Taxi driver’s £40 car boot find turns out to be £75,000 Sikh miniature
The gouache on paper that made £75,000 at Roseberys’ Islamic & Indian Arts sale. Bidders identified the subject as the walled old town of Amritsar with the Golden Temple or Harmandir Sahib, the holiest religious complex of the Sikh religion, in the background. Given a rudimentary catalogue description and estimated
Rare photos of Duleep Singh sold at auction
This black and white photograph of Maharajah Duleep Singh outside Osborne House was taken by Prince Albert in 1854. An old photograph album with pre-sale estimate of just £200 sells for £22,000 at auction because it includes a picture of the last Maharaja taken by Prince Albert Album contains 240
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