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Sale 113
The Manuscript and Collectibles Auction
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Lot 1128 |
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Duke and Duchess of Windsor -- Autographed Note Card. Note card with blue embossed crowned WE monogram at top, signed in ink "Edward, Duke of Windsor," and "Wallis, Duchess of Windsor," 3½ x 5½", no place, no date. Fine condition. Laid to a page with the original transmittal envelope and the accompanying printed note from the private secretary to the Duke and Duchess. Edward (1894-1972) ascended to the British throne as Edward VIII upon the death of his father, George V, on January 20, 1936. He abdicated on December 11 of the same year in order to marry Wallis Simpson (1898-1986), an American divorcée. He was thereafter given the title "Duke of Windsor." The Windsors lived in France and remained married for 35 years, until his death in 1972. Estimated Value $500 - 500
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Lot 1129 |
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[Edward VII and Alexandra] Woven Silk Portraits. Individual portraits of His Majesty King Edward VII and Her Majesty Queen Alexandra, each 4 x 2½", made by William H. Grant & Co., Coventry England, c. 1901-1910. Each is on a 7 x 5½" card mount and framed to 8¼ x 6¾". Some staining to the mounts, which does not affect the silk portraits. The generic term for woven silks such as these is Stevengraphs because they were first made by Thomas Stevens of Coventry, England in the 1880s. W.H. Grant was the second most important weaver, having learned from Stevens. Estimated Value $50 - UP
Museum of World Treasures, Kansas City.
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$24 |
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Lot 1130 |
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Ferdinand and Isabella -- 1496 Letter Signed by the "Catholic Monarchs" Who Sponsored Christopher Columbus. Letter signed in Spanish by Ferdinand, "Yo el Rey [I the King]" and by Isabella, "Yo la Reyna [I the Queen]," one page, 6 x 8½", December 7, 1496. A letter regarding extending a ban on brocade fabrics to "Dr. Alfonso Ramires de Villaescusa, our municipal royal representative in the town of Valladolid. Translation: "We have ordered an extension for another two years of the deadline to no longer import or sell brocade in our kingdom, nor to gild or sell gilded things, nor to embroider anything with gold or silver, and the reason for this was proclaimed today in our court. We therefore order that you observe and cause to be observed in that said city what we have ordered and forbidden in our said letters and proclamations, and of necessity, that you have this proclaimed and do not consent that they be violated or infringed in any way, and that you do not do otherwise." Countersigned at lower right, "By order of the King and Queen, Juan de la Parra." Light folds and trimmed upper edge, else fine. Between 1485 and 1490, Alonso Ramirez de Villaescusa was sent to Toledo as a judge concerning property confiscated by the Inquisition, which was established in 1478 by Ferdinand and Isabella. In the book New World Gold, Elvira Viches says that Queen Isabella banned imported brocade embroidered with thread made of precious metals, worried that her subjects were "squandering their fortunes, enriching foreign merchants and dissipating the national treasury." An interesting document signed by the monarchs who in one year, 1492, sponsored Columbus' trip to the New World and expelled both the Jews and the Moors from Spain. Estimated Value $4,000 - UP
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$4,560 |
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Victoria -- Giving License to a British Captain to Wear an Ottoman Military Decoration (1819-1901) Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1837-1901) and Empress of India (1876-1901). Partial document signed "Victoria Reg." as Queen of the United Kingdom and Ireland, one page, 12¾ x 8", place and date not visible. Granting to Trevor Patrick Breffney Ternan, Captain in the Manchester Regiment "Licence to accept and wear the Insignia of the Order of the Osmanieh of the Fourth Class." This was a military decoration of the Ottoman Empire which only had three classes until 1867. Sultan Abdülaziz travelled to Western Europe in the summmer of 1867, becoming the first Ottoman Sultan to do so. Captain Ternan must have performed some service for the Sultan for which he was being rewarded. Victoria's cream and wax seal is in left margin. Matted with an image of Victoria to an overall size of 16½ x 17½". Fine condition. Estimated Value $300 - UP
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$300 |
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