Early 1860s Advertisements by GW Wilson offering Landscape CDVs?
Has anyone seen advertisements before 1867 for Mr Wilson's landscape CDVs? Earlier this year, I posted the acquisition of a watermarked 1862 carte by GWW of Peterborough Cathedral. The logo on the verso is the early one Mr Wilson used and the caption is hand written.Since then, I have found an additional dozen C-D-Vs of landscapes trimmed down from stereo slides issued before 1863. All have the early logo and hand written captions.. There must be many examples of landscape cartes by Mr…See More
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Hi Edward,
I think GWW is still somewhat underrated due the volume of reproduction. I think time will raise his stature further. I have a similar number of images to yourself, mostly stereos and cdvs but also some larger albumen prints, I've even added a few of the late GWW postcards to my collection.
I have been working on a very large digital stereo card index database. (you cant buy them all!)
I think I may have been a little over keen in my attribution of the cdv image i posted, but the images is still very fine and one of my favorites.
Regards
ian