A mid 20th century Chilean metalwares silver photograph frame
A mid 20th century Chilean metalwares silver photograph frame, maker's mark untraced (J.S. within a circle), stamped 0900 Chile, no further apparent marks, of rectangular form and 'portrait' orientation, plain with bevelled inner, top crested within a border engraved PRESIDENTE DE LA REPUBLICA DE CHILE, verso in blue velvet with a silver easel stand similarly stamped, containing a photograph of Chilean President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, with handwritten dedication and signature, frame dimensions, 40 x 30cm, aperture dimension, 35 x 25cm The dedication would suggest this lot was a leaving gift from the President to Sir Charles Norman Stirling in 1954. Stirling was the British Ambassador to Chile from 1951-1954.
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A mid 20th century Chilean metalwares silver photograph frame, maker's mark untraced (J.S. within a circle), stamped 0900 Chile, no further apparent marks, of rectangular form and 'portrait' orientation, plain with bevelled inner, top crested within a border engraved PRESIDENTE DE LA REPUBLICA DE CHILE, verso in blue velvet with a silver easel stand similarly stamped, containing a photograph of Chilean President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, with handwritten dedication and signature, frame dimensions, 40 x 30cm, aperture dimension, 35 x 25cm The dedication would suggest this lot was a leaving gift from the President to Sir Charles Norman Stirling in 1954. Stirling was the British Ambassador to Chile from 1951-1954.
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