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Auction: 14035 - Postal History, Autographs and Historical Documents
Lot: 3108

Historical Documents
Klemens Wenzel von Metternich
1835 (October 19), entire letter from Vienna addressed to Count Giulio Ottolini Visconti in Venice, with the address beautifully handwritten on front, with red wax seal on reverse, signed inside "Fürst von Metternich" with superb large wafer seal adjacent. Also a note written in French, stating in manuscript this to be a document received from the hands of Metternich in Venice on 17 October 1838. A Spectacular and most rare postal-history item.

Klemens Wenzel von Metternich (1773-1859), Foreign Minister of the Holy Roman Empire and its successor, the Austrian Empire (1809-1848).

Undoubtedly one of the most important personages of his era, known as "Age of Metternich", leader of the Austrian delegation at the Congress of Vienna which signed the division of Europe between the major powers after the Napoleonic period. Metternich was the architect of the famous "Metternich System" and its Congresses, establishing an international system of reactionary governments dedicated to maintaining a set of European boundaries, preventing revolutions and changes in government, and stopping any one power from becoming too powerful. Metternich received the title of Prince ("Fürst") of the Austrian Empire in 1813 as a proof of esteem for his services.

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