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Auction 58 30 Mar 2022
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Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930-2002), a studio portrait, 1991, by Stuart Devlin, 425 x 321mm., showing her profile left, wearing a diamond tiara, pearl necklace and earrings
Sold with a letter from Annabel Whitehead, lady-in-waiting (24 October 1991) acknowledging the receipt of copies of the photographs and 'The Princess looks forward to seeing the result of your work when the coins are completed'.
The photographs in the lots 7 - 10 were taken by Stuart Devlin for his 1991 commission 'Masterpieces in Silver – The Royal Ladies Collection', a set of twenty five dollar coins for the Royal Australian Mint where they were to form the reverse design. The set was to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the accession of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Commonwealth Games Federation. There is no photograph of Her Majesty the Queen as the obverse design for all the coins in the set was the traditional portrait of by Raphael Maklouf.
Sold with a letter from Annabel Whitehead, lady-in-waiting (24 October 1991) acknowledging the receipt of copies of the photographs and 'The Princess looks forward to seeing the result of your work when the coins are completed'.
The photographs in the lots 7 - 10 were taken by Stuart Devlin for his 1991 commission 'Masterpieces in Silver – The Royal Ladies Collection', a set of twenty five dollar coins for the Royal Australian Mint where they were to form the reverse design. The set was to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the accession of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Commonwealth Games Federation. There is no photograph of Her Majesty the Queen as the obverse design for all the coins in the set was the traditional portrait of by Raphael Maklouf.