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Fall Photographic History Auction, 2025

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  2025-09-06 13:00:00 2025-09-06 13:00:00 America/New_York Michael Lehr Michael Lehr : Fall Photographic History Auction, 2025 https://auction.michaellehrantiques.com/auctions/michael-lehr-antiques/fall-photographic-history-auction-2025-20189
We are pleased to announce our next auction, featuring approximately 200 individual lots drawn from a diverse and compelling range of 19th- and early 20th-century photography. This sale focuses on vernacular images, photographs created not as formal studio portraits or elite commissions, but as direct, unscripted records of lived experience. These are objects made by and for everyday people, preserving moments of intimacy, labor, travel, performance, identity, and loss.
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Lot 332

Boudoir Card Photograph of Schooner "Ballamore Buckey 2"

Estimate: $200 - $300
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Handsome late 19th-century boudoir card photograph of a sleek two-masted schooner under sail, photographed in profile with sails fully extended as it cuts through open waters. The image is finely composed, with excellent contrast and crisp detail showing crew on deck and rigging taut in the wind. A horizon line dotted with additional vessels suggests a regatta or popular sailing route.

The blindstamp of the well-known marine publisher Gubelman of New York appears at lower right, numbered 917. While the vessel is not identified in the image, a period pencil inscription on the reverse reads "Ballamore Buckey 2," possibly denoting the name of the yacht or its racing designation. A strong and evocative yachting image from the golden age of American sail photography.

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