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575.
Album of Twelve Photographic Portraits of the Russian Imperial Family.

Photogravures in a beige folio, with silk ties. The cover of the folio bears an Imperial crown, titled in Russian "The Tsar's Family." Each photogravure is printed on card stock and bears a printed title in Russian identifying the sitters in the photograph. Three of the more intimate photogravures have a warning on the reverse side (in Russian] to the effect that the original photographs are the property of the hospital and that reproduction is prohibited. On the back of the portfolio, in ink, is the Government inventory number (#1399/55, list 105) from the Alexander Palace, where it was found in the quarters of the children of Nicholai II. [This information was typed on a sheet of paper bearing the Hammer Galleries Inc. letterhead, and inscribed "Mrs. India E. Minshall, November 18, 1935." This typed sheet is sold with the lot.]

Provenance: Alexander Palace, quarters of the children of Nicholai II;
Hammer Galleries, Inc., New York;
India Early Minshall Russian Collection, by November 1935.

Hospital of their Imperial Highnesses, Grand Duchesses Marie Nicholaevna and Anastasia Nicholaevna Tsarskoye Selo (now the Pushkin Palace)

Portfolio album

200/400     SOLD: $258.75

Condition: Chipping to head of spine, ribbon fraying, otherwise: Very Good