Armenian, Afghan and Persian portraits

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PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNOWN
Armenian, Afghan and Persian portraits
20 albumen prints. Circa 1870s. Two signed indistinctly in the negatives; one with photographer's credit[?] in the margin; each numbered in pencil on verso; accompanying labels titled in a later hand.
Varying sizes from 6¼ x 4 in. (16 x 10.1 cm.) to 7¾ x 5 in. (19.6 x 12.7 cm.) two framed. (20)

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Lot Essay

Portraits of the Shah, Nasir ad-Din (1831-1896), his son Muzaffar ad-Din (1853-1907), two other named sitters identified as "Iskunder Khan, Afghan" and "Chief of the Khasgais", the remainder mostly representative of "types" including Persian Jewesses, Armenian and Persian ladies, street vendors and three men with a chained lioness.

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