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 16
On This Day
On this day in 1856, Napoléon the Prince Imperial of France was born. He died in the Anglo Zulu war in an ill thought out skirmish led by Lt Carey. His early death sent shockwaves over Europe and conspiracy theories even suggested that Queen Victoria may have organised it.
In 1940 Selma Lagerlöf, the Swedish author, academic, and Nobel Prize winner died.
THE FRENCH IMPERIAL FAMILY
[NAPOLEON III (Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, 1808-1873, Emperor of the French, Nephew of Napoleon I) with his wife EUGÉNIE (née Montijo, 1826-1920) & their son LOUIS (Eugene Jean Joseph, 1856-1879, Prince Imperial, killed while out with a reconnoitring party at Ulundi, Zululand)]
Fine unsigned carte-de-visite photo by Levitsky, showing the Emperor seated with his son standing at his side and his wife standing behind them, 4” x 2½”, no place, no date, c. 1860
22831
LAGERLÖF (Selma, 1858-1940, Swedish writer of short stories, fairy tales and romances, Nobel Prizewinner, 1909)
Autograph postcard signed, in Swedish with translation, to Miss Mizi Franzos in Vienna, saying “Of course you may have my photograph” when next she orders some, she is not writing any short stories at the moment, but promises to send some when finished, she has seen “many kind reviews in the papers” about “the Legends”, though none by Langen, says “it would be gratifying if the financial returns were also satisfactory”, and thanks her warmly for “the fee that has just arrived”, 1 side postcard with border of posthorns and integral stamp, address on verso, Falun, Sweden, 31st October 1904,
51495
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