are Asylum views; #16 (East side), #17 (exterior), #20 (bldgs), #21 (little bridge), #22 (grounds and bldgs), #24 (Boat house) and 7 WGC Kimball; 2 different “Asylum Pond.”, “NH Asylum for Insane. Front View.”, “Interior.”, “Rear of Asylum.”, #15 “Front View.”, #16 “Distant View.” (Lot B; Images G to G+ TO Exc., mts G to G+ TO Exc.) & Lot C; (Most or all) KEENE by JA FRENCH or FRENCH & SAWYER: (13 views) No# “Central Square.”, #11 (1st Cong. Church), #12 “Boating on the Mill Pond.”, #25 (Winter St), #47 (Court House), 2 variants of #75 (panoramas), #88 (town hall with tables set for many people), #90 “Around the Curve.” (RR scenic, Granite Cut, Cheshire RR), #125 “Departed Power.” (Collapsed house), #130 (Glen Ellen Cascade), #301 (2nd Cong Church interior) and #500 (Bridge, Lovers’ Lane) (Images G++ TO Exc., mts Fair TO Exc., Lot C) Previous starting bids $310 MB$165. | |
| $ 204 |
| | | (Inc Construction & Golf & Trains & Telegraph) Mostly WHITE MTNS (2 no bid lots, total of 29 views) Lot A; (7 views) Kilburn #307 (train on Frankenstein Trestle, image VG, mt Exc.), JW & JS Moulton #136 (construction workers at base of Mt Wash, note the unusual drill system sitting on the guard rail, image VG+ to Exc., mt G+), Anon tall tan mt (people on sleds on Mt Wash, these look like tourists, VG), Anon yellow mt (close-up of Mt W locomotive and workmen, image G++, mt VG), Anon yellow mt “Train on the Summit of Mt Wash.” (Little shack with sign, ‘American Telegraph Company.’ moderate soil but tones Exc. Mt is G), U&U #5243 (nicely tinted close view of a lady about to drive a golf ball, image Exc., mt G) and JW & JS Moulton #479 (great view of RR Station at Crawford House, note the open-air tourist car, light to moderate soil, tones Exc., mt G++) & Lot B; (22 views) 15 NW Pease; #20 (Willey Brook), #22 & #34 (Mt Kearsage), #53 (Diana’s Baths), #63 - #65 the last # with two variants (Echo Lake), #111 (Willey House, #115 (White Mtn Notch), #129 (Boulder & Flume), #149 (Crystal Cascade), #203 (Plymouth Episcopal Church), #220 (Basin, Franconia) and #292 (Ossipee Falls) and 7 American Scenery, (I believe SF Adams) from Original Bierstadt negatives; #2787 (Crystal Cascade), #2825 (Profile House), the rest No#; “Tip Top Summit Houses.”, “Clouds from Mt Wash.”, “View in Franconia Notch.”, “Tip Top House.” and, best view in the lot, “Interior, Tip Top House.” (Last view has negative flaw over ceiling in left print. Images otherwise images G++ TO Exc., mts G+ TO Exc., Lot B) Previous starting bids $220 MB$125. | |
| $ 350 |
| | | (Inc Disaster & Photo Related & Croquet & mysterious Kilburn view & by J Soule) Mostly WHITE MOUNTAINS (3 no bid lots, total of 47 views) Lot A; (18 views) Maker unclear, see scan, “Old Iron Furnace at Franconia.”, Anon off-white mt “Coal Kilns, Fabyan’s.”, Anon tall mt with checklist; “Diana’s Bath.” (Man fishing), 2 Fifield; #91 (John Merrill the Philosopher at the Pool) and #131 (Flume during 1869 Flood), London Stereoscopic Co 1859 series #136 (ice), 2 H Ropes tall mts; #272 (creek scenic) and #273 (Eagle Cliff), Anon off-white mt “Willey House.”, 3 JW & JS Moulton; #282 (Silver Cascade), #417 (Beecher’s Cascade) and #421 (Crawford Notch), 2 Anthony; #4440 (?) (Echo Lake) and #8286 (Flume Cascade), 2 American Scenery New England series (Seaver &/or Pollock); No# “White Mtn Notch.” and #29 (Crawford Notch), Heywood / Rowell #462 (Ragged Mtn) and Unmarked Oliver H Cook yellow mt “Boat Landing at Echo Lake.” (I’ve seen another. Note the man at left with camera on tripod) (Lot A; to G+ TO Exc., mts Fair TO Exc.), Lot B; (12 views) Langenheim “Tip Top House, White Mtns. NH.” (Image G, mt G to G+), EK Follansbee (East Canaan address, Resource says ‘Reported to have issued Rare stereoviews.’) “Baptist Church, East Canaan.” (G.), Pressey & Hodge (Plymouth address, Resource says Rare) “Pemigewasset House, Plymouth.” (Moderate soil and fox in sky, tones VG, mt G), JW & JS Moulton very tall mt #213 (Glen House, VG), Anon dull yellow sc mt with remnants of a label, White Mtn Scenery, “Gate of Notch.” (Image VG+, mt G+), AJ Fisher (NYC) “The Basin.” (VG), Anon yellow mt “View from Profile House.” (Rare to see this in stereo. Looks like the stables for the resort’s horses. A few stains and light soil detract, otherwise VG), Anon yellow mt “Summit of Mt Washington.” (Tourists, G+), Franklin White “Summit House and Railway, Mt Wash.” (Minor mark in sky, tones Exc., mt VG+) and 3 Kilburn; 2 variants of #5333 “Mr Bonners’ Maud S., Queen of the Turf.” (One image G+, mt Exc., the other image VG+, mt G) and the mysterious view, #3500 “The Seven Friends.” (Seven men posing in a field with some cottages seen in the background. Last view Exc., Lot B) & Lot C; (Inc Croquet & by John Soule & Trains) MOSTLY WHITE MTNS: (17 views) 3 Aldrich tall mts; No# “Bethlehem House.” (This is the most professional looking croquet ground I’ve seen. Note the play area is flat and depressed so one could make bank shots.), #805 (Profile House) and #886 (Train on top of Mt W), 4 J Soule; #42 (Bourne monument), #128 (Flume and boulder), #500 (Profile House) & #1166 (Artists’ Brook, North Conway) and 10 Kilburn; No# “Centennial House, Bethlehem.”, #12 (Franconia from outskirts), #134 (train on Jacob’s Ladder), #141 (boat house, Echo Lake), #199 (t | |
| $ 145 |
| | | (Inc Patriotic & Trains) WHITE MTNS: (3 no bid lots, total of 34 views) Lot A; (14 views) Bierstadt Bros No# “Summit of Mt W.” (People with unusual, but American-looking, flag), NW Pease #259 (Twin Mtn House) and 12 Kilburn;#50 (Pool, Franconia), #72 (Profile House), #104 & #521 & #540 & #653 (Trains Mt W), #112 (Bourne Monument), #129 (Profile House), #451 “Log Cabin.”, #246 (Profile House, man about to clear snow), #7570 (Waiting staff, Fabyans) and #7670 “The Voyage of Life, White Mtns.” (Boaters) (Lot A; First view, image G+, the rest images VG TO Exc., mts G++ TO Exc.), Lot B; TRAINS: (8 Kilburn tall mts) #300 (Jacob’s Ladder), #302 & 303 (men descending on mini-sleds), #304 (tourists atop Mt W), #306 (one regular locomotive and three Mt W locomotives seen), #308 (trestle view), #309 (Gate of Crawford Notch) and #310 (Mt Willard) (Lot B; Images G+ TO Exc., mts G++ TO Exc.) & Lot C; VIEWS FROM THE COLLECTION OF A MOUNT WASHINGTON RR MASTER MECHANIC NAMED DANIEL KIDDER (His descendant, Glen M Kidder of Littleton, made notes in 1969) (12 views) Anon yellow mt “Franklin Village.” and 11 Kilburn; #1 (Mt LaFayette), #3 (Ice jam on the Ammonoosuc), #8 (Mt LaFayette), #34 (Valley of the Saco), #43 (Eagle Cliff), #75 (carriage road on Mt Washington), #78 (view from carriage road, Mt W), #104 “RR on to Mt Wash.” (A descendant of Daniel Kidder says the man at left, standing, is ‘apparently Daniel Kidder.’), #155 “Frosty Morning.”, #183 (close-up of Mt W Locomotive) and #188 (Depot at base) (First view and #78 have some stains. Images otherwise G+ TO Exc., with the train images both Exc., mts G+ TO VG+. Lot C) Previous starting bids $275 MB$150. | |
| $ 190 |
| | | (Inc Construction & Variants & Trains & Blodgett Wire Bridge) MISC (3 no bid lots, total of 48 views) Lot A; TRAIN & RR, MT WASHINGTON: (11 Kilburn yellow mts) #461 (bldg construction on top, 1872), 2 variants of #521 (train on summit), #652 (man on RR sled), #653 (train bringing up construction wood), #680 (Depot at Base), #681 (Locomotive close-up), #682 (2 trains near base), #691 (man on RR sled, not close), #692 & 693 (trains at top) (Lot A; VG TO Exc.), Lot B; (17 F. White) “The Old Willey House.”, “Brunswick Mineral Springs Hotel.” (Not close), “Descending Mt Washington, by rail.”,”Crystal Cascade near Glen House.”, “Column Rock, Dixville Notch.”, “Cherry and LaFayette Mtns, from the Wambeck House, Jefferson.”, “Carriage Road, Mt W.”, “Blodgett’s Wire Bridge and Steps.”, Beecher’s Cascade, White Mtns.”, “Alpine House, Gorham.”, “A view from the Alpine House.”, “Alpine Cascades, Gorham. (1).”, “Alpine Cascades, Gorham (2)”, “Alpine Cascades, Gorham (3).” and 3 without titlel (river scenic) (residence) and (looks like flood. Winter street view with people) (Lot B; A few stains in the lot. Images G+ TO Exc., mts G TO Exc.) & Lot C; (20 views) 13 Descriptive Series (by Seaver &/or Pollock) “Lake Winnipiseogee.”, (Untitled image of what may be a storage bldg or even a Hermit home), “Half Way House.”, “The Willey House.”, “White Mtn Notch.” (Loose beams of wood on the field), (Untitled mountain scenic), (Untitled Basin area, I believe), “McMillan House, N Conway.”, “The Senter House, Centre Harbor.”, 2 different “The Flume.”, “Echo Lake.”, “Cathedral (Ledge) N Conway.” and 7 Franklin White; first 6 without titles; (creek and bldgs, Lancaster), (mountain), (downtown Lancaster, if you can call it that), (close view of man standing on his porch), (crowd which inc musical band, I think religious related, one sign reads ‘Feed my Lambs.’), and “Profile House, Franconia Mtns.” and “RR up Mt Wash.” (Train at base station) (Images G+ TO Exc., mts Fair TO Exc., Lot C) Previous starting bids of$280. MB$150. | |
| $ 201 |
| | | (Inc 8 Tax Stamps) KILBURN VIEWS (3 no bid lots, total of 84 views) Lot A; (33 views) Some Andy marked as First Issue and some others as Second Issue. #10, 12, 13, 16 - 18, 21 - 28, 30, 49, 50, 52, 53, 55, 58, 61, 66, 72, 73, 75, 79, 80, 82, 86 - 89. (Inc Ammonoosuc River, Still Life, White Mtns, Willey Family graves and scenics.) (Lot A; Images G to G+ TO Exc., mts G TO Exc.), Lot B; (22 views) Some of these are what Andy called ‘Issue 1.’ Seven views with tax stamps. #90, 91, 96, 98, 103, 105, 106, 108, 109, 112, 116, 118, 2 variants #122, 123, 129 - 131, 138, 141, 143, 147. (Inc scenics, Mt Wash, man by Echo Lake with perhaps ‘dinner horn,’ Waumbeck House and more.) (Lot B; Images G++ TO Exc., mts G TO Exc.) & Lot C; (29 views) Mostly square cornered. #31, 32, 34 -36, 38, 39, 41, 45 - 47, 50 - 52, 67, 68, 70, 71, 77 - 80, 82, 85 - 88, 90, 92. Inc White Mtns, scenics, Flume, Still Life, and more. (Images generally VG TO Exc., mts G+ TO Exc., Lot C) Previous starting bids $335 MB$185. | |
| $ 216 |
| | | (Inc Variants & Construction & Trains) (2 no bid lots, total of 38 views) Lot A; (One by JS Moulton) by NW PEASE (30 views) 2 variants of #114, 115, 2 variants of #116, 120, 122 - 125, 127, 3 variants of #128 (one was attributed, one might be a variant, as it has the same # and subject, by Moulton, but it may be a coincidence.), 2 variants of #129, 130, 134, 135, 140, 2 variants of #141, 142, 144 - 147, 149 - 151. (Inc. scenics, White Mtn Notch, Crawford House, trestle, flume area, etc.) (Lot A; Images & mts G++ TO Exc.) & Lot B; (8 NW Pease) #145 (Willey Brook Bridge), #172 (train on Mt W), 2 variants of #173 (people moved, Mt W), #210 (Base Depot), #219 (by Bourne Mon.), #221 (no train, construction material seen) and #229 (distant train) (#219 tones About G++, the rest of the images VG TO Exc, mts G++ TO Exc., Lot B) Previous starting bids $230 MB$125. | |
| $ 185 |
| | | (Inc Education) MISC (2 no bid lots, total of 29 views) Lot A; GREAT FALLS & BRISTOL: (13 views) 8 Great Falls by Columbus C Gardner (Grt Falls address) “High Street.” the rest no titles, includes downtown, the Sherman Oyster House, Eastern Express Co office, a bank, residences and institutional bldgs) and 5 more Gardner views of Bristol; “Res. of Hon. OF Fowler.”, “Pleasant St.”, “Newfound River above the Rapids.”, “Merrimack & Newfound Rivers.” and (untitled, two men seen on a lakeside road) (Lot A; Images G+ TO Exc., mts Fair TO Exc.) & Lot B; (16 views) 4 Everett & Lindsay (Concord address, Resource says Scarce) “Coe’s Academy, Northwood Centre.” (Still standing, Now Coe - Brown Academy) and 3 without title; (two residences and a camp view) and 12 BF Foster; #14 & #16 from Monadnock Mtn series (path to top and almost at top), “Amherst School House and towards Mt Vernon.”, “Distant view of Monument Hotel and Store, Amherst.”, #13 “Hotel.” (Amherst), “Silver Water Set presented to JM French by his employees at Fabyan House, 1876.”, “Silver Tea Set presented to Mr & Mrs John Lindsey by their employees, 1876, Fabyan House.”, #4 (Barnes Falls) and #7 (Purgatory, Mt Vernon) and three without title; (two men in the woods, group in front of bldg with sign ‘Milford Springs,’ and group, not close, which includes croquet and an old child’s wagon) (A few stains in the lot, images G with better tones TO Exc., mts G+ TO Exc., Lot B) Previous starting bids $210. MB$120. | |
| $ 153 |
| | | (Inc Education & Light House / Lighthouse) (2 no bid lots, total of 30 views) Lot A; ISLES OF SHOALS, PORTSMOUTH by DAVIS BROS (14 views) Mostly yellow mts with labels. “White Island.” (Lighthouse), “White Island, S. Side.” (Lighthouse), “Mr Bebec’s Burying Lot, Star Island.”, “Monument to John Smith, Star Is.”, “Caswell’s Peak, Star Is.”, “Smut Nose Island from Appledore Is.”, “The Cross.” (Must be a mark in the rocks), “Rocky Point.”, “Broad Cove.”, “Miss Underhill’s Chair, Star Is.”, “Appledore House.”, “Neptune’s Hall.”, “Small gorge, NE corner of Appledore Is.” & “Big gorge, NE corner of Appledore Is.” (Lot A; Images G++ with better tones TO Exc., mts G to G+ TO Exc.) & Lot B; Mostly MANCHESTER (16 views) 10 FG Garland (one with Garland & CE Eaton label beside the FGG machine print. Eaton not mentioned in the Resource) “Intermediate School.”, “High School.”, “Reed’s Ferry Institute. 1879.”, “Grammar School.”, “Blodgett St School. 1879.”, “Grammar School. Squog(?)”,”Lincoln St School.”, (untitled bull close-up side view), (untitled large home and farm bldgs) and (untitled farm view with note that ‘Grandmother Mary Darrah Southwood’ used to live there), 2 EF Garland (Colebrook address, Resource says Rare) #5 (Huntington Cascade, Dixville Notch) and #15 (Berlin Falls), 2 FA Fisher (Milford address) “Milford....” (Winter view of a town center area) and “Ministers of the Milford Baptist Association, 1871.” (Close view), 2 AG Fifield; (both flume views, but these are Rare compared to FS Fifield flume images), Fisher & Foster (Milford address, Resource says Scarce) (scenic creek view from un-checkmarked set of 12) and EK Follensbee (East Canaan address, Resource says ‘reported to have issued Rare stereoviews.’ “Baptist Church, East Canaan.” (Last view, images identical, no stereo effect. Images G+ TO Exc., mts Fair TO Exc., Lot B) Previous starting bids $240 MB$150. | |
| $ 202 |
| | | (Inc Fishing & Patriotic) (by) JA FRENCH or FRENCH & SAWYER (3 no bid lots, total of 28 views) Lot A; (10 views) No titles or #s. Includes residences, a cascade, people, patriotic decorated institution interior, two memorial funeral related views and more. (Lot A; G++ TO Exc.), Lot B; (10 views) #534 “Trouting in South Branch.”, the rest without # or title, includes a cemetery view, people, bldgs, etc. (Lot B; minor scratch one view, light soil in several, tones VG TO Exc, mts G+ TO Exc) & Lot C; (8 views) MOSTLY CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, ANTRIM, 1877: (8 views) East Alstead series, #2 (Congregational Church Parsonage), the rest Antrim Centennial series; nothing checked off (house with patriotic bunting and flag), #3 “Militia at Dinner.”, #14 (Presbyterian Church interior with patriotic decorations), #21 (Cemetery), #32 “Site of Old Log House, built in 1769. Mr Peasley’s residence.”, #38 (Mrs Woodbury’s home) and #40 (home of Barrett & Buckminster) (A few stains and some soil in the lot. Tones G++ TO Exc, mts VG TO Exc., Lot C) Previous starting bids $290 MB$150. | |
| $ 350 |
| | | (Photo related & Train & Handcar & Occupational) (4 JA French) #12 “Stone Bridge from the road.” (French’s photo wagon seen, not close, image VG to VG+, mt VG), (titled by the Librarian Cades) “At Surry.” (Same style wagon seen. Image overall VG but Exc towards foregrnd, mt Exc.), No# or title (studio image showing a Cadwell viewer and cards on a table, tinted slightly boldly, but VG to VG+ directly over the viewer. Mt Exc.) & No# “Sand Bank, Gravel Train & Track Men, Marlboro Depot, taken July 1st 1878.” (What seems like lightness of tone in upper right area is actually smoke. Exc.) MB$150. | |
| $ 160 |
| | | STATE PRISON AT CONCORD: (10 views) Alden Sherburne “NH State Prison.” (Workshop), 6 HA Kimball; (I think) #30 (exterior), #32 (interior of yard), #34 (yard), #35 (hall of cells), #36 (workshop) and #40 (view along wall) and 3 WGC Kimball; #7 (exterior, looks like the entrance, it is also possible it is mis-marked, as it doesn’t look like a prison), #12 (north wall) and #14 (yard) #40 has a couple of minor darkened-in flaws, images otherwise G++ TO Exc., mts G TO Exc. MB$120 | |
| $ 130 |
| | | (Inc Cell interior) STATE PRISON AT CONCORD: (7 views) From a set of 12. #1 (front view, light soil, tones Exc., mt G++), #2 (side view, image About Exc., mt VG+), #4 (prisoners lined up, light soil, tones VG+ to Exc., mt VG+), #5 (corridor of cells, image VG+, mt VG), #7 (best view in the lot, a real cell interior. Note the bucket recessed into the wall. Image VG, mt Fair), #8 (guard house, moderate overall soil, tones VG to VG+, mt G) and #11 (lower work shop, image Exc., mt VG+) MB$110. | |
| $ 110 |
| | | (Inc Train & RR) WHITE MTNS (2 no bid lots, total 40 views) Lot A; (28 views) 18 Bierstadt; #3, 4, 24, 26 - 28, 32, 40, 41, 43, 45, 58, 70, 76 - 78, two variants #83. (Inc Pemigewasset House, Glen House, Crawford House, RR Station at Kearsage House, Mt Wash RR and more.) And 10 Geo S Bryant (his prints are direct from the negative, yet are printed directly onto the mount) (Untitled creek scenic), #106, 107, 112, 120, 122, 123, 125, 127, 128. (Inc Nancy’s Brook and bridge which looks like a covered bridge, Eagle Cliff and other scenics) (Lot A; Images VG TO Exc., mts G TO Exc., mts mostly VG TO Exc.) & Lot B; FRANCONIA AREA by BIERSTADT BROTHERS (12 views) Mostly the early cream mts. #209 - 211, 216, 221, 225, 233, 234, 250, 251, 262, 264. (G++ TO Exc., Lot B) Previous starting bids $250 MB$150. | |
| $ 150 |
| | | (Inc Variants & Tax Stamps) (By) BIERSTADT BROS (21 views) #382 (parking lot near Summit, Mt Wash), #385 & 386 (Alpine House, Gorham), #387, 389, 390 (Dixville Notch, Flume & cascade), the rest Mt Wash, #400 (pony team), #411 (man amidst frost), #427 (artsy Cloud view), #613 & 614 (cloud level scenics) two variants of #1019 (Glen Ellis Falls), #1024 & 1026 (Crystal Cascade), #1027 (Thompson Cascade), #1032 (Peabody River), #1037 (Summit House), #1043 (White Mtn Notch) and two variants of #1044 (Echo Lake) One of the 1044's has some mottling, images otherwise G++ TO Exc., mts G+ TO Exc. MB$120. MB$100. | |
| $ 110 |
| | | (Inc Tax Stamp) (By) JOHN MORAN (17 views) One is maker unmarked, attributed to Moran by Andy. Two variants ##570, 608, 610, 612, 632, 635, 637, 638, 641, 645, 652, 667, 668, 670, 671, 675. (Inc Echo Lake, Mote Mtn, not-close man painting, Willey House with table on grounds with sign ‘Willey Furniture,’ and river scenics.) (Images G++ TO VG+ to Exc., mts G+ TO Exc.) MB$150. | |
| $ 170 |
| | | Mostly WHITE MTNS (34 views) Several checklists. 18 JW & JS Moulton; (untitled creek with people) #266 & two variants of #268 (Mt Wash RR base, two with trains), #278 & 279 (Pool, Franconia), #283 (Diana’s Bath), #two variants #400 & 402 & 403 & 407 (bridge views), #423 (Crawford Notch), #428 & #453 (the latter from a different checklist) (Artists Brook), #473 (dining room, Crawford House), #508 (Cath. Ledge) & #519 (Artists Brook) and 10 Edwin Peabody; #129 & 130 (not sure which is which, Flume), #103 & two variants of #104 (RR cut), #106, 109, 119, 132, 141, 142. (Pulpit Rock, Crawford House, -Echo Lake & Mt Kearsage) and 6 LANGENHEIM (White Mtns) (6 views) “Profile House.” (Close view of group of men, Andy Griscom pencilled a note that ‘the central figure facing camera’ the man second to right, is Associate Justice of US Supreme Court, Hon. Nathan Clifford.), “Tip Top House.”, “Silver Cascade, near Crawford’s.”, “The Haystacks and Mt Lafayette.” (I believe the barn is connected to one of the big hotels), “Arch of Snow.”, “The Flume.” (Last six with the Langenheim labels on back. (Images G to G+ TO Exc., mts Fair TO Exc. MB$150. | |
| $ 160 |
| | | (Inc Variants and Sidewheeler boat) (14 Bierstadt Bros) First four No#: “View on the Summit of Mt Wash.”, “Summit House, Mt W.”, “Echo Lake.”, “Plymouth NH.”, #25 (best view in the lot) “Among the Skaters.”, #2808 (group, Mt Willard), #2812, 2815, 2822 - 2824 (scenics), two variants #2825 (Profile House), #2826 (early LADY OF THE LAKE sidewheeler) Images G+ TO Exc., mts G TO Exc. MB$125. | |
| $ 125 |
| | | (Inc Boat & Train & RR) (2 no bid lots, total 38 views) Lot A; WHITE MOUNTAINS (31 views) Anon brown mt (Pool), Anon (Tip Top House), Anon (Glen House), attributed by Andy to Heywood (Halfway House), 3 anon milky turq mts; (Willey House & two Basin), 9 same anon purple mts, several with title labels (Inc Flume, Notch, Profile House, Halfway House, Bourne Mon. And scenics), 6 various anon yellow mts; (Nancy’s Bridge, Tip Top House, scenics) and 9 C Seaver Peoples’ Series (These look original from the negative, his Standard Series look similar but are copyprints) Inc Fabyan House with train seen, Basin, locomotive close-up, unknown New England village & bridge, one of the LADY OF THE LAKE sidewheelers and more) (Lot A; Images from G with better tones TO Exc., mts G TO Exc.) & Lot B; (7 views by French or French & Sawyer) #12 (Counting Room, Cheshire Republican newspaper, image G+, mt VG), “Unitarian Church, Main St. W O White in pulpit.” (VG with better tones), (this maker unmarked and possibly Not by them) “Unitarian Festival at Town Hall, Keene.” (Ladies getting dining area ready, image VG, mt G+) and 4 views related to Rev Barstow, this includes a postally used card sent from a lady at the Keene Library to collector Dr Howe, with info on the man. “Rev Dr Barstow’s, Main St.” (Nick in right print at bottom, otherwise VG), #89 (the Barstow’s Anniversary Dinner in 1868, crowded interior, dark stain at edge right print, tones VG+ to Exc., mt G), #113 (Family group outside, Barstow Golden Wedding anniversary, G+) and (studio close-up of Dr & Mrs Barstow, VG+ to Exc.) Previous starting bids of $210 MB$125. | |
| $ 125 |
| | | (Inc early #s & Trains & Variants) KILBURN RUN: Mostly White Mtns (53 views) Includes some cases with two different titles on same #, and also variants with same title. #1 - 4, 6, two variants #8, 9, 10, 12, 13, two different #14, 15 - 17, 23, 27, 41, two variants #43, two different #44, two variants #58, 59, 61, 63, 163, 170, 186 - 188, 193 - 196, 219, 225, 256, 259, 277, 278, 346 - 349, 358, 361, 406 - 408, 513. (Most New Hampshire, but also Genre, other places & misc.) Images generally VG TO Exc., (a few a bit lesser), mts G TO Exc. MB$150. | |
| $ 150 |
| | | (Inc Education & Train Disaster & Littleton) (20 views) 10 views by various Moultons: Moulton’s Tent Gallery (FJ Moulton, Plymouth address) “State Normal School, Plymouth.”, FJ Moulton “Livermore Bridge, 60 ft high.”, CC & J Moulton (Plymouth address, Resource lists a CC & FJ Moulton) (State Normal School), JC Moulton (untitled hotel in Monadnock Mtns) & 6 Moulton Bros; (CC & FJ) “Livermore Falls.”, (Untitled wooden bridge structure), 4 views of a train wreck, with penned titles on back by Glen Kidder, author and collector of NH material, whose ancestor was a workman on the Mt Wash RR; (all dramatic images of the accident) & 10 Littleton; 6 Kilburn; No title or # (high overview of town, Andy pencilled on back that this was Littleton), No# “Oak Hill House.”, #125 “The Babbling Brook.” (Andy thought this Littleton area), #128 (low overview) and two different #427 (low overviews) & 4 anon; “Littleton, NH.”, “Littleton Meadows.”, “Main Street.” & (untitled Thayer Hotel) Images G with better tones TO Exc., mts Fair TO Exc. MB$125. | |
| $ 161 |
| | | (Most By) JOHN MORAN: (14 views) 13 views Andy attributed as early John Moran. No maker id on these, though the manuscript on a couple id these as Moran’s work. “White Horse Ledge from the Saco.” (Definitely Moran’s script which is painful to read and looks like it was painful to write) and 12 views on off-white mts with a flowing marginal script ‘White Mountains.’ Two of these have what I would imagine Moran’s printing would look like, also in the margins. No# or title (dam in a river), (pool view at Franconia), the rest also without title, Andy pencilled in the #s and titles. #622, 624, 628, 630, 631, 635, 638, 669, 670, 673. (Inc Pulpit Rock, Mt Webster, Saco River, distant Willey House and more.) And Bierstadt Bros No# “Summit of Mt Washington.” (Images G+ TO Exc., mts G+ TO Exc., the Bierstadt is Exc.) MB$110. | |
| $ 110 * |
