Incredible collection of photographs charting more than a century of Cornish shipwrecks taken by members of the same family.
The images of 200 ships were taken by four generations of the Gibson family over 130 years
A thousand negatives record the fate of their passengers, crew and cargo as they traveled around the world
Started when John Gibson bought his first camera 150 years ago and set up a professional studio in Penzance
The archive could sell for between £100,000 and £150,000 at an auction for Sotheby's this November
See pictures here - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2470146/Gibson-familys-photos-chart-century-Cornish-shipwrecks.html
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