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Pair Armorial Plates COUNT STENBOCK Sweden Britain Estonia

Pair Armorial Plates COUNT STENBOCK Sweden Britain Estonia

Good pair of Worcester plates with the arms of COUNT STENBOCK of Sweden.

The family had extensive lands in Sweden, Estonia & Russia.

 

Count Erich Stenbock, Count of BOGESMUND, SWEDEN married Lucy Sophia Frererichs (1859)

a Manchester cotton Heiress her father was a partner in De Jersey & Co. He lived at Landsdown Place, Cheltenham, built a new house, Thirlestaine Hall, nearby. The couple lived there while the Count's Italian castle was refurbished. He died a year after his son, Count Eric Stenbock (1860-1895) was born.

  He was a poet, and writer of macabre stories. He travelled with a dog, monkey and a wooden life size model, he called his son. An eccentric member of the 'Decadent Movement'.He inherited the family  estates at Kolga, Estonia, living there from 1885-1887 which the family believed was haunted.

 

Photo:

Kolga Manor, Estonia.

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Image by Lefevrue

    £550.00Price
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