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Photographs and memorabilia relating to Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria (1830-1916) and his family comprising: 1. a birthday card made by him at the age of six to his grandmother, Caroline, Queen of Bavaria, Princess of Baden (1776-1841), who celebrated her 60th birthday in Schönbrunn on July 12th, 1836 2. a birthday card with a watercolour of a cupid, addressed to the beloved Empress and Queen (Empress Elisabeth of Austria) and dated 22.12.1889 (the Empress was born on Christmas, 1837) 3. a similar other card of a flying cupid, holding a bouquet of forget-me-nots, addressed to Theodor (Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, 1839-1909) and including wishes to his mother (Ludovika, Duchess in Bavaria, Princess of Bavaria, 1808-1892) and his siblings 4. a carte-de-visite photograph of the Empress seated in a white dress 5. - 8. a signed photograph of the Emperor, Atelier Koller Károly, together with three other photographs, various sizes 9. - 11. a cardboard sheet pasted with eighteen photographs of his mother-in-law, Duchess Ludovica in Bavaria, some with her holding a dog and two similar ones 12. a leather frame containing three cartes-de-visite of Duchess Ludovica in Bavaria and three photographs of his son Crown Prince Rudolph, one by Atelier Angerer 1869 13. a leather frame containing four photographs of his wife Empress Elisabeth, one showing her with her mother and a footman who carries a dog 14. a green leather frame with gilt crown containing a photograph of the Emperor 15. a carte-de-visite of Archduchess Maria Theresia of Austria-Este, later Queen of Bavaria, Atelier Angerer 16. a signed and dated photograph of Amalie Maria, Duchess in Bavaria (1865-1912), niece of Emperor Franz Joseph, with her husband Duke Wilhelm von Urach (1864-1928) 17. a print of James Fillis on horseback with a dedication to the Emperor's sister-in-law, Queen Marie of Naples 18.-19. two photographs of Emperor Franz Joseph's younger brother, Archduke Ludwig Victor (1842-1919) 20. - 21. a carte-de-visite of the young King Ludwig II of Bavaria and another one of the King in later age 22. a wedding photograph of Ludwig, Prince of Saxe-Coburg (1870-1942) and his second wife Anna Countess von und zu Trauttmannsdorff, signed and dated 1907 23. - 24. two large photographs of Princess Margarethe of Thurn und Taxis, Archduchess of Austria, one Atelier Schmidbauer, signed and dated 1893, and the other Atelier Numa Blanc Cannes, signed and dated 1894 25. - 26. two other framed photographs of the princess, one of her on horseback signed Margit and dated 1904 27. - 30. a photograph of the Emperor's nephew and godson, Albert I, Prince of Thurn und Taxis and another of Princess Margarethe, each holding their first born son Prince Franz Joseph, signed, inscribed and dated 1894; another of their second son Prince Karl August, dated 1900, all Atelier Schmidbauer, a photograph of Fürst Albert of Thurn und Taxis with his son Erbprinz Franz Joseph, in hunting dress, signed by both, Atelier Spiegl, Schliersee 31. a signed carte-de-visite of Duchess Elisabeth in Bavaria, dated 1892, Atelier Reitmayer, framed 32. an engagement photograph by Atelier Elvira, Munich, of Crown Prince Albert, later Albert I, King of Belgium (1875-1934) and his fiancée Elisabeth, Duchess in Bavaria (1876-1965), signed by both sitters in ink, she was the niece of Emperor Franz Joseph, daughter of his wife's brother, Duke Karl Theodor in Bavaria 33. another signed photograph of the Crown Princess, later Queen Elisabeth of Belgium, holding her eldest son, Leopold, later King Leopold III, circa 1902 34. - 42. a group of eight photographs of Duke Franz Joseph in Bavaria (1888-1912), nephew of the Emperor and youngest brother of Duchess Elisabeth, all by Atelier Franz Grainer, München 43. - 45. three photographs of Duke Franz Joseph, Atelier Lafayette, London 46. - 51. four photographs of Duke Karl Theodor in Bavaria (1839-1909), the younger brother of Emperor Franz Joseph's wife Elisabeth, Atelier Düh