Cigarette card issued by Churchman's Cigarettes from the set titled 'World Wonders: Old and New: A Series of 50' (c. 1955).
No. 11: 'Tutankhamen’s Tomb, Egypt'.
Painted version based on an unidentified media photograph. The original photograph was taken on 27 December 1922.
View of Howard Carter (lighter coloured hat with black band) watching Arthur Mace (dark hat) and an Egyptian colleague transporting Tutankhamun's painted box from the King's tomb to the nearby 'laboratory' (KV15, tomb of Sethos II).
Letters sent to Howard Carter at the time of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun. These letters were almost immediately passed on by Carter to A. C. Mace to deal with.
Complete set of three volumes of Howard Carter's popular account of the discovery and excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb, all first editions, no dust jackets:
Carter, Howard and Mace, A. C. 1923. The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen Volume 1 [discovery, Antechamber and opening of the Burial chamber]
Carter, Howard 1927. The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen Volume 2 [Burial chamber, opening the sarcophagus, the state chariots, opening of the three coffins and examination of Tutankhamun's mummy]
Carter, Howard 1933. The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen Volume 3 [Treasury and Annexe]
Seal impressions. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.
i. Letters from James Henry Breasted to Howard Carter, 1923, on an article in Harpers Magazine, and Tutankhamun's seal impressions.
ii. James Henry Breasted's manuscript report on the eight types of seal impression found in Tutankhamun's tomb and 2 letters from Breasted to Carter dated 03-01-1923 and 15-02-1923.
iii, iv. Two folders marked "Seals A-H" and "Seals I-S", Carter's annotated typewritten reports with his draft and finished pencil drawings of each type of seal impression, with some manuscript and a few typewritten notes.
v. One record card with notes on seals, extracted from a letter from Breasted, dated 16-03-1923, copied by A. C. Mace.
Later typed note, dated 1960, with A. H. Gardiner's translation for Seal C.
Annotated photograph (Burton (sic) P0274b), almost certainly taken by Carter, of the outermost doorway showing the blocking intact with seals.
Notebooks, negatives, photographs, maps, and drawings made during the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun. For other material, refer to the catalogue.
(1) Excavation journals for 1899-1901 (working with W. M. F. Petrie) and 1901-1903 (working with G. A. Reisner). (2) Personal correspondence exchanged between Mace and his wife Winifred during the Winter season 1922-1923, Winifred Mace and her mother during the Winter season 1923-1924, and other correspondence related to the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun. (3) Two typewritten articles by Mace on work in Tutankhamun's tomb: "DESPATCH No. 5" (3 pages), and "THE CLOSING OF THE TOMB" (incomplete, first page only + newspaper cutting of The Times article); both submitted to The Times and subsequently published on 31/01/1923 and 28/03/1923. (4) 39 photographs, most are original Burton images, some of which have been annotated by Howard Carter; they may have been used during the preparation of H. Carter and A. C. Mace, The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen i (1923). (5) Newspaper cuttings, most from The Times, published between 1922 and 1925.
(y) Mace's account of the opening of the burial chamber of Tutankhamun - typewritten version (TAA iv.1). Diary for 1922-3 (TAA iv.2). (z) Mace's account of the opening of the burial chamber of Tutankhamun - original handwritten version (TAA iv.3).
