Coronation Souvenir Book

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Book is overall bright inside just a little yellowing to edges of pages and few light marks on title page, covers are browned and rubbed at edges and corners. The income from your ticket contributes directly to The Royal Collection Trust, a registered charity.

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Cover: textured gold, embossed gold and blue artwork + blue titles front, embossed gold titles spine; modest shelfwear, extrems worn, esp tail, several tears to joints, from 1/2" to 2" in length. There’s a description of the coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey, much of which we’re likely to see repeated on 6 May, and the booklet finishes with a description of the King and Queen’s visit, when still Duke and Duchess of York, to Hull in 1928.

This is a highly unusual example of a souvenir hand towel produced to commemorate the coronation of King George VI in 1937.

Pages are lightly foxed, and have a slight waviness in places, but are undamaged and entirely legible. Black and white photographs throughout including of the then Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II. pages of B/w photographs of the celebrations plus people of the time around old buildings including the headmaster and staff of Charterhouse School in 1937. Professional Packaging – I always use Top Quality packaging products to ensure you receive your item in the condition it was sent. The towel is rectangular in form and is mostly white in colour, although the top and bottom have red and blue woven into the white.Years of international tension and aggressive expansion by Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany culminated in the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939.