Philippovich, Eugen von: Albumblatt mit eigenhändiger Unterschrift, Wien, 6. April 1915

This file is a brief autograph-catalogue record for an album leaf associated with Eugen von Philippovich, identified as a national economist and dated Vienna, 6 April 1915. Its scope is documentary and material: it records the item’s format, date, price, and provenance marks rather than advancing a sustained argument. The record’s central claim is evidentiary: the object consists only of Philippovich’s autograph signature, preserved on a single oblong-octavo page and marked by later collecting history.

The key descriptive passage establishes both the minimal textual content and the physical traces that give the object its archival value:

Nur die Unterschrift. - Mit rotem Rundstempel der "J. K. Riess Handschriftensammlung", Inv.-Nr. "1086" und Lochspur alter Heftung.

English translation: The signature only.—With the red round stamp of the "J. K. Riess Manuscript Collection", inventory no. "1086", and traces of holes from old binding.

This sentence makes clear that the item’s importance lies not in a written message but in attribution, authentication, and provenance. The red round stamp of the J. K. Riess manuscript collection, the inventory number, and the traces of old binding all situate the autograph within a history of collection, storage, and handling. Structurally, the record moves from author identification to object description, then to material condition and ownership evidence. Its relevance is therefore primarily bibliographical and archival: it documents a dated autograph trace of Philippovich in wartime Vienna and preserves the cataloguing context through which such a fragment becomes a collectible historical object.