By Amandeep Madra on January 3, 2010
A JACKET with ancestral links to Norfolk which was expected to fetch between £60,000 and £80,000 at auction failed to sell.
Items once treasured by the Maharajah Duleep Singh, who bought the Elveden Estate near Brandon in 1863, went under the hammer at Lyons and Turnbull auction house in Edinburgh.
A pair of crimson shoes which were [...]
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By admin on November 29, 2009
Auctioneers will on December 9 auction heritage items belonging to Maharajah Duleep Singh
The first item under the hammer will be a velvet jacket that belonged to Maharajah Deleep Singh along with matching shoes described as ‘foliate decorated gold braid raised work on a crimson velvet ground’
These items remained the property of Maharajah Duleep Singh until [...]
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By admin on March 14, 2009
New York auction house, Sotheby’s, is next week offering an historic watercolor-on-paper of Maharajah Ranjit Singh by French artist, Leopold Massard, that dates back to the 1830s.
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By Amandeep Madra on September 16, 2008
Two breathtaking pieces will be the Sikh highlights of the Christie’s “Art of the Islamic and Indian World” sale on 7 October 2008 in London. The stunning court scene depicting Ranjit Singh and the principle figures of the Lahore Durbar is one of the t stunning Sikh paintings that has been offered for sale in [...]
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By admin on September 2, 2008
A previously unknown marble bust of the Maharaja Ranjit Singh will soon be on the auctioneers block in London. This stunning piece crafted in Europe in the 19th century is expected to reach $100-140,000 and is redolent of the Duleep Singh sculpture by Royal Academician John Gibson (1790-1866) that fetched a staggering £1.7m in 2007. [...]
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By admin on April 7, 2008
Sotheby's Monday stopped the auction of an 18th century body armour after angry protests by Sikh groups in India, but said it would arrange a private sale for Sikh buyers.
"As per the seller's wishes, should anyone come forward to buy the item, we will then forward their offer to the seller," Sotheby's spokesman Simon Warren [...]
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By admin on April 3, 2008
The auction house Sotheby's has said that a body armour being put under the hammer next week did not belong to the 10th Sikh Guru, Gobind Singh.
"It is important that you know that Sotheby's does not consider the Sikh armour plate to be a relic of Guru Gobind Singh, as our cataloguing and estimate clearly [...]
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By admin on March 25, 2008
Next month witnesses the t important auctions of a generation for the Sikh community as a rare piece of body armour that experts believe belonged to the tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh, will be auctioned in one of London’s t prestigious auction houses.
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By admin on March 23, 2008
The answer is a Royal Family.
It may be nearly 4,000 miles away from the baking plains of the Punjab and slightly less awe inspiring than the glinting domes of the Golden Temple at Amritsar, Sikhism's holiest shrine, but the Norfolk market town of Thetford has become an unlikely place of pilgrimage for the world's 25 [...]
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By admin on December 7, 2007
In the quiet churchyard of St Andrew's, Blo Norton, by the Little Ouse near the Suffolk border of Norfolk, beneath a lichen-covered gravestone, lies Prince Frederick Duleep Singh – far from his ancestral Punjab.
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