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32 - FREDERICK II OF PRUSSIA. Signed document. Berlin, June 1, 1740. One folio page, address on the back with a wax seal under paper.

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€400 - 500

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30%

FREDERICK II OF PRUSSIA. Signed document. Berlin, June 1, 1740. One folio page, address on the back with a wax seal under paper. Confirmation of a conviction handed down, following an investigation by the judicial authorities of the city of Lüderitz (then in the Margraviate of Brandenburg), by the Royal Criminal Court of Berlin (Königlich-Preußische Criminal-Collegio) against a child murderer (“Kinder Mörderinn”), Marie-Elisabeth Mückin, a resident of the village of Nackel, in what is now the municipality of Wusterhausen-Dosse, east of Berlin: she was to be put to death by the sword, and her body was then to be displayed on the wheel as an example. ATTACHED is the document signed by members of the Royal Criminal Court of Berlin (Berlin, April 30, 1740) containing the aforementioned sentence, as confirmed by the letter above.

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Tuesday, November 24
02:00 PM
66, avenue de Breteuil
75007 Paris, France

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