Souvenirs of French Consul Antoine Louis MARTIN (1882-1963) - Lot 276

Souvenirs of French Consul Antoine Louis MARTIN (1882-1963) in TÉTOUAN (Morocco) including : - a cubic trunk in coated canvas, leather and brass, double-encrypted LM and signed H.B on the lock. 36 x 42 x 37 cm. (good condition). - a metal Verascope numbered 34837 in its original case, with instructions from 1917 (case damaged). - two fruitwood and mahogany stereoscopic viewers, one RF, Paris. - a small set of photographic accessories and a box of blank plates. - a collection of approximately 300 stereoscopic photographic glass plates. Format: 4.5 x 10.5 cm. Illustrating numerous views of Morocco during the period when Louis MARTIN was stationed there, between 1916 and 1917, including Marrakech, Arsa Ben Driss, Casablanca, the Charity Festival in Marrakech in 1917, the Kasbah mosque in Marrakech, Tameslohte the wheat silo, views of diplomatic meetings with the Pasha... There are also some fifty views of France and of Louis MARTIN's family. - a Cross of the Order of Ouissam Alaouite in silver gilt and polychrome enamel, presented in its Arthus Bertrand case, accompanied by two documents from the Cherifian government, one dated July 5, 1920 (officer) and the other April 26, 1928 (commander). - a set of four diplomas, including Bachelier de l'enseignement secondaire classique (dated 1900), Licencié en droit (dated 1906), Langues arabe vulgaire, persane et turque (dated 1907), Officier d'Académie (dated 1913). - a grand diploma awarded by the King of Spain for the title of Comandador, dated May 16, 1928. - a diploma awarded by Mohammed En Nacer Pacha-Bey for the Order of Nichan-Iftikhar, dated June 4, 1910. - various diplomas in Arabic. - colonial information booklet, 1924. - an orientalist watercolor depicting Moroccans waiting for General BERENGUER (1873-1953) to enter a city. 24 x 17 cm. - five handwritten notebooks in pen, three of which are a copy of a treaty dated May 28, 1767 between Louis XV and Sidi Mohammed, two recounting Louis MARTIN's arrival in Morocco in 1908 and the siege of Fez from April 26 to May 30, 1911. - a batch of eight photographs taken during the visit of the Sovereigns of Spain to Spanish Morocco. Format: 9 x 14 cm.