7th Dec, 2024 10:00
Fine Art & Antiques
Sold for £230
An Edwards & Sons locking Autograph & Letters album, comprising a collection of late Victorian and early Edwardian notes and calling cards signed by theatrical, political and other notables of the period, to include;
Royalty & Nobles
Prince Frederick Duleep Singh on Old Buckenham Hall, Attleborough, headed paper dated 1904; George, Duke of Cambridge, on Gloucester House headed black-edged paper dated 1862; Antarctic explorer Sir Philip Lee Brocklehurst letter on paper embossed with the family crest and motto 'Veritas Me Dirigit'; John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll ‘Marquis of Lorne’, on Kensington Palace headed paper; William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley on Dudley House headed black-lined paper dated 1884.
Politicians, Authors & Artists
Politician Lord Randolph Churchill on Beaufort Castle, Beauly, headed paper; Lord Cadogan on Lord Privy Seal headed paper dated 1891; Dividend payment request signed by Viscount Castlemain dated 1725; King Solomon’s Mines author Sir Henry Rider Haggard on headed paper from Ditchingham House, Bungay, Suffolk, (with embossed hieroglyph motif and dated ’88, arranging a visit from a Mr Broadley (possibly barrister and author Alexander Meyrick Broadley?); illustrator and caricaturist Harry Furniss on ‘Lika Joko’ headed and illustrated paper (the short-lived humorous magazine which he founded and was editor after leaving Punch), dated September 1894 (one month before the first edition of the magazine, which only ran until April 1895); artist and keeper of the Royal Academy Ernest Crofts on Burlington House headed paper dated 1901.
Actors & other Performers
Actress Violet Vanbrugh to Mr Gray 1894; actor & singer Charles Hayden Coffin on headed paper for Campden Hill Cottage and dated 1892; actress Winifred Emery from the Theatre Royal Brighton; actor, director, and mentor to Noel Coward, Sir Charles Henry Hawtrey dated 1892; actor and theatre manager Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson on embossed notepaper for 22 Bedford Square; American actress Cora Brown-Potter on headed paper for Burleigh House, 16 Blenheim Road; actress Evelyn Mary Millard; actress Mrs Patrick Campbell on headed paper from 33 Kensington Square; actor-manager Sir Squire Bancroft on headed paper for The Garrick Club dated 1886; singer and comedy actor Rutland Barrington.
As well as some unidentified examples and a selection of clipped signatures
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