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ADDRESS: Parchment, 2 sheets hung in white silk ribbon, Hs. decorated in colour, 41,5, x 31,5 cm. In a richly decorated decorative frame (sheet 1), painted with pictorial representations, a calligraphic writing block based on Wilhelm Klingspor writing, black; all lines of writing lined red. Initials, comprising 2-3 lines, set in dark brown or blue, with golden contours and richly decorated in blue or red; the first line of heels in red ink. Address in portrait-format Gothic letters, their initial letters in different colours, patterned decoratively, in a golden letterbox. Also in the style of medieval book illumination the initial D to the writing pad: gold framed, D floral filled, letter centre shows a Viking with imperial shield and imperial crown in the keel of a Norman ship. On the upper decorative rim under the Grand Duke's crown the coats of arms of Baden and Prussia. To the left or right of it in a laurel or rosary the jubilee number, below on ribbons the jubilee dates. The multicoloured decorative frame, richly decorated with gold in particular, is based on a partly mirror-image stencil, covered by pastel/water/oil colours. View of an Oriental-Muslim settlement (mosque, minaret) bordered by tendrils and leaves in the lower decorative frame of a mountainous background (pen and pastel) on a waterway travelled by two boasts. Ansgar Schoppmeyer. TEXT: Address of congratulations with reference to the role of Frederick I in - the foundation of the empire - colonial development. Signature of President Johann Albrecht, Duke of Mecklenburg and others MAPPE: Brown leather on cardboard, metal fittings, mirror in white silk, 43.5 x 33.5 x 1.5 cm. Two dark brown or gold embossed inner frames on the front cover, filled with individual tendrils and connecting fine gold lines. The midfield with rhombus-shaped cassettes and lily motif embossed; in its centre a gold-embossed laurel wreath, with crown. Back cover with dark brown embossed inner frame; in the cut lines of the inner frames of both covers a round brass button, on pointed flower; gold embossed impact. WORKSHOP: -

Half appeared submarine in inclined position, with two men looking out of the hatch, one of them looking through binoculars, field post from Rastatt ("I have [...] learned that you and the neighbourhood [in Karlsruhe] were spared by the French gang")

Contains among other things: Stays in Kiel (partly Kieler Woche), imperial programme, imperial yachts; German-English relations, English press; stays in England; visit of King Edwards VII of England to Berlin (12.2.1909), his death (7.5.1910); trip to Sweden (1911); obituary on Bodo von dem Knesebeck (18.11.1911); [2.] Morocco crisis and politics of the Colonial Office (6.11.1911); passing on a letter of the Grand Duchess [on Bülow's policy towards England?] to the Reich Chancellor, activity of Allen Baker (o.D..), probably spring 1912); London Conference of German-English Understanding Groups (27.7.1912 and many others); death of Adolf Marschall von Bieberstein, rejection of his successor as London ambassador (29.9.1912) Darin: Mitglieder und Programmtexte des englisch-German kirchlichen Comités (1910? 1913?); Strandpromenade von Cowes (picture postcard, 8.8.1912)

Contains among other things: Florence Nightingale and her social work; English parties and domestic politics; English and German Protestantism in relation to Catholicism; Bismarck's church politics (21.10.1873 and others); Badischer Frauenverein and "Womens Rights" movement (2.7.1874 et al.); Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia (10.7.1874 et al.); strikes in England and Germany (1.1.1879); journey through Germany 1819, church conditions, German segregation policy (13th century); death of the German Emperor (13th century).6.1879); Zulu war (24.6.1879), first Boer war (10.1.1881 and others); Irish migrant workers in England, Irish unrest (10.1.1881 and many others); colonial policy in Madagascar, employment of son Frédéric at the Siamese embassy in London ( (3.5.1883 et al.); Lord [Robert] Salisbury and the English policy on Egypt (13.7.1884); German colonial politics in the English press (27.9.1884) Darin: Briefe der Ehefrau (o.D., 4./5.1881; 31.10.1881, 1.11.1881); banquet in honour of the liberal deputy H. Verney (3.2.1883, press report);

Ketteler was assassinated during the Boxer Uprising on 20 June 1900.