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Auction: 312 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1673

Victoria I Choice early Manuscript Document Signed "Victoria R" as Queen, 2-1/2 pages, folio, Claremont (near Esher, Surrey), July 18, 1845. Also signed by Foreign Secretary George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of "Aberdeen." Queen Victoria, "for the encouragement of Our Subjects trading to Nice...agreeable to the friendship and good correspondence subsisting between Us and our Good Brother the King of Sardinia" appoints Adolphus La Croix the United Kingdom´s consul at Nice. With wax and paper royal seal at top left of first page. Wear at horizontal fold, with minor splitting at edges and hinge, otherwise VG. Boldly signed at head of first page.

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