Studio portrait of a soldier wearing the uniform of a colonial regiment. St. Kilda, Melbourne, late 1860s.

A$200 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); recto and verso imprinted I. Van Berckelaer High Street St. Kilda ; both the print and mount in excellent condition. A full-length portrait of a soldier in the uniform of the Victorian Military Forces. Under magnification, he is clearly wearing the VMF belt buckle with crown at centre and legend AUT PACE AUT BELLO. VICTORIA , although we have not been able to identify his unit.

• Binding: Hardcover

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