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Maria Feodorovna Empress Consort of Russia Photograph Signed

1928ref. 002034Hvidore: s. n. 1928. Softcover. Original silver gelatin photographic postcard of the Empress sitting on a padded bench in her garden holding an umbrella and a bouquet of flowers; 5 x 3 1/4; minor wear to corners and image; a bit of age-toning and a manuscript note in pencil to verso; near fine condition. Signed in ink: "Maria Hvidore" in the lower half of the photo. Possibly one of Maria Feodorovna's last photographs the anonymous note on the back stated: "The Empress sent me this not long before she passed away at Hvidore." Empress Consort of Russia Maria Feodorovna 1847 – 1928 christened Dagmar was the wife of Tsar Alexander III and mother of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia whom she outlived by ten years. The second daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Cassel she was bethroted to Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich of Russia but after his death from meningitis in 1865 Maria honored his last wish and married his younger brother the future Alexander III. She converted to Orthodoxy and became Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna of Russia. With Alexander II's assassination in 1881 she and her husband were crowned Emperor and Empress of Russia. After Alexander III's death in 1894 she became Dowager Empress and her son Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra were crowned the new rulers. The outbreak of the Revolution in 1917 forced her to travel to Crimea where she received the devastating news that her sons daughter-in-law and grandchildren had been murdered. She refused to believe it and declared it a rumor. Although the monarchy would be overthrown she would not leave Russia until 1919 - first to London and eventually to her native Denmark where she would settle in Hvidore a former country house near Copenhagen. Maria died on October 13 1928 at the age of 80 having outlived four of her six children. Hvidore: s. n. paperback books

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New Sheets! For McKesson & Robbins Incorporated McKesson & Robbins Incorporated Liquor List Oakland California

1939ref. 002017S. l. New York: McKesson & Robbins Incorporated 1939. Softcover. Good. First edition thus; 9 x 6 1/4; pp. A-D 1-91 recto only; black three-ring textured paper-over-card stock binder; chipping and wear along spine and edges; pages mostly very clean with a few occasional pencilled notations; metal brackets of the binder loose; good to very good condition. An interesting and curious piece of Americana the liquor list was issued by McKesson & Robbins to their wholesale supplier in Oakland California just months after the company was in the middle of arguably the biggest financial scandal of the 20th century. Founded in 1833 in New York by John McKesson and Charles Olcott as an importer and wholesaler of therapeutic drugs by 1855 it became one of the first wholesale firms to manufacture drugs and by the early 1900s it had several well-established subsidiaries forming a national drug wholesaling company. In 1925 a former bootlegger and felon Philip Musica under the assumed name of F. Donald Coster M.D. Ph.D. bought McKesson & Robbins expanding it and distributing various pharmaceuticals and alcohol after the Prohibition. In order to inflate the business’ reported assets and skim money Musica enlisted his three brothers and established several fictitious sales agencies to which he paid "Commissions" and pocketed them. Just in 1937 the company's financial statements showed $1.8 million gross profit on fake sales of $18 million. The scam was discovered in late 1938 when the company's treasurer became suspicious and started digging through financial documents and credit reports. The SEC opened an investigation and the New York Stock Exchange suspended trading of the company’s shares. Coster Musica was arrested fingerprinted and released on bond. His fingerprints revealed his true identity agents were sent to arrest him again but before they reached him he took his own life with a gun. The publicity in the wake of this sordid fraud was the first public scrutiny of accounting practices. The SEC began requiring that public companies have audit committees of “outsidersâ and that the appointment of auditors has to be approved by the shareholders. The American Institute of Accountants appointed its first standing committee on auditing procedures and made observing inventory and confirming accounts receivable standard audit ones. The price book contained tables of wholesale prices for various alcohols and quantities including whiskies gin wines rum and more. S. l. (New York): McKesson & Robbins, Incorporated paperback books

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