Description
Military Commission for a Captain in the Piedmont Regiment, signed ‘V.Emanuele’. In Italian/. 15 x 11 inches Royal wafer seal affixed, three pieces of tape adhering, otherwise in clean condition. With a separate engraved portrait of Vittoria Emanuelle (tape residue where formerly mounted). Torino, 22 August 1814. Victor Emanuel I (1759-1824) commanded Sardinian troops against France (1792-95). He became King of Sardinia in succession to his brother Charles Emanuel, who resigned the throne in 1802. In 1814, Napoleon was defeated, and Victor Emmanuel was able to return to Turin. His realm was reconstituted by the Congress of Vienna.