Auction Date:2014 Jan 15 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Influential Italian noblewoman (1519–1589) who was Queen consort of France from 1547 to 1559 and the mother of three French kings: Francis II, Charles IX, and Henry III. LS in French, signed “Catherine,” one page, 8.75 x 14, August 7, 1587. In part (translated): “The Queen Mother of the King, desiring to satisfy Guillaume Collet and his co-heir of the sum of eight hundred forty francs forty-three sous which is due to them as the remainder of a larger sum. Because of a piece of embroidery furnished for the service of her majesty by the late Romain Collet, and the said lady not having any means to acquit promptly the said piece, [she] had commanded and ordered to M. Raoul Feron, her counselor treasurer and receiver general of finances, that…he is to give and deliver to him his blank and receipt for such a sum.” In fine condition, with unobtrusive intersecting folds and trivial foxing to lower left. Having failed to quell the hatred between the warring religious factions in her son Henry’s kingdom, despite her well-respected diplomatic efforts, Catherine enjoyed relative peace during her final years. Completing payment for a piece of embroidery, this is a beautifully signed document from one of the most powerful women in 16th-century Europe.
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