Details
AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION -- ROYALTY AND POLITICIANS. A collection of autograph letters and cut signatures, comprising autograph letters signed by: EDWARD VII (as Prince of Wales, n.y., about a visit for tea), Benjamin DISRAELI (1861, thanks for a 'highly useful' letter), W.E. GLADSTONE (1896), Viscount PALMERSTON (brief note to the new President of the Board of Health, William Temple, Baron Mount-Temple [Palmerston's stepson and presumed natural son], 1857), David LLOYD GEORGE (to Lord Beaverbrook, 10 July n.y., 'I don't believe the present Gov[ernmen]t can last'), Earl Paulett (1850), and Juan Peron; and signatures of EDWARD VIII (as Prince of Wales, on a fragment also signed by Stanley Baldwin and Queen Mary), William Legge, 1st Earl of DARTMOUTH (receipt signed, 1711) and Charles DE GAULLE (letter signed, 1948, thanks for a copy of Punch), altogether 10 items. (10)
Special notice
Buyers from within the EU:
VAT payable at 17.5% on just the buyer's premium (NOT the hammer price)
Buyers from outside the EU:
VAT payable at 17.5% on hammer price and buyer's premium. If a buyer, having registered under a non-EU address, decides that an item is not to be exported from the EU, then he/she should advise Christie's to this effect immediately.