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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April 08
On This Day
On the day in 1783 Catherine II, 'the Great', of Russia annexed the Crimea. During her reign, Catherine extended the borders of the Russian Empire southward and westward and in total added some 200,000 square miles to Russian territory.
In 1886 William Gladstone introduced the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons. In his third premiership Gladstone's party had allied with the Irish Nationalists to defeat Lord Salisbury's government.
CATHERINE II (the Great, 1729-1796, Empress of Russia from 1762)
Fine decree document, in Russian with translation signed ‘Ekaterina’ to “the Office for Constructing Our Houses and Gardens”, appointing Major-General Ivan Libgard to a post there, 1 side folio, no place, 22nd January 1792
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GLADSTONE (William Ewart, 1809-1898, Prime Minister)
Autograph postcard signed to John Richardson Selwyn (1844-1898, Bishop of Melanesia, 1877-1890), Selwyn College, Cambridge, thanking him “for the very interesting tract. There is a striking notice of the Great Bishop in a small volume just published ‘Bearers of the Lamp of Grace’. We heartily trust you are well”, 2 sides 4¾” x 3”, no place, postmarked Chester Station, 16th November 1894
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