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Auction: 15037 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 136

Documents
Italy
Gioachimo Rossini
1861 (20 May) a Bill of Exchange, or bank cheque, filled out in the hand of Rossini For the Duke de Casiliano (Tomassino Corsini) to pay 17.500 Florentine livre at Rothschild's, Paris, signed "Gioachimo Rossini"; three vertical folds, fresh. Photo

Rossini first met the Rothschilds at the Congress of Verona in 1822. He became friends of some of the brohers an began banking at the Paris Rothschilds from 1848

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Estimate
£600 to £800