RARE Antique Victorian 12.5" Carte de Visite Photo Album, Leather with Italy Pietra Dura, Firenze Betjenmann A darling portrait

A darling portrait

A 6-piece teaspoon set

This is a pair screens you could proudly use as the Victorians did

Most used it as veneer over wood

Some missing mother of pearl inlays

RARE Antique Victorian 12.5" Carte de Visite Photo Album, Leather with Italy Pietra Dura, Firenze Betjenmann A darling portraitYou have to imagine the Grand Tour traveler, experiencing Florence, Italy for the first time, and the invention of the first paper photographs, c. 1850s, along with the appeal of the marble mosaics "pietra dura", to have a sense of what kind of a treasure this souvenir they brought home must have truly been. The nearly pristine condition of it says it was a treasure. While I see no real evidence it was filled with photos (no torn paper sleeves) one is