ANOTHER
RARE OFFERING FROM MY PERSONAL ANTIQUECOLLECTION2020.
OFFERED FOR BUY IT NOW TODAY!
SELLING TO KEEP MONEY COMING IN DURING THESE TROUBLED TIMES.
A LOVELY FIND!!
2 COLLECTIONS OF VICTORIAN RARE COLLECTABLES IN ONE!!!!
A UNIQUE AND MUSEUM QUALITY COLLECTORS LOOSE LEAVES OF EARLY AND
MID 19TH CENTURY SIGNATURE AUTOGRAPHS FROM FAMOUS ROYALTY NOBILITY, MILITARY
FIGURES, IMPORTANT LORDS AND LADIES, A POLITICAL PRISONER AND CLERGY OF THE
DAY. FILLED WITH SOME 60 AUTOGRAPHS INCLUDING SIGNATURES CUT FROM LETTERS, FULL
LETTERS ALSO INCLUDING SOME EARLY PRINTS, PRE STAMP POSTAGE MARKS AND AN
ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC COLLECTION OF VICTORIAN CRESTS CUT FROM LETTERHEADS
INCLUDING MILITARY, SHIPPING AND ROYALTY ENCLOSED WITHIN GORGEOUS WATERCOLOUR
BORDERS AND DESIGNS.
A TOTAL OF 171 CRESTS ON THE REVERSE SIDES OF THE PAGES!
THIS IS A SUPERB AND EXTREMELY RARE COLLECTION INCLUDING THE
AUTOGRAPHS OF KING WILLIAM THE 4TH OF ENGLAND DOUBLE SIGNED AS WILLIAM DUKE OF
CLARENCE AND DUKE OF CLARENCE! (CAN BE SPLIT FOR 2 SIGNATURES!!) INCLUDING A
RARE MISTAKE CROSSED OUT BY HIS HIGHNESS!!
ALSO WITH
A SUPREMELY RARE AUTOGRAPH OF QUEEN CONSORT CHARLOTTE OF MECKLENBURG-STRELITZ,
THE WIFE OF KING GEORGE THE 3RD!!! (CURRENTLY A SOUGHT AFTER AUTOGRAPH
DUE TO THE NETFLIX SERIES ‘THE BRIDGERTONS’)
ALL OF THESE AUTOGRAPHS ARE CUT FROM LETTERS AND ARE GENUINE INK
SIGNATURES AND LAID ONTO PAPER.
ALL OF THE STUNNINGLY BEAUTIFUL CRESTS AND PRINT ARE OF THE
PERIOD AND ARE ABSOLUTELY ORIGINAL.
PLEASE SEE MY PHOTOGRAPHS.
I HAVE DECIPHERED SOME OF THE
AUTOGRAPHS USING EXTENSIVE RESEARCH, SO THAT LEAVES MANY SIGNATURES TO
DETERMINE. THERE MAY BE SOME GEMS IN THERE THAT EXPERTS CAN DECIPHER.
LIST OF DECIPHERED AUTOGRAPHS:
King William
the 4th of England (William Henry; 21 August 1765 – 20 June 1837) Signed twice
AND with the word 'William' crossed out on the first signature and signed again
underneath as 'The Duke of Clarence'. Signed in 1822 before he ascended to the
throne in 1830. This is an extremely rare full cover and it also has the
remnants of the red Royal wax seal still on the page!
An
extremely rare Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.(19 May 1744 – 17
November 1818)
Signed 'CharlotteR'
Charlotte of
Mecklenburg-Strelitz was the Queen consort of the United Kingdom as the wife of
King George III She was also the electress consort of Hanover in the Holy Roman
Empire until the promotion of her husband to the King of Hanover on 12 October
1814, which made her Queen consort of Hanover. Queen Charlotte was a patroness
of the arts, known to Johann Christian Bach and Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart among
others. She was also an amateur botanist who helped expand Kew Gardens.
~~
Baron Carlo
(Charles) Poerio (1803-April 28, Naples - 1867, Florence)
A FULL
LETTER IN EXCELLENT CONDITION ON BLUE PAPER IMPRESSED MARK TO TOP RIGHT
'SUPERFINE SATIN' WRITTEN TO MRS O'GRADY IN LIMERICK. SIGNED 'CHARLES POERIO'
DATED 23RD OF MARCH 1859 WHICH WAS ONE YEAR AFTER HIS RELEASE FROM IMPRISONMENT!
Poerio was an Italian poet, Risorgimento and 1848 Revolution activist, politician, and brother of Alessandro Poerio.After the Battle of Novara ,the King was free to dissolve parliament and renounce the constitution; in July 1849 Poerio was arrested, tried, and sentenced to nineteen years in prison. Chained in pairs, he and other political prisoners were confined in one small room in the Labor camp on Nisida (the Flegree Islands). William Ewart Gladstones's report on the inhumane conditions in Neapolitan detention facilities (1851), emphasizing the case of Poerio, provoked an international uproar; nonetheless, Poerio was set free only in 1858. He and other exiles were than placed on board a ship bound for Argentina,but the son of Luigi Settembrini (both of them on board the ship) compelled the crew to land them at Cork, in Ireland after which Poerio made his way to London.In the following year he returned to Italy, and, in 1860 he was elected deputy to the Parliament of Piedmont-Sardinia in Turin (the original seat of the House of Savoy government), and was chosen the body's vice-president in 1861,when the Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed.
Sir William Henry Paget The Marquess of Anglesey. (1768-1854).
Known as The Earl of Uxbridge between 1812 and 1815, he was a
British military leader under the Duke of Wellington and a politician. He was
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Master-General of the Ordnance" Master-General
of the Ordnance(Twice)and is chiefly remembered for leading the charge of the
heavy cavalry against d'Erlon's column during the Battle of Waterloo.
~~
Lieutenant
General Charles Craufurd Fraser VC KCB (31 August 1829 – 7 June 1895) A British
recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for
gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and
Commonwealth forces. He was also a noted Conservative politician.
Fraser was
29 years old, and a major in the 7th Hussars (The Queen's Own) during the
Indian Mutiny when the following deed took place on 31 December 1858 at the
River Raptee, India for which he was awarded the VC:
'For
conspicuous and cool gallantry, on the 31st December, 1858, in having
volunteered, at great personal risk, and under a sharp fire of musketry, to
swim to the rescue of Captain Stisted, and some men of the 7th Hussars, who
were in imminent danger of being drowned in the River Raptee, while in pursuit
of the rebels. Major Fraser succeeded in this gallant service, although at the
time partially disabled, not having recovered from a severe wound received
while leading a Squadron in a charge against some fanatics, in the Action of
Nawabgunge, on the 13th June, 1858.'
~~
Archibald
Tait (21 December 1811 – 3 December 1882) former Archbishop of Canterbury.
Signed as the Archbishop of Canterbury. A position which he held from 1868 to
1882.
~~
John Bright
(16 November 1811 – 27 March 1889), Quaker, was a British Radical and Liberal
Statesman associated with Richard Cobden in the formation of the Anti Corn Law
League He was one of the greatest orators of his generation, and a strong
critic of British Foreign Policy He sat in the House of Commons from 1843 to
1889. He was President of the Board of Trade In office 9 December 1868 – 14
January 1871
A full
envelope with address and red wax seal intact.
~~
LORD JOHN
RUSSELL
FULL LETTER
IN HIS HANDWRITING
Lord John
Russell Unsigned, announcing a Privy Council to be summoned at Windsor.
~~
FIELD
MARSHALL GEORGE HAY THE MARQUESS OF TWEEDALE.
Field
Marshal George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale, (February 1787 – 1876) was a
noted Scottish soldier and administrator.
A FULL
LETTER SIGNED.
He was
Aide-de-Camp in the Penninsular war under Arthur Wellesley the Duke Of
Wellington. He fought at the Battle of Bussaco on 27 September 1810, in the
Grenadier Guards, where he was wounded and the Battle of Vitoria on 21 June
1813, with the 100th Foot as.He also served in the War of 1812 at the Battle of
Niagara in 1812. In 1842 he was appointed Governor of Madras and Commander-In-Chief
of the Madras Army. He was promoted to Field Marshal in 1875.
~~
George John
Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll (30 April 1823 – 24 April 1900). Styled
Marquess of Lorne until 1847, was a Scottish peer, Liberal politician as well
as a writer on science, religion, and the politics of the 19th century.
~~
Lady
Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower the Duchess Of Argyll (30 May 1824 – 25 May
1878) was the eldest daughter of the 2nd Duke of Sutherland by his wife Harriet
Elizabeth Georgiana Howard She was married on 31 July 1844 toGeorge Douglas
Campbell Marquess of Lorne, the eldest son of the 7th Duke Of Argyll. He
succeeded his father as 8th Duke Of Argyll in 1847, whereupon Elizabeth became
Duchess of Argyll. She served as Mistress of Robes to Queen Victoria during the
Liberal government of 1868. Her son Lord Lorne married the Queen's fourth
daughter Princess Louise in 1871. She died in 1878.
~~
Stafford
Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (27 October 1818 – 12 January 1887),
known as Sir Stafford Northcote, Bt, from 1851 to 1885, was a British
Conservative politician. He notably served as Chancellor of the Exchequer
between 1874 and 1880 and as Foreign Secretary between 1885 and 1886, and was
one of only two people to hold the office of First Lord of the Treasury and was
never Prime Minister.
~~
Gathorne
Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook (1 October 1814 – 30 October 1906), known
as Gathorne Hardy until 1878, was a prominent British Conservative Politician.
He held office in every Conservative government between 1858 and 1892 and
notably served as Home Secretary from 1867 to 1868 and as Secretary of State
for War from 1874 to 1878.
~~
Henry
Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (4 January 1845 – 3
June 1927) was the great grandson of the British Prime Minister Lord Shelburne
a British politician and Irish peer who served successively as the Fith
Governor of Canada, Viceroy of India, Secretary of State for War, and Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs. He has the distinction of having held senior
positions in both Liberal Party and Conservative Party governments.
~~
Of the other autographs in this book, I do not have the time to
study them and find out who they are although I would expect that they are all
people of stature and note within the Hierarchy of the early to mid nineteenth
century nobility.
For the postmark collector there are a few early post marks and a
Penny Red.
To add even more interest and value to this collection there is a
fantastic arrangement of 171 yes! 171 Letterhead crests from various
organisations on the reverse of the autographs. They are a myriad of colors,
shapes and types and most are set down into the most beautifully drawn and
watercolor painted Borders and pictures.
This is such a fantastic EXTREMELY RARE historical collection of
items the like of which you will not see on Ebay!!!
This is a fantastic collection. A genuine and unique insight into
British history and the influential historical and important people of its
time.
It begs the question, who was this collector? Was It someone close
to these people? Well he/she remains anonymous but has my thanks for what they
achieved with this collection.
Note:
There are some autographs which have browned and show some foxing.
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