Apr 10, 2025 - Sale 2699

Sale 2699 - Lot 50

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
GRACE; PRINCESS OF MONACO. Three items, each Signed, or Signed and Inscribed: Christmas card * Two photographs. The card, "Dear Lucile / Merry Christmas! / Rainier & Grace," with color photograph mounted to inside page showing the Princess, Prince, and their children. 4 pages, large 8vo, folded sheet; faint scattered soiling to front cover. The first photograph, "Thank you for / the lovely shawl / Grace de Monaco," full-length group portrait by Sam Levin, showing the Princess, Prince, and their children. Signed in the image at lower right. 9¼x7 inches; few scattered dings. The second photograph, "P[rinc]esse / Grace deMonoco," half-length snapshot showing the Prince and Princess standing with her father John B. Kelly at the Atlantic City Race Track during the United Nations Handicap on September 15, 1956. Additionally Signed by Rainier III, Prince of Monaco ("Rainier Prince deMonaco"). Signed in the image at lower left or right. 8x10 inches; few scattered dings, Turfotos Track Photographers ink stamp on verso. Np, 1974; nd; [1956]

Additional Details

With--Group of over 50 photographs or greeting cards showing or from members of Monaco's royal family including Princess Grace, most unsigned, but including 14 Signed by Prince Rainier, his father Prince Pierre, Rainier's sister Princess Antoinette, Rainier's daughter Princess Caroline, or others. 14x11 inches or smaller; condition generally good. Vp, vd.