Block, Adolphe Paris, France

Block, Adolphe Paris, France. [6-0] *[Often as BK] Boul. Sebastopol; "Photographie"; "Editeur"; pub. many fine series: "Les Theatres De Paris"; "Batailles"; "Ruines de Paris"; "Celebrities Theatricales"; "Suisse & Savoie" to #185; "Chine & Japon"; "Vues de Russie"; "Ruines de Paris & Environs"; "La Vie de Christ", 24 card tissue set; "Nos Mondaines", risque set; numerous informal genre & groups; pub. to at least #400; "Editeur" for many tissues incl. "Diables" based on miniature sculptures by Hennetier, Habert, and Cougny. Many of the "Diables" marked "ChD Depose"; others marked "JA" or "EL" or "B\D\H\L" (see "B et D"). BK also seen embossed on English tissues made by Anthony; appears to have been a major manufacturer of tissues for others and to have gradually acquired rights to the negs. Was successor to J. Andrieu & placed rubber-stamp succession notation on catalogs; active 60s to~00.
"Simili Verre" is a special process intended to rovide glass-like look to tissue views. (Foreign Photographers).

Foto Adolphe Block (1829 - 1915), alias B.K. Editeur, Paris, (Fulgte efter J. Andrieu) Paris vues Instantanées. "Fontaine et place du Chateau d'Eau".  Born in Paris in 1829, Adolphe Block published stereoviews from 1863 to 1900. Samling avk.