Tchaikovsky Handwritten Signed Musical Quotation Antigua stamps Frank James and Ann Ralston

Frank James and Ann Ralston

Brown and blue on gummed E&R (sideways) watermarked paper

owned by the renowned scholar Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick (1783 – 1848) who assembled one of England’s finest private collections of antiquities

A special set of the 60th birthday of the Dowager Empress stamps called the “Mollendorf” set was issued in 1897

Tchaikovsky Handwritten Signed Musical Quotation Antigua stamps Frank James and Ann RalstonA handwritten musical quotation signed by the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 1893). Tchaikovsky's enduring works include 'Swan Lake' (1876), 'The Nutcracker' (1892), the '1812 Overture' (1880) and the opera 'Eugene Onegin' (1878). The quotation, notated in A flat, comprises four bars on one hand drawn stave from Tchaikovsky's celebrated solo oboe melody, the 'Andantino in Modo di Canzona', taken from the second movement of his fourth