Lot 518 , A collection of early 19th century and later documents and ephemera, comprising a passport dated 1812 signed by Viscount Castlereagh

A collection of early 19th century and later documents and ephemera, comprising a passport dated 1812 signed by Viscount Castlereagh
requesting safe conduct for 'Mr Charles Winckelman' through France to Heligoland (Charles Frederick Winckelmann was a German trader who worked on both Heligoland and Malta as agent for merchants from Liverpool during the Napoleon blockade. He made numerous attempts to gain British naturalisation in order to be accepted into the somewhat exclusive Levant Company, finally succeeding in 1823); a quantity of Lloyds of London-related items, including four account books and underwriters lists of shipping insurers Charles Hobson and Edward Allfrey (1770-1834) and Blakes, Hobson & Allfrey (described as 'Merchants' in the 1808 Strakers Annual Mercantile, Ship and Insurance Register), dated 1805, 1806, 1807 and 1810; four marine insurance documents dated 1800, 1806, 1822 and 1837; Nicholls' Tables of Marine Insurance Premiums, 1853: two further insurance documents relating to the International 1888 Exhibition of Science, Art & Industry, Glasgow and plans of the exhibition site; Phoenix Fire Office certificates dated 1787, 1788, 1797 and 1799 and 20th century items including a Lloyds ticket of admittance dated 1910; an invitation to the 1925 'Laying the Foundation Stone of Lloyd's New Building in Leadenhall Street' and two booklets about the ceremony; a 'Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference Reception at Lloyds' booklet, 1948; an 'Order of Proceedings booklet ...to Lay the Foundation Stone of Lloyd's New Building in Lime Street', 1952; a Lloyds Log dated September 1967 and an invitation to the 'Opening of the Lloyds Building at One Lime Street', 1986

£100-150

Condition:
The four account books are full.

Sold for £650