Calling card
Category
Household and miscellaneous
Date
1923
Materials
Card
Measurements
66 mm (Width); 105 mm (Length)
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Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 938301.27
Summary
Calling card for Dr. Alfred Bonzon, Docteur en droit [doctor of law], Commissaire de la Societe des Nations dans le Territoire de la Sarre (Plebiscite, mesures conservatoire); black print on white/cream card. One of a collection of calling/business cards contained in writing case, DUN/L/16. 'Hotel Messmer, Sarrebruck. / Villa Ste Cecile. Chemin du / Tzabandan. Lausanne', handwritten in pencil on the front of the card. M. Alfred Bonzon wrote a report in 1923, as Provisional Records Commissioner for the Saar Basin Plebiscite, concerning preliminary measures to be taken in view of the Saar Plebiscite to take place in 1935. This would see the restoration of the Saar territory to Germany after the Treaty of Versailles decreed the Saarland would be occupied and governed by the United Kingdom and France from 1920 to 1935.
Provenance
Stamford collection; devised to the National Trust by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896-1976).
Marks and inscriptions
Hotel Messmer, Sarrebruck / Villa Ste Cecile. Chemin du / Tzabandan. Lausanne (handwritten in pencil)