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PHOTOGRAPHY - MEN AND FIGHTING COCK
Two elderly gentlemen in breeches and embroidered waistcoats, one in a top hat standing holding a large cockerel, the other seated, [1860s]

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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PHOTOGRAPHY - MEN AND FIGHTING COCK

Two elderly gentlemen in breeches and embroidered waistcoats, one in a top hat standing holding a large cockerel, the other seated, ambrotype on glass, by an unidentified photographer, 168 x 120mm., [1860s]

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Exhibited: "'From Today Photography is Dead'. The Beginnings of Photography", London, V&A Museum, 1972, No. 211a ("Two men with a fighting cock").

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