GENUINELY SIGNED CARD FOR THE QUEEN MOTHER’S 100TH BIRTHDAY
ELIZABETH
(The Queen Mother, 1900-2002, Queen of George VI)
Fine Christmas Card with shaky signature (’from Elizabeth R’) and inscription
under the printed message of greeting, opposite a coloured photo of her in an open carriage with her grandson Prince Charles, on her 100th birthday, 7¼” x 9¼” folded ivory card with gold crest on the front, no place, the photo 4th August
Item Date:
2000
Stock No:
42234
£575
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[ELIZABETH
(The Queen Mother, 1900-2002, Queen of George VI)]
Fine unsigned photo by Cecil Beaton,
the photo showing her head and shoulders in profile, wearing a bejewelled dress and sash, 8” x 6” in mount 10” x 7”, Buckingham Palace, no place, no date but circa
Item Date:
1950
Stock No:
42230
£275
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[ELIZABETH I
(1533-1603, Queen of England)]
Engraving by John Sartain
showing her three quarters lenght in her usual dress, 10" x 7", no place, no date, c.
Item Date:
1875
Stock No:
31034
£45
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A FORCED LOAN TO THE CROWN
[ELIZABETH I
(1533-1603, from 1558 Queen of England)]
Portion of a letter in her name, with transcription, signed by Thomas Kery,
Clerk of the Privy Seal, saying she doubts not "but yt is well knowen what great [cause we have for the defence of our Realm]e to be furnished w[i]th money: And therefore [we require you as other good subiectes did this] laste yeare lende us sundrye so[m]mes of money", and asking the addressee to "lende us in like manner ... to suche parson" as her Privy Council shall appoint as Collector "in that shire, w[hi]ch we promise to [cause to be duely repaid ... at the end]e of one yeare in o[u]r receipt upon the [shewinge of this privy Seale subscribed by] the said Collecto[u]r. Geven vnder o[u]r [privie seal]", 1 side 4" x 4", no place, 17th or 27th November "in the xxxiijth [three and thirtieth] yeare of o[u]r raigne",
lacking a few words at the beginning of lines, but the sense can be well made out and supplied from a similar letter in the British Library
Item Date:
1590
Stock No:
51616
£750
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[ELIZABETH II
(1926-2022, Longest Serving Monarch of Great Britain) & PHILIP (Duke of Edinburgh, 1921-2021, her Husband)]
Excellent OBE Document with her printed signature at the head and his at the foot,
addressed to Hilda Aletheia Jackson nominating and appointing her to be “an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of Our said Most Excellent Order of the British Empire”, 1 side folio mounted on its original card with the original linen reinforced envelope, 16” x 13”, St. James’s, 1st January
Item Date:
1973
Stock No:
38580
£225
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