44.00 USD
Superb piece of the "beautiful era." Large cabinet card (9 and 3/4 by 5 and 3/4 inches) of a beautiful, very long haired, danseuse in classic "costume orientale." This cabinet card could have been produced in the 1880s, 90s, or the early 1900s. Belgian Gustave Buyle was the photographer. No history available. Sorry.
The card suffers from obvious faults: One corner was snipped away, and there are several pin holes in it, as well. Our price is for the cabinet card "as is."
***Our plan*** (if it doesn't sell quickly), is to carefully cut down the edges to approximately where they appear in the first (cropped) image (but squared rather than eyeballed, as in this crop), fill in the pin holes with an acid free paper paste, smooth, match the color and retouch the repairs, sand, polish, and re-blacken the new edges. If we do this, the price will certainly go up to one appropriate to the rarity of the piece, but hey, you knew that :)
Shipping will be for a carefully wrapped, reinforced package, $6.00, anywhere. Thanks for looking!