Traditional Wedding Albums With Overlays

These Spicer Hallfield Aylesbury and Dovedale albums are both traditional style photo albums designed to hold prints up to 5″x5″ size with overlays (also known as matts).

Both albums measure approx. 8″x6¾” externally, and are designed as parents’ albums – or simply to be smaller and more portable than larger albums. They were from the Consort range of traditional wedding albums made by Spicer Hallfield (who used to be the largest manufacturer of wedding albums in the UK). These items are the last stock that I still have from my years as a professional wedding photographer, and I am selling them at substantially less than their original trade prices. As Spicer Hallfield went out of business years ago, it is unlikely that these items are still available anywhere else.

Aylesbury Album

The Aylesbury album has a softly padded cream cover with a textured finish, with “Wedding” blocked in gold. It is supplied with deluxe gold-edged and metal cornered leaves and premium grained and varnished black overlays. It can hold up to twenty 5″x3½” prints.

The album, leaves and overlays are all new and factory sealed.

It is supplied complete with its original attractive presentation box, and costs only £20.00 complete.

Dovedale Album

The Dovedale album (see below and in photo at top of the page) has a smooth padded grey cover which is blocked “Our Daughter’s Wedding” in gold. It is supplied with matching deckle-edged grey leaves and overlays with pre-cut apertures to hold up to thirty prints.

The overlays all have gold blocking around the apertures in the following sizes and shapes: 5″x5″ square (6), 5″x5″ circular (10), 5″x4″ rectangular (2) and 5″x4″ oval (12) .

Alternatively, prints can be mounted directly onto the leaves without the overlays  – allowing  print  sizes  up to  6″x6″  to be accommodated.

This album has had very light use as a sample album, and is in excellent condition. It costs only £15.00 complete with the leaves and overlays.

I also have a range of larger handmade wedding albums for sale at bargain prices. See here for further details.

Thank You Cards

Cream card mounts featuring a subtle linen embossed surface  blocked ‘Thank You’ in silver in the bottom right hand corner of the cover. Inside is an overlay made with matching board and an aperture to hold a 5″x3½” print (portrait format), with an embossed aperture line crossing in each corner. New and unused.

Supplied complete with matching white envelopes.

38 cards for only £12.00

CD/DVD Folio

The Milano is a luxury contemporary style album which cannot fail to impress. It is handmade in Italy from materials that look and feel like leather, with an uncompromising attention to detail and design flair – right down to the bespoke cotton bag to protect the matching carrying case the album is supplied with.

The album measures approx 13¼”x13″, and is of traditional bookbound construction. The ivory cover is plain – so the album could be used for showcasing other types of photography – portraiture, events, product ranges etc. – as well as wedding photography. The 15 black slip-in leaves hold up to 30 prints with or without overlays. Without overlays, the maximum print size is 11″x11″ and it takes just a few seconds to slide the print in, without need for any adhesives.  This allows prints to be easily changed at a later date.

There is only one of these albums available, and it is priced at just £100.00.

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This Sandhurst album was handmade in England by Spicer Hallfield – the UK’s largest wedding album manufacturer before they went out of business. It was one of their top-of-the-range Elizabethan albums, all of which were of traditional bookbound construction with heavyweight slip-in leaves.

The album measures approx 13½”x13″ externally, and has an unpadded leather cover with two raised gold bands on the spine, and gold metal corners. It has 20 brown slip-in leaves (ie 40 sides) with gold burl edges, allowing it to hold up to 40 11″x11″ prints without overlays.

I have only one of these albums, and it is for sale at just £65.00 – less than half its original trade price.

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This versatile presentation album was made by Art Leather in New York, whose slogan was “The World’s Finest Albums and Folios”. That may be a bit of American marketing hype, but there is no doubt that this is a very stylish and well made album.

The black cover is slightly padded and is made of a grained leather-like material, with 2 gold lines around the edges. Other than those, the cover is plain, making this album suitable for displaying a wide range of subject matter – weddings, portraits, pet photos, still lifes or product photos etc. The 10 slip-in leaves each have a single gold line around the aperture, and the album can hold up to twenty 5″x5″ prints. Prints simply slide into place, with no adhesives required – making it very simple to change individual prints (or all of them) at a later date without damaging the album in any way.

As Art Leather went out of business quite some time ago (so much for being the “world’s finest”!), this is a rare opportunity to acquire one of their albums brand new. It has never been used in any way, and comes complete with its matching black presentation box measuring just under 8″x7″.

This quality presentation album costs only £20.00 (postage extra if required). It is for sale in Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

Please contact me if you are interested in this album, or require any further information about it.

See here for details of the other handmade wedding albums, or traditional wedding albums with overlays that I also have for sale at discounted prices.