[OMAN.] & UNIDENTIFIED PHOTOGRAPHER.

Press photograph of Said bin Taimur, Sultan of Muscat and Oman.

Press photograph, silver gelatin print, measuring 206 by 153mm. Stamps of the photographic archive of Aldo Palazzi and, later, The Associated Press Ltd. to verso. [Oman, 1949.

£450.00

A photographic portrait of Said bin Taimur, the 13th Sultan of Muscat and Oman (1910-1972; r.1932-1970). Said bin Taimur did much to form modern Oman — achieving financial stability for the previously indebted state, unifying Muscat and Oman, and securing independence in 1951.

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250405