Foreign stereographers / publishers - Adolphe Block (BK)

Born in Paris in 1829, Adolphe Block published stereoviews from 1863 to 1915 [Pellerin 1995, p. 104]. The images of Portugal seem to be from the 1870s / 1880s. Several types of card mounts are known, as follows:

Tissue views:

	Yellow tissue mount. Embossed "B. K. Photographie Paris" at the front bottom.
	Beige (yellow?) tissue mount with a vertical stamp on both sides (left and right), saying "Vues du Portugal - B. K. Edit. Paris".

Standard card mount views:

	Yellow flat card mount with round-corner images. A vertical stamp on both sides (left and right) says "Vues du Portugal - B. K. Edit. Paris" (notice that this same image was also produced as tissue, shown above).
	Dark yellow flat card mount with round-corner images. A vertical stamp on both sides (left and right) says "Vues du Portugal - B. K. Edit. Paris" (different from above).
	Pink  flat card mount with round-corner images. Vertical stamps saying "Portugal - B. K." and "Portugal - Paris", respectively on the left and right sides.
	Orange flat card mount with round-corner images. Printed vertically on both (left and right ) sides: "Le Monde Merveilleux - B. K. Edit. Paris". Seems to be a world series that also included images of Portugal.

Further reading:

[Pellerin 1995]
Denis Pellerin, La photographie st�r�oscopique sous le second Empire, Biblioth�que nacionale de France, 120 p., 1995, ISBN 2-7177-1941-5.

(see the views)

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