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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August 22
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1854 Milan I of Serbia was born. He was the ruler of Serbia from 1868 to 1889, first as prince and then as king. He was born in exile in Moldavia, and later brought to Kragujevac by Prince Mihailo Obrenovic III. In June 1868, when Milan was only fourteen years of age, the Prince was assassinated and Milan succeeded him.
In 1963 William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield died, at the age of 86. He was the founder of Morris Motors Limited and is remembered as the founder of the Nuffield Foundation, the Nuffield Trust and Nuffield College, Oxford. He took his title, Lord Nuffield, from the village of Nuffield, Oxfordshire where he live
MILAN (Obrenovich IV, 1854-1901, Ruling Prince and King of Serbia 1868-1889) Remarkable pair of 2 autograph items, unsigned, together with an Autograph Letter Signed on card from M. Duvellery sending them to ‘Dear Madame’, in the first the King gives minute instructions for a fan to be made, decorated with a story in three scenes - Happiness, Grief and Misfortune - about a couple first seen alone, in the second she is found with a lover, and in the third her husband lies shot in front of her and her young son, between the scenes are to be painted ‘cupids bearing the emblems of death’, Milan describes minutely the clothes, the appearance of the characters, and the rooms, down to ‘a large stone recumbent lion’ in the entrance hall, together 3 items, 7 sides 8vo., Grand Hotel Louvois, Paris c. 1895 51546
NUFFIELD (Sir William Richard Morris, 1st Viscount, 1877-1963, Motor Magnate & Philanthropist, designer of the Bullnose Morris in 1921) Excellent Early Autograph Letter Signed addressed to ‘Gent[lemen]‘, in his strong but pleasing hand with the occasional curl, saying that “F. Poulter has been with me for the past two years and I have always found him industrious straightforward and quick at his work. He leaves me through slackness of work”, 1 side folio, 48 High Street, Oxford, 24th November 1906 56400
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