Selected coherent archives, photographic groups and private collections offered as complete historical entities whenever their provenance and internal relationships form part of their value.
Ten Bells Auction House occasionally handles substantial groups that should not be dispersed: family archives, photographic fonds, correspondence, albums, documentary groups and research-led collections. These are presented with an emphasis on provenance, chronology, internal relationships and institutional relevance.
Enquiries are welcomed from private collectors, specialist dealers, libraries, museums, archives and other institutions. Detailed inventories and research dossiers can be supplied for suitable collections.
Historical Photography · Hong Kong · Japan · Cocos Islands
Three original period albums containing 213 photographs, including Hong Kong maritime events, historic dockyards, British cable ships and Japanese landscapes. Offered intact as one collection.
Price on Request · Enquiries welcome
View catalogue record →Berlin · Italy · France · Austria · Argentina · 1927–1938
A coherent German-Jewish photographic and documentary family archive comprising original photographs, negatives, photographic packets, correspondence, postcards and documents, preserved as one fonds.
94 original photographic prints · 258 negatives · 21 photographic packets/envelopes · 4 letters · 12 postcards · 2 documents
Institutional acquisition only · museums · libraries · archives · research institutions
View the archive →Sweden · Education · Apiculture · c.1928–1944
A Swedish photographic group centred on Wiktor Emil Rylander, teacher and apiculture figure, preserving an original album together with large-format group photographs and related historical context.
29 original photographs · 3 printed portraits · 4 large group photographs
Acquired by the National Library of Sweden · October 2026
Explore departments →Victorian Manuscripts · Family Devotion
An original manuscript album presented by Louisa to her sister Ellen Theodosia on 30 December 1860. Around 42 handwritten pages of devotional poetry preserve an intimate record of Victorian family and religious life. Names and attribution remain subject to verification.
€325 · Available Material
View catalogue record →Blackrock postal history
Three New York–Blackrock postcards · 1906–1907
€145 · Available Material
View catalogue record →Early Photography · Victorian Cased Portraits · Daguerreotype / Ambrotype (unconfirmed)
Two mid-nineteenth-century cased portraits, one of a woman and the other of a child, with gilt metal mats, red embossed velvet interiors and ornate stamped cases; one sharply legible, the other extensively deteriorated.
€225 · Available Material
View catalogue record →Dublin
Original studio photograph · Lower Sackville Street · c.1885–1892
€145 · Available Material
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