[Editor: This carte de visite, featuring a photograph of a young woman with a letter, is undated; however, it is believed to have been made in the late 19th century.]
[Front of carte de visite]
Stewart & Co. Melbourne
[Description: Photograph of a young woman, sitting down, apparently holding a letter.]
[Reverse of carte de visite]
Photographers
Miniature & Portrait
Painters
Stewart & Co.
217 & 219
Bourke St. East,
Melbourne.
Enlarged copies from 20/-
Oborne, London & Paris.
Source:
Original document
Editor’s notes:
Dimensions (approximate): 63 mm. (width), 105 mm. (height).
This carte de visite was printed on a sturdy cardboard mount, with rounded corners.
The “large letter” design, as used for the initial letters of “Photographers”, “Painters”, and “Melbourne” is indicative of cardboard mounts manufactured circa 1876-1889, but mostly used in the early 1880s.
See: Roger Vaughan, “The Marion Date Code – Marion Imp Paris –”, Victorian and Edwardian Photographs – Roger Vaughan Personal Collection
The British royal coat of arms appears between “Stewart & Co.” and “Melbourne”.
See: “Coats of Arms”, The Royal Household
Oborne = Edwin Cecil Oborne (1843-1916), English businessman; he ran a wholesale business for photographic stationary, materials, and apparatus (including mounts for photographs); his business was based at 26 Red Lion Square (Holborn, London, England)
See: 1) “About Norman May’s Studio and its founder”, Angus and Rosemary’s Miscellany of Malvern
2) G. Wharton Simpson (editor), “The Year-Book of Photography and Photographic News Almanac for 1880”, London (England): Piper & Carter, [1880?], pp. iv-v
3) H. Baden Pritchard (editor), “The Year-Book of Photography and Photographic News Almanac for 1884”, London (England): Piper & Carter, [1884?], pp. [9-12] [see p. 9 re “photographic stationary, materials, and apparatus”, p. 12 re address]
4) “Red Lion Square”, Wikipedia
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