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| Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD | |||
| Autograph Auction | |||
| Auctioneer: | IAA International Autograph Auctions Ltd | Location: | Radisson Edwardian Hotel, Heathrow |
| Contact: | Tel: +44 (0)115 845 1010 Fax: +44 (0)115 845 1009 | ||
| Date: | 14th December 2013 | Time: | 11:00AM |
| Details: | Midland Viewing: Only in the week prior at our offices at Foxhall Business Centre Day of Auction from 9am |
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| Auction Lots - Page 11 | |||
| 500 | |||
| KENNEDY ROBERT: (1925-1968) American Politician, United States Attorney General 1961-64. Bold black fountain pen ink signature ('Robert Kennedy') on the printed visiting card of the Attorney General, Washington, with a gold embossed emblem at the head. One very slight, minor paperclip indentation to the upper left corner, otherwise VG £100 - 120 |
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| 501 | |||
| PERON JUAN: (1895-1974) President of Argentina 1946-55 & 1973-74. D.S., Juan Peron, one page, folio, Buenos Aires, 14th June 1946, in Spanish. The attractively printed document authorises the 'Minister Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs….Juan Atilio Bramuglia, to proceed, together with the Plenipotentiary appointed for the purpose by the Government of the Republic of Peru, to the signing of a Convention on travellers in transit.' Boldly signed at the foot in dark fountain pen ink by Peron and countersigned by Angel Borlenghi (1904-1962) Argentine Politician and Labor Leader, closely associated with the Peronist movement. With blind embossed paper seal affixed. With blank integral leaf. A few extremely minor, small spots of foxing to the edges, not affecting the text or signatures, VG £200 - 300 |
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| 502 | |||
| DAYAN MOSHE: (1915-1981) Israeli Military Leader and Politician. Signed 3.5 x 5 photograph of Dayan in a semi profile head and shoulders pose. Signed ('M. Dayan') with his name alone in ink to a clear area at the base of the image. Accompanied by a T.L.S. by Dayan's secretary, one page, 8vo, Zahala, 5th July 1981, to William Paddison, forwarding the autograph. VG £80 - 100 |
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| 503 | |||
| WORLD LEADERS: Selection of signed First Day Covers by various World leaders (including five Prime Ministers of New Zealand) including Gerhard Schroder, James Bolger, Helen Clark, Geoffrey Palmer, Dominique de Villepin, Michael Moore, Ruud Lubbers, Jenny Shipley, Betty Boothroyd, Marek Belka, Charles Haughey etc. VG, 12 £80 - 100 |
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| 504 | |||
| WORLD POLITICS: Selection of signed cards, signed postcard photographs and slightly larger etc., by various political leaders including Ndugu Ali Hassan Mwinyi, Daniel arap Moi, Dawda Jawara, Cheddi Jagan, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Chiang Ching-kuo (2), Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, Kwame Nkrumah, Wan Waithayakon etc. A few FR, generally G to VG, 18 £100 - 120 |
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| 505 | |||
| WORLD POLITICS: Selection of signed cards, pieces, a few postcard photographs etc., by various political leaders, including Tunku Abdul Rahman, Alexander Bustamante, Prince Souvanna Phouma, Abolhassan Banisadr (5), Norodom Suramarit, Manuel Noriega, Prince Khammao, Norodom Sihanouk, Marcos Perez Jimenez, Marcello Caetano, Mohammad Maiwandwal, Agatha Barbara etc. Some FR, G to about VG, 24 £100 - 120 |
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| 506 | |||
| WORLD POLITICS: Selection of signed pieces, cards, a few signed postcard photographs, T.Ls.S. etc., by various political leaders including Roy Welensky, William M. Hughes (unusual autograph envelope signed, addressed in his hand to David Lloyd George at 10 Downing Street and marked Secret, 3rd September 1917), Stanley Bruce, John Gorton, Malcolm Fraser, William Massey, Walter Nash, Sidney Holland, Peter Fraser, David Lange, Godfrey Huggins, Maurice Dorman, Mauno Koivisto, Paavo Vayrynen, Kalevi Sorsa, Thorbjorn Falldin, Olaf Palme, Michael Manley, Agatha Barbara etc. A few duplicates. Some FR, generally G to VG, 53 £100 - 150 |
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| 507 | |||
| HISTORICAL: Selection of signed Free Front envelope panels by various politicians, nobility and other famous individuals including William Nelson (brother of Horatio), Earl of Dartmouth, Earl of Galloway, Baron Ellenborough, Duke of Beaufort, Baron Braybrooke, Duke of Montrose, Viscount Courtenay, William Garrow, Duke of Rutland, Viscount Wentworth, Edward Knatchbull, Earl of Berkeley, Earl Grosvenor, Lady Byron (unsigned), Earl of Sefton (signed commission relating to the Lancashire Lieutenancy, 1852) etc. Most are neatly laid down and with annotations in the hand of a collector. FR to generally G, 42 £80 - 100 |
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| 508 | |||
| HISTORICAL: Selection of A.Ls.S. by various military and political figures including Lord Roberts VC (referring to the number of troops Redvers Buller had in Natal in 1900), Gerald Balfour, Viscount Knollys, Viscount Alverstone, Cecil Spring-Rice (referring to the Russo-Japanese War), 2nd Earl of Selborne, Marquess Curzon of Keddleston (referring to the appointment of his Private Secretary in India), William Lecky, St. John Brodrick, Clementine S. Churchill etc. Some of the letters are accompanied by the original envelopes and many are addressed to Bernard Holland and have interesting content. Generally VG, 14 £100 - 150 |
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| 509 | |||
HISTORICAL: A small 4to album containing over 100 signed clipped pieces, Free Front envelope panels, A.Ls.S. etc., by a variety of famous Victorians and Edwardians etc., some laid down to pages and many loosely inserted, including William Huskisson, Frank R. Benson, Letty Lind, Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman, Charles Bell, Earl Kitchener, John Hobhouse, Percy Frankland, Charles Wyndham, Archibald Joyce, Peter Mark Roget, Margaret Lloyd George, Auguste Van Biene (A.M.Q.S.), Louis Battenberg, Francis Grant, Sidney Webb, T. B. Macaulay, Lord Methuen, H. Gordon Selfridge, Sabine Baring Gould, Frederick Treves, Anthony Hope Hawkins, Martin Tupper, Rufus Isaacs, G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Ransome, John Galsworthy, Hall Caine, Arnold Bennett, Ferdinand de Lesseps, John Masefield etc., also including some printed ephemera and newspaper clippings etc. The album lacking its spine and both boards loose, FR to G £100 - 150AVIATION |
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| 510 | |||
| AVIATION: Joseph Le Brix (1899-1931) French Aviator & Dieudonne Costes (1892-1973) French Aviator, together making several record breaking long distance flights. Autograph Statement Signed, Le Brix and D Costes, one page, Geneva, 30th May 1928, in French. The statement, in the hand of Le Brix, reads, in full, 'Through aviation and long-distance flight, the peoples will come to know and to appreciate one another better'; Commander Pierre Weiss (1889-1970) French Military Aviator. Autograph Statement Signed, Comdt. Weiss, one page, folio, n.p., n.d., in French, stating, in part, 'It is the lovely, buoyant appearance of our craft, more rapid than thought, which shall gently expel war, darkness and desire from the hearts of men…'; Ernest Archdeacon (1863-1950) French Lawyer & Sportsman, co-founder of the Aero-Club de France in 1898, the oldest such club in the world. Autograph Statement Signed, Ernest Archdeacon, one page, 4to, Meulan, 11th August 1931, on the illustrated printed stationery of L'Esperanto boat, in French. Archdeacon writes, in part, 'In order to pacify our planet, we must inevitably bring about...the general elimination of all debts among nations, the general adoption of complete free exchange, the general adoption of an international language of exchange which alone will enable universal understanding. That international language exists; it is called Esperanto....with these three conditions simultaneously satisfied, we could very quickly establish the United States of the World, the only possible solution to the problem.' Lightly mounted to a folio sheet, causing very slight wrinkling at the corners. Genertally VG, 3 £100 - 120 The statements were prepared for publication in the Pax Mundi book; an anthology of sentiments on peace published in Switzerland by the World League for Peace. Between 1925 and 1932 many notable persons from around the world were asked to comment on the prospects of world peace and the volume included contributions from Marie Curie, Guglielmo Marconi, Albert Einstein, Rabindranath Tagore and many others. |
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| 511 | |||
| AVIATION: Selection of signed First Day Covers by various aviation pioneers and famous pilots, some associated with the Battle of Britain, including Tom Sopwith, Jean Batten, Roland Beamont, James Lacey, Don Bennett, Johnnie Johnson, Peter Townsend, Edgar Percival, Ronald Berry, F.M.F. West VC etc. A few are multiple signed and all feature colour designs, some commemorating the signatories or other famous pilots etc. VG, 11 £100 - 120 |
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| 512 | |||
| AVIATION: James H. Doolittle (1896-1993) American Pioneer Aviator, led the Doolittle Raiders during World War II. Vintage signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph of Doolittle in a head and shoulders pose wearing his uniform. Signed in fountain pen ink across a light area of the image (very minor smudge to signature); Richard E. Byrd (1888-1957) American Naval officer, a pioneering aviator and polar explorer. T.L.S., R E Byrd, one page, 4to, Lima, Ohio, 9th March 1932, to Honorable Curtis D. Wilbur, stating that he is puzzled as to why he has not received a reply from the City Manager of Oakland, despite considerable publicity appearing in a paper, and mentioning being involved in a strenuous lecture tour; together with signed postcard photographs by Charles E. Rosendahl (depicting the Hindenburg airship in flames, 1937) and balloonist Alfred Eckert. Generally VG, 4 £100 - 120 |
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| 513 | |||
| OPERATION CROSSROADS: A scarce set of nine individual vintage signed feint ruled index cards by the crew of the B-29 Superfortress Dave's Dream, which dropped the atomic bomb Gilda in the first nuclear weapon test at Bikini Atoll on 1st July 1946, comprising Woodrow Swancutt, William C. Harrison, Jack Cothron, Paul Chenchar, William Adams, Harold H. Wood, Robert Glenn, Herbert Lyons and Roland Modlin. All have signed their names in fountain pen inks, adding their ranks beneath. Most are briefly annotated in ink in the hand of a collector and most are dated 10th June 1949 in pencil to the verso. Some very light age wear, VG, 9 £200 - 300 The dropping of the atomic bomb Gilda on Bikini Atoll represented the fourth atomic explosion in history (following an experimental explosion in the New Mexico desert, and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II in 1945) although was the first to be publicised in advance. |
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| 514 | |||
| AVIATION: A good selection of signed 8 x 10 photographs and slightly smaller by various famous aviators including Robert Stanford Tuck, Johnnie Johnson, John Cunningham, Neville Duke, Chuck Yeager, Bertrand Piccard, Jeana Yeager & Dick Rutan, Elly Beinhorn, Beryl Markham etc. A few vintage. Generally VG, 10: £100 - 150 |
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| 515 | |||
| CONCORDE: Miscellaneous selection of signed colour prints and photographs etc., all relating to Concorde comprising Concorde - The Homecoming by Stephen Brown (Limited Edition number 4 of 50 signed by the artist to the lower white border alongside an original pencil remarque of Concorde, and also signed by nine pilots and crew of Concorde comprising Mike Bannister, David Rowland, Dick Routledge, Paul Eggington, Derek Woodley, Peter Sinclair, Trevor Norcott, Les Brodie and Warren Hazleby, each in bold pencil to the lower white border), Concorde - Second to None by Stephen Brown (Limited Edition number 162 of 400 signed by the artist to the lower white border and also signed by Christopher Orlebar, David Leney and John Lidiard individually, each in bold pencil with their names alone to the lower white border), two large original pencil technical drawings relating to the prototype and pre-production of Concorde, numbered E80 8732 and E80 8523, and each accompanied by certificates of authenticity bearing facsimile signatures of Brian Trubshaw, four different colour photographs of Concorde individually signed by Mike Bannister and Adrian Meredith, a hardback edition of Concorde - A Photographic Tribute signed by Adrian Meredith, and two different colour prints depicting Concorde by artist Anthony Hansard, individually signed by the artist and Captain Jock Lowe in pencil to the lower white border (framed and glazed). Most rolled, generally VG, 11 £100 - 150 |
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| 516 | |||
| ANDREW PRINCE: (1960- ) Duke of York, son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. Signed 12 x 10 photograph of the Prince standing in a full length pose, wearing his flying overalls, alongside several ground crew and a Chipmunk aircraft at RAF Benson on the occasion of the Prince's first solo flight on 13th April 1979. Signed ('Andrew') and dated 1979 in his hand in blue ink to the lower photographer's mount beneath a calligraphic caption. About EX £80 - 100 During March and April 1979 Prince Andrew was enrolled at the Royal Naval College Flight, and underwent pilot training, until he was accepted as a trainee helicopter pilot and signed on for twelve years from 11 May 1979. |
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| 517 | |||
| NIKOLAYEV ANDRIAN: (1929-2004) Russian Cosmonaut, crew member of Vostok 3 (1962) and Commander of Soyuz 9 (1970). Husband of Valentina Tereshkova, and the first person to make a television broadcast from space. Autograph Statement Signed, A Nikolayev, one page, 8vo, n.p., 15th September 1994, in Russian. Nikolayev writes, in full, 'The autographs were made after solving these three [chess] problems during the 18 day flight in the space ship Soyuz 9'. VG £80 - 100 Chess is quite likely to have been the first board game of any kind to have been played in space, and Nikolayev referred to it in his Soyuz 9 log book, 'Day off....Dawn [ground control] offered to play us a game of chess'. |
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| 518 | |||
| VON BRAUN WERNHER: (1912-1977) German-American Rocket Scientist. D.S., with his initial B (twice), one page, 4to, n.p. (Alabama), n.d. (c. November 1962). The typed document comprises a series of six notes seemingly compiled by Ernst Stuhlinger on 13th November 1962 and relating to the Marshall Space Flight Centre, with various headings including Space Radiation Program, Micrometeoroid Project and OMSF Research Program. Von Braun has made various pencil annotations (ticks, exclamation marks, underlining) alongside the notes and penned a bold pencil note to Stuhlinger ('E.S.') at the base, in full, 'Suggestions? I think this will work only as long as tasks are reasonably "Saturn-related" ', directly relating to his views on the funds available to the Marshal Space Flight Center for supporting research. Two file holes to the upper edge, not affecting the text or signatures. VG £100 - 120 Ernst Stuhlinger (1913-2008) German-born American Atomic, Electrical and Rocket Scientist who worked alongside Von Braun and his team to develop guidance systems for the US Army. Stuhlinger, like Von Braun, later became a NASA scientist. |
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| 519 | |||
| ARMSTRONG NEIL: (1930-2012) American Astronaut, Commander of Apollo XI (1969). The first man to walk on the moon. Signed and inscribed colour 8 x 10 photograph, the NASA image depicting Armstrong in an early half length pose. The NASA emblem can be partially seen on the wall in the background. Signed in bold black ink across a light area at the head of the image. About EX £400 - 600 |
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| 520 | |||
| ASTRONAUTS: Selection of signed 8 x 10 photographs, most colour, by various astronauts, some of them moonwalkers, including John Young, Walt Cunningham, Edgar Mitchell, Fred Haise, Al Worden, James McDivitt, John Glenn etc. Some slight surface creasing to Young's image, otherwise VG, 8 £100 - 150 |
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| 521 | |||
ASTRONAUTS: Selection of signed colour 8 x 10 photographs by various astronauts, most associated with Space Shuttle missions, including Jack Lousma, Joe Engle, Gordon Fullerton, David Hilmers, Mae Jemison, Eileen Collins, Umberto Guidoni, Karol Bobko, Kathryn Thornton, Pierre Thuot, Richard Truly, James Van Hoften, Loren Shriver, James McDivitt, Richard Searfoss etc. VG, 21 £100 - 150MILITARY & NAVAL LEADERS |
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| 522 | |||
| NAPOLEON I: (1769-1821) Emperor of France 1804- 14, 1815. D.S., Np, at the foot, as Emperor of the French and King of Italy, one page, folio, Imperial Palace of the Tuileries, 14th February 1809, in French. The manuscript document is a decree (numbered 326) presented to the Grand Chancellor of the Order of the Iron Crown, and names nineteen officers and men who are to be Knights of the Order of the Iron Crown. The list of individuals includes Captains and other officers drawn from the 1st Regiment of Italian Light Infantry, the 4th Regiment of Italian Infantry of the Line, the Royal Italian Chasseurs, the Napoleon Regiment of Dragoons and the Italian Regiment of Sappers. An attractively penned, clean and crisp document. VG £1000 - 1200 Napoleon founded the Order in 1805, three weeks after being crowned King of Italy, using the Iron Crown, as Charlemagne had been. Said to contain a nail of the True Cross, it was made for Agilulf's Queen Theodelinda, the first royal Lombard to be Christian, and who died in 628. The present document lists a considerable part of the Order, the number of ordinary Knights, half the total, being limited to 50. The French Order ceased to exist in 1815, but an Austrian order (which lasted till 1918) was founded to mark their recovery of Lombardy. |
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| 523 | |||
| CRIMEAN WAR: Small collection of interesting A.Ls.S. by various British military officers serving in the Crimean War, including Major Francis Beckford Ward (1821-1876) Long A.L.S., F B Ward, eight pages, 8vo (onion skin paper), Camp at Karani, 15th July 1855, to his Father, in part, 'Preparations for a new bombardment are still slowly progressing....Rumours are again afloat that we are likely to have a new Commander in Chief....We are supposed to have about 22,000 English bayonets here, and of arms, including cavalry and artillery between 30,000 and 40,000 fighting men. The French state their numbers are about 72,000 of all arms, the Sardinians about 15,000, the Turks between 20,000 and 30,000, making in round numbers the allied forces to number about 150,000!!....An army composed of so many different elements and with no real and decided want of purpose reigning amongst its chiefs, must always loose considerable force in action. Undoubtedly a very large proportion of our forces are employed in the trenches, but it seems a sad pity that as magnificent an army as that drawn up round about Sebastapol should lie inactive....The much boasted Land Transport Corps requires great improvements before it can be deemed anything like efficient. Lavish has been the expenditure....but I see only camels, buffalos, horses and mules without either men to take care of them, or carriages for them to draw! Day by day ship loads of Spanish horses and mules from Gibraltar, Constantinople, Sinope etc., are discharged upon these shores and there being nobody to care for them, they are seen straying about in all directions....The majority of these animals I should say have cost our Government nearly £60 each before they are landed here. The fact is that from first to last there is a total lack of system in all our departments. In such matters we are out done by the French. In these respects they are decidedly a military nation....everyone knows how to improve his rations and, whilst the English soldier is standing, gazing about him, discontented with what is put into his mouth, and yet never dreaming of even moving his little finger to render his food more palatable or his discomfort less, our allies are seen cheerily trudging under their burdens when returning from some foraging expedition (certainly not always very scrupulous ones) and seemingly as gay and cheery as if in their own country! Our fellows have always been accustomed to be too dependant on having everything found for them....Notwithstanding all this, as a soldier, or at the moment of great danger, the Frenchman is not to be compared to the Englishman, and of this I believe, none are more convinced, than they are. I think that there is no doubt but that this campaign will have taught them a lesson that they will not readily forget, to the effect that the French could never really make any stand against the English. No doubt we have much to learn....but our fighting qualities are duly acknowledged by all. The Frenchman is indeed a mass of contradiction, from beginning to end. One moment he is natty in the extreme, with waist contracted, trousers inflated balloon fashion, and with every colour of the rainbow in his uniform. At the next he is dirty beyond measure. They have established enormous pens for their commiserate cattle, but as they roam over the country with their herds seeking fodder, and when the poor beasts fall dead from disease or want of sustenance, they never think of burying them, but leave them as they fall, to contaminate the whole neighbourhood.....The Russians made a sortie on Saturday night against the Mamelon. The French saw them coming on, and deserted the advance parallel, sending bodies of Zouaves to circumvent their right and left, and they then caught them in a trap. They then poured deadly volleys upon the Russians causing terrible havoc, and forcing them to retire with great loss. It is said that contrary to their usual daring, the Russians required great exertions to get to the front, and they seemed to be quite losing heart. I trust this may be true!'; together with an A.L.S. from N. Grahame, five pages, 8vo, Camp before Sebastapol, 4th May 1855, to his father, commenting on his recent activities and referring to Balaclava, a fight between the French and Russians and his capture of a Russian Sheep dog, accompanied by the original envelope; and an A.L.S. from Field, three pages, 4to, Hyde, 22nd October 1854, to Matthew John Harpley, a Veterinary Surgeon with the Royal Artillery in Constantinople, also with interesting content. Together with a small selection of A.Ls.S. and Ds.S., also of a military nature, 1793-1813. Some age wear, generally G to about VG, 12 £300 - 400 |
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| 524 | |||
| BUCKLEY CECIL WILLIAM: (1830-1872) British Lieutenant (later Captain) of the Royal Navy, Victoria Cross winner for his actions on board HMS Miranda during the Crimean War on 29th May 1855. Buckley was the first winner of the VC to be actually gazetted. Early A.L.S., C W Buckley, three pages, 8vo, n.p., n.d., to 'My dearest Mama & Pater'. Written whilst away at school, Buckley thanks his parents for a package and apologises for the delay in doing so, further referring to his studies, including verses and translations of Euripides, and further remarking 'I do not think that there is any boy in the school who has a Mama or Pater who thinks more kindly of their little boy at school….It is not a very long time now before I shall be at home with you again.' With integral address leaf (small area of paper loss when originally opened). About VG £100 - 150 |
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| 525 | |||
| BUTLER THOMAS ADAIR: (1836-1901) British Army Major, Victoria Cross winner for his actions at Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny, 9th March 1858. A.L.S., T A Butler, one page, 8vo, Camberley, Surrey, 11th December 1900, to Mr. Morely. Butler encloses a Postal Order (no longer present) and asks that it paid out 'to the poor I usually send it to at Xmas.' He continues to refer to his own poor health, 'I am weak and ill, unable to walk or go from one room to another except for a short time.' About VG £100 - 120 |
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| 526 | |||
| OMDURMAN BATTLE OF: An unusual printed folio proclamation, comprising over thirty lines of text in Arabic, with a small circular official stamp at the foot, annotated and signed in fountain pen ink at the base by Reginald Wingate, in full, 'Proclamation from the Khalifa Abdulla to "all the Faithful" enforcing on them to rise for the Jihad. Taken in the Khalifa's house in Omdurman, after the Battle of Khartoum on 2. Sep. 1898'. Some light overall age toning, otherwise VG £100 - 150 Reginald Wingate (1861-1953) British General and Administrator in Egypt and the Sudan. Governor-General of the Sudan 1899-1916 and High Commissioner in Egypt 1917-19. Abdallahi ibn Muhammad (1846-1899) Sudanese Ansar General and Ruler, also known as The Khalifa. His attempt to create an Islamist military dictatorship led to widespread discontent and his eventual defeat and death at the hands of the British. The Battle of Omdurman took place on 2nd September 1898 when an army commanded by British General Sir Herbert Kitchener defeated the army of Abdullah al-Taashi. Part of the War of the Sudan, the Battle marked the success of British efforts to re-conquer the Sudan. |
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| 527 | |||
| FRENCH JOHN: (1852-1925) 1st Earl of Ypres. Anglo-Irish Field Marshal of World War I. A.L.S., J D P French, three pages, 4to, Middelburg, South Africa, 12th June 1902, to Miss. Ball. French states that the sad news about his correspondent's brother reached him that evening and he continues 'I know well what awful distress you must be in and I long to be able to say anything that might bring you a grain of comfort…..I feel now however you will accept my most heartfelt sympathy in your great trouble. Let me say also that I mourn your dear brothers loss….His kindness….&….good nature endeared him to all of us, his comrades, who often depended so much upon his help. I know well what you suffer now and that you can listen to no consolation. But….believe me (as an oldish man who has had many trials in life) that time will ease the sharp strip of pain and bring you comfort.' Some light creasing and minor paper loss to the top edges of the first two pages, not affecting the text or signature, about VG £80 - 100 |
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| 528 | |||
| MILITARY: Small selection of vintage signed sepia postcard and cabinet photographs by various military leaders comprising Earl Roberts VC, John French, Viscount Wolseley and Earl Methuen (Imperial cabinet photograph). Each of the images depict the subjects in their uniforms and all are boldly signed in fountain pen inks. Some slight corner creasing and age wear, G to VG, 4 £100 - 150 |
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| 529 | |||
| JELLICOE EARL: (1859-1935) British Admiral of the Fleet of World War I. Vintage signed sepia postcard photograph, the oval image depicting Jellicoe in a head and shoulders pose wearing his uniform and medals. Signed ('Jellicoe AF') in bold, dark fountain pen ink to the lower border. Together with Roger Keyes (1872-1945) British Admiral of the Fleet of World Wars I & II. Vintage signed 4.5 x 7 photograph of Keyes standing in a three quarter length pose, in semi-profile, wearing his naval uniform and medals. Signed in fountain pen ink to the lower white border and dated 1931 in his hand. Neatly mounted within the original photographer's presentation folder. Also including Charles Beresford (1846-1919) British Admiral. Vintage signed postcard photograph of Beresford in a half length pose wearing his naval uniform. Signed in black fountain pen ink with his name alone to a light area at the base of the image. Some slight silvering, G to VG, 3 £80 - 100 |
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| 530 | |||
MILITARY & AVIATION: Selection of signed First Day Covers by various military officers and aviators, many associated with World War II, including Lord Bramall FM, Bill Reid VC, Leonard Cheshire VC, Edward Kenna VC, Johnnie Johnson, John Costello, Herbert Denchfield, Donald Attlee, Michael Beavis, The Red Arrows (1989) etc. A few are multiple signed and all have various colour designs commemorating different events including the Battle of Britain etc. VG, 14 £80 - 100WORLD WAR II |
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| 531 | |||
| CHURCHILL WINSTON S.: (1874-1965) British Prime Minister 1940-45, 1951-55. Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1953. Dark fountain pen ink signature ('Winston S. Churchill') on a piece, with two additional typed words, evidently clipped from the conclusion of a letter. Together with a vintage signed 4 x 6 photograph by Clementine Churchill, the image depicting her standing in a full length pose alongside her husband, on board a ship. Signed to the lower white border, with an additional greeting in her hand. The text is largely faded and partially illegible and the signature is largely affected by damp staining. One small, neat tear to the signed piece, not affecting Churchill's signature. FR to G, 2 £200 - 300 |
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| 532 | |||
| CHURCHILL WINSTON S.: (1874-1965) British Prime Minister 1940-45, 1951-55. Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1953. Wartime T.L.S., Winston S. Churchill, with holograph salutation and subscription, one page, 4to, Whitehall, 11th March 1940, to Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone. Churchill writes, in full, 'I am happy to be able to inform you that His Majesty The King has now approved my submission that you should launch H.M.S. HOWE at Govan, Glasgow, on April 9 1940', adding the subscription Your Royal Highness' obedient servant in his hand. One file hole to the upper left corner and some light overall age wear, about VG £600 - 900 Princess Alice (1883-1981) Countess of Athlone. Viceregal Consort of Canada 1940-46. HMS Howe was the last of the five British King George V-class battleships of the Royal Navy and took part in several operations during World War II. The Duke of Windsor reflects on whether he could have prevented World War II |
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| EDWARD VIII: (1894-1972) King of the United Kingdom January - December 1936. Later Duke of Windsor. Important T.L.S., Edward, Duke of Windsor, one page, 4to, Bois de Boulogne, Paris, 14th January 1970, to Gerald Hamilton. The Duke thanks his correspondent for sending a copy of his book The Way It Was With Me and continues 'Both the Duchess and I have read it with great interest and some nostalgia and in special appreciation of your favourable references to us….' He further continues 'Whether or not I could have prevented World War II, had I remained King, is an imponderable. At least I used any influence I had to warn against the folly of another hollocaust (sic). Where I clashed with Baldwin and his eronies (sic; cronies) was that I was not really of the Establishment which I was supposed to be. That aroused their suspicions that I would not always "yes" them, which indeed I would not have!' before making an interesting personal judgement of Winston Churchill, writing 'Your diagnosis of Winston Churchill is perfect. Great orator and writer, yes, and imbued with insatiable ambition. No outstanding peace time politician; only war seemed to inspire him to brilliant leadership. He was a man without fear, and as he once told me, he was never bored.' Matted in white alongside the original envelope and framed and glazed (to both sides) in a gold coloured frame to an overall size of 16.5 x 12.5. Together with a T.L.S., Gerald, by Hamilton, one page, 4to, King's Road, London, 28th April 1970, to Charles Potter in Guernsey, referring to the letter from the Duke of Windsor and stating, in full, 'As you have been so kind to me for so many years, I would like you to have as a souvenir from me the enclosed letter, which is of some historical importance and which I hope will be of great interest to you.' Hamilton's letter is matted to the verso of the frame alongside the original envelope post marked 29th April 1970 and bearing his holograph return address, and a newspaper obituary of Hamilton describing him as 'an urbane, anarchic, but warm hearted personality with….a fascination for dethroned royalty' and with 'pro-German sympathies' which resulted in his internment in World War II. Also including a loose T.L.S., Gerald, by Hamilton, one page, 4to, King's Road, London, 26th January 1970, to 'Dearest Gabrielle'. Hamilton states that he is inclined to agree with his correspondent that a book he has recently written is his best work, further referring to the Roman Catholic Church (of which Hamilton was a convert) and Ian Paisley ('I have always maintained that the Northern Irish authorities should return him to that obscurity from which he should never have been allowed to emerge') before concluding 'By the way, I don't think I ever told you I sent the Duke of Windsor, who has always been so kind to me, a copy of "The Way It Was For Me" for Christmas, and I received a most charming and important letter from him in reply. I am enclosing herewith a copy of this letter [evidently a copy of the original letter present in this lot] which was marked Strictly Private & Confidential and, therefore….on no account must it reach the Press. I would ask you to be good enough to return the copy to me when you have read it. It really is an interesting, almost historic, document.' A letter of sensational content and association. VG £6000 - 8000 Gerald Hamilton (c.1888-1970) Memoirist & Critic who counted among his friends Winston Churchill, Aleister Crowley, Robin Maugham, Tallulah Bankhead and Christopher Isherwood. Hamilton was interned during World War I for his association with the Irish Nationalist Roger Casement. During World War II the Communist-sympathising Hamilton was again interned for his vocal opposition to the war, this time under the orders of Churchill. |
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| MONTGOMERY B. L.: (1887-1976) British Field Marshal of World War II. Wartime A.L.S., B.L. Montgomery, General, Eighth Army, one page, 8vo (folding Air Mail Letter Card), n.p., 22nd April 1943, to John Thomas. Montgomery thanks his correspondent for their letter and remarks 'I do not think we have ever met.' In concluding he sends his regards to his correspondent's mother and father. With blank integral leaf (laid down). Hand addressed by Montgomery and again signed ('B. L. Montgomery, General, Eighth Army') to the verso across a feint censor stamp. Some light overall age wear and a few small tears to the folds, not affecting the text or signature. G £100 - 150 |
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| MONTGOMERY B. L.: (1887-1976) British Field Marshal of World War II. Signed 6.5 x 8.5 printed image, depicting Montgomery in a head and shoulders pose wearing his beret, with printed text beneath. Evidently removed from a printed 8vo programme for the Borough of Brentford & Chiswick Presentation of the Honorary Freedom of the Borough to Montgomery (the front cover and another detached page of the programme present). Signed ('B. L. Montgomery, Field Marshal') in fountain pen ink to the upper border of the page. Together with two A.Ls.S. by Brian Montgomery (d.1989), brother of Bernard Law, seven pages (total), 8vo, Chelsea, 21st June 1984 and 24th January 1985, both to Jack, accepting an invitation to Haileybury ('I shall await your movement orders') and referring to reviews of his book and also commenting 'You asked about another book. Yes! I am within a month or so of completing the typescript of my fourth book. It is a pictorial biography - all photographs and only 25,000 of writing text (words) of my distinguished brother!' Some staining to the image of Montgomery, not affecting the signature. FR to G, 3 £100 - 150 |
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| MONTGOMERY B. L.: (1887-1976) British Field Marshal of World War II. A.L.S., Montgomery of Alamein, one page, 4to, Isington Mill, Alton, Hampshire, 24th February 1962, to Miss. Baird. Montgomery thanks her correspondent for her letter and remarks 'I am all "set" for the dinner at the Savoy Hotel on Tuesday March 13 next' and asks her to let him know some further details, '1. Time I should arrive? 2. Do I use Embankment Entrance? 3. Dress: dinner jacket I presume?' Together with two carbon copies of typed letters to Montgomery from Baird regarding arrangements for the dinner. Small pinholes to the upper left corner of each of the letters, otherwise VG £100 - 120 |
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| DOWDING HUGH: (1882-1970) British Air Chief Marshal, Commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain. Blue fountain pen ink signature ('Dowding, Air Chief Marshal') on a pale blue card. Some areas of light staining, very slightly affecting the signature, G £100 - 150 |
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| HARRIS ARTHUR T.: (1892-1984) British Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of RAF Bomber Command during World War II. Signed First Day Cover commemorating the Sopwith Tabloid No.1 Royal Naval Air Service Detachment Eastchurch, postmarked Jersey, 19th November 1981. Signed ('Arthur T. Harris'), with his name alone in bold black pen to a clear area of the cover. Together with another First Day Cover commemorating Harris, postmarked 16th September 1986, signed by his wife Therese Harris, with her name alone in blue ink to a clear area of the cover. Lightly mounted in cream alongside each other and either side of a PHQ card commemorating Arthur Harris and the Lancaster, postmarked 16th September 1986. Framed and glazed in a modern metallic frame to an overall size of 33 x 12. VG £80 - 100 |
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| SLESSOR JOHN: (1897-1979) British Air Marshal, Commander-in-Chief Coastal Command 1943-44. Wartime T.L.S., J C Slessor, with holograph salutation and subscription, one page, 8vo, Headquarters, Bomber Command, Grantham, Lincolnshire, 3rd April 1942, to Colonel C. E. Carrington of Bomber Command. Slessor informs his correspondent, 'I have not the slightest doubt that the question of Army Air co-operation will figure very largely on my plate in the coming months' and adds that he would like to talk to Carrington over lunch in London, concluding 'I know very well that things are far from right in this country but it is too big and complicated a subject to write about so let us have a talk about it sometime soon.' Together with a small selection of other T.Ls.S. and A.Ls.S. etc., by various military and naval officers etc., most associated with World War II, including William Dickson, Claud Oxborrow, John Profumo (2 T.Ls.S. from RAF Bottisham, March & April 1942), Arlette Gondree (Pegasus Bridge), Earl Jellicoe etc. Generally G to VG, 10 £100 - 120 |
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| WALLIS BARNES: (1887-1979) English Scientist & Inventor of the bouncing bomb used in Operation Chastise (The Dam Busters Raid), 16th May 1943. Signed First Day Cover commemorating Wallis and featuring a colour image of the R-100 airship and with an inset portrait of Wallis. Postmarked 15th June 1976. Signed by Wallis with his name alone in bold blue fountain pen ink to a clear area of the cover. About EX £100 - 120 |
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| 617 SQUADRON: Selection of signed First Day Covers by various pilots associated with 617 Squadron during World War II, some of them involved in Operation Chastise (the Dam Busters) including Mick Martin, James Tait, Leonard Cheshire VC (3), Bill Reid VC (3), Len Sumpter, Bill Howarth, Ken Trent, Leo Doyle, Ron Pooley, Bill Harris, Harry Johnson etc. Some are multiple signed and each of the covers feature colour images of aircraft and commemorate the Dam Busters, 617 Squadron and other events of World War II. VG, 10 £100 - 150 |
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| 617 SQUADRON: Selection of signed First Day Covers by various pilots who served in 617 Squadron during World War II including Tony Iveson, Les Munro, Sydney Grimes, Harry Humphries, Grant McDonald, Arthur Poore, John Langston, James Soilleux, Lawrence 'Benny' Goodman, James Castagnola, Alec Bates, Charles Lepine, Albert Cherrington etc. A few are multiple signed. All feature colour designs associated with 617 Squadron and their aerial attacks during World War II, including the Dam Busters Raid. VG to EX, 16 £80 - 100 |
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| BADER DOUGLAS: (1910-1982) British World War II Ace (22.5 victories), recognised for his important role during the Battle of Britain. Signed First Day Cover issued by the Royal Air Force to commemorate the Anniversary of the Battle of Britain and featuring a colour image of a Sopwith Camel. Post marked at Biggin Hill, 20th September 1969. Signed by Bader with his name alone across a clear area of the cover. Together with a signed paperback edition of Reach for the Sky by Paul Brickhill, published by Fontana, Eighth Impression, October 1975. Signed by Bader to the first page and dated 1976 in his hand. G to VG, 2 £80 - 100 |
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| BADER DOUGLAS: (1910-1982) British World War II Ace (22.5 victories), recognised for his important role during the Battle of Britain. Book signed, a hardback edition of Reach For the Sky by Paul Brickhill, published by Collins, London, (Reprinted 1980). Signed by Bader in black ink to the front free endpaper and dated 18th June 1980 in his hand. A small printed compliments slip is neatly laid down above the signature. Also included are two candid 3 x 5 photographs of Bader in different head and shoulders and half length poses, one signed by Bader with his name alone in black ink to a light area at the base of the image. The photographs are individually laid down to the half title and dedications pages. Accompanied by the dust jacket (small tears and light age wear). About VG £100 - 120 |
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| TUCK ROBERT STANFORD: (1916-1987) British Fighter Pilot of World War II. A colour 24 x 20 print by artist Robert Taylor entitled Hurricane (1979), the First Edition print depicting four aircraft in flight. Together with a second colour 24 x 20 print by artist Robert Taylor entitled Victory Over Dunkirk (1983) depicting Tuck claiming an ME110, one of three enemy aircraft he shot down over Dunkirk on 23rd May 1940. Both of the prints have been signed by Tuck in bold pencil with his name alone to the lower borders beneath the images. Rolled, VG, 2 £80 - 100 |
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| AVIATION: Selection of signed pieces, cards, some A.Ls.S. etc., by various RAF pilots, many associated with World War II and the Battle of Britain, including Robert Stanford-Tuck, R. C. 'Wilky' Wilkinson, Frederick Rosier, Neil Wheeler, Roland Beamont, Derek Hodgkinson, Roland Lees, Denis Crowley-Milling, Wallace Kyle (2), Geoffrey Tuttle (2), Christopher Foxley Norris, Donald Attlee, Robert Craven etc. Most are crudely laminated with tape and have ink annotations etc., in the hand of a collector and some are laid down. P to generally about FR, 20 £80 - 100 |
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| BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Selection of signed First Day Covers by various RAF pilots associated with the Battle of Britain including James Lacey, Johnnie Johnson, Dennis David, Anthony Forster, Richard Milne, Ivor Broom, Boleslaw Drobinski, Henryk Szczesny, Pete Brothers, Harold Fenton etc. Each of the covers feature different colour images of aircraft and most commemorate the Battle of Britain or other events of World War II. VG, 10 £80 - 100 |
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| BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Selection of signed First Day Covers by various RAF pilots associated with the Battle of Britain including Robert Stanford-Tuck, Johnnie Johnson, Colin Gray, Sandy Johnstone, Ludwick Martel, Wladek Gnys, Jack Steere, Frank Carey etc. Each of the covers feature different colour images of aircraft and most commemorate the Battle of Britain or other events of World War II. VG, 10 £80 - 100 |
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| BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Selection of multiple signed First Day Covers by various RAF pilots, the majority associated with the Battle of Britain, including Richard James, Noel Harding, Alan Gear, David Bell-Salter, Roy McGowan, David Hunt, John Gibson, Ronald Thomson, George Baird, Alan Burdekin, Roderick Learoyd VC, Denis Crowley-Milling, Donald Stones, Billy Drake, Boleslaw Drobinski, Paddy Barthropp, John Barnes, John Ditzel, James Corbin, Dudley Gibbins, Alan Deere, 'Ben' Bennions, Edward Marsh, Leslie Batt, John Bentley Beard etc. Each of the covers commemorate various events of World War II, including the Battle of Britain, and feature colour images of aircraft. VG, 6 £80 - 100 |
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| Auctioneer: | IAA International Autograph Auctions Ltd | Location: | Radisson Edwardian Hotel, Heathrow |
| Contact: | Tel: +44 (0)115 845 1010 Fax: +44 (0)115 845 1009 | ||
| Date: | 14th December 2013 | Time: | 11:00AM |
| Details: | Midland Viewing: Only in the week prior at our offices at Foxhall Business Centre Day of Auction from 9am |
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