= All prints seem to be personal photographs, not the regular photostudio-manufactured views, but carefully and skilfully composed streetviews with carriages and people, architectural views. Some examples: Cathedral of Milan, Venice: Doge's Palace, Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, the Piazzetta, Gateway at Doge's Palace, The Piazza S. Georgio dei Greci (2x), The Library, On the Lido, St. Mark's, San Vitali and Palazzo Franchetti, The Rialto, The Bridge of Sighs, Palazza ca Doro, Lacemakers of Burano, The grand Canal; Bologna (1x); Pisa:(5x); Florence: The Duomo West End, Florence from the Miniato; Rome: The Forum, Temple of Saturn, Baths of Caracalla, Arch of Drusius, St. Peter's from the Villa Doria - Pamphili, Villa Doria Pamphili (4x), Arch of Septimus Severus - The Forum, Colosseum from Palatine Hill, Fontana di Trevi (2x), Castello S. Angelo, Fountain in the Piazza delle Terme, Piazza Bocca della Verita, Insula Tiburina, Pincian Hill from Piazza del Populo, Piazza del Populo (showing a tram (2x)), Piazza di Spagne. The album is executed in a valuable way. The platinum prints themselves would have been costly to process as well. In our quest to identify the photographer we came to know that James Sinclair is a likely candidate as he would produce albums like this in London on a commission basis, albums similar to ours, sometimes also in the platinum print process. James A. Sinclair was a manufacturer and supplier of cameras and photographic equipment and owned a shop in London. He supplied amongst others all of the cameras and photographic equipment used during the expedition to excavate the tomb of King Tut in the Valley of the Kings, from 1922 to 1932. Condition: joints, spine-ends and corners showing. Several plates spotted, mainly in blank margins. Otherwise a remarkably well preserved album - as durable as one might expect from platinum prints... On the platinum print - or palladium print process: The platinum print, or platinotype, or palladium print was invented in 1873, is one of the most noble and expensive processes. Its main features are a matte finish and a very long tonal scale - especially in the shadows, deep dark values, almost absolute persistence over time: the metallic molecules trapped in the paper will gone only with the paper itself. No risks at all for fading. The process was created to elevate photography as a fine art. It involves brushing chemistry onto paper, creating a unique effect. The process is expensive and uses noble metals like platinum. The resulting prints are very permanent and don't fade. It’s a contact printing process. So you produce the negative to whatever size you want the final print to be. You would place it in contact with the sensitized paper and expose with sunlight and after exposure a faint image would appear. Once you place the photograph in the developer the image is fully realized. The image sits in the paper rather than on the paper. Platinum gives you a broader tonal range than any other process even digital today. The platinum print is often called ‘The King’ of photographic prints. It is regal because of the metals. They’re called noble metals, gold, platinum. Not everybody can do this process because it’s very expensive and it actually dies out around World War I because they need platinum for the war effort. But one of the things about the platinum print that’s very special is that it’s a very permanent print. Platinum prints don’t fade. They may yellow in the highlights because of bad processing but the image never fades.