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Auction: 21066 - Historical Documents, Postal History and Autographs
Lot: 189

Great Britain
Mohammed Abdul Karim - the Munshi
1892 (9 Nov.) ALS on 'Balmoral Castle' embossed letter paper enclosing a "photo of the late Duke of Clarence and also the frame" (neither remaining), requesting an "enamel in pink exactly as the photos is, and fit the enamel to the enclosed frame"; requesting the same of a further photograph. Singed "M. H. Abdul Karim". Fine and scarce, as all correspondence had been destroyed.

Notes: Mohammed Abdul Karim CVO CIE (1863 — 20 April 1909) served as a well-favoured servant of Queen Victoria

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