[Austrian Patent of Nobility] Wir Franz Josef der Erste, von Gottes gnaden Kaiser von Oesterreich Apostolicher König von Ungarn … haben, nachdem Uns zur Kenntniß gebracht wurde, daß Unser lieber und getreuer Adolph Baeuerle, geborne zu WIen im Jahre 1822 Großgrundbesitzer … den Adelstand zu verleihen.
Vienna: 13 January 1874.
Price: $2,500.00
About the item
Partly printed calligraphic document on vellum, black ink within printed ornamental borders, ornamented in gold, with polychrome coat of arms. 4 ff. 1 vols. Folio. Purple velvet with Habsburg arms on upper cover, silk pastedowns, with gilt cord and red wax seal in 12 cm diameter brass case. In tin dispatch case, with two partly printed Imperial documents, 1873 and 1874, the second with paper seals. Fine.
Item #310368
Patent of noblility issued to Adolph von Baeuerle, landowner, who was active in the 1873 International Exposition in Vienna.
The richly engrossed document is signed by the Emperor Franz Joseph I (1830-1916) and countersigned by the minister of the interior, Josef Freiherr von Lasser Zollheim.
