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 05
On this day in 1847 Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone was born in Edinburgh and in 1995 the graves of Tsar Nicholas II and the Imperial family were found in St Petersburg. In 1981, the family were recognised as martyred saints by the Russian Orthodox Church.
BELL (Alexander Graham, 1847-1922,Inventor of the Telephone)
Fine Typed Letter Signed to Mr Lane, (the Honorable Franklin K. Lane, U.S. Secretary of the Interior), marked PERSONAL thanking him for his “note of August 4 enclosing copy of your admirable address relating to the ratification of the Peace Treaty by the Senate....”, saying that he has “read this with the very greatest interest and approval ...” and thanking him for letting him see it, 1 side 4to., Beinn Bhreagh, nr Baddeck, Nova Scotia, 15th August 1915, framed with a 5” x 7” Pach Bros. portrait of the inventor.
NICHOLAS II 1868-1918, Last Emperor of Russia from 1894)
Fine decree document, in Russian with translation signed ‘Nikolai’ also signed by Vladimir SUKHOMLINOV (1848-1926, Minister for War 1909-1916, finally triggered the Great War by ordering Russian mobilization), addressed to the Chapter of the Russian Imperial and Royal Orders, conferring a Knighthood on Alexander Natiev, Chief Inspector of Police at Veden in Terek province, 1 side folio, Tambov, Central Russia, 7th December 1914 (Translation)
Decree addressed to the Chapter of the Russian Imperial and Royal Orders. In recognition of the outstandingly zealous and devoted service of Alexander Natiev, in reforming the post of Chief Inspector of Police, District of Veden, Government of Terek, and Secretary of the Province, We have Most Graciously appointed him Knight of Our Order of St. Stanislaus, 2nd Class, in consequence of which we Command the Chapter to deliver to the said Knight the Insignia of the Order granted to him and the document thereof. [Signed] Nicholas [Signed] At Tambov, 7th December 1914. Minister for War, Adjutant-General Sukhomlinov.
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