Estimate: £350 - £450
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 792
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Trawler photographs comprising a large mounted photograph of the naming of the John Bennett, a large photograph of Peterhead harbour, c.1900, printed later, a similar photograph of the Fraserburgh fishing fleet, a large albumen photograph by G.W. Wilson of ‘The Herring Season At Aberdeen’, a montage silver print of Anstruther harbour, the bridge of the Ben Lora, a trawler built in Aberdeen in 1913, two large photographs of fishing fleets at sea, c.1900, with fading and staining, photograph of F.R. 260, possibly in Fraserburgh harbour, Portknockie harbour, c.1900, B.F. 301 in drydock in Banff or MacDuff, and a trawler leaving port; group of fish trawler photographs comprising 2 x 19th century albumen photographs of fishwives, one identified as from Newhaven, a landing of skate at Fraserburgh harbour, 3 of fishwives processing and packing fish in barrels, a fishwife from Collieston in 1932, men packing fish in Fraserburgh in 1953, a scene in Cairnbulg near Fraserburgh, 3 views of Aberdeen harbour, mid 20th century, a collotype of fishermen at Elie by Valentine, and a large 20th century photograph of fishermen hauling nets ashore (26)
Formerly owned by the Late Murray Mackinnon, a renowned collector of photography documenting Scottish life from the mid-19th to early-20th century.