June Gallery Auction
Fri, Jun 19, 2026 01:00PM EDT
Lot 3119
Ephemera: Tenth Duchess of Manchester and Family
Estimate: $400 - $600
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| $2,000 | $250 |
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Ephemera: Tenth Duchess of Manchester and Family. Albums and scrapbooks of photographs and letters to and from Elizabeth Ann Fullerton Coleman Crocker Montagu, the second Tenth Duchess of Manchester (1913 - 2007). Photographs include socialites and celebrities in the sports, golf and car racing worlds, European aristocrats, including the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and others. Subjects include divorces, robberies of precious jewels and artwork, and marriages, Olympic and other sporting events, and parties, interior design events.
{Approximate dimensions, the largest, 2 1/2" H. x 18" W. x 20" D.}.
Condition
Photographs in some of the albums are loose, minor losses, the newspaper clippings toned, some torn sheets. Please contact the Furniture and Decorative Arts Department for a detailed condition report on this lot.
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From the death of the Duke, in 1977, until her own passing, the Tenth Duchess of Manchester styled herself as Elizabeth Montagu. First marriage: George L. Coleman ( December 25, 1930). Divorced 1959. In the divorce, Elizabeth Ann Fullerton Coleman received a settlement worth millions of dollars, including property in Pebble Beach, CA. Second Marriage: William Willard Crocker (1893 - 1964), married 1960. The death of Crocker in 1964 left Elizabeth Ann Fullerton Coleman Crocker millions of dollars, again, and a manse in Hillsborough. Third Marriage: Alexander George Francis Drogo Montagu, (1902- 1977), the 10th Duke of Manchester, February 7, 1969. After the Duke's death, the Duchess was left property in Kenya which had been her husband's. Some items of the Duchess's property descended to her daughter, Sarah Jane Fullerton Cecconi (1936 -2017). Sarah married Giuseppi Cecconi, called Enzo. The Cecconi's, albeit married for 43 years, lived in Pebble Beach California for a few months each year, and lived for a few months in Europe each year, and in between, they lived separate lives. Cecconi owned eponymous restaurants, mostly financed by his wife. Cecconis' eventual bankruptcy caused them to close operations in Europe, and turn their home in California into a restaurant / club.
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