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Auction: 22066 - Historical Documents, Postal History & Autographs - Featuring the Robin Hunt Collection
Lot: 2120

The Robin Hunt Collection
King William IV & Queen Adelaide
1831 - 1849 Collection of items relating to their reign. Printed in gilt, a speech by the King to Parliament and various engravings and portraits including their visit to Brighton in 1831, visit to Eton (the Ad Montem procession), songsheets, the King's bookplates with his initials "WR", a tribute to the Queen on her return from Malta in 1839, stanzas addressed to the Queen with vignettes of Windsor Castle (2), an announcement of the Queen's visit to Hastings, another to Ashby-De-La-Zouch, an embossed card with an autograph religious verse initialled "AR", an elegy on the death of the Queen and a rare admission card "To view the effects of Her Late Majesty the Queen Dowager at Marlborough House" (32)

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£700

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