LOT Old Heritage Auctions  /  2006 October Grand Format Autographs #629  / 

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Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson Signed Card

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 500.00 USD
Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson Signed Card
<B>Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson.</B></I> Their signatures on a 4.5" x 3.25" card bearing a typed title together with a British 2 1/2d. postage stamp bearing Edward's profile. Edward (1894 - 1972), King of England whose abdication of the throne in order to marry American divorcée Wallis Simpson rocked Great Britain, led to his spending the balance of his life in self-imposed exile (profiting during the war by trading in currencies with the Nazis via his new "post" as Governor of the Bahamas). Light smudging else fine. Offered together with 3.5" x 2.5" black and white candid photo of the couple in the rear of a car. Also together with a circa 1937 pictorial gossip magazine covering their romance and speculating about the couple's nuptials. Together three pieces.
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