Billet d'Envoy du Diplome de Monsieur le comte de Monteil a Monsieur le vicomte de Monteil : 16 Oct 1789

Billet d'Envoy du Diplome de Monsieur le comte de Monteil a Monsieur le vicomte de Monteil : 16 Oct 1789

[S.l.] 1789

[1] leaf ; 32 cm

MSS L2002F176.1 M

Presents membership diploma of the Society of the Cincinnati for the comte de Monteil to the vicomte de Monteil, his son. The comte de Monteil died two years prior to the presentation.
Mentions George Washington and Henry Knox, who signed the diploma.
Admiral d'Estaing was President of the Societe des Cincinnati de France.
Notes the inscribed date on the diploma had been erased, since it had been issued after the Comte's death.
Watermark: Vryheyt with motto (see Gravell, T., Foreign Watermarks, fig 381).
Letter acquired with the c omte de Monteil's diploma [L2002F176 (unframed)] and Eagle [M.2002.4.1 (Museum Collection)].

MSS L2002F176

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