Cut signature slip by Princess Caraboo / Mary Baker dated 1849

BAKER, Mary (1792-1864) (known as “Princess Caraboo”). Autograph signature, dated 18 December 1849.
 
Cut signed slip (approximately 70 × 100 mm), laid down to an old album mount with cuttings relating to this on the reverse. Overall, very good. 
 
Signed by hoaxer Mary Baker and dated December 18 – 1849 in ink, with a contemporary identifying caption “Princess Caraboo” written above in a different hand. 
 
Mary Baker better known as Princess Caraboo, was the celebrated impostor who briefly convinced Bristol society in 1817 that she was a foreign princess from the island of Javasu, speaking an invented language and attracting widespread attention. After the hoax, she lived quietly under her real name, occasionally engaging with her earlier notoriety.
 
The signature here is written in the same fluent English hand as the only other known signed example by Baker (shown as a comparison in the photos), in which she signs her name beneath her fabricated Javasu script. A scarce autograph of the famous hoaxer of the Regency period.