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Auction archive: Lot number 215

SP A Royal Christmas Card signed by George VI and Elizabeth the Queen consort, 1941. …

Auction 11.12.2014
11 Dec 2014
Estimate
£400 - £600
ca. US$625 - US$938
Price realised:
£300
ca. US$469
Auction archive: Lot number 215

SP A Royal Christmas Card signed by George VI and Elizabeth the Queen consort, 1941. …

Auction 11.12.2014
11 Dec 2014
Estimate
£400 - £600
ca. US$625 - US$938
Price realised:
£300
ca. US$469
Beschreibung:

SP A Royal Christmas Card signed by George VI and Elizabeth the Queen consort, 1941. Gilt crown to cover. Addressed to "Dearest Xenia", with printed greetings "With Best Wishes For Christmas And the New Year 42 (year written in pen)", signed "Bertie" and "Elizabeth" in black fountain pen ink. Opposite the signed page is a mounted black and white photograph of the King, the Queen and their daughters taken in August 1941 "outside the dear little church at Crathie". Overall size 16 x 32cm when opened. A few stains to cover and signed page, some yellowing to paper. The card is addressed to Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia, sister of the last tzar Nicholas II. After the Revolution she fled Russia and settled in the United Kingdom. She was also first cousin to the English King George V.

Auction archive: Lot number 215
Auction:
Datum:
11 Dec 2014
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
Beschreibung:

SP A Royal Christmas Card signed by George VI and Elizabeth the Queen consort, 1941. Gilt crown to cover. Addressed to "Dearest Xenia", with printed greetings "With Best Wishes For Christmas And the New Year 42 (year written in pen)", signed "Bertie" and "Elizabeth" in black fountain pen ink. Opposite the signed page is a mounted black and white photograph of the King, the Queen and their daughters taken in August 1941 "outside the dear little church at Crathie". Overall size 16 x 32cm when opened. A few stains to cover and signed page, some yellowing to paper. The card is addressed to Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia, sister of the last tzar Nicholas II. After the Revolution she fled Russia and settled in the United Kingdom. She was also first cousin to the English King George V.

Auction archive: Lot number 215
Auction:
Datum:
11 Dec 2014
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
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