Württemberg, Duchy. An Official Ducal Document Addressing Supply Shortages, 1745 Auction enamel chipping evident in the

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Württemberg, Duchy. An Official Ducal Document Addressing Supply Shortages, 1745 Auction enamel chipping evident in theThe author of the document is Carl Eugen, Duke of Wrttemberg (1728 1793). It is addressed to a man named Christoph Ulrich Moser in Ederheim, in all likelihood a forestry official or similar civil servant, and dated to Stuttgart on October 11, 1745. The signature is illegible. The duke addresses a shortage of (fire) wood and decrees that to prevent this in the future, certain trees are to be planted in certain areas, especially near rivers so as to