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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November 23
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1903 Enrico Caruso made his US debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in "Rigoletto". He was an Italian operatic tenor. He sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and the Americas, appearing in a wide variety of roles from the Italian and French repertoires that ranged from the lyric to the dramatic.
In 1890 William III of the Netherlands died at the age of 73. He was the son of King William II and Anna Pavlovna of Russia. On the abdication of his grandfather William I in 1840, he became the Prince of Orange. On the death of his father in 1849, he succeeded as King of the Netherlands.
CARUSO (Enrico, 1873-1921, Italian Operatic Tenor)
Fine postcard photo signed, inscribed “To Miss Dora Plowman” and dated, showing him full face, 5½” x 3½”, London 1907, very slightly silvered
5508
WILLEM III (1817-1890, from 1849 King of the Netherlands)
Finely penned Document signed, in French with translation, to the President of Peru, (Andrés Avelino Cáceres, 1836-1923, President of Peru 1886-1890 and 1894-1895), thanking him for his letter of 5th June announcing his nomination as President, congratulating him “on such an honourable token of confidence, which the Peruvian Nation has given You”, adding that “it will be My pleasure to continue to maintain and strengthen the ties of good friendship and good understanding, which so happily exist between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Republic of Peru”, 1 side folio and conjugate blank, Soestdijk, 25th August 1886
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