25th May, 2023 9:30
The May Fine Art & Antiques Auction
Sophia Duleep Singh, an album of handwritten letters, photographs and ephemera, primarily relating to Indian troops, with correspondence to and from Faraday House, Hampton Court; Prince Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh - a brown pig skin document box, with sunken brass handle and applied silver coronet above, the interior rim stamped for 'Needs & Co, Late J Bramah, 100 New Bond St W, 43cm wide, 17cm high, 29cm deep, a leather cylindrical document case and a pair of Hunsicker & Alexis binoculars in leather case, each bearing initials W.D.S,the top of a string box with label 'Found by Dr. Sir John Login on the field of Sobraan.....and a volume the Memoirs of Prince Blucher, first edition 1932
Sold for £10,000
Condition Report
Follow the link below for further images of the pages ad letters and photographs contained.
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Sophia Duleep Singh, an album of handwritten letters, photographs and ephemera, primarily relating to Indian troops, with correspondence to and from Faraday House, Hampton Court; Prince Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh - a brown pig skin document box, with sunken brass handle and applied silver coronet above, the interior rim stamped for 'Needs & Co, Late J Bramah, 100 New Bond St W, 43cm wide, 17cm high, 29cm deep, a leather cylindrical document case and a pair of Hunsicker & Alexis binoculars in leather case, each bearing initials W.D.S,the top of a string box with label 'Found by Dr. Sir John Login on the field of Sobraan.....and a volume the Memoirs of Prince Blucher, first edition 1932
