ABDUL HAMID II Sultan of the Turks Catalogues des Perles Pie

Sale 1964 - Lot 1

Price Realized: $ 1,725

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

ABDUL, HAMID II, Sultan of the Turks. Catalogues 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, rebound in gilt-lettered burgundy buckram; prices realized neatly written with red ink in a contemporary hand, both next to the entries and beneath the objects in the plates. 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. Most of the items consisted of diamond-set jewelry, single pearls and diamonds of over 35 and 50 carats, emerald and diamond jewelry, snuff boxes, bottles, mirrors, opera glasses, and other items of value and importance.