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Lot 274
CIGARETTE CARDS - FULL & PART SETS in display sheets including; Player`s British Naval Craft set of 25, De Reszke, Animal 3rd Series Real Photographs, series of 27 - complete set and some duplicates, Player`s Uniforms of The Territorial Army, Gallahe r Ltd. - Film Episodes, Famous Stars etc., Gallaher - Dogs, John Player & Sons "Aircraft of the R.A.F." and Gallaher - Racing Scenes, together with Rockwell Publishing "Titanic" photographic cards x approx 25
Lot 62
India.- Roberts (Frederick Sleigh first Earl Roberts army officer as Quarter-Master General India 1832-1914) Camp of Exercise 1875-76. Map of the Country Round Delhi map printed on silk partial colour some foxing and browning a little creased 900 x 1020mm. Simla “Drawn in the Quarter Master General`s Office” 1875.
Lot 175
The Indian Mutiny 1857-1859. Collection of letters and telegraph messages to and from British officers, largely formed by John Minshull Drake (1807-1861), Lieutenant Colonel of the 65th Native Infantry. They relate events and orders from the commanding officers, including news of deaths of European officers, disarming and state of native troops, reinforcements, and numbers of insurgents Drake took over command at Sealkote on the death of Brigadier Frederick Brind in July 1857, and some of the letters are written to Brind in that year, and include a 6pp fair copy report by Brind at Ferozepore, to Colonel Chester dated May 1857. The lot also includes Drake`s parchment commission appointing him Captain in the East Indies Army, copies of printed news - `The Mofussilite` and `Supplement to the Agra Messenger`, and press cuttings. One letter of note is written by Lord Lawrence to Brind, dated 23 May 1857 `...If late events do not open the eyes of our Rulers, nothing will do so...`; other letters tell of the disaffection of the native troops. Telegraph messages include: 12 May 1857 `...Native Troops in open Mutiny. Cantonments Burnt. Several European Officers Killed`; another for 15 May 1857, from Naylor `ordering all firing for drill or target practice purposes be, by native troops, suspended`; another `Officers Commanding Native Corps are instantly to inform their men that it has never been intended that cartridges which can be objectionable should be used by them...`; also included are other items, i.e. `General Orders 6 January 1849`, and an 1860 Testimonial from Gowan to Drake at Barrackpore, with franked envelope, etc; altogether a most interesting collection giving a first hand account of events from a British perspective Provenance:By family descent
Lot 15
(George Baron Goring royalist army officer 1608 (George Baron Goring royalist army officer 1608-57) Obligation Bond in which Goring is bound to Daniel Harvey (brother of William Harvey physician) for £2000 D. manuscript in Latin and English on vellum 2pp. 2 small red wax seals folds yellowed 254 x 285mm. 2nd July 1639.
Lot 17
(Thomas third Lord Fairfax of Cameron parliament (Thomas third Lord Fairfax of Cameron parliamentary army officer 1612-71) Retained Copy Letter to Prince Rupert of the Rhine 1p. folio 4th September 1645 calling on the prince to surrender the town of Bristol and stating his political opinion concerning the king`s position “Sir the Crown of England is and will be where it ought to be we fight to mayntaine it there but the King misled by evill Counsellors or through a seduced heart hath left his Parliamt and his people... Sir if God makes this clear to you as he hath to us I doubt not to but he will not give you a heart to deliver this place notwithstanding all the other considerations of honor courage fidelitie because their consistency and use in the present business depends upon the right and wrongfulness of this that has been said... . But if this be hid from your eyes and that through your willfullness this so great and so famous and ancient Citty and so full of people be by your putting us to force the same exposed to ruin and the extremity of warr then I appeale to the righteous God to be judge between you and us... . And let all England judge whether the burning of its towns ruining of its citties and destroying its people be a good requittal from a person of your familie which hath had the prayers tears purses and blood of its Parlmt and people And most zealous for their assistance and restiturtion which you now oppose and seek to destroy and whose constant griefe hath been that their desires to returne your familie hath been ever hindered or made fruitlesse by that same party about his Majesty whose Counsell you are and whose interest you pursue in this unnaturall warr” folds some creasing (affecting signature) some edges chipped browned slightly stained folio; and a modern typescript of the letter. *** “This unnaturall warr.”- Fairfax. “Bristol was a tougher nut to crack. The second port in the realm protected by 15-foot thick walls it was the main distribution point for the king`s weaponry ammunition and materials. The letter in which Fairfax summoned Prince Rupert to surrender the city contains an interesting exposition of his political creed at that time. He assured the prince that neither he nor parliament harboured any animus against the institution of monarchy. Rather they were fighting `to maintain the rights of the crown and kingdom joyntly; a principal part whereof ir that the king... is... to be advised... by his Parliament the great Counsel of the Kingdom in whom... he hears all his people as it were at once advising him; and in which multitude of councellours lyes his safety and his peoples interest` (Sprigge 98). It was similar to the political philosophy that his father had proclaimed on his own battle flag: `Long live the king but death to bad government` (BL Soane MS 5247 fol. 20v). After a three-week siege and heavy artillery bombardment which failed to open a breach in the walls the city was finally overrun on 10 September in a lightning assault. Showing great daring Fairfax`s infantry scaled the walls as withering fire was poured down upon them.” - Oxford DNB.
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