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British made, real metal faced, permanent and untarnishable. Subject to fair treatment they will last a lifetime and be a permanent souvenir of the Coronation” (label). The shields were produced by compressing layers of card with a thin layer of top metal, which was then embossed with the image. The coronation was due to take place on 12 May 1937. A large range of souvenirs were already in production when Edward abdicated on 11 December 1936, and appear on the market with some frequency, but encountered examples are generally smaller and more ephemeral than this plaque. Metal-faced shield (450 × 300 mm), printed label and hanging string on verso. Slight rubbing. Very good. £750 [157158]
several times as its head of government and of state, and a framer of its 1937 constitution. The book is very scarce in the jacket. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece. Very light rubbing to extremities, endpapers toned, a near- fine copy in very good jacket, minor peripheral chips and stains. £250 [115375] 35 DIANA, Princess of Wales. Dresses from the Collection of Diana, Princess of Wales. New York: Christie’s, 1997 signed by princess diana Signed limited edition, number 89 of 250 copies signed by Princess Diana a few months before her death. This luxury auction catalogue was produced by Christie’s to illustrate the 80 dresses that were sold on 25 June 1997, raising over $3.6 million dollars for the AIDS Crisis Trust and the Royal Marsden Hospital Cancer Fund. Each successful bidder received a copy of the signed catalogue. Christie’s also retailed copies for $2,000, stating at the time it was the most expensive auction catalogue they had ever produced. Unsigned copies bound in cloth, and a small format in paperback, were also issued. Quarto. Original purple leatherette, silk bookmarker. With dust jacket (not seen on other copies we have handled, possibly supplied from the unsigned cloth issue). Illustrated throughout with full colour photographs by Terence Donovan, Patrick Demarchelier, Tim Graham, Barry Swaebe, Lord Snowdon, Glenn Harvey, N. Hinkes, and Mark Stewart. A few specks of finger-soiling to contents, jacket lightly rubbed. A near-fine copy. £9,750 [157283] 36 EDWARD VIII. Coronation plaque. Metalcraft Company, c.1936 An impressive souvenir for the coronation which never happened and the king who never reigned. “These Metcraft Plaques are
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