Welcome to Personalia, dealers in British autograph letters, manuscripts, and ancestral objects of the 17^th to 19^th centuries

We specialise in sourcing historic items associated with named individuals, most often, letters and manuscripts, identified personal seals, named small portraits (miniatures, silhouettes, wax portraits, daguerreotypes & ambrotypes), inscribed medals, and inscribed mourning jewellery. By focussing upon named individuals, we hope to find material that will be of special interest to archive repositories, museums, genealogists and historians.

We pay special attention to try and keep associated items together, often re-uniting purchases from auctions that have been split into separate lots (eg portraits of members of the same family).

Please note that we are a mail order business, and that material is not available for viewing at our address. We shall be pleased however to provide prospective purchasers with further information about items, including additional digital photographs, upon request.