Nicola Perscheid was a German photographer. He is primarily known for his artistic portrait photography. He developed the "Perscheid lens", a soft focus lens for large format portrait photography.
Self-portrait of Nicola Perscheid (1910)
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Hugo Höffert was a German photographer, who ran studios in numerous German cities.
Revers CdV, initial, crown symbol, around 1866
Reverse, handwritten dated beginning "[...] 1877" with a dedication to Max Kurnik
Princess Sophia of Prussia and the futur Constantine I of Greece (September 1888)
Chancellor Leo von Caprivi (January 1890)