Posted by Peter West on November 26, 2009 at 19:38
I collect vintage studio portraits; my latest acquisitions are several by the late Bertram Park [1883-1972] who, as many of you will know, operated from a studio in Dover Street, Picadilly, London.
The images I have of his are printed on a really flimsy paper as soft and as translucent as tissue. The photographs themselves (all mounted and signed by Park) resemble pencil sketches. In truth I have never before come across prints of this type. I would be grateful, therefore, if someone would enlighten me.
Very many thanks.
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I too found one of these prints amongst my fathers possessions when he died recently. The one I have is of Prince Edward later Duke of Windsor. I asked Terence Pepper curator of photography at the N.P.G. to tell me more. Apparantly it was taken in a sitting on 26/6/1931 when he was Prince of Wales and is wearing the uniform of Colonel -in-Chief of Seaforth Highlanders.Ithas Bertram Parks studio label on back with full address and a folio number and is signed by him in pencil on front. One of these prints was sold at auction in 1998 in New York along with several of the Duke and Duchess`s possessions. It came to my father when he did his national service at Carlisle in the 1950s ,he was the batman to the serving officer there and was given the print when he left as a thank you gift.
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