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.
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.
