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FRANZ JOSEF I, Emperor of Austria (1830-1916). Illuminated document signed by the emperor, countersigned by Count Eduard Taffee, Interior Minister, a Patent of Nobility and Grant of Arms for Joseph Gaigg, Vienna, 24 November 1870. 6 pages, 369 x 290 mm. (14¾ x 11¼ in.), ON FINE PARCHMENT, written in German in a fine Gothic script, headings in burnished gold, full-page hand-colored coat of arms (shield with castle on rocky peak against sky-blue background, surmounted by a pair of elaborately flourished knight's helms, one embellished with upraised blue wings, the other a collared dog), each page with finely engraved borders, bound in burgundy velvet, arms of the Emperor on the cover silk endpapers. Very fine condition. In giltwood frame.
FRANZ JOSEF I, Emperor of Austria (1830-1916). Illuminated document signed by the emperor, countersigned by Count Eduard Taffee, Interior Minister, a Patent of Nobility and Grant of Arms for Joseph Gaigg, Vienna, 24 November 1870. 6 pages, 369 x 290 mm. (14¾ x 11¼ in.), ON FINE PARCHMENT, written in German in a fine Gothic script, headings in burnished gold, full-page hand-colored coat of arms (shield with castle on rocky peak against sky-blue background, surmounted by a pair of elaborately flourished knight's helms, one embellished with upraised blue wings, the other a collared dog), each page with finely engraved borders, bound in burgundy velvet, arms of the Emperor on the cover silk endpapers. Very fine condition. In giltwood frame.

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FRANZ JOSEF I, Emperor of Austria (1830-1916). Illuminated document signed by the emperor, countersigned by Count Eduard Taffee, Interior Minister, a Patent of Nobility and Grant of Arms for Joseph Gaigg, Vienna, 24 November 1870. 6 pages, 369 x 290 mm. (14¾ x 11¼ in.), ON FINE PARCHMENT, written in German in a fine Gothic script, headings in burnished gold, full-page hand-colored coat of arms (shield with castle on rocky peak against sky-blue background, surmounted by a pair of elaborately flourished knight's helms, one embellished with upraised blue wings, the other a collared dog), each page with finely engraved borders, bound in burgundy velvet, arms of the Emperor on the cover silk endpapers. Very fine condition. In giltwood frame.

SEAL: The Royal seal of Emperor Franz Josef, in orange-red wax (diameter 102 mm. (4 in.), a shield device on a two-headed eagle with claws clutching a sword and an orb, a crown suspended above), in two-piece gilded brass protective case (cover with a device similar to seal, with flanking griffons), pendant on a braided cord of gold thread. A particularly fine late example of this traditional form of document.

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