Curling
Photographs, magic lantern slide and 1930s family photograph album
Estimate: £300 - £500
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
19th-century photograph of the Forest team who won the Borders Championship in 1899, 20 x 15cm, late 19th-century curling photograph, 32 x 22cm, 1937 press photograph of stone sculptors, 25 x 20cm, magic lantern slide of a curling match along with a modern enlargement, and 3 early 20th-century curling postcards; album of George A. Boothby and Jean Home Graham-Stirling comprising 294 snapshot photographs, and newspaper clippings, of their wedding day, golf, fishing, hunting, travel, rural Scotland and 4 photographs of curlers (8)
Provenance
Formerly owned by the Late Murray Mackinnon, a renowned collector of photography documenting Scottish life from the mid-19th to early-20th century.