Live auction - Lot 108
A cheque from the most successful British author of the Victorian era
Coutts & Company bank cheque for the amount of 14£ 12s and 6p, payable to "wages".
Gad's Hill [Higham, Kent], 20th December 1861
Hammer price: €
450
€ 450 / 600
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Lot description
8 x 18 cm, autogr. filled out and signed in blue ink, dry stamp and cancellation stamp, laid down on canvas-covered cardboard (foxing, sm. pinhole, sm. rest of tape on verso).
In mod. gilded wooden frame and glass (studied outside frame).
Dickens has altered the printed "London" to "Gad's Hill", his country house.
Prov. [Coll. Yves Duval].
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