Lot Essay
One album compiled by S. H. Pollen includes tiger-hunting scenes in the company of the Prince and Princess of Pless. Another, comprising over 250 small platinum prints, follows the route of marches through northern India in 1906-07 showing street scenes, hunting, landscape including Mt. Kolahoi described as the highest point in the Kashmir Valley, and photographs of a tightrope walker. The two other albums include military groups and views in India and Burma with officers and men of the 43rd Gurkha regiment, a Gurkha sacrifice of a cow, a ruby mine, and a portrait of one of the Manipur Princes and members of his entourage.