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An album containing postcard views of Cyprus. The postcards are by a variety of photographers and publishers.

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151 x 202 mm. The British delegation pictured at the opening of the Cyprus conference at Lancaster House, London. The Foreign Secretary Mr. Selwyn Lloyd (right centre), leading the delegation, is accompanied by the Colonial Secretary, M. Alan Lennox-Boyd (left) and the Governor of Cyprus, Sir Hugh Foot (right)

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202 x 151 mm. Britain’s Prime Minister, Mr. Harold MacMillan (extreme left), invites the Greek Prime Minister, Mr. Constantine Karamanlis, (centre) to precede him as they leave Lancaster House, London, after the signing of the Cyprus agreement.

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Troops under fire during the emergency.

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Bronze dagger, approximately 12 cm in length. Its original tag from the Cyprus Museum reads 'Middle Bronze Age 2100-1600 B.C.' It may have been acquired by Claude Delaval Cobham (1842-1915), Commissioner of Larnaca, Cyprus 1879-1907, who presented his collection of books and photographs relating to Cyprus to the Royal Colonial Institute in 1913.

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281 x 180 mm. A view showing a female bust in Hellenic style surrounded by narrow cylindrical wine or oil bottles.

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Quarter-plate. Now mosque over a water tank surrounded by a cloistered yard or serai for putting up horses.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). [With varied passers-by].

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107 X 152mm. Showing the waterfall cascading over rocks among thick woodland.

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225 x 169 mm. Showing a street parade with spectators lining the streets. The caption on the reverse of the photograph reads: 'Carnival festivities in Limassol on the south coast of Cyprus are an annual event'.

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309 x 158 mm. A display of stone heads in various styles, mainly Hellenistic and Egyptian.

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292 x 179 mm. A display showing a carved inscription in Greek in the foreground, with heads carved in Hellenistic and Oriental style behind.

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273 x 175 mm. A display of carved heads in Hellenistic style, other small carvings (mainly of animals) and two pieces of stone with Greek inscriptions.

Scope and Contents 196 x 250 mm. Photographic copy of a threequarter length portrait of Catherine of Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus from 1473-89. A note in Cobham's hand states that the portrait is from the Galleria Cossipori, Moolena and the photograph presented by Signoro O.F. Tencajoli. The artist is unknown and the portrait does not match the Bellini painting described by Doros Alastos (1955, p.219), although it may be the painting mentioned in the footnote: 'A picture of Catherine attributed to the school...

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204 x 151 mm. A view looking across fields towards the Cathedral ruins.

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184 x 117 mm. Autotype. A view showing the gate and city walls, with Cypriots posed in front of the archway for the photographer.

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Six of Archbishop Makarios' personal coloured Christmas cards in envelopes, sent to Miss Elsa Spencer. The cards depict Nativity scenes taken from Cypriot wall paintings.

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177 x 115 mm. Woodburytype. A view looking towards the 10th or 11th century church with finely carved gravestones standing in the shade of two trees in the foreground.

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205 x 152 mm. A view showing the ruined and overgrown cloisters of the 14th century abbey which lies north of the Kyrenia range of mountains.

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279 x 154 mm. A view showing eight wooden trays containing coins.

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191 x 162 mm. A view showing eight wooden trays containing coins.

Scope and Contents 185 x 112 mm. Autotype. A view showing a woman returning along a village street carrying an earthenware water jar: 'The surroundings of the water-carrier in this picture are peculiarly characteristic. Over a rude frame, supported on posts of pine-wood, an old vine spreads it leaves; on the right is an outhouse made of sun-dried bricks, while in the corner is a woman preparing a partition of wattlework for the new building which we see already half-completed in the distance. The old...

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Showing the outside of the actual shrine of Mohammed's aunt. In front are grouped, to extreme right the Iman, in front a Cypriot Muktah (head man of a village) named Hajji Osman Mustapha; he has been this year to Mecca, which is why he is now called Hajji.

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212 x 156 mm. A view looking across a valley towards higher ground near Curion, site of Cesnola's 'Curium Treasure' find in the 1870's which formed the basis of a major argument between archaeologists in later years.