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Lot# 2338 - Auction 222-226

  • Lot# : 2338 Collections/lots Europe

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    1500/1950c.: Huge stock of autographs and documents with decorative letterheads (vignettes), letters, postmarks, franchises and ephemera comprising more than 2500 items. The main focus is on the 18th and 19th centuries and the countries France and Germany, but also represented are Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Great Britain etc. Thematically very diverse: nobility, military (especially the Napoleonic period ]1789-1815]), politics, religion, French Revolution, art, science, literature. Among the huge number of autographs to be mentioned for example: Empress Maria Theresa of Austria and her husband Franz I. Stephan von Lothringen, General Lecourbe of Napoleon's “Hundred Days” (defence of the Huningue fortress in 1815), General Schauenburg as ‘General in Chief’ from Zurich (1798), Marshal Bernadotte as King of Sweden (with letter), several letters of Marshal Berthier, several decorative French congés from the period around 1800, a variety of signatures of Napoleonic generals (Baget, Barbazan, Belliard, Chateauneuf-Randon, Clarke, Cosson, Desnoyers, Dorsner, Dupont, Ernouf, Gueriot de Saint-Martin, Hatry, Lamorliere, Liebert, Marion, Mengaud, Meynadier, Meynier, Moulin, Petit Guillaume, Rousseaux, Schreiber, Simon, Toulongeon, Valhubert, Vernier, Vietinghoff, Vignolle, Vonderweid etc.), French marshals of the ‘ancien regime’ some represented several times (Soubise (1753, 1770), Richelieu (1759), Castries (1766), du Bourg (1714), Contades (1788), Villars (1728), Biron (1740), Noailles (1756 ), Broglie (1773), Clermont-Tonnerre (1778). Also documents relating to Swiss mercenaries in French service (for example the Diesbach Regiment), document concerning the blockade of Belfort (1814), the Imperial & Royal Leopold Medal, certificate from the Restoration Period (1814) for the Order of Lilies (Décoration du Lys), writings of many politicians (Fouché, Montalivet, Villele, Neufchateau, Voyer d'Argenson, Choiseul, Bonaparte etc.), Prussian generals, officials and politicians of the late 19th century. Also worth mentioning are many examples of fiscal stamps (e.g. Kingdom of Westphalia); different and decorative old parchments with large wax seals, some well-preserved; a large and beautiful stock of woodcuts (from the chronicle of J. Stumpf, 1500-1578, ‘Von den Zürichgau’, siege of Zurich and battle scenes, a small collection of lithographs and steel engravings of Napoleon's Marshal Ney (in passepartouts), portraits of French marshals, old posters of for example Karl Albrecht of Bavaria (1730) and of the Helvetian Republic. About 500 pieces have descriptions with a purchase price of over CHF 50,000 according to the seller. As a supplement there are more than 4,000 documents and letters (not calculated), as well as the genealogical collection of the Von Keler family from the period from 1840 to the late 1930s, with the geographical focus on Austria and Hungary (notably Vienna and Budapest), but also Germany, as well as Constantinople, Beyrout, Smyrna, Egypt. The family included scientists, officers, architects including (through family relationships) such as the Viennese City Architect and the architect Georg Demski (1844-1918), professors Harold (1875-1965, historian) and Roland Steinacker (1870-1962), politician, Zoltan Sztehlo, professor in Miskolcz, the Hungarian General Edmund von Keler, partly with autographs. The entire stock is offered without reserve.
    Starting bid : Bid
    Hammer price : 2,800 CHF