[POWERS FRANCIS GARY]: (1929-1977) American Pilot. Powers was shot down on 1st of May 1960 while flying with a CIA U-2 spy plane a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace. Powers was convicted of espionage and sentenced to ten years. Two years later Powers was exchanged in a spy swap in Berlin during the cold war. Powers died in a helicopter crash. Unusual document, being a letter sent by Gary Powers´ father to the Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, T.L.S., Oliver Powers, one page, 4to, Pound, Virginia, 19th May 1960, to Nikita Khrushchev. Powers states `I extend to you and Mrs. Kruschev my regards as one parent to another. Pilot Francis Powers is my only son. I am asking you to be lenient with him in your dealings with him. He has always been a fine young man, and we love him very much. As one father to another, I plead with you to let him come home as soon as you can find it in your heart to do so, so that he may be with us a while longer. Please give him this note from his mother enclosed in this letter.´ An emotional letter of Powers´ father imploring for his son´s life and trying to touch his correspondent as father. Accompanied by a letter of provenance signed by Francis Gary Powers Jr., 11th January 2017, public speaker and authority on the U-2 Incident and Cold War history. With several annotations to the verso in pencil. Overall creasing and staining. FR to G £1500-2000Steven Spielberg brought this story to screens in the film Bridge of Spies (2015)
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A Rare Deutscher Kleinempfanger 'German People's Set' GW110, with swastika below speaker, components, with back, in dark brown mottled bakelite case Footnote: Made by several companies, this Siemens model was cheap to produce and was a propaganda tool, permanently tuned to receive Hitler's speeches. Many were brought back home by soldiers after April 1945 to the UK and US as souvenirs. This has the impressed swastika intact to the front - and most of the components inside were also stamped with it.
A Deutscher Kleinempfanger 'German People's Set' GW110 with the swastika below speaker, swastika printed on the screening coating to the VLC11 valve, back and speaker missing, some parts loose; and near identical modern Uversesum W111, without any Reich stamp, in bright orange case (2) Footnote: It is unclear why a later firm would wish to copy one of the best-known Nazi radios made, but here it is, offered next to the real McCoy for comparison.
Sony surround sound system speaker Sky TV box and DVD player ( remote in office 7294 ) CONDITION REPORT: The electrical items included in this lot have been PAT tested and have PASSED. This test means that they are electrically sound and does not confirm that they are in working order. WE DO NOT CONFIRM WHETHER ITEMS ARE WORKING AND ARE THEREFORE SOLD AS SEEN.
An American Naval presentation coin with typewritten explanation on envelope reading: The naval presentation coin originated in the US Navy is used by senior officers as a souvenir to give to visiting VIPs. Last summer the C-in-C Fleet, Admiral Sir Trevor Soar presented to me a limited number of specially designed coins commissioned in the United States. The coin shows the flag of a Rear Admiral two stars crossed with the Union flag. On the reverse side is the crest of the Motor Yacht Leander. I would be honoured if you would accept one as a token of our friendship and respect for the Royal Navy. with compliment slip from the House of Lords and signed The Lesser George. The family believe this could have been a gift to Lady Wilson from George Thomas, former Welsh Secretary and later Speaker of the House of Commons
Collection of programmes, ephemera, menus and invitations addressed to Harold and Mary Wilson, to include: the Order of Ceremony for a Presentation to Sir Winston Churchill on his 80th Birthday, 1954; invitation card from HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh to the first performance of 'The Conquest of Everest', Warner Theatre, Leicester Square, 21 October 1953; menu for the 250th Anniversary of No.10 Downing Street, 1985; programme for a performance by Beverly Sills during Harold Wilson's state visit to the United States, The White House, 30 January 1975; several invitation cards to Garden Parties at Buckingham Palace; several invitations to lunch from the Speaker of the House of Commons; programme and menu for the State Banquet in Honour of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Windsor Castle, 1972; Memorial Service for Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, 22 December 1967, bound in gilt black crushed morocco; invitation card for the 1976 Booker Prize for Fiction, Claridge's Hotel, and numerous others
Collection of three letters from George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy, Speaker of the House of Commons. The first, addressed to Harold Wilson, on 'Speaker's House' headed paper, 17 November 1977, in dark blue ink, is full of praise, 'You have always been very loyal to me ever since we met in 1945...No formula can measure what you have done for our country in general, & for the Labour movement in particular. When the history of our times comes to be written, I believe you will have full marks for saving the P.L.P. & the party in the country, from a fatal split. You took over the leadership at a critical & dangerous time. The general elections of 1964 & 1966 were won because of your leadership, & the same applied in 1974. Your work as Prime Minister has put our country in your debt. Bless you Harold. It is good to read of all your activities. I shall always be grateful to you for your friendship.' The second letter, addressed to Harold, 1 March 1985, thanks Harold for a speech given at a literary luncheon. The third letter, addressed to Mary Wilson, 27 March 1996, offers words of encouragement and support, 'I think you are very brave to have attended so many memorial services for Harold: but it is typical of you...Truth to be told; I find myself thinking of Harold a great deal these days.' (3)
George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy, Speaker of the House of Commons, colour photographic portrait, inscribed in bold green ink, 'To Harold & Mary, With deep affection & sincere gratitude, George Thomas, April '76'. Unframed, 36cm by 28cm, Universal Press Agency stamp verso, some creasing/wear
Gladstone, William Ewart. Gleanings of Past Years, in seven volumes, London: John Murray, 1879. Presentation copy bearing ink inscription from Gladstone to Sir Henry William Primrose, private secretary to the Viceroy of India and to Gladstone, 'in recollection of excellent service, July 28, 1886'. Together with a handwritten letter to former Prime Minister Harold Wilson on headed paper (Hawarden Castle), dated 8 April 1982, referring to a party given by Mr Speaker and confirming the authenticity of the inscription, 'I can tell you without any doubt that the inscription is authentic. for I know W. E G's hand very well.' Half crushed green morocco bindings with raised bands, gilt titles, marbled endpapers (7)
Four presentation copies signed and inscribed to Harold and Mary Wilson: Boothby, Robert. Boothby: Recollections of a Rebel, London: Hutchinson, 1979, inscribed in black ink, 'For Harold Wilson, with warmest regards, and all good wishes for Christmas and the New Year, from Bob Boothby, 1983'; Hogg, Quintin. The Devil's Own Song, first edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1968, inscribed, 'Prime Minister, A sort of peace offering for many disrespectful things said, and likely to be said by Q. H. 1968'; Llewellyn, Richard. Green, Green My Valley Now, London: Michael Joseph, 1975, inscribed by the Speaker of the House of Commons, 'To dear Mary, a kindred spirit. Every blessing, George Thomas, July 1975'; Lloyd, Selwyn. Mr Speaker, Sir, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1976, inscribed to Mary and signed by the author (4)
A Tabacalera humidor with hygrometer containing a quantity of matchbooks and lighters, some of the matchbooks bearing the name 'Harold Wilson', some from hotels (Claridge's), one from 'Speaker House of Commons', one from House of Lords, a Russian example; to include a cigar cutter and a tin of Harold Wilson's 'Gold Block' pipe tobacco
A General Electric Company A.C.5 radio, Bakelite case, 48 cm wide; together with a Philips 461A radio, Bakelite case, 49 cm wide; a vintage Bakelite cased speaker; an Ozonair air purifier; a Reliance Telephone Company telephone; and other Bakelite and plastic electrical related items, including switches, doorbells and others

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