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Two identical sets of thirteen postcards featuring reproductions of all twelve Special Stamps (the mini-sheet stamps are represented twice, once as the complete mini-sheet design of four stamps as well as individually), all issued on 24 November 2022, part of the Special Stamp Issue 'Tutankhamun', produced by Royal Mail in collaboration with the Griffith Institute, to mark the centenary of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• See https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues/tutankhamun/tutankhamun-postcards (accessed 19-06-2023).
• The postcards feature:
  • The main set of eight colour stamps, each featuring an object from Tutankhamun's tomb, images supplied by Araldo De Luca.
  • Mini-set of four stamps featuring black and white photographs, including three Harry Burton photographs supplied by the Griffith Institute.

• Royal Mail Yearbook 2022
• Anonymous (ed.) 2022. A postcard from..: Royal Mail special stamps 2022. Royal Mail Yearbook 39. London: Royal Mail Group Ltd. ISBN: 9780946165773. 24.4 x 25.7 cm; 64 p., [117] figs [ills (mostly colour)] (OEB 307243).
• The publication contains every stamp and miniature sheet issued by Royal Mail in 2022, with a chapter devoted to every Special Stamp issue. An expert in their field has written each dedicated chapter for each stamp issue. The subjects include The Rolling Stones, Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and the discovery of Tutankhamun’s Tomb.
• Contains the chapter 'Tutankhamun' and discusses the extraordinary period during which Tutankhamun lived, the significance of his burial and its site in the Valley of the Kings.
• Also contains the Special Stamp Issue 'Tutankhamun', produced by Royal Mail in collaboration with the Griffith Institute, to mark the centenary of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb.
• The main set of eight colour stamps, each featuring an object from Tutankhamun's tomb, images supplied by Araldo De Luca.
• Mini stamp sheet of four stamps featuring black and white photographs, including three Harry Burton photographs supplied by the Griffith Institute.

Newspaper cutting, 'King Tut the 1st', the brief article features one stamp (mask) from the Special Stamp Issue 'Tutankhamun', produced by Royal Mail in collaboration with the Griffith Institute, to mark the centenary of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, issued on 24 November 2022.

Booklet PDF, 5 double-sided pages, printed from the Royal Mail website, advertising products from the Special Stamp Issue 'Tutankhamun', produced by Royal Mail in collaboration with the Griffith Institute, to mark the centenary of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, issued on 24 November 2022.

• 'Tutankhamun: Excavating the Archive' exhibition at the Weston Library, Oxford, 13 April 2022 – 5 February 2023.
• Featuring material from the Tutankhamun Archive and other collections in the Griffith Institute.
• Posters, flyers, display materials, merchandising products, ephemera, and other memorabilia.
  1. Textile poster.
  2. Five text panels ('Introduction', 'Timeline', 'Griffith Institute', 'Curators’ Audio Highlights', 'Howard Carter portrait'), both textile and board.
  3. Caption texts for all sixteen showcases.
  4. Three textile banners.
  5. Image facsimiles, both original size and enlargements.
  6. QR codes for the audio guide.
  7. Reduced copy of Carter’s portrait.
  8. Replica of wreath placed on the forehead of the king’s outer coffin, made by The Garden of Oxford (Covered Market) and used in a ceremony held on 4 November 2022, where it was laid down by Ahdaf Soueif.
  9. Materials used in a 'Touch Tour' for the Blind and Partially Sighted / Visually Impaired on 13 October 2022.
  10. Free standing showcase cover design.
  11. Folder/package of posters, flyers, and other memorabilia and ephemera.
  12. Selection of merchandising products: bag, fridge magnets, postcards, book mark, and notebook.
  13. Two large size (A0) posters.

DVD copy of 'Tutankhamon: l'ultima mostra' (2022), a documentary on the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 and the preparations for the travelling Tutankhamun exhibition launched in Los Angeles in 2019. The film was released to mark the centenary of the discovery.

Replicas of objects found in the tomb of Tutankhamun.

Replicas of the two sistra found in Tutankhamun's tomb. The replica sistra were commissioned in 2022 and were used in the performances of James Whitburn's composition 'Zahr Al-Khayal', based an Egyptian love poem roughly contemporary with Tutankhamun.

Ephemera connected with the 'Treasures of Tutankhamun' exhibition, which toured the U.S.A. between 1976 and 1979 and was hosted at the following venues: the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Field Museum of Natural History and the Oriental Institute of The University of Chicago; the New Orleans Museum of Art; the Seattle Art Museum; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

• Replica of a puppy figurine.
• Gold.
• The original puppy figurine, made from black bronze and gold, comes from the tomb of Tutankhamun [Carter 620(51)]. It was formerly in Howard Carter's possession. Carter's niece, Phyllis Walker, presented it to the Metropolitan Museum in 1947 (no. 47.58.1). The Metropolitan Museum returned the figurine to Egypt in 2011. See https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/545993.
• A sample replica was considered for reproduction as merchandise as a bracelet charm for the 'Treasures of Tutankhamun' exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from December 15, 1978, to April 15, 1979. However, it was not commissioned for commercial production.
• This gold replica was privately commissioned by Dr Lilyquist and created by Bruce Hoheb, MMA Reproductions Studio, c. 1978.

• A shen-amulet lapel, or dress, pin.
• Bronze (shen) and silvertone metal (pin).
• Created by Hermes Knauer, Metropolitan Museum Objects Conservation Department, who made a limited number of pins as presentation pieces for people closely connected with the organisation of the USA Tutankhamun exhibitions. Knauer presented this pin to Dr Lilyquist in New York in 1978.
• The shen-amulet motif was used for other merchandise sold at the 'Treasures of Tutankhamun' exhibition.

• A round metal and cold enamel pin badge featuring Tutankhamun's mask [Carter 256a].
• Goldtone metal decorated with enamel (black and blue).
• Manufacturer, not known.
• Presented to Dr Lilyquist when the Tutankhamun exhibition was hosted at the New Orleans Museum of Art, from September 15, 1977 to January 15, 1978.

• A reversible elasticated belt with a metal buckle decorated with a repeated "TUT" motif.
• Woven blue (background) and gold ("TUT") elasticated fabric with a goldtone metal two-piece clasp buckle and a goldtone metal slide-adjustment bar.
• Manufacturer, not known.

• Pendant, display stand, leaflet and box.
• Pendant, miniature replica of Tutankhamun's mask [Carter 256a]:
  • Goldtone metal;
  • Stamped on verso: "© MMA 1976".
• Perspex display stand.
• Information leaflet for pendant.
• Blue card box:
  • Printed on lid: "The Treasures of TUTANKHAMUN";
  • Price label: $25.00.
• All produced by the MMA Reproductions Studio.

• Set of modern photographic prints made from Harry Burton's original set of large glass plate negatives (TAA.i.5), made before the original negatives were conserved.

Four plates re-photographed from Carter and Mace, "The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen".

• Second proof of plates from Desroches Noblecourt, C. 1963. Tutankhamen: life and death of a pharaoh [OEB 9997].

• Two black and white photographic prints:
  • Howard Carter's drawings of harness (from TAA i.3.8).
  • Howard Carter's drawing from object card 333 'portions of the linen housings of the chariot horses' (from TAA i.1.333).
  • Howard Carter's drawing of the second shrine (237) with detail of construction of shrine (from TAA i.3.25).

Primary material. Formerly on loan to the Griffith Institute.

A. C. Mace's account of the opening of Tutankhamun's Burial chamber (typescript)

• Dated 3 March 1923
• Written a few weeks after the opening of the Burial chamber, which took place on 16 February 1923
• Typescript

Arthur C. Mace's excavation journal for the tomb of Tutankhamun, 1922-1923, recording the first season

• 19 unlined pages
• Manuscript entries

A. C. Mace's account of the opening of Tutankhamun's Burial chamber (manuscript)

• Manuscript
• Written on 2 folded sheets of Cataract Hotel, Assouan (Aswan) headed notepaper
• Dated 3 March 1923
• Written a few weeks after the opening of the Burial chamber, which took place on 16 February 1923

3 letters from Tait.
Objects in the Myers Collection at Eton College; Third Intermediate Period/Late Period chalices, TopBib iv.175A.

1 letter from Terrace.
Consultation regarding a private loan by a sponsor of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

13 letters from Théodoridès, 1 copy of a letter from Černý to Théodoridès.
Professional and personal matters:

• book exchange
• Egyptian measures of capacity
• ostracon BM 5634
• libation formulae
• P. Gurob II, O. Chicago 12.073
• graffiti in the Step pyramid complex (TopBib iii2.412 and libation formulae
• ostracon Deir el-Medîna 225
• Théodoridès' travels to the United Kingdom
• meetings
• personal matters
• Théodoridès comment on the Soviet/Warsaw pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968

Greek dictionary card index, used in compiling W. E. Crum, A Coptic Dictionary (Oxford, 1929-39).

2 letters from J. Thorton & Son.
Evaluation of the A. H. Gardiner Library.

7 letters from Till, 2 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Till, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Jean Tudor-Pole (secretary) to Till, sent in Černý's absence.

• Egyptian books, written culture, Coptic and Coptic etymologies
• exchange of news on the work on grammars, see Till, W. C., Koptische Grammatik (Saïdischer Dialekt) mit Bibliographie, Lesestücken und Wörterverzeichnissen (1955) (OEB 49O12); and Černý, J. and Groll, S. I., A Late Egyptian Grammar (1975) (OEB 18215) published posthumously
• personal matters
• health

1 letter from Tritsch.
Query concerning an inscribed bowl from Lachish.

1 letter from Tufnell, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Tufnell.
Query concerning a Lachish find.