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Size of portfolio: 12 ¼ x 10 5/8 ; size of plates: 11 ¾ x 9 7/8 ; average size of images: 7 ¾ x 5 ¼ . Cruise ship travel souvenir of a 1926, Raymond & Whitcomb Co., Caribbean cruise. The flexible portfolio/folder is bound in padded covers with a gold, black & brown, tiger-striped leather covering, with a mounted black leather cartouche label, gold-stamped with title, on front cover, with twisted, black silk & gold-colored metallic wire ties, ending in black silk swags; interior of portfolio & flaps are lined with a golden-tan silk. This portfolio contains an engraved title plate with NGL flag, quotation (as given below), and 12 Otto Goetze etchings, each signed in the plate & printed in a brown-toned ink on a thick paper; each sheet bearing the North German Lloyd, NGL embossed monogram & flag in the left lower corner of the sheet; each sheet has a loose, glazed onion-skin tissue guard (these have tanned, but without transferring to the images). Lower, inner surface of silk-covered flap shows a few pen marks; first (quotation) plate shows a few tan spots, creasing to upper left-hand edge, second plate shows small bend to upper left corner; some slight age-tanning to paper. Overall, portfolio & plates are in fine condition. Undetermined as to how many of these portfolios were produced, or how many plates were originally in them. List of plates present here: [1]"Title" etching of steamship at sea with gulls, NGL flag with crossed anchor & key design, and this engraved quotation: Ah! On this sea of glory might I sail / Track the bright Sun, and pierce the eternal veil / That hides those lands beneath hesperian Skies / Where daylight sojourns till our morrow rise James Montgomery [not signed]; [2] Trinidad: Farm House , by Otto Goetze; features two thatched roof huts with inhabitants, tropical plants & trees; [3] S. S. Columbus , by Otto Goetze; shows steamship Columbus plowing through the waves; [4] San Juan [Puerto Rico]: City and Harbour, by Otto Goetze; features canons on a rampart, overlooking the city & harbor; [5] Kingston (Jamaica): Castleton Gardens , by Otto Goetze; shows palms, bamboo & other tropical trees with hills in background; [6] Venezuela: Caracas general view , by Otto Goetze; features a view of Caracas from a high location, with mountains in background; [7] Martinique: Ruins of St. Pierre with Mont Pele in distance by Otto Goetze, shows ruined façade [from 1902 eruption] in foreground & ruins & volcano in background; [8] St. Thomas: [Virgin Islands] The capital Charlotte Amalia , by Otto Goetze; features a view down a street, seen from a hillside, with buildings, trees, distant peaks; [9] Puerto Rico: Ox-team , by Otto Goetze; men riding in oxcart, with woman with goods on her head, walking, & man smoking pipe & leading the ox-team, wooden buildings, palms in distance; [10] Jamaica: Port Antonio, Palm Avenue , by Otto Goetze; shows a boy mounted on donkey with baskets, traveling down a palm-lined avenue, with buildings, walking figure; [11] Havana: Columbus Cathedral built 1724 , by Otto Goetze; shows the façade of the Cathedral, with horse-drawn vehicles in foreground; [12] Havana: Morro Castle , by Otto Goetze; Morro Castle with rocky sea-front, waves; [13] Cuba: Sugar-Cane Harvest , by Otto Goetze; featuring oxen pulling a loaded sugar-cane cart, with figure, windmill & trees in background. Sold as a group of 13 etchings. Scan shows the central portion of the portfolio. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-211560826
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