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Item Ships From: Europe
Pair of Antique Carnival Plaques, Venetian, Bronze, Decorative, Victorian, 1900
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a pair of antique carnival plaques. A Venetian, bronze on oak decorative wall plates, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900.
Fasc...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Victorian Antique Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Bronze
Audrey Hepburn, Original Vintage Photograph by Vincent Rossell, Paris, 1962
By Vincent Rossell
Located in Devon, GB
From the Personal collection of Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn on the set of 'Paris When it Sizzles,' Paris, 1962 by Vincent Rossell
Vintage gelatin silver print
Photographer's c...
Category
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Other
Superman Flies Again
Original Vintage Australian Daybill Movie Poster, 1954
Located in Devon, GB
Superman jets off on this super rare stone lithography daybill poster for the Australian release of 'Superman Flies Again,' a 1954 compilation of three episodes of the hit US televis...
Category
1950s Australian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Antique Scottish Sterling Silver Gilt Medallion
By George Edward
Sons 1
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique George V sterling silver gilt medallion; an addition to our ornamental presentation collection.
This exceptional antique George V cast sterling silver medallion has a circular form.
The anterior surface of this antique silver medallion...
Category
1920s British Vintage Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Grand Tour 18th Century Gilt Framed Classical Carved Shell Cameo "Dario RE
Located in Lowestoft, GB
Classical carved shell cameo in its period oil gilt frame
18th century or earlier in age and likely to of been acquired on a grand tour.
A well carved...
Category
Early 18th Century European Classical Greek Antique Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Natural Fiber, Softwood, Giltwood
James Dean
Rebel Without a Cause
Original Vintage Movie Poster, Finnish, 1956
Located in Devon, GB
A rare poster for the first Finnish release of the Classic 1955 teenage drama "Rebel Without A Cause," with artwork by Engel. Starring James Dean in his most celebrated role as a tro...
Category
1950s Finnish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper, Linen
Cupid with boar. Glass. 19th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Cupid with boar. Glass. 19th century.
Glass cameo depicting a cherub or cupid accompanied by a boar, modelled on an amethyst from the Thomas Dundass Collection, reproduced in an eng...
Category
19th Century Italian Neoclassical Revival Antique Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Glass
19th Century Police Report Buggery With A Horse 1871 William Prudice Curio
Located in Lowestoft, GB
Poor little horsey!!!
A penned police report 1871 by a L. J. Deacon Deputy Clerk of the Peace
William Prudice on the thirteenth day of June, in the year of our lord one thousand ei...
Category
19th Century English Antique Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Glass, Giltwood, Paper
Audrey Hepburn, Original Vintage Photograph by Vincent Rossell, Paris, 1962
By Vincent Rossell
Located in Devon, GB
From the Personal collection of Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn and William Holden on the set of 'Paris When it Sizzles,' Paris,...
Category
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Other
Audrey Hepburn, Original Vintage Photograph by Vincent Rossell, Paris, 1962
By Vincent Rossell
Located in Devon, GB
From the Personal collection of Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn and William Holden on the set of 'Paris When it Sizzles,' Paris, 1962 by Vincent Rossell
Vintage gelatin silver prin...
Category
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Other
From the Personal collection of Audrey Hepburn, Photo by Vincent Rossell, 1962
By Vincent Rossell
Located in Devon, GB
Audrey Hepburn on the set of 'Paris When it Sizzles,' Paris, 1962 by Vincent Rossell
Vintage gelatin silver print
Photographer's credit stamp, Audrey Hepburn collection stamp and numerical notations verso
From the Personal Collection of Audrey Hepburn...
Category
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
American Silver Medal of Military Valor
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Rare American medal of Military Valor - silver US Army - ARMY SERVICE CORP -
United States Army Corps of Engineers.
news: Army Service Corps, a compon...
Category
Early 20th Century American Other Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Bronze
Agnes Varda
s
Lions Love
Original Vintage Movie Poster, French, 1969
Located in Devon, GB
Silkscreen printed in glorious day-glo orange and mauve, this rare half-grande poster for the French release of art-house icon Agnès Varda’s 'Lions Love' p...
Category
1960s French Modern Vintage Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper, Linen
Antique sword stick with carved head
Located in Linkebeek, BE
Antique sword stick with carved head
Wear consistent with age and use
Antique decorative weapon
Measures : Socle 5,5cmx45cm - Sword stick 2,5cmx43cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Hardwood
Audrey Hepburn, Original Vintage Photograph by Vincent Rossell, Paris, 1962
By Vincent Rossell
Located in Devon, GB
From the Personal collection of Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn on the set of 'Paris When it Sizzles,' Paris, 1962 by Vincent Rossell
Vintage g...
Category
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Other
19th C Theatre Interest Photograph Album of Actors
Actresses Circa 1880
Located in Lowestoft, GB
Theatre Interest a photograph album circa 1880 of 150 mainly Woodburytype photographs of actors and actresses.
Mostly annotated, many in an early hand, including Miss Ellen Terry, M...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Leather, Paper
World Travel, 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
World travel is an original film from the 1960s.
Complete edition, Castle films.
It includes original packaging.
8 mm.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s European Vintage Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Plastic
Adventures in Travel, 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Adventures in travel is an original movie in 8 mm/16 mm realized in 1960s.
Castle films, for all home movie projectors.
Good conditions!
Category
1960s European Vintage Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Plastic
Audrey Hepburn, Vintage Photograph by Vincent Rossell, Paris, 1962
By Vincent Rossell
Located in Devon, GB
From the Personal Collection of Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn in the bathtub on the set of 'Paris When it Sizzles,' Paris, 1962 by Vincent Rossell
Vintage gelatin silver print
...
Category
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Other
Antique Georgian Newcastle Sterling Silver Meat Skewer / Letter Opener
By John Langlands I
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Georgian Newcastle sterling silver meat skewer/letter opener; an addition to our diverse 18th century flatware ...
Category
18th Century English Georgian Antique Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Northern European Midcentury Orange Metal and Brown Tan Suede Gym Horse, 1960s
Located in MIlano, IT
Northern European Mid-Century Modern orange metal and brown tan suede gym horse, 1960s.
Gym horse from northern Europe, with four round section orange metal legs, two of which origi...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Metal
Papillon
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese film poster for Franklin J. Schaffner's 1973 drama starring Steve McQueen and
Dustin Hoffman.
This poster is unfolded and conservation linen backed and it would ...
Category
1970s Japanese Vintage Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
$481
Letter signed by the Count of Floridablanca – 1786
Located in Madrid, ES
Rare historical document: handwritten letter signed in 1786 by José Moñino y Redondo, better known as the Count of Floridablanca, a prominent 18th-century Spanish political figure an...
Category
Late 18th Century Spanish Other Antique Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Antique 20thC Framed Enamelled Metal London Street Sign For Strand, WC2 c.1917
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique 20th Century framed enamelled London street sign, created for Strand, WC2 (Central London, Westminster). This sign showcases the icon...
Category
20th Century British Other Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Metal, Enamel
The Cotton Club
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for Clint Eastwood's 1988 Biography film about the life of the Jazz musician Charlie "Bird" Parker
The film starred Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora and Michae...
Category
Late 20th Century American Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
$275
Bandits
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for Claude Lelouch's 1987 crime film Bandits
The original title was Attention bandits!
starring Jean Yanne, Marie-Sophie L., and Patrick Bruel. This poster ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
$206
Adventures in Travel, 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Adventures in travel is an original film from the 1960s.
Production by Castle films.
It includes original packaging.
16 mm.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s European Vintage Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Plastic
Le Poulain Original Decorative Motorcycle
Located in Zedelgem, BE
Decorative motorbike of the 50's - 60's, it does run but needs a bit of tender loving care, a truly fun item.
Category
Mid-20th Century French Other Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Iron
19th Century Victorian Great Western Railway Company Painted Coach Panel, c.1860
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique 19thC Victorian coach panel, hand painted, showing the emblem of The Great Western Railway Company. Founded in Bristol by Isambard Kingdom Brun...
Category
19th Century British Victorian Antique Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Wood
Antique 19th Collection Of Seven Dog Collars In Leather
Metal On Stand c.1800
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique 19th Century collection of seven dog collars, made from leather and metal. Some collars have metal studs and chains while others are smooth leather. A superb piece of history...
Category
Early 1800s British Other Antique Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Metal
Vintage Ballpoint Pen by Alitalia , 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Ballpoint Pen by Alitalia, realized in 1980s.
Good condition except for some loss of colors.
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Metal
$144 / item
Berger
s Germania-Cacao Storage Tin 1900-1930
Located in Oirlo, LI
Discover the charm of times gone by with this authentic Berger's Germania-Cacao storage tin.
A unique piece of history, dating from the period 1900-1930, that is not only a beautifu...
Category
1920s German Art Nouveau Vintage Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Tin
William Theed the Younger 1804-91 Marble Bust of William Ewart Gladstone 1868
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A very finely carved marble bust of William Ewart Gladstone dated 1868 and signed W.Theed SC
William Theed was born in Staffordshire, his father, William Theed the elder being a sculptor and a craftsman at Wedgwood, known for his major work, Hercules and the Thracian Horses for one frontage of the Buckingham Palace complex. The younger Theed studied at the Royal Academy Schools, then worked for the sculptor E. H. Baily. Five years on, in 1826, he went to Rome, where he was to stay a total of 22 years, during that time working in the studios of Thorwaldson and John Gibson.
Returning to London in 1848, Theed enjoyed a good reputation, being a favoured sculptor of Queen Victoria, and was commissioned to produce many portrait statues, busts, and large monuments. He showed work in the 1851 Great Exhibition, and among other high points were a group for the Albert Memorial, and five standing figures on the Inland Revenue side of Somerset House, representing Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast and Dublin.
Theed's statues may be seen in St Paul's (Henry Hallam), Manchester (Monument to Chetham in the Cathedral, Gladstone and Thomas Bright for the Town Hall, and James Watt in Piccadilly Gardens), Huddersfield (Robert Peel), Winchester (David Williams monument in the Cathedral), and Prince Albert statues for Grimsby, and in Australia in Macquairie Street, Sydney. He was also responsible for three of the portrait statues (Bacon, Locke, Adam Smith...
Category
1860s English Victorian Antique Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Marble
Early 20th Century Indian Colonial Silver Engraved Presentation Padlock 1912
Located in London, GB
Antique Early 20th Century engraved Indian colonial unmarked silver and steel presentation padlock 1912.
Engraved “Kasiram . Das, Institution Katwa 1912 FCR” the reverse “A. N. Mober...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Silver
Rare Collector
s Wine, Rose of Versailles, by Yamato Wine, Japan
Located in Roma, IT
This Rose of Versailles - Rare Collector's wine, is a bottle of sparkling red wine produced in Japan in 2012.
The wine is a cabernet sauvignon gr...
Category
2010s Japanese Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Glass
20th Century American Solid Silver Gimbal Novelty Golf Lighter, circa 1900
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique early 20th century American very unusual, novelty solid silver gimbal golf themed lighter, of unusual design, the ball gimbol shaped as a golf ball, mounted with a tusk and a...
Category
20th Century American Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Silver
VINTAGE DISPLAY CASE FULL OF SHOOTiNG SNIPER MEDALS AND AWARDS MUST SEE PIECE
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this very decorative display case housing multiple awards and medals for long distance sniper shooting...
Category
20th Century Other Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Glass, Wood
Key Set 4 Gate Door Overall length 24cm, , 9.5" Diameter 10cm., 4"
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
An iron key ring with four massive keys
Overall length 24cm,, 9.5" Diameter 10cm., 4"
Each key Length 16cm., 6 1/2 in
Ring diameter 8cm., 3"
Category
19th Century English Antique Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Wrought Iron
Very Rare 1898-1914 British Patriotic Propaganda Doll of Lord Horatio Kitchener
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Wimbledon-Furniture
Wimbledon-Furniture is delighted to offer for auction this very rare circa 1898 to 1914 British Patriotic Propaganda Doll of Lord Horatio Kitchener.
If the face looks familiar he was the chap on the Your Country Needs YOU posters as pictured, these dolls are exceptionally collectable, they never come up for sale.
Description Large scale doll featuring bisque head, hands and feet; with a painted character head in the likeness of Lord Kitchener. Doll is supplied with an officer's cap made from khaki cotton drill, leather, gold braid and red felt on a thick card base. The tunic and knee-length breeches are also made from cotton drill and feature four patch pockets, with nickel-plated paper fasteners for buttons, real leather Sam Browne belt and holster, red felt collar tabs...
Category
1890s English Victorian Antique Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Fabric
1918 Order Of Polonia Restituta; Commander
s Cross
Located in Madrid, ES
1918 Order Of Polonia Restituta; Commander's Cross
1918 Order of Polonia Restituta; Commander's Cross - silver vermeil and enamels, 58x58mm, ornate ring suspension, original short pe...
Category
20th Century Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Sterling Silver
Dressmaker’s Hem Height Skirt Marker Beech Skirt Marker
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Dressmaker’s Hem Height Skirt Marker
Beech Skirt Marker for measuring the height of a skirt from the floor up . This would have been used in a shop to make alterations to the length...
Category
1930s Industrial Vintage Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Beech
Sarah Porter, "Queen of the Touters at Tunbridge Wells" Engraving, circa 1770
Located in Lowestoft, GB
After Vander Smissen 'Mrs Sarah Porter, Queen of the Touters at Tunbridge Wells', a mezzotint, engraved by William Pether circa 1770, glazed in ebonised, ...
Category
Late 18th Century English Antique Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Glass, Pine, Paper
Italian mid-century modern Metal floor standing hairdressing helmet, 1950s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian mid-century modern Metal floor standing hairdressing helmet, 1950s
Metal floor standing hairdressing helmet. The dome-shaped helmet features inserts in yellow painted metal, ...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Metal
Rare Suite of Antique Royal Horse Artillery 1 Cannon, 1873-1901 Coat Buttons
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this very nice suite of antique military officer Royal Horse Artillery (1 Cannon - 1873-1901) 18mm ball button with Queen Victoria's Crown brass Mi...
Category
Early 1900s British High Victorian Antique Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Brass
Cameo or intaglio. Glass. Possibly Italy, 19th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Cameo or intaglio. Glass. Possibly Italy, 19th century.
A human figure is presented, half-naked, holding an object with one hand and pointing at it with the other. These types of ...
Category
19th Century Italian Neoclassical Revival Antique Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Glass
Washing Machine, Metal, Etc. Skrat, Model P-7, Leonard Ryznar, circa 1945
Located in Madrid, ES
Washing machine in metal with electric motor which would drive a circular container (which moves the clothes, a "drum"), with a water intake in the lower part to the right and with s...
Category
20th Century European Other Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Other
R Crosby
Son Victorian Burr Elm Wellington Chest of Drawers 160 Crests Seal
By Crosby
Sons
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this important, one of a kind, R Crosby & Son, Victorian Aesthetic Movement, Burr Elm and Oak Wellington Chest of Drawers housing 160 Sulphur casts...
Category
19th Century English Aesthetic Movement Antique Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Elm, Oak
Antique Victorian Silver Wager Cups Modelled as a Lady
Gentleman in Costume
By Martin Sugar
Located in London, London
Carrying import marks for London in 1891 by Martin Sugar, this striking pair of antique sterling silver wager cups, are modelled as a gentlem...
Category
1890s English Baroque Revival Antique Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Sterling Silver
A Rare Collection of Seven Slave ‘Prisoner’ Tokens
Located in London, GB
A Rare Collection of Seven Slave ‘Prisoner’ Tokens
Metal, coins
Australia
19th Century
Size: circular: 3.4cm dia. - 1¼ ins diameter. (max) / 2.5cm dia. - 1 ins dia. (min)
cross:...
Category
19th Century Australian Antique Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Metal
$10,750 / set
19th Century French First Officer’s Uniform Red Epaulettes
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
19th Century French First Officer’s Uniform Red Epaulettes
Good pair of French Officers Epaulettes made in Red Silk and lined in black velvet, the f...
Category
Late 19th Century Federal Antique Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Wool
A wooden Eiffel Tower with a barometer and a thermometer, late 19th c.
Located in Stockholm, SE
A intricately crafted miniature wooden Eiffel Tower, designed to evoke the elegance of Parisian architecture while serving as a functional weather station. This piece combines fine c...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Wood
19th Century Roman Plaquette with Faustina and Antoninus Pius
Located in Copenhagen, K
Very nice roman plaquette with inscription on it. The inscription says something with Diva Faustina and Antoninus. So it must be in reference or to coin...
Category
19th Century European Greco Roman Antique Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Ceramic
Italian mid-century modern Sunglasses in green glass and metal, mid 1900s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian mid-century modern Sunglasses in green glass and metal, mid 1900s
Vintage and fantastic sunglasses with green colored glass lenses and metal profile. The thin metal rods have...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Metal
Vivien Mallock: Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee Portrait Roundel, 2012
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
This is the bronze maquette for a bas-relief portrait commissioned by the City of Winchester in honour of Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee. The final roundel is six feet in diameter and is shaped as a Winchester Rose with Queen Elizabeth II in the centre. She is wearing a three-strand diamond necklace and the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara. Signed ‘VM 1’. English, 2012.
The Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara was made by the House of Garrard...
Category
2010s English Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Bronze
Italian mid-century modern red plastic white writing cinema theatre signs, 1960s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian mid-century modern red plastic white writing cinema theatre signs, 1960s
Set of four rectangular cinema or theater signs. The front structure is made of red plastic with engr...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Metal
19th Century Masonic Pine Chest This is a best quality box
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
19th Century Masonic Pine Chest
This is a best quality box, it has an original painted finish with the Loge details painted in script on the top
The interior is clean, the box is...
Category
19th Century Victorian Antique Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Pine
Elegant Large Rosewood Chest and Mother of Pearl End 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Elegant large rosewood chest and mother of pearl end 19th century.
Spectacular and elegant large box of French origin from the end of the 19th century
made of solid noble wood...
Category
Late 19th Century French Baroque Antique Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Rosewood
Italian mid-century modern pastel green metal sign with white lettering, 1960s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian mid-century modern pastel green metal sign with white lettering, 1960s
Elongated rectangular sign in sheet metal. The structure is painted light pea green and has the writing...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Metal
Set of 11 19th Century Bois Durci Portrait Roundels
By François Charles Lepage
Located in London, GB
Set of 11 19th century Bois Durci portrait roundels
French, 19th Century
Largest: Height 1.5cm, diameter 15.5cm
Smallest: Height 1cm, diameter 11.5cm
This set of 11 panels depicts ...
Category
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Other
Count Gleichen’s shrapnel paperweight. Russian and English, 1854
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
Count Gleichen’s Russian shell paperweight, the tooth shaped fragment of a Russian armament shell set above another of rectangular form both raised on a silver mount on an ebonized rectangular plinth, applied with a plaque reading ‘Two fragments of a Russian shell fired at Mr Fred Burne assist.t paymaster and Mr Henry Crave St John midshipman of H.M.S. Cumberland in Aug.t 1854 from Tsee Fort Bonarsund whilst conveying refreshments to the English camp – for their messmate – H.S.H. Prince Victor of Hohenlohe Midshipman landed with the Naval Brigade in 1854’. With a framed caricature of Count Gleichen inscribed Vanity Fair, London, July 5, 1884. Vice Admiral H.S.H Count Gleichen – the Queen’s Nephew.Russian and English, 1854.
The print has the following biography on the reverse and on the mount ‘His Serene Highness Prince Victor …. of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, is better known in England as Count Gleichen and as the Queen’s nephew. Born fifty years ago, he was sent to school at Dresden; but at the age of fourteen he conceived ideas not to be bounded within the confines of the small life of a German principality. So he ran away from school to go to sea, and his aunt the Queen of England, being informed of the fact, proposed to her sister to let her adventurous nephew become naturalised as an Englishman and enter the English Navy. This was accordingly done, and Prince Victor, as he was then called, was appointed to the Powerful on the Mediterranean Station, in 1848. He served in the Crimean War and in the operations in China he proved a popular officer and a good sailor-man, and was three times wounded in battle. In 1861 he married the daughter of Admiral Sir George Seymour, sister of the fifth Marquis of Hertford on which occasion it was that he put down his title of Prince and took up for future use that of Count. He became, in due course a Vice-Admiral, and in the meantime he also became a sculptor. It is in the latter art that he now mainly busies himself, and he has created many pleasing busts of his royal relatives and some works of greater pretensions than family portraits. An Alfred the Great, a Beaconsfield, and a Prince Imperial...
Category
1880s English Antique Europe Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Metal, Silver
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