Collection of postcards: Indian monuments and artefacts. Photographer(s): Archaeological Survey of India
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Collection of 781 postcards, comprising 728 published by the Archaeological Survey of India, 41 sold by G. K. Vale and Co, and 12 from the Government Museum, Madras. The A. S. I. postcards were sold in packets, each packet depicting monuments or artefacts from a particular site or region, as fol...
Very finely carved carte-de-visite album measuring 165x262mm, acquired as an example of fine binding. The album contains no photographs. The binding is in sandalwood with finely carved designs of floral designs, buildings and animals, with inlaid borders in ivory. With the bookplate of Phiroze K...
Leather bound album measuring 345x435mm, with elaborately carved ebony panel laid onto front cover, decorative silver clasps and watered silk endpapers. The panel, very finely carved overall with floral designs, is inset with nine miniatures painted on ivory: four of these are portraits (Bahadu...
Visit of Their Excellencies The Viceroy and the Marchioness of Linlithgow to the Junagadh State, 19th January 1941.
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Green half-leather bound album measuring 400x500mm, with title as above stamped in gold on front cover. The cover also contains the coat of arms of the Nawab of Junagadh, the word 'Souvenir', photographer's name, and decorative rolls along the edges of the leather. The album is contained in a cu...
India and Ceylon Exhibition 1896. Photographer(s): Unknown
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Red full-leather bound album with padded covers, measuring 282x239mm, with title as above stamped in gold on front and marbled endpapers. The uncaptioned prints are mounted one to a page and several of the page mounts have a British Museum wet stamp. The album contains views of stands at the exh...