Crosset, Auguste (& Cie)

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  • Professional

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Life dates

Verviers - Hodimont, 1851 - Verviers, 1915

Activity

1891 * - 1915 + Verviers, Place du Martyr (Enclos des Récollets), 72<91-92>, 76, 88<94-04>, 86<00-10;14> or 94<11-13>
° 28.5.1851; + 15.3.1915. Returned from France in August 1891. Opened a studio at this address in December 1891. Patent of 15.9.1892 and patents relating to improvements of 15.10.1892 and 31.1.1893 [L. Crosset] for "an instantaneous shutter device applicable to all photographic lenses". Became the proprietor of the "Comptoir Photographique" in 1898 (see Irma Bara). Wrote two plays of local interest, performed at the "Théâtre de Verviers" in 1899 and 1900.

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1891 * - 1915 + Verviers, Place du Martyr (Enclos des Récollets), 72<91-92>, 76, 88<94-04>, 86<00-10;14> or 94<11-13>

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Brussels, 1897 (bronze medal); Paris, 1900; Effort, 1901.

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DIRECTORY_1997#892

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SFJ revised 25.9.2017; SFJ revised 2.3.2021 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; SFJ revised 30.7.2023 & 20.8.2023

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