[RUSSIAN IMPERIAL FAMILY]
Unsigned carte-de-visite photograph,
embodying 15 miniature oval portraits, lettered in French, of the late Emperor Nikolai I, his wife the Dowager empress (Alexandra Feodorovna), his son Nikolai (1843-1863, the Tsarevich who died before succeeding), the future Alexander III, now Tsarevich, and his wife Princess Dagmar, Emperor Alexander II and his wife Maria Feodorovna, Alexander II's brothers Field Marshal Nikolai and his wife Alexandra Petrovna of Oldenburg, Field Marshal Mikhail and his wife Olga Feodorovna of Baden, and Admiral Constantine and his wife Alexandra Iossifovna of Saxe-Altenberg, and the Emperor's sisters Olga, Queen of Württemberg, and Maria, Duchess of Leuchtenberg, 4" x 2½", no place, no date, c.
card a little worn, photo detached
Item Date:
1867
Stock No:
50879
£250
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SAXE-WEIMAR
(Augusta Katherine, d. 1904, Daughter of the Fifth Duke of Richmond & Gordon, wife of Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to her brother "My darling Georgie",
wishing him "Many Many happy returns of your dear Birthday to you & Minnie & every sort of blessing in this world ...", telling him it is bitterly cold and that "The Duchess of Manchester has just been here, very full of her travels & off to Newmarket for next week ...", 3 sides 8vo. on monogrammed paper, no place, 21st October
Item Date:
1876
Stock No:
3012
£35
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[SCHLOSS ROSENAU]
Unsigned cabinet photo of the birthplace of Prince Albert,
with several figures walking outside it, probably Duchess Maria Alexandrovna with her daughter Princess Marie of Romania and possibly Prince Carol with another young boy, 6½" x 4½", Bavaria, no date, circa
Item Date:
1897
Stock No:
33246
£75
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SEBASTIÁN GABRIEL
(1811-1875, Infante of Spain and Portugal, great-grandson of Carlos III and of Maria I)
Autograph Letter Signed 'El Sobrino' (nephew) to his aide-de-camp and chamberlain,
Colonel Merry, he begins in English 'Dear little beautefull oncle', then continues in Spanish, "If you are not going to the Academia tonight, tell me what Temple" told you "... so that I know and can answer him if he speaks to me at the Academia tonight", 1 side oblong 8vo., [Naples], 20th February
Item Date:
1843
Stock No:
18858
£125
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SELASSIE
(Amha, born Asfaw Wossen Tafari, 1916-1997, son of Haile Selassie I, Crown prince and Emperor in Exile of Ethiopia) and his second wife Crown Princess Medferiashwork ABEBE (1922-2009, daughter of Dejazmach and Major-General Abebe Damtew, so she was a niece of Ras Desta Damtew who was the first husband of her sister-in-law, Princess Tenagnework)
Fine Christmas Card signed by both
under the printed message of greeting, opposite coloured images of St-Ragouel Church, 6¼” x 4” in folded white card with their coloured monogram on the cover and the ribbon in the colours of the country, Addis Ababa, no year but annotated as
Item Date:
1969
Stock No:
42082
£150
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