1800 SWEDISH ROYAL PROCLAMATION

Official letter to King Gustav IV from the Swedish Nobility Council. They state that they have not been able to make any changes in the revenue duty because they are divided and deadlocked.

Contents in Swedish. Condition: Very Fine Black Print Broadside on single sheet (really two sheets barely connected), on very thin batonne laid paper, bifolium into four pages. Text on three pages. Handstamped with Boxed Black Crown Postmark showing postal delivery through the Swedish Royal Crown Post to Löderup, Skäne, for public proclamation. Measures 155mm wide x 195mm tall folded. Hole through pages 3/4.

King Gustaf Gustav IV Adolf
House of Holstein-Gottorp
November 1, 1778 – February 7, 1837
Reigned as King of Sweden from
1792 until his abdication in 1809.

Svensk Kronopost - Swedish Royal Crown Post
with Handstamp Black Boxed Crown Postmark

Post Detail:

 Black Boxed Crown Postmark
 of the Royal Crown Post

The Black Boxed Crown Postal Handstamp indicates that this was to be sent through the Royal Swedish Crown Post. The text below indicates it was sent to a church in Löderup, in Skäne near Ystad, in the southeast of Sweden, where it was to be publicly proclaimed.

Gustav IV's reign was ill-fated and came to an abrupt end. His policies had put Sweden at war, first with France and then with Russia - which led to the loss of Finland. The loss represented a third of the Swedish realm and precipitated his arrest on March 13, 1809 which was successfully accomplished by a conspiracy of officers of the western army, headed by Adlersparre, the Anckarsvärds, and Adlercreutz, who had marched rapidly from Skåne to Stockholm. On March 13, 1809 seven of the conspirators broke into the royal apartments in the palace unannounced, seized the king, and conducted him to the château of Gripsholm; Duke Charles was easily persuaded to accept the leadership of a provisional government as King Charles XIII, which was proclaimed the same day; and a diet, hastily summoned, solemnly approved of the revolution.

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