A court in Madrid has prohibited to the auction house Christie’s get sale letter sent in 1498 by Admiral Columbus his son Diego, valued at twenty-one million euros, as intended Alba House Foundation.
In a decision known today, the court dismissed the appeal by the House of Alba Foundation against the decision last year by the Spanish Ministry of Education.
By that resolution “export of the letter by Admiral Diego Colón his son” was rejected, recalled the verdict, he sees accordance with the law.
La Casa de Alba Foundation claimed that need funds to sustain it, which makes a great effort to sustain the Spanish heritage and that the letter is not a cultural interest.
He also noted that the letter was selected from 22,000 bundles that the Foundation has to be the lowest historical significance as it was not written from the Indies and contain domestic information.
As stated in the request made by the House of Alba Foundation in 2013, it is an “autograph letter from Christopher Columbus to his son Diego, dated in Seville on April 29, 1498, with $ 21 million, and for London (UK) “.
The application incorporated an annex copy of the work and a report of the House of Alba Foundation, which detailed that because of the marriage between the II Duke of Berwick Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart to VIII Countess of Gesves and Duchess of Veragua eight Admiral personal letters were part of his file.
Specifically seven aimed at Fray Gaspar de Gorricio between 1498 and 1501 and another to his son Diego of April 29, 1498.
For its part, the auction house Christie’s referred to a report that this letter has an individualized content as other compose a series of letters addressed to friends of Columbus and Fray Gorricio and details that the first is separated chronologically from others sent his son and can not be considered one of the most important.
However, the court noted that the cultural authorities proposed denial of the request to consider the letter a good of exceptional importance for the Spanish Documentary Heritage “given the importance of the character and collections which has been part”.
The court is also based on another report, the General Archive of the Indies, he did state that all documentation is retained therein and in the House of Alba derive directly from the file itself Christopher Columbus.
The report explains that the Duke of Veragua ceded sale documentation that was on Columbus to the Spanish State, which gave the General Archive of the Indies after the 1929 exhibition.
Understands that the letter from Admiral your child is part of a unique heritage, the private archive of Christopher Columbus, although it holds on two separate venues, and is tata from the same background that should have been kept together if it had not been produced the separation of families Alba and Veragua in the late eighteenth century.
It also stresses that although it is a private correspondence is one of the first cards that remain from Columbus to his son.
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