Fine Art Sale
Lot 675
SRI LANKA. THE ALBUM OF SIR HERBERT LAYARD DOWBIGGIN
SRI LANKA. THE ALBUM OF SIR HERBERT LAYARD DOWBIGGIN, CMG (1880-1966), INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE IN BRITISH CEYLON (1913-37) 1921-2 including many items relating to the visit of the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) to the island in 1922, official notices, timetables, invitations, cards and press cuttings, telegrams, members' tickets, his leave in England April - October 1922, including tickets, postcards, outward voyage on RMS Orvieto and return on RMS Osterley, Henley Royal Regatta, Hurlingham, programmes and race cards, menus and MCC members' tickets, laid down in a postcard album (170 approx)
Estimate: £100 - 200
Sold for £320