King George III document takes £7500 at Canterbury Auction Galleries

Estimated at £200-300 in a Kent sale, a military commission that bears the signature of King George III and is additionally signed and endorsed by William Pitt the Elder, Britain’s prime minister at the time of the Seven Years War, sold online instead for £7500.

Part of an August 2 auction at Canterbury Auction Galleries (24% buyer’s premium), the document date…

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