Huge group of photos at auction reflects 19th century collecting craze of the carte de visite
Parents will now be shelling out hundreds of pounds as kids fill up football World Cup sticker albums and negotiate playground swaps in a now time-honoured fashion. Back in the mid-19th century the photo collecting craze was all about the carte de visite, as a May 3 auction underlines.
These images – the precursors of photographic postcards - were mounted on a piece of card the size o…