European Furniture & Decorative Arts | Skinner Auction 2645B

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491 Postcard of Tsar Nicholas II’s Children and an Autograph Album, early 20th century, the postcard showing his four daughters and Alexei with a pony, 3 1/4 x 5 1/2; the autograph album purported to have belonged to Sidney Gibbes, tutor to Nicholas’s children, including signatures of Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, Alexandra, Tsar Nicholas, Grand Duke Sergius, Elizabeth and others, Peterhof Palace, 1904. Provenance: Purchased from Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupre, Wiltshire, England. $500-700 492 Photographic Postcard of Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich on Horseback, early 20th century, dressed in a Cossack uniform, Cyrillic text to lower left, 3 3/8 x 5 1/2 in. $300-500 493 Victorian Dinner Menu from Windsor Castle, 19th century, the lithograph with the royal coat of arms flanked by the letters “V” and “R,” above a view of the castle and a list of the courses served, within a gilded border of thistles and oak branches, framed, sight size 8 x 5 1/4 in. Provenance: Purchased from Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupre, Wiltshire, England. $400-600

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