Canadian Arts, Culture & History

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LOT 19

Lot 19

Signed Photograph of the Participants at the Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference, May 3-13, 1960

Signed Photograph of the Participants at the Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference, May 3-13, 1960
Lot 19 Details
Signed Photograph of the Participants at the Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference, May 3-13, 1960

large gelatin silver print mounted on card stock signed vertically in the lower margin by all sitters, taken in the garden at 10 Downing Street
17.5 x 22 in — 44.5 x 55.9 cm

Estimate $200-$300

Realised: $475
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

Lot Report

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Signed Photograph of the Participants at the Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference, May 3-13, 1960
  • Signed Photograph of the Participants at the Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference, May 3-13, 1960
Note:

Sitters, left to right:
Tunku Abdul Rahma, First Prime Minister of the Federation of Malaya (Malaysia)
Edmund Joseph Cooray, Minister of Justice representing Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India
Walter Nash, Prime Minister of New Zealand
John Diefenbaker, Prime Minister of Canada
Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Host)
Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia
Eric Louw, Minister of External Affairs representing South Africa
Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan
Kwame Nkrumah, Prime Minister of Ghana
Sir Roy Welensky, Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland

CONDITION DETAILS

Considerable fading to some signatures, particularly that of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan

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