May 27, 2004 - Sale 2008

Sale 2008 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 1,092
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(CATALOGUES.) Catalogue des Perles, Pierreries Bijoux et Objets d'Art Précieux, le tout ayant appartenu a S. M. le Sultan Abd-ul-Hamid II. 27 photographic plates with lettered tissue guards. 4to, original cream wrappers, soiled; text block becoming loose. Paris, 1911

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"An auction catalogue of considerable historical interest because of the items sold, namely, a part of the treasure of the Turkish Sultanate that the last sultan, Abdul Hamid II, was able to remove after his exile in 1909"--Sinkankas 6.