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A word about tissue views. Each view
has a scan and a backlit photo. The camera does weird things with the focus
on these and sometimes they are blurred or the detail is not picked out.
The photos should be used as an indication of the tinting only as, often,
what seems like very crude images will turn out to be totally different
(and very much better) on the actual view. It is very difficult to judge
the view from the screen but please remember we will refund on any view
you are not happy with if returned within 10 days of receipt.
The
question of damage on tissues needs some comment. Piercings were sometimes
done in lines and the holes join and become a split. Often the backing
tissue has damage whereas the view is fine. The most common type of damage
is what I will describe as a fingernail split where, literally, someone's
fingernail has pierced the view. So cut your nails before viewing! There
is a cottage industry repairing tissues with varying degrees of success.
I hope to introduce a discussion forum on this site during 2004 where restoration
techniques can be exchanged. I do not repair or restore ANY views because:
1. My customers prefer it that way, and 2. I am useless at it.
One
other term you might see on these pages: 'delaminated mount' meant that
the layers of card are coming apart and need refixing - an easy job.
Piercings,
by the way, were often done on one image (usually the left) only as, obviously,
they were not needed on both to get the effect. I have therefore tried
to photograph the image with the most or all the piercings. Where there
is damage on one image and not the other I have photgraphed the damaged
image. I will try to mention all damage but will restrict condition to
that.
The first group of views are 'Theatricals' produced by
the same French producers of the 'Diableries'.
Le Prophete. Acte II.
Le Prophete. Acte III.
Le Prophete. Acte V.
Le Prophete.
Faust. No 9. Le Val Purgis.
Faust. No 7. Mon Frere.
Faust. No 6. C'est le Diable.
Faust. No 4. Seigneur dieu,
que vois-je.
La Belle au bois dormant.
Rome. Palais Massina.
Le Vatican, Rome.
Le Grand Canal a Venise.
Place St Pierre, Rome.
Untitled.
Palais du Senat, la Chapelle.
Untitled.
Val ???. Alpes.
Pyrenees.
Geneve, Suisse.
Vue Instantanee de Paris. Le Nouvel Opera.
Reine des Fleurs (Parc de Versailles).
Paris; MInistere de la Marine (en het) Palais le Elysee. (Rest in Dutch).
?????, Paris.
Untitled.
Place de la Bourse.
Theatre ??????.
La Bourse, Paris.
Opera.
Condition. ALL backing tissue
missing.
Order #2902.
Price $18.
Condition. Largish foxing
mark on each image.
Order #2903.
Price $18.
Condition. The mount is split
top and bottom, fingernail piercing top r/h corner of r/h image. Mount
damage as scan.
Order #2904.
Price $15.
Condition. Quite a lot of
damage to the backing tissue. Moderate foxing mark on r/h image.
Order #2906.
Price $22.
Condition. Obvious fingernail
damage bottom of r/h image. Very slight pinprick center bottom of l/h image
and slight damage to both backing tissues.
Order #2907.
Price $12.
Condition. Clear what has
happened to this. Strangely, the top l/h corner damage does not show up
and the rest is not very obtrusive. Backing tissue only slightly damaged.
Order #2908.
Price $12.
Condition. Long split top
of r/h image and very slight damage at the bottom directly underneath.
Backing tissues undamaged. Mount delaminated r/h side.
Order #2909.
Price $15.
Condition. Fingernail piercing
center left of l/h image.
Order #2910.
Price $20.
Condition. Something spilt
on center l/h edge. Very slight fingernail piercing center of l/h image.
Order #2911.
Price $18.
Condition. Undamaged.
Order #2913.
Price $25.
Condition. Undamaged.
Order #2914.
Price $22.
Condition. Undamaged but not
wild images.
Order #2915.
Price $8.
Condition. Some foxing in sky.
Order #2916.
Price $20.
Condition. Piercings are lifting a little and one thumbnail cut in backing tissue only.
Order #2917.
Price $22.
Condition. Fairly obtrusive round stain bottom of l/h image.
Order #2918.
Price $15.
Condition. Fingernail piercing bottom of l/h image.
Order #2919.
Price $18.
Condition. One foxing spot on r/h image.
Order #2920.
Price $22.
Condition. Some slight stains on backing tissue.
Order #2921.
Price $18.
Condition. Moon hole has been patched over on l/h image. Some foxing.
Order #2922.
Price $20.
Condition. Piercing line on the top of the building has slightly lifted away on r/h image.
Order #2923.
Price $22.
Condition. Very slight tear in backing tissue.
Order #2924.
Price $20.
Condition. Undamaged.
Order #2925.
Price $22.
Condition. Foxing marks on both images.
Order #2926.
Price $15.
Condition. The lines of piercings have joined into splits and the backing tissue is split behind one.
Order #2927.
Price $18.
Condition. Undamaged.
Order #2928.
Price $22.
Condition. Undamaged.
Order #2929.
Price $18.
Condition. Very slight fingernail piercing.
Order #2930.
Price $20.
Condition. Couple of foxing marks.
Order #2931.
Price $20.