Exceptional vintage 4.75 x 4 full-length photo of Albert Einstein seated with a crossed leg and enjoying a pipe in a living room setting, signed in the lower border in black ink. In very good to fine condition, with three paperclip impressions to the edges, and light silvering to darker areas of the image.
Accompanied by a letter of provenance from the grandson of the original recipient, which reads, in part: "My Uncle William Edmunds died in October 2014 and as a beneficiary of his will I became responsible for clearing his bungalow…I discovered an old leather bound album of photographs detailing the Round the World voyage of the 'Belgenland' in 1927/8. Among these photographs was the photograph of Heir Albert Einstein. I believe, although I can't prove it, that this album was given to my uncle by his Father, my Grand Father, also named William Edmunds. My Grandfather served in the Royal Navy in the 1914-1918 conflict and then the merchant Navy for some of the years in between the wars, returning as a 'Bat Man' to the Admiral of the Fleet in 1939…It is highly likely that my Grand Father met Albert in the course of his duties as a merchant seaman."
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