Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History

Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History

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Saudi Arabia | Group of photographs and one glass negative. (Includes 2 boxes)

Auction Closed

November 12, 04:34 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

SAUDI ARABIA

A collection of 14 photographs of members of the Saudi royal family, 1937-c.1957


13 silver prints (from 210 x 165mm. to 230 x 300mm.), mostly press photographs with stamps on the reverse (Hatami, Paris Match, Planet News etc.), and one original negative (1937) with a modern print, housed in a black cloth folding box


The images include an original negative of Crown Prince Saud (later King Saud) with his younger brother, Emir Mohamed in London in 1937 at the Dorchester hotel for the coronation of George VI; six other photographs of King Saud; five photographs of King Faisal, and one of Prince Khalid bin Faisal Al Saud.