Lot 235
QUEEN VICTORIA (1819-1901, QUEEN OF ENGLAND), & HER FAMILY
A COLLECTION INCLUDING CLIPPED SIGNATURE ABOVE EMBOSSED PAPER SEAL,
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2019 at 12:00 BST
Description
12 x 9cm., Signature ("Victoria R.") above embossed paper seal, cut from vellum document, 23 x 8cm.; Edward Duke of Kent (1767-1820, 4th Son of George III, Father of Queen Victoria as C in C Gibraltar, 1803, warrant to pay family housekeeping, 12 x 19cm.; Duchess of Kent, Queen Victoria's mother) Third party Letter, 1855, 2 pp. requesting news of her grand-daughters from Miss Hillyard, Clarence House, June 13th, [18]55, 13 x 10cm., 2pp., integral blank; Alfred Duke of Edinburgh, as Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha, 2nd son of Queen Victoria Autograph letter signed to "My dear Sneyd", stating he is sending a pattern of the wall covering "which I recommend for your billiard room at Keele", 2pp. integral blank, Palais Edinburg, Coburg, 2 June 1896; Alfred Duke of Edinburgh Clipped signature, mounted on card, 4 x 9cm.; Arthur Duke of Connaught, Queen Victoria's 3rd son Signature on military order, Aldershot manoeuvres, 1874, 13 x 20cm.; Arthur, Duke of Connaught Autograph letter signed ("Arthur") to "My dear ?Bowdie, mentioning a visit to Sheffield with the Queen, 2pp., Buckingham Palace headed paper, 8.4.[18]97; Princess Beatrice (1857-1944, 5th daughter of Queen Victoria), Autograph letter signed to Princess Dolgorouth, declining an invitation, Kensington Palace, 9 May 1911; Helena, Princess Christian of Schleswig Holstein, daughter of Queen Victoria. Autograph letter signed to May (possibly Mary, wife of Prince George, later Queen Mary, 3pp., Cumberland Lodge, 6 July 1896; and a clipped autograph of the same (11 items)