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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January 09
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1878 Victor Emmanuel II died at the age of 57. He was King of Sardinia from 1849 until 17 March 1861, when he assumed the title King of Italy to become the first king of a united Italy since the 6th century, a title he held until his death. The Italians gave him the epithet Father of the Fatherland.
In 1898 Vilma Bánky was born. She was a Hungarian-born American silent film actress, although the early part of her acting career began in Budapest, spreading to France, Austria, and Germany. Bánky was best known for her roles in The Eagle and The Son of the Sheik with Rudolph Valentino and several romantic teamings with Ronald Colman.
[VICTOR EMMANUEL II (1820-1878, King of Italy)]
Unsigned carte de visite photo by Montabone, Turin, showing him head and shoulders in uniform, 4¼” x 2½”, no place, no date
23199
[BANKY (Vilma, 1898-1991, Hungarian-born Silent Film Actress, ‘The Hungarian Rhapsody’)]
Portrait photo with facsimile inscription, dated by hand, showing her half length, looking over her shoulder disdainfully past the viewer with eyelids lowered, 9” x 7”, 1929, pin holes in corners
51998
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