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Auction: 23025 - Historical Documents, Postal History & Autographs
Lot: 172

(x) Great Britain
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
1865 Carte de visite of Dickens, his head turned to his right, photograph by John & Charles Watkins, London, signed and inscribed, and dated "Charles Dickens / To Dr. Muspratt / January 1865". Together with a signed carte de visite of the recipient, Dr Muspratt. A remarkable pair with signed photographs of Charles Dickens being of the utmost rarity (2)

Dr James Sheridan Muspratt (1821-1871), Irish born research chemist, lived in Liverpool where his father had an industrial chemical company. He organised a visit to Liverpool by Dickens's amateur theatre company in 1847.

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