Calendar
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Printed twelve-month calendar, each month featuring a different colourised Harry Burton photograph.
Burton images supplied by the Griffith Institute.
Two copies.
Burton, Harry
Cabochon: guardian statue
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Tutankhamun-related jewellery element.
Oval cabochon for jewellery making, with a guardian statue [Carter 22] design.
Opaque light blue-coloured pressed glass, design highlighted in brown.
Manufacturer, not known. Perhaps produced by the Neiger Brothers
Date uncertain, perhaps manufactured in the 1920s or 1930s.
Cabochon plaque: box (21), yellow glass
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Tutankhamun-related jewellery element.
Rectangular cabochon plaque, with depiction of front of box 21 [Carter 21], double scene of Tutankhamun as sphinx trampling enemies.
Opaque yellow-coloured pressed glass, design highlighted in green and red.
Not indicated, but almost certainly produced by the Neiger Brothers.
Brooch: cartouche with uraei
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Tutankhamun-related jewellery.
Brooch, Tutankhamun’s cartouche in centre, crowned by disk and crescent moon, with uraeus on either side of cartouche.
Silvertone metal decorated with enamel (light and dark blue, and red).
Probably 1970s or slightly later.
Brooch: box (21), lion hunt scene
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Tutankhamun-related jewellery.
Brooch with a rectangular cabochon plaque featuring part of a scene from the lid of box 21 [Carter 21], with Tutankhamun hunting lions.
Silver decorated with enamel (light and dark blue, red, white and yellow) and opaque cream-coloured pressed glass with decoration highlighted in reddish-brown.
Hook clasp, stamped, silver hallmark "925"(?)
Plaque: Not indicated, but probably produced by the Neiger Brothers.
Box (551) with lid (540): photograph, Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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Photograph, black and white, photographer not known.
Made by the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
Box (551) with lid (540) of Tutankhamun, with a scene of Tutankhamun and Queen in a garden on the lid, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61477.
Boat (578): photograph, Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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Photograph, black and white, photographer not known.
Made by the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
Ornamental model boat (578) of Tutankhamun, calcite, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 62120.
BBC Radio broadcast
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A reel-to-reel tape recording, and a cassette tape of the same, of a BBC radio broadcast on the 1972 Tutankhamun exhibition at the British Museum.
Antechamber of Tutankhamun's tomb, cigarette card
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Cigarette card (2 copies) issued by Churchman's Cigarettes from the set titled: 'Treasure Trove: A Series of 50' (1937).
No. 27: 'The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen: Interior of Antechamber'.
Painted version based on Harry Burton photograph P0007.
View of the north half of the Antechamber showing objects in situ with the guardian statues on either side of the intact doorway to the Burial chamber.
Burton, Harry
Alfred Lucas working on objects, digital image
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Digital image
Original negative was probably created in 1923.
Photograph of Alfred Lucas working on a group of small objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun in the laboratory set up in KV15 (Sethos II).
The photograph was probably taken by the The Times photographer.
1968 examination of Tutankhamun's body, photograph
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Photograph of Professor R. G. Harrison, Derby Professor of Anatomy, University of Liverpool, with Dr Z. Iskander and others, examining Tutankhamun's remains in the king's tomb, KV62, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.
The original photograph was taken on 4 December 1968 by Mr Lynton Reeve, Department of Anatomy, University of Liverpool.
Reeve, Lynton
Trésor de Toutankhamon
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Trésor de Toutankhamon
Paris: Laboratoires Dausse, [1965].
Photographs by F. L. Kenett – © George Rainbird Ltd 1963, Vie et mort d’un pharaon , Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt, Hachette.
Set of colour plates featuring objects from the tomb.
From an original set of 20, full set except for nos. 1, 2, and 20. There are two copies of no. 9.
And Seven Shall Die
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Wolf, Victoria.
And Seven Shall Die .
Translated by Dora H. Demuth.
Hammond, Hammond and Company Ltd., London, 1943.
Fiction novel based on the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
295 pages.
"Tutankhamen"
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Commercially produced printed sheet music.
"Tutankhamen".
Written and Composed by Hebe Mack.
London: G. J. Cramer & Co. Ltd.
1923.
6-pages.
"Tutankamen in the Case with Cleopatra again!"
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Comic postcard.
"What do yer think, Bill? —when I opened up this morning, there was Tutankamen in the Case with Cleopatra again!".
Issued by Micks Comics.
110.
Published by E. A. Eden (Offset) Ltd, [London].
Printed in England.
Not mailed.
"Tut-Ankh-Amen (in the Valley of the Kings)"
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Commercially produced printed sheet music.
"Tut-Ankh-Amen (in the Valley of the Kings)".
Song, Lyric and Music by Carlo and Sanders.
New York & Detroit: Jerome H. Remick & Co.
1923.
6-pages.
2 copies: 1 complete and one incomplete (cover+page 2).
"Tu tanks have just arrived"
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Comic postcard.
"Tu tanks have just arrived!".
Issued by Inter-Art Co., London.
"Comique" Series no. 4491.
Mailed on Thursday, 27 May 1926.
Postcard sent by R. Wilman to Miss D. Dixon, 7 Victoria Buildings, Morecambe.
"Old King Tut Was a Wise Old Nut"
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Commercially produced printed sheet music.
"Old King Tut Was a Wise Old Nut".
Lyric by Roger Lewis, Music by Lucien Denni.
Kansas City, MO: J. W. Jenkins Sons Music Co.
1923.
6-pages.
"Old King Tut (In Old King Tutenkhamen’s Day)"
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Commercially produced printed sheet music.
"Old King Tut (In Old King Tutenkhamen’s Day)".
Words by William Jerome, Music by Harry Von Tilzer.
New York: Harry Von Tilzer Music Publ. Co.
1923.
6-pages.
"A Dream comes to Tutankhamen"
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Comic postcard.
"A Dream comes to Tutankhamen."
Image signed: "H.S."
Published by Gaddis & Seif, Luxor.
Series: HUMOUR IN EGYPT
Not mailed.