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Auction: 24025 - Historical Documents Featuring the Major David Cecil Underwood Jr Collection of Royal Visits to India 1876-1906
Lot: 16

Great Britain
Coronation
King William IV
1831 Engraving of William IV with a vignette at the foot showing him signing the Reform Bill, his signature "William R" mounted below, cut from a document headed "The Word", a regular page of passwords for Royal establishments. With a postally used entire letter from Bristol to Norfolk discussing "heavy failures in the sugar and corn trades; tomorrow being Coronation day of much preparation ... in the town", and an attractive Coronation ticket to the Guildhall for Bread (3)

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Estimate
£150 to £200

Starting price
£110