A collection of various scrapbooks and photograph albums relating to E.H. Fielden and family, mainly 1920's and 1930's including a large album containing various photographs of 1930's Aircraft Carriers and Naval Operations, various photographs of foreign visits and associated aircraft, various maps, letters, ships menus, invitations, club membership cards e.g. The English Club, Buenos Aires 1931, and various other ephemera and memorabilia, a photograph album including many photographs from "West Indies Cruise SS Homeric January 27th - March 8th 1934", together with various tickets, personal inscriptions, photographs, menus, etc., a photograph album containing photographs of trip January 11th - April 9th 1935 on the SS Chitral including India and Egypt with personal and military ephemera, a simulated snakeskin covered photograph album containing photographs circa 1925-1928 including skiing in Pontresina 1925, Oxford and Cambridge Ice Hockey St. Moritz 1925, various aircraft photographs, car racing photographs from Brooklands 1926 including Dick Howey, J.G.P. Thomas, etc., aerial display 25 Squadron Hendon 1925, results of air crashes at Duxford 1924, skiing Wengen 1926, and a circa 1900 embossed clothboard bound photograph album (very few photographs) (5) (Provenance : Air Vice Marshall Sir Edward "Mouse" Fielden GCVO, CB, DFC, AFC [deceased], personal pilot to Edward VIII when Prince of Wales, Chief Air Pilot and Extra Equerry, then Captain of the King's Flight/Queen's Flight - for further information please contact the Auctioneers) CONDITION REPORTS The small album - binding very worn, rips and tears to edges, a large amount of foxing to the paper and very browned, some rips to pages, most documentation is old newspaper cuttings and a few personal photos of people and house. The dark blue/black leather crocodile skin effect album - very worn to edges, general wear to leather, first two pages are quite crumpled and have foxing, photos generally have some browning/yellowing but are clear. Album with Jamaica etc - outside has scuffs, marks and wear, overall in reasonably good condition with some foxing to the edges of the boards and to one or two photos but overall images are in reasonably sound condition and clear with small amount of browning to some. Album of India - binding has some general wear, fading and scuffs, a small amount of foxing on the edges of the boards, overall photos reasonably good with some very light browning, some of the invitations have browned and have some foxing. The largest album - has got very damp on the outside and the board is splitting, wear to covers, corners and edges, and first page is very foxed and with some dried mould, pages and boards are worn to edges and have signs of wear and damp and with some rips to edges, photos have browning to some but very little foxing, there are well over 50 images of aircraft throughout the albums, plus numerous aerial photos. The various documentation, maps, letters etc are all quite browned and worn and some have got damp, although all are very readable and have been stored away for some considerable time. Some images are very creased.
