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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May 05
On This Day
On this day in 1913 Tyrone Power was born. Power appeared in dozens of films, often in swashbuckler roles or romantic leads. His better-known films include The Mark of Zorro, Blood and Sand, The Black Swan, Prince of Foxes, Witness For The Prosecution, The Black Rose, and Captain from Castile. Power's own favorite film among those that he starred in was Nightmare Alley.
In 1821 the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, died in exile on the island of Saint Helena. He had dominated European and global affairs for more than a decade while leading France against a series of coalitions in the Napoleonic Wars
POWER (Tyrone, 1913-1958, American Leading Man)
Signed Magazine Portrait Photograph, showing him seated three quarter length, his head in profile, with a disarming smile, neatly cut round and laid down, 5” x 3¾”, further laid down on paper 9” x 6¼”, no date, circa 1941
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NAPOLEON I (1769-1821, Emperor of the French)
Decree Signed ‘Napo[leon]’ as Emperor of the French, King of Italy, and Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine, in Italian with translation, saying that “on the Report of Our Minister of Foreign Relations of the Kingdom of Italy”, Ferdinando Marescalchi (1754-1816, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Italy, 1802-1805, of the Napoleonic Kingdom, 1805-1814, Count, 1809), “Antonio Granelli, called Palinetto, native of Santa Maria del Taro, in the Department of the Appennines, accused of various crimes committed in the territory of Our Empire, previously condemned for contempt of court to the penalty of death by the French Tribunals, and now detained in the prison of Brescia, shall be placed at the disposal of the French Authorities”, but only after being tried by the Italian “Court of Criminal Justice at Brescia”, any non-capital punishment by the French not to exceed what the Italian courts would have stipulated, headed Royal Decree No. 350, 2 sides folio and conjugate blank, Imperial Palace of the Tuileries, 12th April 1809, crisp
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