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Lot 3095
Queen Victoria's Personal Program on Silk for Bizet's Carmen
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
June 26, 1900, outlining a Royal Opera Company production at Windsor Castle. A typed card with the piece gives its provenance, reading, in part: "This document printed on silk was once used by HM Queen Victoria. It was placed on a small table at her left during this memorable event. After the concert ended, one of her ladies-in-waiting, Louisa, Countess of Antrim, put it in her handbag..." Presented in a gilt wooden frame.

13 x 11.25 in.; DOA in frame 17 x 14.75 in.

The Estate Collection of Mr. Clifford Poole, Chapel Hill, NC CEO of Chapel Hill's internationally acclaimed publishing house Hinshaw Music, Inc.

Horizontal fold creases, else very fine condition; smoke odor present.