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Lot 347
A World War Two RAF Air gunners half brevet, together with a white metal Army Temperance Association India watch chain fob, a white metal Royal Artillery sweetheart badge, a British Red Cross Society 3-year service medal numbered 5323, Girl Guide and Bayden Powell lapel badges, a World War Two RN and RAF buttons (Qty).
Lot 226
A good quantity of Fire Related Vehicles. Including an A. Smith Auto Models FB17 Dennis F131 Fire Escapement Side Pump. Oxford Commercials including Bedford 'S' Northern Ireland Green Goddess. Newcastle AEC Regal III fire engine. Series 1 Land Rover Somerset F.B. (Fire Brigade). Green Goddess A.F.S. Scania ladder escape, Cleveland. Leyland TLM ladder, Newcastle. Leyland ladder, London F.B. Dennis ladder, Dublin Civil Defence. Bedford TK, Northamptonshire and a series 1 Land Rover, Civil Defence Corps. PLus an Austin London Taxi converted for the London F.B. etc. Plus 3x Signature Series 1934 Leyland FK-1 ,ladder, 2x 1938 Dennis Light Four, ladder escape. 6x London's Burning TV series vehicles. PLus Corgi U.K. and U.S. fire related items - Seagrave 70th Anniversary Safety Saloon Tenafly, E-1 ladder Anne Arundel County, Bedford QLD Army Fire Service, Volvo fire engine Irish Fire Brigade, Chevrolet Fire Chief car, Chicago Fire Department 7th Battalion Ladder Co No 5 - 6 figures, Civiilians at War Fireman NFS 1941.Series 1 Land Rover City of Bath, Chevrolet Ambulance Chicago. All boxed, minor wear/damage to a few. Together with 5 U.S. and 2 U.K. Fire Appliances. VGC-Mint. £80-100
Lot 322
2 Dinky Toys Military. A 25-Pounder Field Gun Set (697), comprising Field Gun (686), Trailer (687) and Tractor (688). Together with a 10-ton Army Truck (622). Both boxed, minor wear. Field Gun set with yellow lid and inner packing pieces, however split to one corner of lid. Contents VGC-Mint. £70-100
Lot 583
A Third Reich Luftwaffe belt, with blackened steel buckle, the flap dated 1940, mounted with a Hitler Youth knife by Herder, Solingen, and with RZM mark (blade worn, piece missing from one grip, enamel badge chipped), the belt pierced and mounted with various trophy badges, comprising Pilot/Observer Badge, 1st pattern E Boat in brass, U boat (pin incomplete), General Assault (corroded), Army Flak (spurious), cap wreath, and small eagle and swastika. Generally GC (the badges worn).
Lot 608
A Third Reich Army officer’s sword, blade 32” with impressed mark of E Pach & Sohne, Solingen and etched on one side only with eagle and swastika, helmet over crossed rifles, and panels of foliage, the brass hilt with lion’s head pommel with red glass eyes, oak leaf embossed knucklebow, crosspiece and langet with eagle and swastika, and wire bound black grip, in its black painted grey metal scabbard with leather vertical belt hanger having plated spring clip, and portepee with blue wool upper part to the acorn. GC, traces of plating to the blade. Plate 9
Lot 610
A Third Reich Wrangel pattern Army officer’s sword by Eickhorn, of the 14th Cavalry Regiment, the 31” plated blade triple etched with panels of scrolls, mounted horsemen, eagle and swastika and “Kavallerie Regt No 14”, the back edge etched with scrolls, with post 1941 Eickhorn mark, the gilt brass hilt having eagle and swastika crosspiece and oak leaf embossed knucklebow, backstrap and pommel, and with wire bound black grip, in its black painted scabbard. Good clean condition. Plate 9
Lot 837
A .22” BSA “Improved Model D” underlever air rifle, number 51825 (1912), 45½” overall, with side catch cocking lever, the air chamber stamped “The BSA Air Rifle (Improved Model D), The Birmingham Small Arms Co Ltd England, Sole Manufacturers”, the barrel stamped “Army & Navy C.S. Ld, London”, the breech stamped with BSA logo and “2 load”, the walnut butt with pistol grip and hand chequered panel. GWO & C (dark patina to metalwork). Plate 11
Lot 369
An unusual military presentation staff, late 19th/early 20th Century In the form of a soldier at attention, with inscription 'Presented from A J Brummer to Sgt JW Street K R R C Diyatalawa' length 51cm (Diyatalawa is a former Garrison town in central highlands of Sri Lanka, the British Army established a Garrison there in 1885, it later became a concentration camp during the Boer War.) CONDITION REPORT: Only minor rubbing and wearNo major cracks or splits
Lot 43
Radio Shack and Meccano - one boxed Meccano set Army multi kit and one Meccano combat multi kit (empty box) with instructions lot also includes a Radio Shack Science Fair 75 in 1 electronic project kit, boxes fair to good, items excellent (3) Est £20 - £30 - This lot MUST be paid for and collected, or delivery arranged, no later than close of business on Tuesday. Please do not bid if you are unable to comply
Lot 641
A GROUP OF FIVE INDIAN ARMY POST INDEPENDENCE MEDALS engraved to Ganja Sing, Thapa 1st. Gorkha Rifles to include Sangram medal 25th Independence Anniversary medal & Long Service 20 years medal (with printed information card) (5)(all medals to be bought as seen, condition reports available until 7pm Thursday 7th June)
Lot 655
WWI PERIOD UNITED STATES ARMY MEDAL comprising Victory medals with four clasps Aisne-Marne, St Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne & Defensive Sector together with Pennsylvania National Guard medal & two coins (with printed information cards)(all medals to be bought as seen, condition reports available until 7pm Thursday 7th June)
Lot 670
AN ALBUM OF WWII PERIOD MEDALS concerning the War in the Desert 1940-43 including British Armed Forces, Indian Army & to include prisoners of war, including various Stars, Defence medals & Efficiency medals (many with printed information cards) (29 medals in total) (possibly later engraved)(all medals to be bought as seen, condition reports available until 7pm Thursday 7th June)
Lot 709
SUTLEJ MEDAL having two clasps Sobraon & Ferozeshauhur, engraved to Sgt. J Butler, Bengal Artillery, together with 1/12th Anna coin & Army of the Sutlej token (with printed information card) (later inscribed)(all medals to be bought as seen, condition reports available until 7pm Thursday 7th June)
![WRIGHT, G.N. , THE REVD. LIFE AND CAMPAIGNS OF ARTHUR DUKE OF WELLINGTON. London: Fisher, [1841]. First edition, 4 vols., 8vo](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a8875b34-4c18-442b-8b15-a8ef0156d253/d1b8c8d1-c6c4-44e2-bc8b-d28adf765584/468x382.jpg)
Lot 211
WRIGHT, G.N. , THE REVD. LIFE AND CAMPAIGNS OF ARTHUR DUKE OF WELLINGTON. London: Fisher, [1841]. First edition, 4 vols., 8vo., engraved frontispiece and engraved titlepage to each vol., with numerous other engraved plates of maps, portraits, etc., contemporary red calf, spines decorated gilt in compartments, spines faded: Miller, John. Memoirs of General Miller in the service of the Republic of Peru. London: Longman, et al., 1829. 2nd edition, 2 vols., 8vo., engraved portrait frontispieces to both vols., with engraved maps (some hand coloured and folding), battle plans, portraits, contemporary calf, bookplates of Charles Henry Wilson and Arthur Connolly; Stevens, G.W. With Kitchener to Khartoum. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1901. 23rd edition, 8vo., calf, gilt arms of Oundle School on the upper cover, Oundle School prize label on the front pastedown; Fortescue, John. The Royal Service Corps: a history of transport and supply in the British Army. Cambridge: University Press, 1930. First edition, 2 vols., 4to., frontispiece to vol. 1, diagrams in the text and 29 maps (mostly folding), blue calf, gilt lozenge on each cover, no 211 of an edition of 227 copies specially printed for the subscribers, with bookplates, labels or ex libris of Charles Crofton-Atkins [9]
Lot 719
A FAMILY GROUP OF MEDALS & SERVICE ARCHIVE namely a Great War and later group of seven to Company Quarter Master Sergeant W.B. Crichton, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Scots, comprising the 1914-15 Star (275161 Pte. W. B. Crichton, R.Scots), British War & Victory Medals (1605 Pte. W. B. Crichton, R. Scots), General Service Medal, GRVI, single clasp Palestine (3047638 C.Sjt. W.B. Crichton. R. Scots),1939-45 Defence Medal, and Long Service Good Conduct Medal, GRV, clasp Regular Army (3047638 Sjt. W.B. Crichton R. Scots), officially impressed, mounted for wearing, and an Order of Merit 1st Class Corps of Commissionaires, with related dress miniatures; together with a Korean War pair to Private J.W. Crichton, Army Service Corps, Highland Brigade (son of the above), comprising Korea Medal (S/2272634 Pte. J.W. Crichton. R.A.S.C.) and United Nations Service Medal (un-named as issued), clasp Korea, in their original card box of issue; with a related National Service Discharge Army Book 111, an R.A.S.C. cloth brassard and a collection of personal photographs, some inscribed verso. Note: Walter Burgess Crichton joined the army on the 5th of August 1914 and was discharged on the 31st of January 1919. He re-enlisted with the colours on the 7th of July 1921, and served continually until the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. He ended his long military career as an officer with the Home Guard. The collection includes his Glengarry bearing bi-metal cap badge of the Royal Scots, Regular Army Certificate of Service, Soldier's Service & Pay Book, Regimental photographs including 'D. (M.G.) Company & Indian Platoon 2nd Battalion The Royal Scots - Quetta (India) 1931'; 'Member's Sergeant's Mess 1st Battalion The Royal Scots (Northern Command Tattoo, Roundhay Park, Leeds, 1937'; and 'W.O's & Sergeants, 1st Battalion The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) Visit of H.R.H.'; personal photographs India 1930s; 'Home Guard No.29 Platoon No.7 Company - 51st Surrey (Malden) Bn. Home Guard'; (Lieut. W. B. Crichton) - Home Guard - Surrey 31'; and two cased marching compasses, one inscribed 'W.B. Crichton, 2nd Royal Scots'.
Lot 728
A SECOND WORLD WAR & LATER L.S.G.C. GROUP OF FIVE MEDALS TO WARRANT OFFICER A. ORMESHER, ROYAL ARTILLERY comprising the 1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45 (all un-named as issued), and Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, Eliz. II, 'Regular Army' bar (851745 W.O. CL.2 A. Ormesher. R.A.), officially impressed, bar-mounted for wearing; together with a Royal Artillery swagger stick and a Royal Artillery cane, (3).
Lot 743
BATTLE OF THE TAKU FORTS (BOXER REBELLION) - A PAIR OF SOUVENIR MOUNTED SHOT each with applied plaques inscribed 'Taku / 17.6.00'; together with a red horse hair decoration with applied paper label inscribed in ink 'Part of The Titi's Porcy Trimmings - Taku 1900'; and a small piece of red decorated glass from a window or screen. Provenance: Gen. Sir Charles Staveley, the son of Lieut.-Gen. William Staveley, thence by family descent. Staveley was a British Army officer who was commissioned in the 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) in 1835. From 1840 to 1843 he was aide-de-camp to the Governor of Mauritius, and in 1847 he served as aide-de-camp to the Governor General of British North America. Between 1848 and 1851 he was assistant military secretary at Hong Kong. He was present at Alma and Balaclava during the Crimean War and in 1855 assumed command of the 44th Regiment of Foot, which he lead in China where he was present at the capture of the Taku forts. In 1862 he became Commander of British Troops in China and Hong Kong and was instrumental in suppressing the Taiping Rebellion. He then saw service in Abyssinia, and was Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army between 1874 and 1878.
Lot 797
CIGARETTE CARDS - SEVEN SETS comprising Gerard, 'Modern Armaments' (numbered), 1938 (50/50); Lea, 'The Evolution of the Royal Navy', 1925 (25/25); Jackson, 'Life in the Navy', 1937 (28/28); Hill, 'Nautical Songs' 1937 (30/30); Dominion Tobacco Co., 'Old Ships, 3rd Series', 1936 (25/25); Gallaher, 'Army Badges', 1939 (48/48); and Player, 'R.A.F. Badges', 1937 (50/50).
Lot 20
Pamphlets.- Napoleon I, Emperor of France. Proclamation of the First Consul, intended to be issued immediately on the landing of the French Army in England..., 16pp., first edition, folded sheet, uncut & unopened, for John Stockdale, 1804 § Account (An) of the Present English Conspiracy, taken from the Report of the Secret Committee of the House of Commons...the Attempts to excite Mutiny in our Fleets..., 20pp., title with woodcut vignette, stitched, uncut, by J.Evans..., [c.1799] § Patriot's Review (The) of Mr. Jefferys' Pamphlet "respecting the conduct of the Prince of Wales"..., 62pp., third edition, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, disbound, 1806 § Bon Ton magazine (The), vol.I no.2, folding hand-coloured etched frontispiece, some offsetting, water-staining to upper margins, preserved in modern wrappers, June 1821; and 5 others, v.s. (9)⁂ The second is scarce; ESTC lists 4 copies, only one in UK (BL).
Lot 69
Gallipoli & Ireland.- Nightingale (Guy Warneford, MC, Captain, later Major, Royal Munster Fusiliers, landed on V Beach, Gallipoli, 1890-1935) Diary in England & Ireland convalescing after being invalided home suffering from enteric fever, autograph manuscript, 105pp., in ink and pencil, 2 photographs (1 of Nightingale with 2 friends subsequently killed in the war), ephemera (including an Army production of Aladdin), pen and ink sketch of Gully Beach (where Nightingale landed), torn and repaired and edged with tape, upper hinge broken, original cloth, gilt, partially faded, 8vo, 1916; and 6 others, diaries etc., v.s., v.d. (7).⁂ Includes entries of attending court martials at Queenstown, Ireland, in the aftermath of the Easter Uprising.Nightingale was born in 1890 and educated at Rugby and Sandhurst before being commissioned into his regiment, the 1st Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers, in the late summer of 1910. He served with the regiment in India and Burma; at Gallipoli with the 29th Division, landing from HMT River Clyde on 25th April 1915, and on the Western Front in France. In 1919 he went with the 46th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers on the North Russian Expenditionary Force based at Archangel, and was there engaged in fighting the Bolshevik armies. In 1921 until March 1922 he was with his regiment with the British Forces in Silesia, Poland. From 1922-1923 Major Nightingale served with the 1st Yemen Infantry, in and around Aden and on the Southern Arabian coast. His last posting was to the 4th Battalion, Nigeria Regiment, at Ibadan, from 1925 to 1926.
Lot 78
Cromwell (Oliver).- Rogers (John, Fifth Monarchist preacher of the 1650s, and later a physician, b. 1627) Mene, Tekel, Perez, or, a Little Appearance of the Hand-Writing (In a Glance of Light) Against the Powers and Apostates of the Times. By a Letter written to, and lamenting over Oliver Lord Cromwel, 4pp. cut at tail, inner margins slightly stained, chipped and creased, browned throughout, disbound, [Wing R1811], sm. 4to, [London], [1654].⁂ John Thurloe's agents seized Rogers books and papers on 7 April 1654, after preaching against Cromwell. He published on 10 June 1654, Mene, Tekel, Perez, "a letter to Cromwell reminding him of the army declaration at St Albans opposing the rule of government by one person." - Oxford DNB.
Lot 336
STRINDBERG AUGUST: (1849-1912) Swedish Playwright, Novelist and Painter. Widely considered the "Father" of the modern Swedish literature. Exceptionally rare and extremely important Autograph Manuscript Signed, `A. Strindberg´, five pages, to five separate sheets, 4to, n,p., n.d., entitled `Faraondyrkan´, ("Pharaoh-Devotion"), the manuscript text being the first step in Strindberg´s famous "Strindbergfejden" ("The Strindberg Feud"), in Swedish. The pages are numbered in Strindberg´s hand from `Faraon 2´ to `Faraon 6´, page one is missing. Last page `Faraon 6´ showing a printed paper image affixed, with Strindberg´s annotations alongside and beneath. The image depicting Georg Hindrich Von Görtz. A lengthy and exceptional manuscript in Strindberg´s hand, stating in part `That is how false coin falls. Admirers of the worthless piece of crap, admirers through inherited sympathy, transform common metal to patriotic gold..´, further saying `..the worst regent in Swedish history, one who couldn't speak Swedish and one who actually was a German farm lord. Him whose worthless government caused Sweden to stop being an independent nation, because for a century Sweden was contaminated by England, France and Russia, whose great powers ruled the governmental people. He [King Charles XII] wasn't even a battle leader because in the last battle he placed himself in the artillery at the rearguard and doomed his army to be defeated. A battle leader leads the battle… In his youth he practiced decapitating sheep, calves and horses and at the bridge of the city of Kristianstad he shot a cow just "for the fun of it"… He abandoned his country cowardly, after having depleted it, and finally with a little sense of shame, he picked a responsible person, on whom he could put the blame…´ The five pages bearing an attractive Handgjord Post Lessebo watermark with monogramme. A letter of extremely interesting content. Small overall, minor age wear, with very slightly trimmed edges, otherwise G £2000-3000In 1910, Strindberg started one of the biggest cultural debates Sweden has ever seen, "The Strindberg Feud". It started out as an attack on the prevailing literary powers. What was initially purely a literary debate soon moved into suffrage, national defence and the role of the Swedish Academy. The Strindberg Feud lasted for more than two years and still had not ended with Strindberg's death in 1912. The present manuscript main topic is Strindbergsfejden, a Swedish cultural debate that arose when August Strindberg, in 1910, criticized King Charles XII and his contemporary admirers in the article Faraondyrkan. Therefore, this text could be a draft, or a previous version, of that article. Published in Swedish newspaper Afton-tidningen, 29th April 1910, claiming that the Karolinian King had been "the glory of sickness, the battle of madness". Strindberg had repeatedly attacked the old warrior King, and the article appeared as a semi-routine repetition of known views when published. Charles XII of Sweden (1682-1718) King of Sweden 1697-1718. Georg Hindrich Von Görtz, Baron of Schlitz (1668-1719), Swedish Diplomat and main assistant to King Charles XII.
Lot 386
AVIATION PIONEERS: An excellent selection of signed postcard photographs, and signed cards, by six pioneer Aviators, all dead in their aeroplanes at very early ages, comprising Henry Dumas (1885-1915) Died at the age of 30 during the Dardanelles battle. Signed postcard photograph, `Henry Dumas´, 5th July 1911; Gabriel Garnier (1880-1913) Dead when his airplane crashed when landing. Signed postcard photograph, `Gabriel Garnier´, 18th April 1913, the image depicting Garnier on board a Borel monoplane; Abel Grazzioli (1882-1915) A French hero of the civil aviation, dead when testing a Vendôme prototype for the army. Signed postcard photograph `Grazzioli´, the image depicting a Blériot airplane; Silvio Pettirosi (1887-1916) Well-remembered and best-known Paraguayan Aviator, WWI Fighter. Dead when performing a looping at the age of 29. Signed card photograph, `Silvio Pettirosi´, 1914. Jean Rose (18 ?-1918) Killed accidentally when returning from an inspection military flight. Signed card, 30th June 1917, in French. Entitled `Lieutenant Rose, pilot-aviator, squadron 504 Orient Army´. Rose refers to Pierre Olgiati death and reports on the accident `he died at the Salonique bay. An engine breakdown. He tried to land but slipped and drowned..´ Georges Verminck (1886-1913) Killed at Phnom-Penh at the age of 27. Signed postcard photograph, 18th March 1913, only three weeks before passing away, to Jacques Mortane (1883-1939) author of aviation works and journalist. Verminck refers to his flights and arrival to Djibouti and soon in Colombo. Also including several contemporary unsigned postcard photographs related to the pioneer aviators. VG, 6 £200-300Provenance Emile Lasalle collection. Author of the work `Les 100 premiers aviateurs brevetés au monde et la naissance de l'aviation.´ (“The first 100 worldwide entitled Aviators and the birth of Aviation”). A contemporary colleague of many aviators, disabled and much appreciated, author of several aviators biographies.
Lot 400
ANTOINE-HENRI DE JOMINI: (1779-1869) Baron de Jomini. Swiss Officer who first served for the French and later for the Russian services. An influential military Theorist who wrote The Art of War (1838). An interesting A.L., three pages, 4to, Saint Petersburg, n.d., to `General Boutourline´, in French. Jomini explains to his correspondent that he has not yet read the Austrian article responding to Buturlin´s speech at the St. Petersburg military academy, and states in part `..The sentence they complain about was hard, that is true, but it should only be understood as rhetoric. The same sentence pronounced in front of a friendly circle would have not been blamed…..It is the proof that your intention was not to say that the pedantry was the individuals vice…We could also say that Spain is the classic land of the ignorance and fanaticism, and this doesn´t change the fact that there are a thousand exceptions in that Kingdom.. I have to admit that I was shocked when they informed me that each Austrian military was feeling accused of pedantry..´ further saying `This army defeated in many battles has even been greater in his last efforts at Essling and Wagram.. The only reproach that could be done to your speech would be if you had printed and distributed it.. I have even demanded the printer to destroy the proofs..´ A letter of interesting content. Small overall age wear. Folded. G £800-1200Dmitri Buturlin (1790-1849) Russian General and reputed military Historian. He took part in numerous campaigns of the Napoleonic wars. After giving up his military career, Buturlin was appointed in 1843 Director of the Imperial Public Library and headed the Buturlin Committee, a secret service of censorship.
Lot 401
BAKER PASHA: ( 1827-1887) Valentine Baker. British Soldier. Brother of Sir Samuel Baker. A controversial awarded mayor of the Hussards. He was arrested on a charge of indecent assault and after a year´s imprisonment Baker left England and entered the service of the Ottoman Army in the war with Russia. Soon transferred to Mehmed Ali Pasha´s staff, leading an infantry division, and later commanding Suleiman's guard. In his late years he commanded the Egyptian police until his death. Unusual A.L.S., Baker, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d. Baker states in part `I have been asked for an opinion about "Bonhommie"…´ The page has been lightly affixed to a slightly larger one. G £100-120
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Lot 402
[GORDON CHARLES GEORGE]: (1833-1885) British Army officer, known as Chinese Gordon. Unusual Chinese contemporary envelope, hand addressed to Charles George Gordon, in Chinese characters. The document bears a red paper stick, affixed all along the envelope centre, and states to the front cover `Your distinguished country - Gordon´s arrangement petition - Message to Colonel Gordon to implore for his respect - To remain honest and poor, to obey and worship your family´ in Chinese characters. Also written in another hand `Colonel Gordon´. Overall age wear. F £100-150
Lot 406
ROMMEL ERWIN: (1891-1944) German Field Marshal of World War II. D.S., Rommel, in pencil, two pages, 4to, Africa, 30th January 1942, in German. The typed document is a Verleihungsliste for the Iron Cross 2nd Class, and lists forty three artillery officers along with other brief details of their date of birth and rank etc. Signed by Rommel at the base in his capacity as Generaloberst and Oberbefehlshaber of the Panzer Army. Two file holes to the edge, none affecting the text or signature, VG £250-350
Lot 407
HIMMLER HEINRICH: (1900-1945) German Nazi official of World War II, Reichsfuhrer of the SS. A very important D.S., H. Himmler, in green pencil, one page, [Berlin], 8th November 1936, in German. The partially printed document is entitled `Protocol of Adjuration´, and is related to SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Heinrich Schmauser as receiver of the law of blood and life of the Schutzstaffel, saying `The oath is taken and verified by handshaking with my person´. Signed by Himmler in his capacity as Reichsfuhrer. The oath states in part `I oblige myself as Gruppenfuhrer of the SS, with the utmost of my ability, that regardless of the individual person or of the merits of his parents and ancestors, only candidates who fulfill the strictest requirements of the SS can be accepted in the Schutzstaffel and I will defend this even if it is about the repudiation of my own children or the children of my family. Furthermore I obligate myself to watch that every year a quarter of the SS-candidates consist of men who aren't sons of SS soldiers.´ further saying `I swear these liabilities with the loyalty to our leader Adolf Hitler and with the honor of my ancestors - so help me God.´ With few binder holes to the left border, not affecting the text or signature. VG £600-900The Schutzstaffel, also known as SS, was a paramilitary organization under Hitler and the Nazi party. It started being a small guard unit known as the Saal-Schutz made up of volunteers to provide security for party meetings. Himmler leaded the SS, 1929-45, growing from a small paramilitary formation to one of the most powerful organizations in Nazi Germany. The SS was the foremost agency of security, surveillance, and terror within Germany and German-occupied Europe. Ernst-Heinrich Schmauser (1890-1945) Nazi commander of the SS, and Higher Police leader in Breslau, upper Silesia. During the Rohm´s purge, Schmauser was the liaison officer between the SS and the army. He accompanied Eicke and Lippert to Stadelheim prison where he witnessed Rohm´s execution. Much of his time after 1942 was spent dealing with the logistical problems created by the immense mass killing operations taking place at Auschwitz which were under his jurisdiction. He was in charge of the liquidation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Schmauser was captured by Russians in 1945 and died in captivity.
Lot 414
HITLER ADOLF: (1889-1945) Fuhrer of the Third Reich 1934-45. An excellent D.S., Adolf Hitler, one page, 4to, Munich, 30th September 1936, in German. The attractive printed document is signed by Hitler in his capacity as Fuhrer and Reich Chancellor. Countersigned at the base by HERMANN GORING in his capacity as President of the Reichstag, and by WERNER VON BLOMBERG as Minister of war. Signed by Hitler in bold dark ink alongside a large blind embossed seal depicting the German eagle perched upon a swastika. The document states `In the expectation that the mentioned person conscientiously fulfills his duties and legitimates the trust which is proved to him by this nomination, I fulfill this certificate. Also I grant him my special protection.´ Fold to the centre, and extremely small ink stain not affecting the signatures, otherwise about EX £1000-1500Goring Hermann (1893-1946) German Political & Military Leader of the Nazi Party. In September 1936, short before the present letter was signed, Goring and Hitler announced that the German rearmament programme had to be speed up. Two weeks after Hitler named Goring as Plenipotentiary of the Four Year Plan approved to undertake this task. Werner von Blomberg (1878-1946) German field Marshal and Commander-in-chief of the Wehrmacht, German armed forces, until January 1938. Minister of Defence 1933-35. Goring and Himmler conspired to oust Blomberg from power as Goring was intending to become Commander-in-Chief himself. Goring informed Hitler that Blomberg´s just married second wife was a former prostitute and had posed for pornographic photographs. Hitler ordered Blomberg to annul the marriage to avoid a scandal and to preserve the integrity of the army. Blomberg refused to end his marriage, but when Goring threatened to make it public he was forced to resign his posts. Blomberg and his wife went on a honeymoon for a year to Capri, while Admiral Erich Raeder decided that Blomberg needed to commit suicide in order to atone for his marriage, dispatching Captain von Wangenheim to Italy, to follow Blomberg and to persist trying to force Blomberg to commit suicide, but he declined. Blomberg was captured by the Allies in 1945, and gave evidence at the Nuremberg trials, dying shortly after while imprisoned.
Lot 437
BILLAUD-VARENNE JACQUES NICOLAS: (1756-1819) French Revolutionary, often considered a key architect of the period known as The Reign of Terror. Nicknamed "Le Tigre" ("The Tiger"). Billaud-Varenne was a member of the Committee of Public Safety, later sentenced to deportation to French Guiana after is involvement in the 12th Germinal insurrection (1st April 1795). A good A.L.S., Billaud Varenne, one page, 4to, Saint-Sever, 9th March 1794, to Pierre Charles Ruamps, in French. Billaud-Varenne congratulates his correspondent and states in part `..You have done right informing me without delay.. I think that it will be useful to hide this until I will be back to Paris.´ further machinating and revealing his plan says `It will be wiser if the coup comes from a superior authority, moreover, with politics we can arrest and chain more and more of those people...Always watch...Their loss is close..´ A letter of good content. With blank address leaf, to the Representative of people, army of Brest coast and Cherburg at Port Malo. Also bearing a red wax seal to the address leaf in fine condition. Edges slightly trimmed, although not affecting the text or signature. G £200-300
Lot 448
MARQUIS OF SURVILLE: (1755-1798) Officer of the Condé army who would later work in secret missions for future King Louis XVIII. Accused of conspiracy, he was arrested and executed. L.S., Surville, one page, oblong small 8vo, Viviers, 3rd February 1792. The document being the acknowledgment of a debt. Small overall, minor age wear, G £80-100
Lot 454
MÉDUSE - FRENCH FRIGATE: La Méduse was a French Navy frigate. The frigate was armed to ferry French officials to Senegal to re-establish the colony in hands of the British. La Méduse leaded by an inept Captain, chosen by politicians, struck the Bank of Arguin on 2nd July 1816, and provoked terrible ordeals. Many men died drowned, many of them were drunk, a large group of them rebelled and were killed by officers, some survivors engaged in cannibalism and some injured men were thrown into the sea when food ran low. Two weeks after the raft was found with only 15 survivors. An extremely rare A.L.S., Desarbre & fils Sous-Lieutenant, two pages, 4to, on board of La Méduse, Saint Lazere, 17th December 1810, to Monsieur Pajol, secretary to the Duke of Istria (Marshal Bessieres), in French. The writer thanks his correspondent and patron, and explains that he has embarked La Méduse with destination the Island of Java. He reports that they expect favourable winds and that they will be travelling four months before reaching destiny. He also mentions having enjoyed the dinner with Captain (Joseph François Raoul) and with General Janssens, and states in part `The English are waiting for us not far from here, but I think that with equal forces…We are all young and strong and are ready to respond to them in the same way..we are eight on the Nymphe, and we have been explained where our fighting posts are…I kindly ask you to forgive my writing as I am writing on the capstan and the frigate is crowded..´ A letter of very interesting content. With blank address leaf. VG £800-1200Jean Guillaume Janssens (1762-1838) Dutch officer serving French army. Appointed General short before. He leaded the expedition to Java and was captured by the English in 1811. La Nymphe was a French frigate which was launched at the time La Méduse was launched too and accompanied the last till 3rd of January.
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MALET COUP OF 1812: The Malet coup was a coup d´état attempt in Paris, 23rd October 1812, intending to remove Napoleon I from power, when he was in the Russian front. The coup was engineered by Republican general Claude François Malet. The coup failed, and the leading conspirators were executed. An excellent set of five documents signed by the main participants in the coup attempt, partners in crime and few other main figures related to the coup, comprising Claude François Malet (1754-1812) French General of the Empire. Malet announced the death of Napoleon using forged documentation. Executed. D.S., Malet, one page, oblong 4to, Besançon, 28th August 1797, in his capacity as Adjutant-General to the Headquarters Staff, on the printed stationery of the Hospital of Egalité and countersigned by several officers, commissars of war. The document is a health certificate of a wounded soldier; Victor Claude Fanneau de Lahorie (1766-1812) French General, executed for collaborating with Malet in his coup. A large 16 x 13.5 document signed, `Fanneau Lahorie´, one page, Nancy, 1st October 1797. The document lists the ten members of a court-martial, with their names, ranks and military services. Also signed by General Joseph Gilot (1734-1811), François Nicolas Fririon (1766-1840) and Fanneau de Lahorie; François Antoine Desnoyers (1755-1816) French General, imprisoned from 1812 to 1814 for his participation in Malet´s coup. A.L.S., Desnoyers, one page, folio, 13th January 1795, on his printed stationery, with his name and rank, Occidental Pyrenees army; Anne Jean-Marie Savary (1774-1833) French general under revolution and Empire and minister of Police. The day before the coup d´etat, Malet seized the Minister of police and arrested Savary who was close to be killed by General Guidal, but General Lahorie intervened. An interesting L.S., with two lines holograph, one page folio, dated 25th October 1812, only two days after the coup attempt, to Jean François Dejean, President of the military Commission in charge of Malet´s court-martial. Savary states `I have taken to the Abbaye prison former General Desnoyers, and left him there at your disposal. Partner in crime of Malet, he received in his home, through his pretended aide-de-camp, a spade, a military cap, and a General uniform with a letter note explaining the events and instructing him to go to place Vendôme…´ and Pierre Augustin Hulin (1758-1841),French General who decided to take over the Bastille. Hulin was Commandant of the Headquarters in Paris at the time of the coup attempt. Hulin did not accept Malet´s orders after several questions asking for further explanations. Malet took his gun and shot, breaking Hulin´s jaw. L.S., Hulin, one page, folio, 6th February 1814, to the Duke de Feltre. Hulin refers to a letter received from General Berryer, Soisson Commandant, and requests orders based on the letter content, and mentions having forwarded a second copy to King Joseph Bonaparte, acting on behalf of Napoleon I during his absence. VG, 5 £500-800
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PERCY PIERRE-FRANÇOIS: (1754-1825) French Doctor and Chief Surgeon of the Grande Armée during the Napoleonic wars. He invented a new kind of ambulance usable on battlefield. A good A.L.S., `Percy´, one page, folio, Paris, 1st December 1809, to Jean-Baptiste Vannot, in French. The manuscript letter by Percy bears to the heading a “Marti et Arti” attractive vignette, and the first printed sentence state “The Surgeon, General Inspector of the French Army, consultant of His Imperial and Royal Majesties, Professor at the Paris Medecine School and Commandant of the Legion D´Honneur”. Percy writes a lengthy medical certificate in favour of the Squadron Chief of the 6th corps of the Army in Spain Vannot, stating in part `He suffered a nervous affection, among the most grievous ones, being the main symptom an extreme sharp pain to the head, convulsions to the right side of the face, similar to facial neuralgia..´ The letter page bears an attractive watermark. Folded, with edges only very slightly trimmed, and very small, overall minor age wear. VG £100-150
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PEREIRA FORJAZ MIQUEL: (1769-1827) Portuguese General, 9th Count of Feira. A very interesting A.L.S., Forjaz two pages, 4to, Belem, Portugal, 9th February 1812, to British Ambassador, Charles Stuart, in French. Pereira states in part `My dear Sir, I have also received a very detailed letter right now from Marshal Beresford and about same articles, announcing his arrival until the 20th. I will work on the matter in order to have the documents ready for his arrival.´ further saying ´Yesterday I also received a particular letter from my Lord Wellington, dated 4th, demanding providences regarding the desertion of the carters serving the army and complaining about the government..´ He concludes his letter by requesting a meeting with his correspondent in order to confer a prompt response to Wellington. With a 1811 watercolour mark. Left edge very slightly trimmed, otherwise VG £100-150Charles Stuart (1779-1845) British Diplomat, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Portugal and Brazil 1810-14, British Ambassador to France 1815-24, 1828-30 and British Ambassador to Russia 1841-44. William Beresford (1768-1854) 1st Viscount Beresford and 1st Marquis of Campo Mayor. Anglo-Irish General and politician. Marshal in the Portuguese army. Fought alongside Wellington in the Peninsular war, further becoming a member of Wellington ministry. Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) Anglo-Irish Field Marshal & British Prime Minister 1828-30, 1834.
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