Description
The visiting card of a Miss Wyatt of Shepherds Bush, inscribed on verso ‘Yours truly R.C.D.Tichborne’ and dated. About 2 x 3 inches, in fine condition. 24 February 1874. Arthur Orton (1834-1898), “The Tichborne Claimant”, butcher, emigrant to Australia, and imposter, who returned to England in 1866 and impersonated Richard Charles Tichborne (1829-1854), the presumptive heir to estates of the Tichborne family in Hampshire, who was lost at sea. He was sentenced to 14 years penal servitude, being released in 1884.