Saxony, Captain’s Commission by Frederick August of, for Günther Karl Albrecht August Freiherr von Werthern, Lieutenant 1^st class with the Prince Clemens Infantry Regiment. Handwriting on paper. Done Dresden October 6, 1807. Folio. 2 pp. on a double-sheet. With own-handed signature above large (remounted) paper seal.

Royal coat-of-arms-watermark. – Coat-of-arms charge stamp upper left. – The usual folding traces not much visible since being soothed out widely. Mainly at two spots the sealing wax comes out on the upper side. – With signature of the clerk Carl Friedrich Benjamin K(?)ietsch. – Frederick August the Just (1750-1827), first king of Saxony, was a longtime admirer and ally of Napoleon. This document only few month after accepting the royal dignity after the peace of Posen and joining the Rhine Confederacy.
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