An extremely rare and wonderful photograph of Sultan Jamalul Kiram II, (1863-1936), which I recently discovered in France, apparently from an old German collection. Inscribed in the photograph’s border: “Der Sultan von Sulu und sein (Oncle) State-Secretair”, which translates to “The Sultan of Sulu and his (Uncle) State Secretary”. Date of the photograph is a guess — Kiram was born around 1863, and proclaimed the Sultan of Sulu by his followers in 1884 (at age 21), a designation that was eventually formalized by Spanish decree ten years later, in 1894. This young man looks to be in his early twenties, and 1884 would be just about the right time to sit for his first formal royal portrait.