Lot 4537: ÖSTERREICH KAISERHAUS - Archduchess Margarethe Klementine, Princess von Thurn und Taxis (1870 - 1955) - personal silver seal.

Silver. Tall, two-piece hollow stem with blossom and instrument relief. German hallmark for 800 silver. Interior seal lacquer. The seal matrix with cut monogram "M" over mirrored cipher "T" and under a prince's crown. Overall height 13.7 cm, weight 70 g.
Also a letter of the princess to Princess Louise of Bavaria (Prince Alfons of Bavaria's second wife) from 1937 with original envelope bearing on the back a gold lacquer imprint of the present seal.
Princess Margarethe von Thurn und Taxis, daughter of the Austrian Archduke Joseph Karl Ludwig, married Prince Albert I von Thurn und Taxis in 1890.
Provenance: ZAM - Zentrum für Außergewöhnliche Museen, München (Centre for Exceptional Museums, Munich). Displayed under inventory number 7 in the special exhibition "Das Siegel in meiner Hand - Petschaften bedeutender Persönlichkeiten des 18., 19. und des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts" from 23rd July to 15th Nov. 2001. With the exhibition, the former inventory cards, and a copy of a press release from the former museum director with information on the exhibition.

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