REGENCY DUKE OF YORK ROYAL OPERA EMPHEMERA
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
£1,512
Auction: Lots 1 - 328 | 13 November 2024 at 10am
Description
including a cut steel key to the personal opera box of the Duke of York, Prince Frederick (1763–1827), the bow engraved to one side with a crowned cypher for George III and the other side 'The Duke of York'; together with a pair of gilt metal and purple leather opera glasses in a green leather case; and a yellow metal mounted walking stick, the top with engraved with cypher of a ‘Y’ crowned with a thistle topped coronet (3)
Dimensions
the key 12.5m long, the cane 91cm long
Provenance
Provenance: By repute given by the Royal Household as a memento to Claudius (Claude) Francis Du Pasquier FRCS (1811-1897), apothecary to the Royal Household. He practised at 62 Pall Mall, and held in the Royal Household the appointments of Apothecary in Ordinary, Apothecary to the Prince Consort, Surgeon-Apothecary to Queen Victoria (after 1862), and at a later date Surgeon-Apothecary to the Household of the Prince of Wales. These items were then in turn passed from Du Pasquier through his wife as a gift to Charles Arthur Jones, great grandfather of the present vendor