Every day Sophie Dupre presents two items from her large stock of signed photographs, autograph letters, autographs for sale, royal memoralbilia and antiquarian manuscripts.
The photographs are presented with the catalogue descriptions.
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March 22
On This Day
On this day in 1992 Noel Coward's play "Private Lives" closed at Broadhurst Theatre NYC after 37 performances. The comedy centres on a divorced couple who, while honeymooning with their new spouses, discover that they are staying in adjacent rooms at the same hotel.
In 1797 Kaiser Wilhelm I, the first German emperor was born. With his Minister President Otto von Bismarck, he achieved the unification of Germany and the establishment of the German Empire.
COWARD (Sir Noël, 1899-1973, Actor, Composer & Dramatist)
Superb large vintage photo, by Nickolas Muray of New York, signed, inscribed ‘For Guy Charles with my best wishes’, and dated, showing him head and shoulders, turned three quarter face to the camera with a sensitive gaze, 10” x 8” on mount 15” x 12”, no place, 1926
54055
WILHELM I (1797-1888, Emperor of Germany)
Letter in German with translation, signed ‘Wilhelm’ to Colonel von Rentz, Acting Commander of the 23rd Infantry Brigade, telling him that he has “today conferred on you the rank of Major-General, of which I hereby immediately inform you”, with a carte-de-visite photograph of Wilhelm I in civilian clothes by Numa Blanc, Paris and Baden, c.1865, the letter 1 side folio with conjugate blank, Head Quarters, Versailles, 24th February 1871, short tears in outer blank margins
14058
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