Every day Sophie Dupre presents two items from her large stock of signed photographs, autograph letters, autographs for sale, royal memoralbilia and antiquarian manuscripts.
The photographs are presented with the catalogue descriptions.
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December 08
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1980 John Lennon was shot and killed in New York by Mark David Chapman at the age of 40. He was a singer and songwriter who co-founded the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music.
In 1907 Oscar II Frederick died at the age of 78. He was King of Sweden from 1872 until his death and King of Norway from 1872 until 1905. The third son of King Oscar I of Sweden and Josephine of Leuchtenberg, he was a descendant of Gustav I of Sweden through his mother.
PRINT FROM ‘A SPANIARD IN THE WORKS’
LENNON (John, 1940-1980, Co-Founder with Sir Paul McCartney of ‘the Beatles’)
Colour print of a naked couple and a vicar after an original drawing by John
Lennon, with facsimile of Lennon’s signature, 23 x 31 cm, c. 1965.
38334
OSCAR II (1829-1907, from 1872 King of Sweden)
Letters Patent Signed, in Swedish with translation, appointing Karl Emil Ferdinand Ignatius, (b. 1837, Finnish Senator, Historian & Geographer), “Commander with Grand Cross of Our Order of the North Star, of which We ourselves are Master”, engraved with manuscript additions, wafer seal of the Order of the Seraphim bearing the 3 Crowns of Sweden and Collar of the Order, with a printed notice in Swedish, French and German about the return of the Order, 1 side 17½” x 11½” and conjugate blank, Stockholm Castle, 5th December 1906, tiny defect in blank lower right margin, short tears at creases of printed notice
16608
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