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Large and rare gaîné box in green silk with applied gilt bronze and silver bronze decoration with the figure of Elizabeth of Bavaria, Empress of Austria-Hungary (Sissi), in a frame of foliated scrolls and the royal coat of arms of the Bavarian family, dated 1854 and 1879. Inside, a set of old black and white photographic prints of Bavaria: two city views, eight official residences, and two reproductions of paintings - mounted with the dry seal of Joseph Albert in Munich, official photographer of the Bavarian court. With a title "Erinnerung an die heimath" (remembrance of the homeland) and an inventory label "Eigenthum S M der Kaiserin, No. 29" (property of Her Majesty the Empress, No. 29). Height: 7 cm - Length: 48 cm Width: 63 cm Personal mementoes of Elisabeth of Wittelsbach, known as Sissi, wife of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I. Sissi was the cousin of the great-grandmother of the current owner. Sissi was born 180 years ago in the palace on Ludwigstrasse in Munich. Elisabeth of Wittelsbach, Duchess of Bavaria and later Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, was the fourth child of Duke Maximilian Joseph of Wittelsbach and Princess Ludovica, daughter of the King of Bavaria. She grew up in Possenhofen, on the shores of Lake Starnberg, where her family led a simple and free life, close to nature. At the age of 16, she accompanies her older sister Helen to Bad Ischl, the summer residence of the Austrian imperial family, where she is to meet Emperor Franz Joseph, to whom she is promised. When Franz Joseph sees Sissi, he immediately decides to marry her. The wedding is celebrated in Vienna on April 24, 1854, in the Augustinian Church. But while legend, novels and films embellish her life and make Sissi "iconic", the reality is less romantic: the harshness of the Imperial Court in Vienna, frail health and the loss of her first daughter cause her to sink into a deep depression. She goes to Madeira and then
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Large and rare gaîné box in green silk with applied gilt bronze and silver bronze decoration with the figure of Elizabeth of Bavaria, Empress of Austria-Hungary (Sissi), in a frame of foliated scrolls and the royal coat of arms of the Bavarian family, dated 1854 and 1879. Inside, a set of old black and white photographic prints of Bavaria: two city views, eight official residences, and two reproductions of paintings - mounted with the dry seal of Joseph Albert in Munich, official photographer of the Bavarian court. With a title "Erinnerung an die heimath" (remembrance of the homeland) and an inventory label "Eigenthum S M der Kaiserin, No. 29" (property of Her Majesty the Empress, No. 29). Height: 7 cm - Length: 48 cm Width: 63 cm Personal mementoes of Elisabeth of Wittelsbach, known as Sissi, wife of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I. Sissi was the cousin of the great-grandmother of the current owner. Sissi was born 180 years ago in the palace on Ludwigstrasse in Munich. Elisabeth of Wittelsbach, Duchess of Bavaria and later Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, was the fourth child of Duke Maximilian Joseph of Wittelsbach and Princess Ludovica, daughter of the King of Bavaria. She grew up in Possenhofen, on the shores of Lake Starnberg, where her family led a simple and free life, close to nature. At the age of 16, she accompanies her older sister Helen to Bad Ischl, the summer residence of the Austrian imperial family, where she is to meet Emperor Franz Joseph, to whom she is promised. When Franz Joseph sees Sissi, he immediately decides to marry her. The wedding is celebrated in Vienna on April 24, 1854, in the Augustinian Church. But while legend, novels and films embellish her life and make Sissi "iconic", the reality is less romantic: the harshness of the Imperial Court in Vienna, frail health and the loss of her first daughter cause her to sink into a deep depression. She goes to Madeira and then
