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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February 26
On this day in 1846 William F "Buffalo Bill" Cody, was born in Iowa. The American scout, bison hunter, and showman, he is purported to have killed 4,282 buffalo in eighteen months. He toured his 'Wild West Show' from America to Europe. The year before, in 1845 the Russian Tsar Alexander III was born in St Petersburg. He was known as 'The Peacemaker' as there were no major wars during his reign.
CODY (William Frederick, 1846-1917, ‘Buffalo Bill’, American Scout and Showman)
Superb postcard photo signed “W. F. Cody, ‘Buffalo Bill’”, showing him mounted on his horse wearing his characteristic hat at a jaunty angle, 5½” x 3½”, no place, circa 1900 slight former damage to the photo professionally repaired
ALEXANDER III (1845-1894, Emperor of Russia from 1881)
Fine decree document, in Russian with transcription and translation, addressed to the Chapter of the Russian and Imperial Royal Orders saying that he has been pleased to appoint the Director of Persian Telegraphs, Emir Tuman Khuiin Quli Khan Mukhbirul Mulk, “Knight of Our Imperial and Royal Order of St Stanislas, second class with star; in consequence of which We order the Chapter to send him the insignia ... in the form appropriate to non-Christian bodies, and the document to Us”, 1 side folio, signed also by Nicholas de Giers, (1820-1895, from 1882 Foreign Secretary), 19th November 1893, the document Gatchina, 9th November 1893
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