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Auction: 16043 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 9

Documents
Robert Douglas, Count of Skenninge
1649 (21 February) entire letter sheet from Ulm, written in German, to the mayor of Wimpfen, asking permission to relocate three military units. Signed "R Douglas" with autograph address panel. Slight paper defects occasionally touching text and with most of the wax seal intact. Photo

Robert Douglas (1611 – 1662, Count of Skenninge, Baron of Skalby. A Scottish career officer Robert Douglas, a native of East Lothia, joined Swedish services during the Thirty Years’ War and rose to the rank of cavalry general, later serving as Field Marshal in the ensuing Swedish-Polish wars. He also was a member of the German literary society "Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft".

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