HVIDÔRE
Very unusual pair of postcard photos,
one shows the Dowager Empress's sitting room and the other the bedroom that she finally died in. These anti-bolshevik postcards were produced in 1925 for the Russian Refugee fund - it was the one time that the Dowager Empress allowed her home to be photographed, 5½" x 3½", Hvidore, no date, c.
Item Date:
1925
Stock No:
29912
£375
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ILEANA
(1909-1991, Princess of Roumania, Daughter of Ferdinand I, wife of Archduke Anton of Austria & Dr Stefan Issarescu, later an Orthodox Nun)
Superb portrait photo by Luffenberger Moriaint, signed, inscribed
"To Diddo in remembrance of many a day" and dated on the photographer's mount, also signed in pencil by the photographer, showing her holding her son Alexandra (b. 1935), 12" x 8½", in mount 18" x 13" in fine original red and gilt frame, Sonnberg,
Item Date:
1939
Stock No:
22696
£475
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[ILEANA
(1909-1991, Princess of Roumania, Daughter of Ferdinand I, wife of Archduke Anton of Austria & Dr Stefan Issarescu, later an Orthodox Nun)]
Delightful unsigned postcard photo by C. Spetea
showing her as an infant in a wooden cart, 5" x 3½", no place, (Bucharest), no date, c.
Item Date:
1910
Stock No:
23277
£75
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ILEANA
(1909-1991, Princess of Roumania, Daughter of Ferdinand I, wife of Archduke Anton of Austria & Dr Stefan Issarescu, became an Orthodox Nun known as Mother Alexandra)
Autograph lettercard signed "Mother Alexandra" to David Hancock
saying she will "gladly help you with your book ..." giving her phone numbers and telling him when she will be available, 2 sides note card with original autograph envelope, Ellwood, 24th March
Item Date:
1990
Stock No:
40100
£125
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IMPERIAL PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY
Fine Certificate, in Russian with translation,
saying that "Under the Most August Patronage of Her Majesty the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna," wife of Nicholas II, "the Board of Trustees of the Imperial Philanthropic Society for Collecting Donations for the Education and Placing of Poor Children in Trade, hereby award Alexander Vasilievich Porogov the right to wear the Silver Medal prescribed by the Council ... as a Donor to the aforesaid Trust", signed by the President (R. Shitsisov) and Head of the Medal Department (Shcherbakov), printed in red, gold, silver and black, fine arms of the Russian Empire including the arms of Moscow on the eagle's breast and of the ancient provinces on its wings, elaborate border with shields, one bearing "full member 10th May 1893", red paper seal of the Society, chromolithographed by Stadler and Pattinot, 1 side 16" x 10½", St. Petersburg, 28th August
Item Date:
1902
Stock No:
50199
£750
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