Sweden, JON LILLIESPARRE. Commandant in Wismar, a Swedish possession in Germany. Signed document of one page, dated 16 December 1636. (Image1)

Sweden, LOUIS DE GEER (1818-1896). Swedish statesman and writer. First Swedish Prime Minister. Document dated Stockholm 29 november 1864, and personally signed (as Minister for Justice). (Image1)

Germany, Mixed, THOMAS MANN (1875-1955). German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. Two books with autograph on front pages: "Tonio Kröger", Bonniers, Stockholm 1946 + "Ausgewählte Erzählungen", Stuttgart 1948 (small tear on front page). Both in German + Th. Th. Heine: "Sällsamt händer", Uppsala 1947, with attribution. Please see a selection of scans at www.philea.se. (Image1)

Great Britain, MILLVINA DEAN (1912-2009). The last survivor of the sinking of RMS TITANIC in 1912. She was the youngest passenger aboard. Handwritten dated dedication and signature on vernissage postcard from the inauguration of the Titanic exhibition at the Swedish postal museum on November 15th, 2000. (Image1)