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Lot 122

[GYMNASTS & ACROBATS]. Five cabinet photos. V.p., ca. 1890s...

Estimate: $300 - $500

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[GYMNASTS & ACROBATS]. Five cabinet photos. V.p., ca. 1890s/1900s. Photographs on studio mounts, each solo portraits of women performers shown with gymnastic apparatus. Including: Mira Amoros (Munich: H. Traub); The Salome Sisters (Niort: R. Garnier); Pola (Anvers: Linnig-Quveliers); Zulima (Paris: Langlois); and Glinta (n.p.). Several with hand-stamps to verso of Professeur Desbonnet Collection Athletique (Paris). Size generally 6 ? x 4 ??. One with pinholes, otherwise very good overall.