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201 - Militaria: FRENCH REVOLUTION/Year II, 1794/Navy embarkation on 21 Pluviôse, Year II (February 9, 1794) from Rochefort (Charente-Inférieure 17)/The ship Le Gasparin for sailor Jean Ducarpe of Libourne (Gironde 33)/Official Arsenal document with a “LA LOI” vignette and a large municipal stamp on the back. The upper portion features a very clear, circular typographic vignette from the period, topped by a laurel wreath encircling the inscription “LA LOI.” The front of the document bears a fine signature from the general administration. The reverse side contains a significant handwritten attestation from the period, drafted by the city authorities: “We, the mayor and municipal officers of the town hall of Rochefort, in the department of Charente-Inférieure, certify that the signature shown here is genuine and authentic and that it is to be relied upon as necessary. On the 21st of Pluviôse, Year 2 of the One and Indivisible Republic.” This declaration is signed by the municipal officials of the time, including Papin and Serre. A rare and historic military document from the Revolutionary Navy, pre-printed and completed by hand, dated at the Rochefort Arsenal on the 21st of Pluviôse, Year II of the French Republic, one and indivisible (February 9, 1794).

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€60 - 80

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26%

Militaria: FRENCH REVOLUTION/Year II, 1794/Navy embarkation on 21 Pluviôse, Year II (February 9, 1794) from Rochefort (Charente-Inférieure 17)/The ship Le Gasparin for sailor Jean Ducarpe of Libourne (Gironde 33)/Official Arsenal document with a “LA LOI” vignette and a large municipal stamp on the back. The upper portion features a very clear, circular typographic vignette from the period, topped by a laurel wreath encircling the inscription “LA LOI.” The front of the document bears a fine signature from the general administration. The reverse side contains a significant handwritten attestation from the period, drafted by the city authorities: “We, the mayor and municipal officers of the town hall of Rochefort, in the department of Charente-Inférieure, certify that the signature shown here is genuine and authentic and that it is to be relied upon as necessary. On the 21st of Pluviôse, Year 2 of the One and Indivisible Republic.” This declaration is signed by the municipal officials of the time, including Papin and Serre. A rare and historic military document from the Revolutionary Navy, pre-printed and completed by hand, dated at the Rochefort Arsenal on the 21st of Pluviôse, Year II of the French Republic, one and indivisible (February 9, 1794).

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Auction details

"The Memory of Wars" by Vasari Auction: Testimonies, Documents, Photographs, Postcards, Stamps
Sunday, November 8
02:00 PM
86 cours Victor Hugo
33000 Bordeaux, France

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Vasari Auction +33 5 56 20 47 93 contact@vasari-auction.com
On Drouot for more than 10 years avec More than 150,000 lots published

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