Treasure Hunt Thursday - Victorian Photo Album

Just this once I was ready to post almost on time, and then Blogger went and ruined it all by being unavailable, lol. So here, without further ado, is my contribution to the Treasure Hunt Thursday, a gorgeous 19th Century photoalbum.

It doesn't look like much, does it? The leather cover is rather tatty, but it still has that gorgeous tooling round the edges -

But as soon as I opened it and saw the first page, I knew I had to have it -


The next page was an index of all the floral pages -


I can't tell you how thrilled I was, I had never ever held such a beautiful album, with loads of fabulous Victorian photos as well as those gorgeous illustrations. This is how desperate I was to own it - I didn't have enough money left on me, as this stall was in the last row of the boot fair, and I had already spent money at other stalls. So I asked the stallholder to hold it for me, we exchanged addresses and telephone numbers and as they were local to me, I arranged to pick the album up in the afternoon, after the the boot sale. I had horrible visions of getting there only to find that they had sold it at the boot fair anyway, but I needn't have worried, they kept their promise and I collected my wonderful treasure from them.

You can see why I loved it so much, can't you? -






I love the backs of these old photographs as well, they have such gorgeous graphics -


Just look at the gorgeous little angels in the one bottom left -


No idea how a Russian (?) one got amongst this lot, interesting though -


This album is going to stay exactly as it is, I am not going to remove any photos or do anything else with it, I love it just the way it is.

I wish you all a really lovely weekend,

toodlepip xxx