A group of five military-related photograph albums, including four relating to Major-General Sir Kenneth Gray Buchanan, Seaforth Highlanders Kt, CB, CMG, DSO (25 January 1880 – 7 June 1973). With North-West Frontier interest.
The first album, inscribed 'India, 1905', includes several views in Pakistan, circa 1907-14, including troop marches, Captain F.E. Daniell's wedding group portrait, 8th April 1907 at Rawalpindi, a picket of Afghan Infantry at the boundary line between the British and Afghan Territory on the N.W Frontier, numerous personal smaller photographs, smaller photographs of the Kyhber Pass region, an inter-war portrait of Major-General Buchanan, ephemera including a Government House Peshawar table plan, 3rd February 1925, military Polo Tournament Programs in Rawalpindi and Peshawar, 1924 and 1925, newspaper clippings, family photographs, parades, earlier photographs in India including Garwhal, Kashmir, Rampur and Delhi, circa 1905-6. The remaining three smaller albums relating to Buchahan comprise India, 1911 and British home views circa 1915-18, with mainly family photos including Buchanan at home on leave.
Sold together an only partly filled album of Colonial interest, with larger Indian views, circa 1891-96, including residence houses, Simla, marches from Faizabad, Mess Tent on March, Camp at Lucknow, a good troop portrait of the 4th B.J, Marriage group portrait, a pair of tableaux vivants and some newspaper clippings relating to Manchester Regt and an Indian earthquake. The larger hardcover albums with poor condition exteriors/boards and spines detached.
Sold for £1,600