Calligraphic Testimonial to the Dowager Empress of Austria, on the death of Ferdinand, from the Reichenberg Katholisch-Politischen Casino.
[Reichenberg, Bohemia: July 1875].
Price: $1,000.00
About the item
Initials in black within gilt flourishes, ink on card, 3 lines of address and 43 lines of text, signed on verso by a dozen notables of Reichenberg. 1 vols. Folio. Black velvet stamped in silver, Habsburg double eagle to upper cover. Fine (minor soiling at margins of calligraphic leaf.
Item #316762
A large and elaborate testimonial from the notables of the Bohemian town of Reichenberg (today Liberec in the Czech Republic) extending formal condolences to Maria Anna of Savoy, consort of Ferdinand I (1793-1875), who was ruler of Austria Hungary from 1835 to 1848. Following his abdication in favor of his nephew Franz Joseph, Ferdinand lived in Reichstadt (in the Reicherberg district) and in Prague, and the condolences conclude with a wish that the Empress continue to reside in Bohemia.
The testimonial is presented in a beautiful late-nineteenth century velvet binding bearing the Habsburg device.
