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A Collection of Medals to Members of the Nobility and The Royal Household

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№ 148

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8 December 2016

Hammer Price:
£320

An Italian Letter Patent of Nobility, an illuminated booklet bound with blue Morocco embossed covers, granting to Ettore Bertole Viale the degree of Nobile, signed by H.M. King ‘Vittorio Emanuele’, and dated August 1903, together with the Royal Seal, the booklet also containing the illuminated coat of arms of the recipient, surmounted by a Baron’s coronet
£100-140

Ettore Bertole Viale, a deputy for Turin in the Italian Parliament, and the son of a former Italian Minister for War, was created a Baron by H.M. King Victor Emamanuel III of Italy in August 1903.