?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(NAPOLÉON.) LOUIS PHILIPPE; KING OF FRANCE. Two items, each Signed as King, in French: Autograph Note * Letter. The first, to an unnamed recipient (lacking salutation): "I authorize Mr. James to give my sister the sum of two thousand francs (I say 2,000F) into a private account." The second, to an unspecified nobleman ("Mon Cousin"), expressing satisfaction on receiving his Noël holiday wishes, and assuring him of his feelings of esteem and affection. Additionally signed by Prime Minister Louis-Mathieu Molé. Each 1/2 page, 4to or folio, the second with inlaid integral blank; faint scattered foxing, the first with few notes in upper margin in unknown hand in red and black ink, folds. "Neuilly," 25 July 1833; Paris, 30 May 1838
