ORIGINAL! RARE! GREAT BRITAIN - ITALIAN CRUISE SOUVENIR HMY VICTORIA & KING ALBERT ROYAL YACHT 1903
RARE! GREAT BRITAIN - ITALIAN CRUISE SOUVENIR HMY VICTORIA & KING ALBERT ROYAL YACHT 1903
GREAT BRITAIN CRUISE SOUVENIR FROM THE SAILING OF THE HMY VICTORIA & KING ALBERT ROYAL YACHT TO ITALY IN 1903. LIKELY CARRIED ON THE YACHT ITSELF TO BE GIVEN AS A PROMOTIONAL SOUVENIR WHEN IN ITALY TO PROMOTE THE CROWN.
HMY Victoria and Albert (1899) cruised off the island of Pantelleria, Italy on a state visit that King Edward VII made to Portugal, Gibraltar and Malta, in the spring of 1903. It took the form of a Mediterranean cruise aboard HMY Victoria and Albert (1899).
PRINTED BORDER IN THE COLORS OF ITALY WITH HAND CALLIGRAPHED MOUNT:
HMY Victoria and Albert (1899) was a royal yacht of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. The yacht was launched in 1899 and ready for service in 1901. This was the third yacht to be named Victoria and Albert. She served four sovereigns, and was decommissioned as royal yacht in 1939, served in the Second World War, and was broken up in 1954.
MOUNT DIMENSIONS: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2"
CONDITION IS EXTREMELY FINE THROUGHOUT WITH SOME VERY LIGHT HANDLING FROM ITS 121 YEARS.
ON THE REVERSE A LIGHTLY PENCILED PERIOD NOTATION.
PHOTO HAS SHARP FOCUS AND VERY GOOD CONTRAST.
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