84. Auktion - Auktionen Dr. Crott

Dial: enamel, luminous Arabic numerals, sunk auxiliary seconds,
tachy scale, sunk 60 min. counter, skeletonized luminous hands.
Movm.: 4/5 plate movement, Swiss Ebauche, frosted, gilt, blued screws,
2 hammers, 2 gongs, screwed gold chatons, wolfteeth winding wheels,
English lever escapement, gold screw compensation balance, blued
balance spring, florally engraved balance cock, diamond endstone on
balance, gold-chatoned ruby endstone on lever and escape wheel.
Dev Nath Purohit
Dev Nath Purohitwas an author and the master of ceremonies of Udaipur.
He was writing a visitors’ guide in 1938.
Maj.Gen. HH Farzand-i-Khas -i-Daulat-i-Inglishia Mansur-i-Zaman
Amir-ul-Umra Maharaja Dhiraj Rajeshwar Sir Sri Maharaja-i-Rajgan
Bhupendra Singh Mahendra Bahadur of Patiala (1891-1938)
He was born 12th October 1891 at Patiala , educated at the Aitchison
College in Lahore, invested with full ruling powers on 3rd November
1910, Member of Standing Committee of Indian Princes’ Chamber (ten
times elected Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes during the 1920’s and
1930’s), Commander-in-Chief of the Patiala Forces, Honourary Lieutenant-
Colonel of the Ist Ludhiana Sikhs, Hon. Col. 15th Ludhiana Sikhs, Hon.
Maj.-Gen. in British Army, Fellow of the Royal Geographical, Zoological
and Horticultural Societies, Member of the Royal Colonial Institute,
Member of Royal Asiatic Society, appointed Hon. ADC to HM 1922, served
in WWI 1914/18 receiving Grand Cordon of the Order of the Nile, and of
Order of Leopold of Belgium, Grand Cross of of Orders of Crown of Italy,
Crown of Roumania, and St Saviour of Greece, and of Legion of Honour,
served in the Afghan War 1919, represented India at League of Nations
Assembly 1925, captained the Indian cricket team on its 1911 tour of
England, president of the All-India Gundog League and vice-president
of the Indian Kennel Association, chancellor and chief patron of the
Sikhs’ premier educational institution - the Khalsa College at Amritsar, he
married 1908 HH Maharani Bakhtavar Kaur, daughter of Sardar Gurnam
Singh of Jind, (mother of seven children, five of whom died young), and
had issue, 88 children in all, mostly by concubines. He died at Patiala, from
heart failure, on 22nd March 1938.
He was well known in London and he usually stayed at the Savoy where
he would book the whole of the 2nd floor. He would be driven in a
motorcade of 20 Rolls Royce cars. He died in 1938 and was succeeded by
his son, Maharajah Sir Yadvinder Singh on March 23rd, 1938.
Source: http://www.sikh-heritage.co.uk/heritage/Maharajas%20of%20
Punjab/Mah%20Punj%20States.htm, as of 09/19/2011
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33528 G/C: 2 Z/D: 2 W/M: 2, 41
20.000 - 25.000 EUR 27.000 - 33.800 USD 200.000 - 250.000 HKD