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Property from the Tenenbaum Estate and Other Owners

Thu, Jun 27, 2024 10:00AM EDT
Lot 1116

Anna Maria Luisa (Last of the Medici), Signed Ltr

Estimate: $300 - $500
Sold for

Bid Increments

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$0 $10
$100 $25
$500 $50
$1,000 $100
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$30,000 $2,500
$100,000 $5,000
$300,000 $10,000

Property of a Private Collector, Hilton Head Island, SC

Description:

Anna Maria Luisa (1667-1743, last of the Medici), Signed Letter , Anna Maria Luisa (1667-1743, last of the Medici Grand Ducal House of Tuscany, wife of Wilhelm II, 1658-1716) autograph letter in Italian, signed, to Carlo VII of Naples & Sicily (1716-1788, younger son of Philip V) regarding wishing his majesty happiness and comfort, dated December 11, 1736, with contemporary note of origin in Spanish on one side, and separate cover sheet with address and black seal of the arms of Medici and the Palatinate, Florence.

Measurements: Height: of sheet folded 12 in. x Width: 8 3/8 in.

Condition:

Overall fair condition, toning and foxing, wear and some small losses and tears to edges, wax seal slightly rubbed, creases from folding, bleeding to ink, some pencil notations, loss to one edge of address leaf from breaking the wax seal.

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