1929 Royalty Signed Document Manuscript King Italy Victor Emmanuel III Autograph for Sale

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1929 Royalty Signed Document Manuscript King Italy Victor Emmanuel III Autograph For Sale

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1929 Royalty Signed Document Manuscript King Italy Victor Emmanuel III Autograph:
$299.95

LOT-P63. For your consideration is a rare and authentic 1929 hand-signed Royalty signed Postal Stamp / Document / Manuscript by King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III.King Victor Emmanuel III autograph on his 1929 stamp.The signature is over a related stamp: Italy 1929 Victor Emmanuel (Scott 222).

Victor Emmanuel III (Vittorio Emanuele Ferdinando Maria Gennaro di Savoia; Italian: Vittorio Emanuele III, Albanian: Viktor Emanueli III, Amharic: ቪቶርዮ አማኑኤል; 11 November 1869 – 28 December 1947) reigned as King of Italy from 29 July 1900 until his abdication on 9 May 1946. In addition, he held the thrones of Ethiopia and Albania as Emperor of Ethiopia (1936–1941) and King of the Albanians (1939–1943). During his reign of nearly 46 years, which began after the assassination of his father Umberto I, the Kingdom of Italy became involved in two world wars. His reign also encompassed the birth, rise, and fall of Italian Fascism and its regime.

During the First World War, Victor Emmanuel III accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Paolo Boselli and named Vittorio Emanuele Orlando (the premier of victory) in his place. Following the March on Rome, he appointed Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister and later deposed him in 1943 during the Allied invasion of Italy of the Second World War.

Victor Emmanuel abdicated his throne in 1946 in favorof his son Umberto II, hoping to strengthen support for the monarchy against an ultimately successful referendum to abolish it. He then went into exile to Alexandria, Egypt, where he died and was buried the following year in Saint Catherines's Cathedral of Alexandria. In 2017 his remains were returned to rest in Italy, following an agreement between Italian President Sergio Mattarella and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

Victor Emmanuel was also called by some Italians Sciaboletta ("little saber"), due to his height of 1.53 m (5 ft 0 in), and il Re soldato (the Soldier King), for having led his country during both world wars.