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Offered for auction from a recent Estate sale is the following
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The stereoview lot consists of 3 Stereoviews Photographed by G. W. Wilson, Aberdeen, Scotland. All have a handwritten date on the back dating from 1869 to 1871 which I assume is the purchase date of the stereoviews. Included along with the date is also the original owners name of Abbie. S. Weld and in old handwritting a brief description of the scene on two of the stereoviews as photos show. The stereoviews are all in very good or better condition as photos show. Some might exhibits minor ware from usage over the past century, light soiling, old age toning etc. View photos for condition. I believe that they are in Excellent or better condition considering age. Below I have listed the titles of each and included additional information on the photographer G. W. Wilson.
After studying art in Edinburgh and London, Wilson returned to his native city of Aberdeen in 1849 and established a business as a portrait miniaturist catering to the wealthy families of the North East of Scotland. After some years of mediocre success, Wilson ventured into portrait photography in 1852 setting a portrait studio with John Hay in 25 Crown Street in Aberdeen. From there, aided by his well-developed technical and commercial acumen and a contract to photograph the Royal Family while documenting the building of Balmoral Castle in 1854-1855, he established himself as one of Scotland's premier photographers working for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1860.
Pioneering the development of techniques for photography outside of the studio and the mass production of photographic prints, he moved increasingly from portraiture to landscape photography in the 1860s. He also produced stereoscopic pictures whose main characteristic was that exposures were very short. By 1864 he claimed to have sold over half a million prints. At the time of his death in 1893 (he had handed over the business to his sons, Charles, Louis and John Hay Wilson in 1888) the firm employed 40 staff and was one of the largest publishers of photographic prints in the world, competing with James Valentine, who was also a prolific photographer, with a large company in Dundee. The business survived until 1908, when it was wound up at auction.
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