
Oliver White
Head of Department





Sold for £2,000 inc. premium
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Provenance:
From the estate of Ambassador George C. McGhee (1912-2005), US Assistant Secretary for State for the Near East, South Asia and Africa 1949; US Ambassador to Turkey 1951-53 and to Germany 1963-68. His interests were wide-ranging and he collected primarily during the 1940s-70s.
Proceeds from the sale of this lot will be used to support the programs and operations of the McGhee Foundation, Middleburg, VA.
Inscriptions: the pen-case with tughra of Mahmud II (ibn-i Abdulhamid) (r. 1808-39) and maker's mark as mustafa shahri, "Mustafa Sehri".
Mustafa Sehri is recorded as a silversmith whose mark appears along with the tughra of Mahmud II in Garo Kurkman, Ottoman Silver Marks, Istanbul, 1996, p. 108.