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Antique Cape Town SA Signed Letter Military Bandmaster Army Music Charles Haury

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Antique Cape Town SA Signed Letter Military Bandmaster Army Music Charles Haury

Antique Cape Town SA Signed Letter Military Bandmaster Army Music Charles Haury

£150.00

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Bibelotslondon Ltd is a UK registered company based in London Bridge dealing in ephemera and curiosities from Britain and around the world. Our diverse inventory is carefully chosen and constantly evolving. We work very hard to offer the highest quality works at competitive prices. Our inventory is listed online, and we strive to keep our website completely up to date, so our customers can easily check availability. We believe in offering clients items that are unique and rare for aficionados of the antique and collector's world. Bibelot is a late nineteenth century word derived from the French word bel ‘beautiful’, meaning a small item of beauty, curiosity or interest. The word ephemera is derived from the sixteenth century Greek word ephmera meaning a printed or hand written paper not meant to be retained for a long period of time.


Fine antique Victorian manuscript testimonial relating to British Army Music and colonial service at the Cape of Good Hope, signed and dated Cape Town, 22nd March 1875 by Charles de Haury, professional military bandmaster, describing his distinguished service with HM Regiments and the Guards, his competition winning appointment and his recognition by French musicians as the finest bandmaster of his service.

"Sir

I beg to submit my testimonial

thanks for your Brother as Musical

Director &c &c a Superior

Theoretical & Practical Artist as

a Solo & Instrumental performer

upon various Instruments from

H.M. Opera Rehearsals &c a

First-rate Scientific Bandmaster

Bandmaster also from several of

H.M. Regts, the celebrated Band of

the Guards &c Composer, Arranger,

Leader of Music &c with the Philharmonic

Society &c for Reed, Brass,

& String Bands &c M.R. the Reconstruction

of Re-enlistment with my previous

Service I rank as Serjeant can be

accorded if required &c please to

offer your highest thanks in addition

to Officers Quarters usual advantages

&c when serving in England supplied

to an advertisement for a Bandmaster

I competed with 40 applicants &

I selected & surpassed them all

& was pronounced by the French

Musicians I proved to be the

greatest Bandmaster of our

Service


Charles De Haury


R.M. F. Youngman

Director of Music &c

Cape Town, Good Hope"


Size: 12 x 20.5 cm approx

Photos form part of the description 

Sub-Type: Military

Type: Historical

Signed: Yes

Object: Signed Letter

Country of Origin: South Africa

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