Item COR_033 - Appointment to V. Marich and Co. by His Royal Highness, Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh in 1888.

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MT NAM PDE_0053-COR-COR_033

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Appointment to V. Marich and Co. by His Royal Highness, Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh in 1888.

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  • 22nd December 1888 (Creation)

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1 digital surrogate of handwritten letter

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Archival history

Private deposit by Ms Doreen Curmi and Louise Zammit La Rosa, grand daughters of the last owner of the business: Arthur Rizzo Marich.

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Private deposit by Ms Doreen Curmi and Louise Zammit La Rosa, grand daughters of the last owner of the business: Arthur Rizzo Marich.

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In 1888, Messrs V. Marich & Co. received another appointment by His Royal Highness, Prince Alfred, the Duke of Edinburgh. Messrs V. Marich & Co. were appointed as cigar and tobacco merchants to His Royal Highness, The Duke of Edinburgh. In the 1890s, besides supplying Navy and Army messes and clubs, V. Marich & Co. was by then already exporting cigars and tobacco to the UK and to the East, having agents established in the UK, Channels Islands and Bermuda.

This follows the first appointment by His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales in 1862, where permission to affix "By appointment to His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales" over the door of their establishment was granted.

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33 of 36 digitized paper documents

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  • Ingliż

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  • Latin

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Size of paper document: 29.7cm x 40cm
Size of digitized document: 3804 x 5117 - 1.12GB
Mounted/not mounted: no mount
Physical condition: paper slightly torn - item re-housed and placed in Melinex polyester film

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References:
Toledo, N. (2022). The Rizzo Marich Dynasty: And the tobacco industry in Malta (1st ed.). BDL Books.

Zarb-Dimech, A. (2022, December 4). The ‘Rizzo Marich’ Dynasty and the Tobacco industry in Malta. The Malta Independent. https://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2022-12-04/newspaper-lifestyleculture/The-Rizzo-Marich-Dynasty-and-the-Tobacco-industry-in-Malta-6736247977

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Date of cataloguing: 03/12/2024

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  • Ingliż

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  • Latin

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Catalogued by: Sabrina Calleja Jackson

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