AUTOGRAPHS, LETTERS & MANUSCRIPTS
By International Autograph Auctions
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Dec 3, 2021
Urbanizacion El Real del Campanario. E-12, Bajo B 29688 Estepona (Malaga). SPAIN, Spain
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LOT 1492:
KOO V.K. WELLINGTON: (1888-1985) Chinese statesman who was one of the Republic of China's representatives at the ...
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Sold for: €850
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€150 - €200
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KOO V.K. WELLINGTON: (1888-1985) Chinese statesman who was one of the Republic of China's representatives at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Koo served as Acting President and Premier of the Republic of China 1926-27 and as Ambassador of China to the United States 1946-56. Dark fountain pen ink signature ('V. K. Wellington Koo', also in Chinese characters alongside) on an 8vo page removed from an autograph album. The page also bears the signature of Alfred Sao-ke Sze (1877-1958) Chinese politician and diplomat who served as Chinese Ambassador to the United Kingdom 1914 & 1929 and as Chinese Ambassador to the United States 1911-12, 1920-29 & 1933-36, and one other. To the verso appears an A.Q.S. by Gaston Riou (1883-1958) French politician and writer. The five line quotation, in French, is identified as being from Aux Ecoutes de la France qui vient (1913). Dated Paris, 7th March 1919, in his hand. Some light staining, only very slightly affecting the signatures to each side. G
