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EQUESTRIANISM, POLO, KADIR CUP, KEDDAH AND DURBAR A good photo album, compiled by Hugh Edwardes, 6th Baron Kensington whilst serving in the 15th Hussars in India, including images of military (Durbar groups), horse portraits (many with local handlers), polo and pig-sticking matches, a 5-day Keddah, etc., c.1901-1908 image 1
EQUESTRIANISM, POLO, KADIR CUP, KEDDAH AND DURBAR A good photo album, compiled by Hugh Edwardes, 6th Baron Kensington whilst serving in the 15th Hussars in India, including images of military (Durbar groups), horse portraits (many with local handlers), polo and pig-sticking matches, a 5-day Keddah, etc., c.1901-1908 image 2
EQUESTRIANISM, POLO, KADIR CUP, KEDDAH AND DURBAR A good photo album, compiled by Hugh Edwardes, 6th Baron Kensington whilst serving in the 15th Hussars in India, including images of military (Durbar groups), horse portraits (many with local handlers), polo and pig-sticking matches, a 5-day Keddah, etc., c.1901-1908 image 3
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EQUESTRIANISM, POLO, KADIR CUP, KEDDAH AND DURBAR
A good photo album, compiled by Hugh Edwardes, 6th Baron Kensington whilst serving in the 15th Hussars in India, including images of military (Durbar groups), horse portraits (many with local handlers), polo and pig-sticking matches, a 5-day Keddah, etc., c.1901-1908

7 – 15 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge

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EQUESTRIANISM, POLO, KADIR CUP, KEDDAH AND DURBAR

A good photo album, compiled by Hugh Edwardes, 6th Baron Kensington whilst serving in the 15th Hussars in India, including images of military (Durbar groups), horse portraits (many with local handlers), polo and pig-sticking matches, a 5-day Keddah, etc., approximately 150 gelatin silver prints (varying sizes from 235 x 295mm., to 60 x 80mm., mounted between one and 24 per page, recto and verso), with printed ephemera (Meerut Tent Club, Kadir rules, amateur theatrical programmes, etc.), telegrams and letters (a couple illustrated) relating to Kensington's sporting activities, captions and annotations in ink on mount, contemporary half morocco, lacks spine, upper cover detached, oblong folio (310 x 415mm.), c.1901-1908

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Album compiled by Hugh Edwardes, 6th Baron Kensington (1873-1938), whilst serving with the XVth Hussars, stationed at Meerut in the early twentieth century. He was winner of the prestigious pig-sticking Kadir Cup for 1908, played polo for the regiment, and owned several fine horses. These activities reflected throughout the album.

Images include: Keddah series; Polo matches at Meerut 1901-1903 (Kensington representing his regiment the XVth The King's Hussars); portraits of Kensington's ponies 1902-1903; several good polo group shots including Lucknow Open 1903, Inter-Regimental at Meerut 1903 (and printed programme); International Cup Delhi Durbar 1903; The officers of the XVth The King's Hussars in full dress for the Delhi Durbar 1903 (helmets on/helmets off) and 4 other images of the regiment at the 1903 Durbar; photographs, letters and printed ephemera relating to the 1908 Kadir Cup, won by Lord Kensington. Together with items relating to the Hog-Hunter's Dinner at the Savoy hosted by Robert Baden-Powell with the Prince of Wales in attendance in 1929.

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