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 30
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1938 Pasha Yama XVI died. He was the former regent of King Ananda Mahidol in Thailand.
In 1865 Rudyard Kipling was born. He was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. His works of fiction include The Jungle Book, Kim, and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King". He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story. His children's books are classics of children's literature.
PASHA YAMA XVI (Pan Sukhum, 1862-1938, former regent of King Ananda Mahidol)
Fine photograph signed by him in western characters and dated by him in Thai numerals “14.4.6”, showing him head and shoulders in uniform with medals and decorations, 8” x 5½”, in original wooden frame 14½” x 10½”, no place, 14th April 1906
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KIPLING TELLS HIS CORRESPONDENT THE DERIVATION OF THE TITLE OF ‘REWARDS AND FAIRIES’
KIPLING (Rudyard, 1865-1936, Novelist & Poet)
Exceptional Autograph Letter in Capital Letters Signed with initials to G. B. Richardson describing a photo of the ‘Hotel Reina Victoria sobre el borde del Tajo’ (hotel Victoria on the edge of the Tagus) at Ronda in Malaga, the image shows the hotel on the cliff-top and he says that ”This is some distance from Walsend but the same Roman left his mark here. A most lovely place ...”, he goes on the explain that “As to Rewards and Fairies. It is the first line of some verses written over two hundred years ago by an old Bishop. It begins ‘Farewell Rewards and Fairies’, the rest of the verse you will find in ‘Puck of Pook’s Hill’. In the first tale P leaves out the line owing to his objection to the word ‘Fairies’. The sense is as it appears. ‘Rewards’ = ‘Recompense’ ...”, 1 side postcard with address on the same side, neatly pasted in to a copy of ‘Rewards and Fairies’ opposite the photo he describes, Ronda, 6th April 1922
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December 30
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1830 Ismail Pasha was born. He was known as Ismail the Magnificent and was the Khedive of Egypt and Sudan from 1863 to 1879, when he was removed at the behest of the United Kingdom.
In 1857 Queen Victoria chose Ottawa as the capital of Canada. She had been asked to choose a capital for the province, which, at that time consisted of the two colonies of Quebec and Ontario, and there’s a story that she simply stuck a hatpin into a map, between Toronto and Montreal. At the time Ottawa was no more than a small logging town in the backwoods and certainly the choice seemed arbitrary to many Canadians at the time.
[ISMAIL PASHA (1830-1895, Khedive of Egypt 1863-1879)]
Folding Menu in French for Dinner, of 13 classic French courses and dessert, with a full (though undated) wine list, on the front is an embossed ‘I’ intertwined with crescents in red and gold, above is the Egyptian crown, the back is made out as a place card for Colonel Aymonino, 3 sides card 5¾” x 4”, printed by Richter & Co. of Naples, 11th April 1883,
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QUEEN VICTORIA WITH HER CHILDREN & GRANDCHILDREN
[VICTORIA (1819-1901, Queen of Great Britain) with her son ARTHUR (Duke of Connaught, 1850-1942, Governor General of Canada) and his wife LOUISE MARGARET (Alexandra Victoria, 1860-1917, Daughter of Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia), with their children MARGARET (1882-1920, wife of Gustaf, Crown Prince of Sweden) and ARTHUR (1883-1938, ADC to four Kings) & PATRICIA (1886-1974) and Prince & Princess HENRY of BATTENBURG (Princess BEATRICE Mary Victoria Feodore, 1857-1944, Daughter & Companion of Queen Victoria) & her husband Prince HENRY Maurice, (1858-1896, Colonel)
Unsigned cabinet photo by W. Watson in Ballater showing the Queen with her favourite son and daughter, with their spouses and Arthur’s family, Beatrice is expecting her first child, Alexander, 6½” x 4¼”, no place, no date, circa 1885
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