Mar 13, 2008 - Sale 2139

Sale 2139 - Lot 68

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
BLÜCHER, GEBHARD LEBERECHT VON. Autograph Letter Signed, "Blücher," to Mr. Bischoff, in German, advising him to trust his brother-in-law, War Councillor von Colomb, to handle a legal or governmental problem in which Bischoff and Blücher are involved; informing him that he has established a distillery; encouraging him to take care that the Polish forests are not damaged by livestock; and touching on money matters. 4 pages, 4to, written on a single folded sheet; some short separations at folds repaired, paper clip stain in upper left of first page, folds, minor soiling. Münster, 22 [December?] 1797

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Blücher (1742-1819) commanded the Prussian armies as a field marshal against Napoleon in 1813-15.