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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November 26
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1894 Russian emperor Nicholas II married Alexandra Feodorovna at the Grand Church of the Winter Palace in St Petersburg.
In 1963 Amelita Galli-Curci died at the age of 81. She was an Italian coloratura soprano. She was one of the most popular operatic singers of the early 20th century with her gramophone records selling in large numbers.
[NICHOLAS II (1868-1918, Tsar of Russia from 1894, Assassinated after the Revolution), ALEXANDRA FEODOROVNA (1872-1918, the Tsarina)]
Fine original unsigned postcard engagement photo, showing the couple with the Tsarevitch seated holding a Faberge cigarette case and the beautiful young Princess looking lovingly down on him, 5½” x 3½”, in a charming contemporary frame decorated with leaves, no place, Coburg, April 1894 slight damage to the frame
28923
GALLI-CURCI (Amelita, 1882-1963, Italian Coloratura Soprano)
Fine portrait photograph by Lumiere of New York, signed, dated and inscribed “To S.H. Porter very sincerely”, showing her head and shoulders, full face, leaning on her left elbow, hand to head, a velvet cape irregularly draped round her neck and left forearm, and wearing a crescent shaped mantilla, n.p., 1930
53107
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