BAPTISM OF PRINCE CHRISTIAN VICTOR CHRISTIAN VICTOR (Albert Louis Ernest Anthony, 1867-1900, Prince of Schleswig Holstein, son of Prince & Princess Christian, Killed at Pretoria)

Exceptional printed hymn sheet for the Prince's baptism, with the text in blue, an exceptional Lion & Unicorn crest at the head in gold, with crowned initials in red on either side, and further down another pair of intertwined initials in red and in gold and blue, the two hymns start "In life's gay morn, ere sprightly youth" and "Offering here obedience willing", 1 side 4to with conjugate blank, the whole is printed within an impressed lacey border with a design of strawberries and leaves, Windsor Castle, 21st May

Having survived the Ashanti campaign in South Africa the prince succumbed to enteric fever in October 1900.

Item Date:  1867

Stock No:  21482      £125

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