Lot 67
Kuwait
Group of press and official photographs, 1960s
Auction: 02 October 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
gelatin silver prints: 7 measuring 20 x 15cm, of which 3 depicting the 1964 Arabic League summit at Alexandria, including a portrait of Sheikh Abdullah al-Salim Al Sabah (1895-1965), Emir of Kuwait, with Gamal Abdel Nasser (these all with Arabic captions mounted to versos), and 4 variously depicting Sheikh Abdullah at his desk in the Seif Palace during Iraqi invasion threat of 1961, Sheikh Abdullah and his armed bodyguard in the Seif Palace (marked up for printing with Chinese white), Arab League secretary general Mohamed Hassouna at the Seif Palace, and Abdullah al-Jabir Al Sabah, minister of education, arriving in Cairo for his honeymoon (these all with with Associated Press ink-stamps and typescript captions in English mounted to versos); 5 smaller photographs, variously depicting Gamal Abdel Nasser conferring the order of the Republic on Fahd al-Salim al-Salim, minister of public works (14 x 12cm, ink-stamp of Zachary Photopress Agency, Cairo and typescript caption to verso), members of the Kuwaiti royal family at the Humber car factory, Coventry, 1950 (10.5 x 15cm, Keystone ink-stamp and typescript caption to verso), arrival of Sheikh Sabah al-Salim Al Sabah (1913-1977), later Emir of Kuwait, and his son Sheikh Salim Al Sabah, at London Airport ‘to study British police methods’, 1955 (Keystone ink-stamp and typescript caption to verso), Sheikh Abdullah meeting Nasser (possibly an enlarged contact print, 13.6 x 8.5cm, ink-stamp of Oscar Kerstenbaum, Argentina), and a real-photo portrait postcard of Sheikh Abdullah (15 x 10cm, Arabic caption on verso);
Together with: 2 photographs of Sheikh Ahmad bin 'Ali Al Thani (c.1920-1977), Emir of Qatar, both 20.5 x 15cm, respectively showing the Sheikh receiving an honour from Gamal Abdel Nasser (Associated Press ink-stamp to rear), and meeting British foreign secretary Alec Douglas-Home in 1961 (Associated Press ink-stamp and typescript caption to verso); another photograph of an unidentified Arab sheikh; and a commemorative halftone photographic portrait of Sheikh Abdullah of Kuwait, 1962 (33 x 24cm, loss to one margin) (a folder)