Royalty. Autograph, Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge ...

Hammer

£20

Royalty. Autograph, Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (1774-1850), tenth child and seventh son of George III, clipped scrap inscribed and signed: Yours very sincerely/Adolphus Frederick, 6.5cm x 12cm, mounted on a leaf with the clipped signature Mary flanked by a regal crown, wax black seal of the Spanish Royal Family, etc., On prince, Ernest coming here to dine, n.d., 24 lines of manuscript verse, presumably original composition, versifying Prince Ernest von Saxe-Coburg und Gotha (1818-1893; brother of Queen Victoria's consort, and later Duke as Ernest II) and when he 'Did honour Sir M Seymour/By coming here to dine', this poem within 2ff of further unsophisticated poetry, On the approaching Christening of the Prince of Wales, by M.M., n.d. [1841, Albert Edward, later Edward VII], 20 lines of manuscript verse, (1); Napoleon Bonaparte, a 1ff English manuscript spelling out from the Greek alphabet and calculating that the French emperor is 666, the Number of the Beast, from The Book of Revelation, 13:18, and citing the biblical passage, Louis Napoleon, 1871, by Sylvia, 4ff of ink manuscript verse, on monogrammed writing-paper, presumably viz. Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (1808-1873), the last Emperor of the French (as Napoleon III) and later President of the French Republic (5).