ANTIQUE QUEEN VICTORIA ROYAL YACHT TELEGRAM DOCUMENT.

An antique framed presentation of a Queen Victoria handwritten telegram, dated 12 August 1863, Antwerp, bearing an embossed Royal Yacht seal. The telegram is addressed to Prince Arthur at Bagshot, Greenwich, and reads in part 'Safely arrived after an excellent smooth passage,' written aboard the Royal Yacht at Antwerp. Paired with a period engraving portrait of Queen Victoria in full coronation regalia, both double-matted in salmon pink and gilt against a black inner border. In a beaded gilt wood frame.Letter 9” x 7”Frame 15” x 19”.

Estimate:£597.12

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