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Pushkin (Tsarskoe Selo). Catherine Palace: interior, Amber Room (hand-coloured lantern slide)

Branson DeCou, 1931. Branson DeCou Digital Archive, Special Collections, University of California, Santa Cruz (via Wikimedia Commons).

A travel photographer's hand-tinted glass slide of the original room in the Catherine Palace, made ten years before its removal; the best colour record of the panels.

MYS0D4N2KYC13MJ · mystery · click to copyMAmber RoomPrimary sourceManuscriptCopy of Hand-coloured photograph of the original Amber Room, 1931Checked against the original0

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The 1931 photograph the reconstruction worked from, and the colour standard a claimed find would be checked against.

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DeCou, B. (1931). Pushkin (Tsarskoe Selo). Catherine Palace: interior, Amber Room (hand-coloured lantern slide). Branson DeCou Digital Archive, Special Collections, University of California, Santa Cruz (via Wikimedia Commons). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catherine_Palace_interior_-_Amber_Room_(1).jpg
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