Circular of the Imperial and Royal Lower Austrian District Authority St. Pölten, regarding the public sale of discharged horses. Given St. Pölten September 4, 1809. No place & printer (1809). Sm. fol. 1 sheet. With the printed signature of the imperial and royal Lower Austrian district commissioner A. v. Portenschlag.
Frameworthy broadsheet , “after a notification of the French war commissioner here … 70 discharged horses of the heavy cavalry … are sold to the highest bidder (and) are marked with the letter R.F.”. – Typographic watermark.
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