A crocodile skin travel case and related ephemera with Russian Imperial provenance: the case by John Bagshaw & Sons, Liverpool, inscribed with crowned initials E.G., the interior with divided compartments, 29 x 26cm; together with a plaster cast of the Russian Imperial crown by Collingwood; a shaped rectangular silver box, Birmingham 1907, maker H.Matthews; and a silver christening mug inscribed 'To Nicolai from his godfather Prince Dimitri of Russia 7.2.69', Birmingham 1968, maker S.J.R. [4]. * Provenance Gwyneth Tighe, Princess Elizabeth Galitzine [b.1933] and thence by family descent. *Biography Gwyneth Tighe of Ballina Park, County Wicklow was a T.V. game show hostess in the 1960s. On marrying her third husband, Prince Yuri Galitzine, she styled herself Princess Elizabeth Galitzine. They had a son, Nikolai [see christening cup inscribed 'To Nikolai from his godfather Prince Dimitri of Russia']. During the war, Prince Yuri served as an intelligence officer [Captain] and discovered and reported on the concentration camp at Natzweiller in Alsace Lorraine. After the war, he became a public relations consultant in London [Galitzine,Chant, Russell]. Collingwood of London was one of his Public Relations accounts, hence the plaster cast of the Russian Imperial crown.
A crocodile skin travel case and related ephemera with Russian Imperial provenance: the case by John Bagshaw & Sons, Liverpool, inscribed with crowned initials E.G., the interior with divided compartments, 29 x 26cm; together with a plaster cast of the Russian Imperial crown by Collingwood; a shaped rectangular silver box, Birmingham 1907, maker H.Matthews; and a silver christening mug inscribed 'To Nicolai from his godfather Prince Dimitri of Russia 7.2.69', Birmingham 1968, maker S.J.R. [4]. * Provenance Gwyneth Tighe, Princess Elizabeth Galitzine [b.1933] and thence by family descent. *Biography Gwyneth Tighe of Ballina Park, County Wicklow was a T.V. game show hostess in the 1960s. On marrying her third husband, Prince Yuri Galitzine, she styled herself Princess Elizabeth Galitzine. They had a son, Nikolai [see christening cup inscribed 'To Nikolai from his godfather Prince Dimitri of Russia']. During the war, Prince Yuri served as an intelligence officer [Captain] and discovered and reported on the concentration camp at Natzweiller in Alsace Lorraine. After the war, he became a public relations consultant in London [Galitzine,Chant, Russell]. Collingwood of London was one of his Public Relations accounts, hence the plaster cast of the Russian Imperial crown.
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