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Auction: 22066 - Historical Documents, Postal History & Autographs - Featuring the Robin Hunt Collection
Lot: 2033

Burma
Aung San
1947 head and shoulders passport-type photograph endorsed on the reverse, "To L. Hong Bu my companion to the lonesome days in faceless London ... Aung San 9/4/47" and refers to his trip to London for the negotiations for Burmese independence, which were concluded successfully in London as the Aung San-Attlee Agreement on 27 January 1947. Also a photograph of a Malay protest rally in Singapore in March 1949. There are three photographs of a child's birthday party for "Anna" (Aung San Suu Kyi?) with her friends and an anonymous tea party on the occasion of the Children Festival. An unusual group and a rare endorsement from the "Father of the Nation"

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