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ILLUMINATED ADDRESS - QUEEN VICTORIA Illuminated address headed "The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty" "Given under our Common Seal this 15th Day of March 1882" image 1
ILLUMINATED ADDRESS - QUEEN VICTORIA Illuminated address headed "The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty" "Given under our Common Seal this 15th Day of March 1882" image 2
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ILLUMINATED ADDRESS - QUEEN VICTORIA
Illuminated address headed "The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty" "Given under our Common Seal this 15th Day of March 1882"

14 June 2017, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£600 - £800

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ILLUMINATED ADDRESS - QUEEN VICTORIA

Illuminated address headed "The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty" and beginning "We, the Mayor, Aldermen & Burgesses of the Borough of Bolton in the County of Lancaster in Council Assembled, humbly crave permission to approach Your Majesty tendering the expression of our indignant abhorrence of the recent treasonable attack upon Your Majesty...", signed by the Mayor, Thomas Glaister, and Town Clerk, illuminated in gold and colours by "G. Henderson, Bolton" (signed at foot), inlaid within green morocco folder, the covers with elaborate gilt outer roll-tool border and inner border of red and brown morocco onlays, morocco turn-ins, red velvet inside front cover embroidered with laurel wreath and crown, 4to (295 x 240mm.), "Given under our Common Seal this 15th Day of March 1882"

Footnotes

The assassination attempt, one of several suffered by Queen Victoria, had taken place 2 weeks earlier on 2 March, just as she was entering her carriage after leaving the train at Windsor Station. The man who fired at her, and missed, was one Roderick Maclean. He was immediately set upon by two pupils from Eton School, who hit him on the head with their umbrellas until he was arrested.
He was tried for high treason but acquitted on the grounds of insanity, and confined to a lunatic asylum.

Provenance: Gifted by the actor Wilfred Bramble to his theatrical agent (the present owner's mother) in 1964. See illustration on preceding page.

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