Apr 22, 2010 - Sale 2211

Sale 2211 - Lot 19

Price Realized: $ 270
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(ALBUM.) Autograph album containing over 40 Autograph Inscriptions Signed, drawings, Autograph Musical Quotations Signed, by visitors to the Highcliffe Castle in Hampshire, kept by Louise Stuart Wortley. Most are written two or three to a page. Oblong 8vo, wooden boards elaborately decorated with carved boxwood in south Asia motif, requires extensive repair; shaken. should be examined. [Hampshire, 1902-11]

Additional Details

Kaiser Wilhelm II Klemens Wenzel von Metternich Renell Rodd Nellie Melba, twice Henri de Regnier Paolo Tosti Mischa Ellman others.
with--a circa 1955 visitors guide to Highcliffe Castle, home of Major-General Edward Stuart-Wortley, boldly marked in black pen: "Now pulled down; demolished."