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1960'S FOOTBALL PROGRAMMES Over 75 programmes including 1966 World Cup Tournament programme, no writing, Lincoln City v Liverpool 60/1, Chelsea v Northampton 65/6, Hearts v British Army 61/2, Watford v Arsenal 63/4 Testimonial, Man. City v WBA 1968 Charity Shield and Notts. County v Brighton 60/1 League Cup. Some have team changes. Fair to generally good
PEDRO VENANCIO GASSIS MINONDO (Pasajes de San Juan, 1850 - Burgos, 1896)."View from the port of the old Casino of Donostia" 1888.Oil on canvas.Signed, dated and located in the lower right corner.Period frame in perfect condition.Measurements: 65 x 80 cm ; 110 x 96 cm (frame).In this work the author offers us a vision from the interior of one of the mouths of the port, where he shows us a view of the old Casino of San Sebastian, where nowadays the town hall of the city is located, and we can appreciate all the great virtues and pictorial characteristics of this author, his lights and backlights, already almost impressionist, trace a Basque landscape, full of daring, sophisticated and romantic lights.The son of a French military engineer and diplomat who set up a shipbuilding company in Pasajes de San Juan, he trained as a painter at the School of Drawing and Painting in Bayonne and later in Madrid. Through his father's influence, he was a military man by profession, fighting against the Carlists in the Third War and reaching the rank of artillery commander. He combined the army with landscape painting, and in his views of the ports of San Sebastián and Pasajes he depicted the different types of fishing and transport vessels. He spent long periods on leave in Venice and his paintings of images of the city were highly acclaimed, particularly notable for the great ease and immediacy of his technique, which recreated the reflections of light and buildings in the water with a language close to Impressionism. At the National Exhibition of 1892 he won a third medal for Venezia. He was a disciple of Martín Rico in his Roman period, which stands out for its pictorial quality and is of interest above all because of the difficulty of finding the artist's work as his artistic production was very short.
PEDRO VENANCIO GASSIS MINONDO (Pasajes de San Juan, 1850 - Burgos, 1896)."Fishing trip in the port of San Sebastián" 1888.Oil on canvas.Signed, dated and located in the lower right corner.Period frame in perfect condition.Measurements: 65 x 80 cm ; 96 x 110 cm (frame).In this view of the port of San Sebastian, in which we can see the departure of a fishing boat, we can appreciate all the great virtues and pictorial characteristics of this author, his lights and backlights, already almost impressionist, trace a Basque landscape, full of daring, sophisticated and romantic lights.The son of a French military engineer and diplomat who set up a shipbuilding company in Pasajes de San Juan, he trained as a painter at the School of Drawing and Painting in Bayonne and later in Madrid. Through his father's influence, he was a military man by profession, fighting against the Carlists in the Third War and reaching the rank of artillery commander. He combined the army with landscape painting, and in his views of the ports of San Sebastián and Pasajes he depicted the different types of fishing and transport vessels. He spent long periods on leave in Venice and his paintings of images of the city were highly acclaimed, particularly notable for the great ease and immediacy of his technique, which recreated the reflections of light and buildings in the water with a language close to Impressionism. At the National Exhibition of 1892 he won a third medal for Venezia. He was a disciple of Martín Rico in his Roman period, which stands out for its pictorial quality and is of interest above all because of the difficulty of finding the artist's work as his artistic production was very short.
Europa. England. Die Schlacht von Hastings. Schachfiguren aus Kunststein vom Studio Anne Carlton in originaler Pappschachtel. Eine Partei Angelsachsen, die andere die Normannen. Hull in England, Studios of SAC Limited, um 1980. Höhe König 11,5 cm; Bauer 6,5 cm. (30) * Kompletter Figurensatz. Die Schachfiguren zeigen die Hauptakteure der Schlacht bei Hastings vom 14. Oktober 1066. Es war der erste militärische Erfolg der französischen Normannen bei der Eroberung Englands. Das normannische Heer unter Herzog Wilhelm dem Eroberer besiegte die Angelsachsen unter ihrem König Harald II. Zustand: Angestaubt, mit geringen Benutzungsspuren. / Europe. England. The battle of Hastings. Pieces made of artificial stone at the Studio Anne Carlton in original cardboard box. One side the Anglo Saxons, the other the Normans. Produced in Hull, England, Studios of SAC, around 1980. King 11,5 cm high, pawn 6,5 cm. Complete chess set. The chessmen show the main characters in the Battle of Hastings on October 14th, 1066. It was the first military success of the French Normans in the conquest of England. The Norman army under Duke Wilhelm the Conqueror defeated the Anglo-Saxons under their King Harald II. With minor chips and damages.
English Civil War. A sammelband of pamphlets relating to events in the English Civil War, 1642-52, 10 works bound in one volume, modern red half calf, marbled sides, 4to, comprising:1. A Declaration made by the right Honourable [Henry Bourchier] the Earle of Bath, one of his Majesties Commissioners of Array, to the whole Country of Devonshire, with their answer thereunto annexed; also the manner how the said Earle of Bath endeavoured to put the Commission of Array in Execution, at South-Moulton in Devonshire, and how his men were driven out of the town by the inhabitants thereof. Whereunto is added, a true relation of the great Battle betweene Prince Robert and the Parliaments forces at Worcester; with their happy victory over his Cavaliers, [London]: Septemb. 29. London printed for John Wright, [1642], [8]p., light toning, (Wing B1132)2. Speciall Passages and certaine informations from Shrewsbury, Dorchester, Worcester ... Westminster, Gloucester, Ludlow. Collected for the use of all that desire to truly informed. From Tuesday the 13 of Septemb. to Tuesday the 20, Numb. 6, London: Printed for Walt. Cook and Robert Wood, 1642, 8p. (numbered 31-38), light damps stain and toning3. Remarkeable Passages. The Occurrences of Parliament, and proceedings of the Army, Number 7., Decemb. 22, [London: Printed by A[ndrew]. Coe, and published according to Order 1643], [8]p., woodcut illustration to first leaf, imprint from final leaf, some browning, dust-soiling and marks, edges frayed4. The London Post, Numb. 19: Faithfully communicating His Intelligence of the Proceedings of Parliament, and many other memorable passages certified by Letter and Advertisements from Tower Hill, derry, Downe, Antrim, Pontefract, Skipton, Bolton, Scarborough, Carlile [sic], Chirke, Newarke, Plymouth, Gospur., New-hall, Oxford, Yorke, The Governour of Newarke imprisoned by his owne souldiers..., Passed according to Ordr., and Printed for G.B. January 14, 1644, 8p., woodcut decorative initial to first leaf, some cropping to page numbers at head, second leaf torn to lower outer corner with slight text loss, toning and occasional spotting5. Mercurius Civicus. Londons Intelligencer: or, Truth impartially related from thence to the whole Kingdome, to prevent mis-information, Numb. 62, from Thursday July 25 to Thursday 1 of August, 1644, London: T.B. and J.H.J., 1644, 8p. (numbered 589-596), woodcut portrait to first leaf of the Earl of Denbigh, light toning6. The Kingdomes Weekly Intelligencer: Sent abroad to prevent mis-information, Numb. 100, from Tuesday the 13 of May, to Tuesday the 20 of May, 1645, [London: Printed for R.W., 1645], 8p.(numbered 799-806), imprint from final leaf, browning and spotting7. The Kingdomes Weekly Intelligencer: Sent Abroad to prevent mis-information, Numb. 109, from Tuesday the 15 of July, to Wednesday the 23 of July, 1645, [London: Printed for R.W., 1645], 8p.(numbered 865-872), imprint from final leaf, browning and spotting8. The Kingdomes Weekly Intelligencer: Sent Abroad to prevent mis-information, Numb. 119, from Tuesday the 23 of Septem. to Tuesday the 30 of Septem. 1645, [London: Printed for R.W., 1645], 8p. (numbered 951-958), imprint from final leaf, browning and spotting9. Severall Proceedings in Parliament from Thursday the 4 of Decemb. to Thursday the 11 day of December 1651, Licensed by the Clerk of the Parliament. Num. 115, Printed at London for Robert Ibbitson dwelling in Smithfield neer Hosier Lane, 1651, 16p. (numbered 1773-1788), browning, damp staining and spotting, single worm hole to lower blank margin10. A Perfect Account of the daily Intelligence from the Armies in England, Scotland, and Ireland, the Navy at Sea, and other transactions of, and in relation to this Common-Wealth, Numb. 78, from Wednesday June the 23 to Wednesday June 30, 1652, London: Printed by Bernard Alsop, 1652, 8p. (numbered 617-624), browning and few damp stains, together with:English Civil War, An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the maintenance and pay of the Garrisons of Newport Pagnel, Bedford, Lyn Regis, and other Garrisons in the Eastern Association. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that this Ordinance be printed and published: H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com., London: Printed for Edward Husband, Printer to the Honorable House of Commons, Septemb. 4, 1645, 15[1]p., occasional spotting and minor marks, edges untrimmed, disbound, 4to (Wing E1989, this edition has "Septemb." in imprint, and the first line of imprint ends "printer")QTY: (2)
* Harley (Robert, 1661-1724). 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, British statesman and Lord High Treasurer, 1711-1714. Document Signed, ‘Oxford’, as Lord High Treasurer, 21 February 1711/12 & 6 June 1712, manuscript Treasury order to pay George Lord Lansdowne £171 17s. 6d., for a half a year's rent of ‘Mole Park which was laid into Her Ma[jest]y’s Great Parke at Windsor’, signed in the right margin with countersignature of R[obert] Benson, with additional signatures of Fitzharding below, Halifax at foot and Lansdowne to verso, some light soiling and age wear, short marginal split close to Oxford’s signature, one page with integral blank tipped onto an old album leaf, folio (37 x 23.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Robert Harley was an English and later British statesman of the late Stuart and early Georgian periods. He began his career as a Whig before defecting to a new Tory ministry. He was raised to the peerage of Great Britain as an earl in 1711. Between 1711 and 1714 he served as Lord High Treasurer, effectively Queen Anne's chief minister. He has been called a prime minister, although it is generally accepted that the de facto first minister to be a prime minister was Robert Walpole in 1721.Robert Benson, 1st Baron Bingley (1676-1731), English Tory politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1711 to 1713; George Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (c.?1684-1739, auditor of the Exchequer); John Berkeley, 4th Viscount Fitzhardinge of Bruton, Somerset (1650-1712), English courtier, Treasury official, army officer and politician; George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne (1666-1735), English Tory politician. He was Secretary at War during the Harley administration from 1710 to 1712. He was also a noted poet and playwright.
* King George III's Children. A well-themed collection of 21 autographs of King George III's children and 2 of his grandchildren, c. 1793-1873, including a vellum army commission document signed by George IV as Prince Regent and countersigned by Viscount Sidmouth, 1813, a cut signature of William IV, the remainder of the collection mostly Autograph Letters Signed by Prince Frederick, Duke of York (plus additional subscription and signature cut from a letter), King William IV, Brighton, 'Wednesday morning', c. 1811-20, saying to the unnamed recipient that he cannot ask anything of present Board of Admiralty, but cannot see why an officer's application for a pension on account of a wound should prevent his promotion, and advises his correspondent to present a petition to the Prince Regent through the Home Secretary, one page, 4to, Queen Adelaide (autograph card initialled and cut signature), Sophia FitzClarence, Adolphus FitzClarence, Princess Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, Princess Victoria Mary Louisa, Duchess of Kent, Princess Augusta Sophia, Princess Elizabeth, Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (plus armorial bookplate), Prince Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambrige (plus additional subscription with signature cut from a letter), Princess Augusta of Hesse-Cassel, Duchess of Cambridge, Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester, Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, Princess Sophia and Princess Amelia, mostly 1 or 2 pages, 4to/8vo, all loosely filed in a modern album of polysleeves with computer-printed descriptions and some related portraits and information, mostly from magazines QTY: (24)NOTE:Provenance: David Gilson & Chris Viveash Collection.A fine collection of autographs of thirteen of the fifteen children of King George III, lacking only those of Octavius and Alfred who both died in childhood. The collection also includes five letters from spouses and two from the children of King William IV, Sophia and Adolphus FitzClarence.
* Victoria (1819-1901). Queen of Great Britain & Ireland, 1837-1901. Document signed, ‘Victoria RI’, St James's, 30 November 1899, being a pre-printed commission on linenised paper with manuscript insertions, appointing James McClay, Gentleman, as Quarter-Master, in the Land Forces, signed by the Queen upper left and countersigned by Lansdowne lower right, papered royal and duty seals to left margin, minor marks, 30 x 40 cm QTY: (1)NOTE:This would seem to be Major J. McClay of Royal Army Medical Corps who died on 17 January 1917 and is buried or commemorated at Fulford Cemetery (CWGC I. B. 44.).
* Battle of Bergen-op-Zoom. Autograph Letter Signed, ‘Berkeley Drummond, Ensign 3rd Regt of Foot Guards (Scots Guards)’, to his mother, Hogerheyden, Holland, 9 March [1814], written the day after the disastrous attempt by General Sir Thomas Graham to carry by storm the fortress of Bergen-op-Zoom in Holland, describing the battle and casualties, piece torn away with loss of a few words only, the whole letter repaired and conserved at folds with Japanese tissue paper, 4 pp., 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Berkeley Drummond or another has crossed out a few confidential lines about the battle ('pray do not mention'), but this passage can probably be deciphered. His letter conveys the shock to the army of this costly defeat. After forcing an entry on 8 March, the British found that their retreat had been cut off; nearly all were cut to pieces or made prisoners. 'We last night attacked Bergen op Zoom and succeeded in taken possesion of the works but I am sorry to add we could not maintain them, not being properly supported, our loss is immense, Colonels Macdonald & Mercer were killed, the latter was killed not half a yard from me, the first regt have had all their officers killed wounded or taken prisonners with the exception of four... As our soldiers charged down the streets, the french fired from the houses and mowed them down in heaps... Cook was taken just as we made our escape over the Ditches amidst the vollies of muskquetry and grape...' Berkeley Drummond later fought at Waterloo. He rose to the rank of general and became Groom in Waiting to Queen Victoria. He died in 1860.
* Battle of Nivelle. A Good Autograph Letter Signed from Patrick Bain, ensign 38th Regiment, Guetry, 3 miles from Bayonne, 21 November 1813, neatly cross-written letter describing the battle of Nivelle to his brother Robert Bain, giving vivid details, '...this arrangement being made, we were ordered to advance in close column of regiments and if possible to get under the enemies gun batteries before daylight in order that we might get undercover before they could be made acquainted with our different movements, but scarcely had we got half our distance when we receive a grand salute from their different batteries as much as to say we were welcome, and for which we returned them a compliment of three cheers. However, this was a proper signal to commence operations on our part and the artillery who had been previously posted on the heights in our rear thought it high time to begin their business, and gave them quite a different sort of return to what we gave them, our light troops also commenced at the same time. Then nothing was to be heard all day long (whenever daylight made its way until late in the evening) but the roaring of cannon and musketry, enough to terrify a man, who had never seen or heard the like before, out of his senses, for person whether in column or otherwise could warrant himself safe for a single moment let him go where he may, the shells and shot from musketry were continually whizzing about one's ears. To tell the truth, I was a little startled at the first commencements of the business but before a quarter of an hour had passed thought little more about it...' and later, '...in short, I could not wish my greatest enemy to experience such work as this, indeed it will be much easier for you to conceive what we have come through within these eight days than I can sufficiently describe to you at this distance. Several of the officers who have been with the army since the commencement of the campaign said they had not experienced such difficulties during the campaign as they did that eight days we were on the move. The roads in consequence of the heavy rains certainly surpassed anything I ever saw, for here you would have seen 20 at a time stuck in the muck up to their knees and getting themselves extricated with a loss of a pair of shoes and perhaps stockings...', a total of approximately 1,500 words written on 4 pages with integral address panel, minor soiling, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Patrick Bain was promoted Lieutenant on 3 June 1818, again on 25 March 1824 in the 13th Light Infantry, dying in 1825.The Battle of Nivelle (10 November 1813) took place near the end of the Peninsular War. Wellington's troops attacked those of Marshal Sault, splitting his army in two. Sault was forced to retreat and so lost another battle on French soil. Casualties were high with the French losing 4,500 men to Wellington's 5,500. A typed transcript is included with the lot.
* Napoleonic Wars – Eygpt. Five Autograph Letters Signed, from Charles Lewis Parker, surgeon to the 25th Foot, 'Camp before Alexandria', 18 July-9 October 1801, to his wife at Plymouth, giving an interesting picture of conditions in the British army in Egypt during the period between the Battle of Alexandria (21 March 1801) and the actual surrender of the city by the French (31 August 1801), well describing the boredom and frustration of the officers and men, and with interesting details, e.g. daily rations per man, eventually the city is taken without too much resistance, described by Parker on the following day (1 September) ‘.... I am sorry to say poor Mr. Hawkins and a private of the 25th Regt. lost a leg each, both of whom would not suffer anyone to touch him till I came up. They were so much shatter'd that I was under the necessity of amputating both legs on the spot, they are likely I am rejoiced to say to do very well....’, the last letter ( 9 October) referring to the departure of the army to Malta, Parker himself being left in Alexandria with the wounded, 20 pages (one page defective, archival tissue repairs), plus a further Autograph Letter Signed ‘Parker’ to his wife from Yarmouth ("this abominable town"), August 1799, a letter from Lt. Col. Forster to Parker dated Camp before Alexandria, 13 Aug. 1801, highly praising his services, and a contemporary copy of Parker's service record, address panels, postmarks (Ship Letter, Portsmouth, etc.), 4to/folioQTY: (8)
* Peninsular War. A collection of 33 Autograph Letters Signed, ‘S. Briscall’, the Duke of Wellington's chaplain, written from the Peninsula between 1808-1814, approximately 120 pages in all, occasional chips or tears to edges (affecting a few words), some browning to the edges, some folds repaired where formerly bound, but most in good condition and in a legible hand, small 4to and folioQTY: (33)NOTE:‘I have one excellent young man in this army, Mr Briscall, who is attached to head quarters, who has never been one moment absent from his duty,’ wrote the Duke of Wellington in 1811. Three years later, Wellington made Briscall his personal chaplain, and on the return of the army from France, offered him the curacy at Stratfield Saye.Reverend Samuel Briscall's letters in this collection are written to his father, to his sister, or to a family friend, Colonel Williams, who had given him an introduction to Sir John Moore. Having joined the army as a chaplain, Briscall arrived in Portugal in August, 1808. The first five letters recounting his initial experiences, end with a letter dated Corunna, Jan 13, 1809: "The Troops have had most uncommonly hard Fatigues & long Marches in their Retreat . . I went to Out Posts this morning the French . . . receive hourly Reinforcements. Our line is [a] Hill about 2 ½ Miles from this & consists [of a] Brigade of Infantry & six Field Pieces…’.The next 23 letters were written from July, 1809, to October, 1811. After being attached to Craufurd's and Bentinck's brigades, Briscall was promoted to Chaplain to the Headquarters of the army in 1810, in effect becoming the senior chaplain in the Peninsula. There is a good letter dated Oct 4th, 1810, describing the battle of Busaco. The final five letters (June, 1813 to 22 April, 1814) cover Nivelle and Nive: ‘The army is very busy and I am writing under a heavy canonade’.Written in a familiar, unpretentious style to his family and friend, this excellent archive was once owned by the historian Michael Glover, and includes some of his research notes on Briscall.
* Peninsular War. A rare illustrated Autograph Letter Signed from Corporal Daniel Sanders, 95th Regiment, no date, (watermarked R. Barnard, [18]11), to his sister Frances Sanders in Amersham, Bucks, a brief note thanking her for her letter and sending love, the first page largely taken up with a pen & ink and watercolour portrait (?self portrait) of a man in uniform with a rural landscape behind, image 140 x 120 mm, within ink ruled borders, the letter continuing at foot of pages 1 and 2 with integral address panel, 'Folkestone/79', some overall toning and spotting, a few old clear tape repairs to fold intersection (to verso of illustration), 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Corporal Daniel Sanders joined the army 1 April 1809, and was wounded at Waterloo on 18 June 1815 and then invalided.
* Peninsular War. A Series of 10 Autograph Letters Signed by Captain John Massey, King's Own Dragoons, Portugal & Spain, August 1811 to September 1812, addressed to his brother Richard Massey in Glasgow, describing events from his arrival in Portugal in August 1811, through Wellington's 1812 campaign and the Battle of Salamanca, to the arrival of the regiment in Vallodolid in September 1812, a few pages lightly faded, the final letter lacking a small piece with text, a total of 31 pages with address panels bearing sundry postal markings, 4toQTY: (10)NOTE:A good series of letters from a young officer in the King's Own regiment of Dragoons. According to family notes accompanying the correspondence, John Massey died of fever in 1812. The letters here were written at approximately monthly intervals and cover the entire campaign. Massey describes his billets, discomforts of the campaign, the movement of Wellington and his troops, Lord Wellington's hounds, entertainments, the appearance of Badajos after the siege, Marmont and Sault, Battle of Salamanca and its aftermath, and the arrival of Wellington in Madrid.From the 'camp on the River Aga', 4 August 1812, Massey writes of the Battle of Salamanca: 'I only just saw the commencement of it which was a most beautiful sight, in twenty minutes we charged and I saw no more, we were entirely engaged in a wood, but tho' I saw nothing I heard a good deal ... we have to lament the loss of our gallant General Marchant and the excellent fellow Ld. Selby. Our loss in men was trifling all things considered for we charged infantry which is a thing very rarely done ... I rode my chestnut horse Johnny Raw, and I unfortunately laid him against a bayonet which was laying on the ground but he is doing very well.' Three weeks later Massey reports, 'on the 12 August Lord Wellington entered Madrid at the head of a victorious army. We were not a little pleased to be the first troops in the town with his Lordship at our head. Madrid has driven us all wild ... we live there a week and spent all our money. You can have no idea of the unfeigned joy of the inhabitants at seeing the English, they shouted Viva, threw up their greasy night caps and shook hands with us. The women flew at us like furies and kissed and hugged us ...'.
* Peninsular War. Autograph Letter Signed from 'James Carrigan, Band 95th Regiment', Campo Miore, [Portugal], 7 November 1809, to his brother James in the 3rd Battalion 93rd Regiment, but the letter addressed to Jeny, 'We had a very long march after we landed in this country and went within eighteen leagues of Madrid to a place called Tullavera where the French and Our Army had a Great Engagement’, also ‘Our Band is greatly reduced since poor Cairns and Smith died’, some overall spotting and a little fore-edge fraying, 3 pages with integral address panel, faint London Paid marking and indistinct Falmouth mileage mark, folioQTY: (1)
* Peninsular War. A series of 33 Autograph Letters Signed, ‘Scrope Hutchinson’, surgeon of the 52nd Regiment, 4 May to 24 December 1808, to his wife Anne, closely written, giving detailed accounts of his experiences during the Swedish and Peninsular campaigns of Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore, Yarmouth Roads, Gothenburg, Lisbon, Alcantara, Estramoz, Salamanca and elsewhere, together with 4 other letters to Hutchinson's wife before their marriage (1804-1805) and to his family, some notes on "Rational Recreations" and the probate copy of his will (1848), address panels, seal tears, some other tears and wear, slight browning, postmarks, approximately 130 pages in all, folio and 4toQTY: (33)NOTE:This lengthy, often intimate and highly articulate correspondence (some 60,000 words) documents the two military ventures of Sir John Moore in 1808. The first series, covering May to July 1808, was written by Scrope Hutchinson while accompanying the British force sent with Moore to Sweden ostensibly to help Gustavus IV against France, Russia and Denmark. Hutchinson gives in detail his impressions of Gothenburg, where the force waited while Moore conducted negotiations in Stockholm, and of the social life there, and he reports on the day-to-day rumours of the progress of the negotiations, culminating, on 30 June, in the news of Moore's escape from Gustavus’ in plain Cloaths, rather shabbily dressed’ with the realisation that the expedition has been a wild-goose chase, ‘…the King of Sweden . . . certainly wished us to undertake something truly ridiculous The Genl. however contrived to get off in plain Cloaths the same night, & travelled to Gottenburg with a Messenger... he is highly enraged & indignant, and says the King of Sweden is certainly mad…’.The second series, from 31 July to 24 December 1808, documents the progress of Hutchinson's regiment during the Peninsular War, the series concluding shortly before the Battle of Corunna in which Sir John Moore was killed. Hutchinson describes in detail the movement of the British Army through Portugal, its invasion of Spain, its successive advance from Corunna and tactical retreat towards the coast following the French capture of Madrid. He describes the French army in Lisbon after Junot's capitulation, when they were being evacuated by sea. Hutchinson also comments at great length on the Army's conditions, food, accommodation, morale, and social life, gives his impressions of Lisbon and other towns and of the Portuguese and Spanish peoples, and remarks on the theatre and social mores encountered. He passes on the day-to-day rumours and contradictory reports as to what is happening, comments on Wellesley, ‘a fine fellow and most deservedly beloved by all the Army’, and on Moore, ‘a person who will possess [the Army's] fullest confidence’, criticises the ‘haughty & overbearing manner which is too evidently the predominant feature of the English Character’, remarks on the ‘poor women’ of the regiment, ‘almost the whole of them are in the family way’, passes favourable judgment on Spanish hospitals, and offers a variety of anecdotes about persons and incidents encountered. He also details the hardships of the Army's winter march and much else besides.The correspondence bears a number of maritime mail handstamps of interest to the postal historian including three examples of the oval 'Ship Lte/ Penzance' (Robertson Type S.2), four examples of a similar mark for Portsmouth (Type S.10) and others.‘... Sir Jno. Moore wished to have fallen in with this Corps, as he is apprehensive that they may follow our track, & prove extremely troublesome to us on our retreat... I sincerely hope we shall turn our faces towards the Sea, for as to doing any thing effectual in Spain, it is totally out of the question-and by partial actions we shall certainly lose a number of men, and be encumbered by others wounded, with out any other good resulting from them, except that of proving to the French that we are not afraid of them...’.
* Peninsular War. Two important campaign letters from Alexander Steele describing the actions at El Boden (1811) and Salamanca (1812), in his first letter (Ginaldo, 13 October 1811) Steele gives a full account of events leading to the action at El Boden, how Marmont surprised Wellington with his divisions scattered, the Light Division was cut off by the French advance, Steele describes their escape, 'Gen'l Crauford saw that he had no time to lose in getting away, therefore on the same night we were ordered to make fires along our lines and to leave wooden sentries with a stick and bayonet on top of it... ', some spotting and browning, a few old small tape repairs and slight marginal loss from seal tear etc., 4 pages including address panel, folio; in the second letter from Salamanca (dated 25 June, and later 25 July) Steele describes the approach of the Army towards Salamanca, and then the great battle itself, 'a most glorious day for the British Army', some spotting and browning, a few old clear tape repairs to folds, some small text loss from seal tear, 4 pages including address panel, 4to; together with an earlier letter (Plymouth Dock, 1 November 1808), addressed to his parents in Halifax, Yorkshire, 2 pages with integral address leaf, small seal tears, various postal markings, 4toQTY: (3)NOTE:Alexander Steele became an ensign in 43rd Foot 14 December 1809; Lieutenant in 43rd Foot 7 November 1811.
* Waterloo. Autograph Letter Signed, ‘Berkeley Drummond, 3rd Regt. of Foot Guards’, St. Jean, [Waterloo], 19 June 1815, written the day following the battle, letting his mother know that he has survived the action, as has the commander of his battalion, Major Hepburn (who commanded the troops posted in the orchard of the chateau at Hougoumont), 15 lines written in haste on 1 page, integral blank leaf laid down on album leaf, in good condition, 4to QTY: (1)NOTE:Berkeley Drummond, Ensign and acting Adjutant in the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards (Scots Guards), later General, and Groom in Waiting to Queen Victoria. He died in 1860. This remarkable letter, written in a few moments snatched in a busy day bringing in the wounded, gives news of 'an action, which I am happy to say was one of the greatest battles we ever gained, Bonaparte commanded in person, I came off without being touched, the regt has suffered most amazingly... excuse this odd letter, but I am so busy with getting in the wounded & making out the returns. I am My dearest Mother Your ever most dutiful Son, Berkeley Drummond. The loss of the army is immense.'
Waterloo. The London Gazette Extraordinary, Thursday, June 22, 1815, original issue giving a printed account of the Battle of Waterloo in the form of a dispatch from the Duke of Wellington, list of officers killed and wounded at end, red ink duty stamp to lower corner of first page, a little age wear and dust soiling, 4pp, slim folio, together with 4 other printed commemorative: A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God... for the late signal and important victory obtained by his Majesty's ships of war, under the command of the late Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson, over the combined fleets of France and Spain, 1805; A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God; for the repeated successes obtained over the French army in Spain by the allied forces under the command of the most Honourable Arthur Marquess of Wellington; and especially for the signal victory obtained on the twenty-first day of June, in the neighborhood of Vittoria, 1813; A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God; for the glorious victory obtained over the French on Sunday eighteenth day of June, at Waterloo..., 1815; Service and Anthems to be used upon Thursday the 18th day of November 1852, being the day appointed for the public funeral of his Grace Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington..., 1852, all folded or stitched as issued, slim 4toQTY: (5)
Montgomery (Bernard Law, 1887-1976). British Field Marshal of War War II. Personal message from the Army Commander (to be read out to all troops) issued in Tunisia, 14 May 1943, a printed message on buff paper, outlined eight numbered points, the first being 'Now that the campaign in Africa is finished I want to tell you all, my soldiers, how intensely proud I am of what you have done', and ending with 'together, you and I, we will see this thing through to the end', Montgomery's printed name at foot, signed in black ink at head, 'B L Montgomery / General', a little age wear and several marginal splits, two small tears with blank loss including upper right corner and lower left margin, not affecting signature or text, original fold lines, one page, 4to (25.5 x 20.5 cm) QTY: (1)NOTE:A rare signed survival, this being one of a series of similar leaflets issued by Montgomery to the Eighth Army as it fought its way from Alamein to Tunisia between August 1942 and May 1943. Montgomery explained that the intention of these personal messages was 'to define the common objective and thereby foster unity of purpose.. I like to think that these messages did much to foster the spirit and will-to-win...' (El Alamein to the River Sangro).
* Scott (Robert Falcon, 1868-1912). Antarctic explorer. Autograph Signature, ‘Robt. F Scott’ / ‘Discovery’’, [1904], inscribed on a large album page removed from a visitors’ book with discreet date (1904) to the left of each entry in another hand, with 6 further signatures on the same page: Admiral Edward Field (1828-1912). Royal Naval officer and Conservative politician; H[ugh] O[akeley] Arnold-Foster (1890-1965). Politician, writer and Secretary of State for War; [Sir Henry Macleod] Leslie Rundle (1828-1912). British Army General; Alice Blanche Balfour (1850-1936). Scottish entomologist, naturalist & scientific illustrator; Orlando Bridgeman [Earl of Bradford and later Viscount Newport] (1873-1957). Conservative politician and soldier; David Ward (not traced); and 6 further signatures to verso: Howard of Effingham (1866-1927); Colonel George Charles Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan (1860-1949); Claude Hamilton (1843-1925); Henry de Vere Vane, 9th Baron Barnard (1854-1918); plus 2 further signatures of untraced ‘James Lowther’ and ‘George Barnsley’ QTY: (1)
* Vandenbergh (Raymond J.). A collection of autographs and signatures, largely Victorian, collected by Raymond J. Vandenbergh and his grandfather John Vandenbergh, neatly arranged with gummed paper hinges to rectos of an album with neat pencil captions and typed contents list at front, arranged by professions including actors, artists, army and navy, authors, science, royalty and titled people, etc., many signatures now missing, but including autograph letters from Arthur Stirling, Arthur O'Leary, T. Creswick, James D. Linton, Arthur Wardell, Fred Taylor, Lt. Gen. Irwin Williams, Major H.B. Mortimer, General Greenaway, Sir George Harris, Agnes Strickland, Richard Garnet, Sir Herbert Maxwell, Edwin Bending, J. Hummel, George Payne, S.P. Thompson, Earl of Mornington, Lord Iddesleigh, Lord Kimberley, etc., a total of approximately 230 autograph pieces, 20th-century two-tone cloth, folio, plus 2 albums containing approximately 120 autograph letters and related, sent to Alexander Tudor-Craig, c. 1910s/1930s, tipped on to album leaves with caption headings, autographs including Arthur James Balfour (TLS), Earl of Cromer, Alfred Harmsworth, Gerald Du Maurier, Marie Tempest, Henry Irving, Cyril Maude, Johnston Forbes Robertson, 2 contemporary cloth spring binders, rubbed and corners damp stained, 4toQTY: (1)
* Harvard University and the Vietnam War. A group of 16 handmade posters for protests at Harvard University, 1969, mostly stencil-printed original designs on thin paper, with headlines such as ROTC Kills, Strike for the Eight, Picket, Who is the Walrus, Maybe They Can't Hear Us, I Met Bolivar, Black Studies, Stop Harvard, Lesson 1 & 2, Too Much of Nothing, etc., some creasing and marginal fraying, sizes between 90.5 x 71 cm and 45 x 30 cm, together with the original posting tube in which the posters were sent back to England at the time QTY: (16)NOTE:Rare survivals of a group of protest posters that have remained in the same family's hands since 1969.On 9 April 1969 Harvard students entered the University Hall to protest at the escalation of the Vietnam War. Among the protestors' numerous demands were the ending of Harvard's Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) as it was supplying officers for the army. Even though protestors vowed non-violent resistance the University made an unprecedented decision to call in city and state police. On 14 April a mass meeting took place at the Harvard Stadium, attended by some 10,000 people who voted for strike action. The strikes continued until a second mass meeting on 17 April voted against continuing. The outcome saw the Faculty of Arts and Science relegate the ROTC programme to an extracurricular activity. It was fazed out completely but returned after the Vietnam War. A student position was created in the appointment of a newly established African America studies department.
* Lawrence (Thomas Edward, 1888-1935, attributed to). British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer, known as 'Lawrence of Arabia'. A World War One period brass marching compass, the brass casing enclosing the remains of compass card laid on mother of pearl, the base contemporarily engraved ‘Stf. CAPT. T.E. LAWRENCE’, 7.5 cm longQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Warwick George Cary, ESM, MSTJ, JP (1949-2020), was an Australian medals collector, dealer and military historian. This compass was discovered among his effects but until then the family were unaware of its existence. The family subsequently found a folder with notes showing that his attempts to conclusively authenticate the compass. Among these papers, (included with the lot), are some documents and photographs relating to when the compass was loaned and used as part of a display of T. E. Lawrence artefacts exhibited alongside the the Ray Simpson V.C. Memorial Medal Exhibition, held in the Auditorium of the Paddington-Woollahra RSL Memorial Co-Operative Limited, Sydney, Australia, 17-23 March 1980. The catalogue description for the T. E. Lawrence display shows the reverse of this compass with the engraving and was catalogued as: 'A Brass Field Compass. Reverse inscribed St./Capt. T. E. Lawrence (Circa 1915)'. However, where and how Warwick acquired it, in Australia or on one of his trips to UK, is completely unknown. The compass is therefore sold as seen and not subject to return.Lawrence's ranks, real and supposed, are confusing and difficult to follow. This is a summary of some of the most salient rank information which covers the period Lawrence would most likely have had this engraved, i.e. circa 1916: 'T. G. Lawrence [sic], to be a temporary Second Lieutenant. Dated 23rd October 1914' (London Gazette, 5 November 1914). This was corrected to T. E. Lawrence on 17 November 1914; 'Temp 2nd Lt. T. E. Lawrence to be temp. Capt. whilst specially employed. 20th Mar. 1916' (LG, 18 April 1916). When Liddell Hart asked Lawrence when he became a captain, TEL replied: 'I was Staff Captain. I lost it on going to Mespot[amia], so Hedley arranged a local captaincy' (David Garnett, The Letters of T. E. Lawrence, p. 85). In the London Gazette for 16 May 1916 Lawrence is listed with his full name for the first time' having been awarded the Croix de Chevalier: 'Temp. 2nd Lt. Thomas Edward Lawrence, Spec. List.' In January 1916 TEL made a list of the general staff of the intelligence section, Cairo (LG, 21 June 1916): 'I have now been made a Captain and Staff Captain again, which is amusing. It doesn't make any difference of course really, as I am never in uniform in Arabia, and nobody cares a straw what rank I hold, except that I am of Sherif Feisul's [sic] household' (TEL letter of 25 February 1917). Lawrence was advanced from Temporary Captain to Temporary Major on 5 August 1917, and now called 'Major Lawrence' (LG, 4 August 1917); appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath on 4 June 1917, but tells his mother 'My address is simply T.E.L., no titles please'. His name appears on a list of Staff Captains on 1st October 1917 (LG, 3 January 1918).More simply explained, TEL wrote to Robert Graves in 1927: 'Worked at G.H.Q. till 1916, ... Graded as Staff Capt. General List (actually 2nd Lieut.) Captain about 1916. Major 1917. Lt. Col. 1918. Promoted Major in order to be given C.B. for capture of Akaba. Finally graded G.S.O.1.'
A 9ct gold and enamel Orange Order 'Royal Arch Purple Degree' swivel ring, oval shaped swivel panel with blue enamel featuring a Royal Arch, eye, snake and star, verso, plain polished, head dimensions 14.5 x 13mm, tapered shoulders, 'D' shaped shank, size T, hallmarked Birmingham, 9ct gold, weight 7.1g The Orange Order, named as a tribute to the Dutch-born King William of Orange, was founded in 1795 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland and is an international Protestant fraternal organisation with some Masonic influences.The Royal Arch Purple Degree (3rd degree) is based on the original theme of the Exodus of the Children of Israel from Egypt to the Promised Land. The badge’s elements are the Royal Arch with the number 2½, an eye, snake and a star. The 2½ relates to the tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh who, although their inheritance was assured on the other side of Jordan, advanced in the vanguard of the army when crossing the river to assist their brethren to secure the Promised Land.
Unsigned - A military issue open faced pocket watch, circa 1939, the sterile black dial, 41mm diameter with (originally) luminous Arabic numerals and hands, subsidiary seconds register at 6 o'clock and chemin de fer chapter ring, 15 jewel mechanical crown wind movement decorated with 'The Côtes de Genève' with onion shaped winder, case, 51mm diameter, verso snap on, engraved with pheon mark and G.S.T.P. 108001After the First World War, the British Armed Forces were slow to modernise, and when war looked likely again in 1939, the War Department found themselves ill prepared. Generic pocket watches which met MOD standards were hurriedly purchased by the procurement office from a number of Swiss makers and commercial retailers in anticipation of future shortages. Most of these timepieces were regarded as ‘General Service’ timepieces as they had no particular specialist features and were classified as ‘Temporary (or 'Trade') Pattern’ (GSTP) until more appropriate or specialist watches became available to the army in sufficient numbers. The additional number engraved under the letters referred to the issue number of the timepiece, which would have been noted in the paybook of the soldier to whom it was issued.
Box of Collectible Items, including silver six pences, Crowns, Army pin badge, various sporting medals, National Rally medal awarded to W Bennett 1936, leather stud box, 9ct tie pins, chrome note pad, Boy Scouts penknife, sugar tongs, mother-of-pearl fruit knife, Ronson lighter, etc. Housed in a metal case.
Medal of 1415 Sergeant James Sinclair of the 2nd Battalion 25th Regiment of Foot (King's Own Borderers and latterly King's Own Scottish Borderers KOSB) comprising Victoria (3rd type obverse with swivel scroll suspension, 1874-1901) Army long service and good conduct medal [1415 SERGT JAS SINCLAIR 2ND BN 25TH FOOT], (1)
Thirty Dinky Toys diecast model vehicles to include a single 30W Electric Articulated Lorry in 3x30w gift box, 31b Trojan van Dunlop with red body and maroon hubs, 440 Petrol Tanker Mobilgas, Bedford Dormobile, Bedford Kodak van, NCB Electric van, Fordson flatbed, 621 3 Ton Army Wagon, Vanguard, 40J Austin Somerset, Riley, Austin Atlantic, 172 Studebaker, Ford Sedan, 162 Ford Zephyr, Rover 75, 161 Austin Somerset, Sunbeam Talbot, two loudspeaker vans, Triumph, Castrol tanker etc. (30)
Medals of S4-060366 Sergeant Tom G Chalmers of the Royal Army Service Corps comprising George V (bareheaded bust wearing Field Marshal's uniform, swivel bar with third type ribbon, 1050 medals issued) Meritorious service medal [S4-060366 SJT T G CHALMERS RASC] and WWI British war medal and victory medal [S4-060366SJT T G CHALMERS ASC], (3)
Medals of Lieutenant Colonel W J Marshall of the Army Service Corps comprising George V Territorial decoration (one of 4,198 issued), a George V Territorial Force War medal [MAJOR W J MARSHALL ASC] and WWI war medal and Victory medal [LT COL W J MARSHALL], the four medal mounted together on bar, (4)
Medals of T-392816 Driver R McCondach of the Army Service Corps and Detective in the Scottish Police Force comprising Edward VII Visit To Scotland Scottish Police medal 1903 (struck in bronze, one of 2957 issued) [DET R MCCONDACH], a George V Police Coronation medal 1911 (Scottish Police variety, one of 2800 issued) [PS R MCCONDACH], and WWI war medal and Victory medal [T-392816 DVR R MCCONDACH ASC], the four medals mounted together on bar, (4)
Medals of 2921054 and 6409 Acting Warrant Officer 2nd Class J Gibson of the Cameron Highlanders comprising George V (bareheaded bust wearing Field Marshal's uniform, swivel suspender bar variety 1911-20) Army Long Service and Good Conduct medal [2921054 SJT J GIBSON CAMERONS], WWI war medal and Victory medal [6409 AWO CL2 J GIBSON CAM'N HIGHRS] and 1914-15 star [6409 SJT J GIBSON CAM'N HIGHRS], (4)
Medals of 22304002 LOC Warrant Officer 2nd Class John H Richards of the Royal Artillery comprising Elizabeth II British Empire Medal (For Meritorious Service) [22304002 LOC WO CL2 JOHN H RICHARDS RA], an Elizabeth II Army Long Service and Good Conduct medal with REGULAR ARMY bar [22304002 SGT J H RICHARDS RA], and a WWII war medal and Defence medal, the four medals mounted together on bar, (4)
Medals of 201749 Private W Southwaite of the Border Regiment also 399660 Sergeant of the Corp of Military Police comprising George VI (INDIAE IMP variety 1937-48) Army Long Service and Good Conduct medal with Regular Army clasp [399660 SJT W SOUTHWAITE CMP], a WWI war medal [201749 PTE W SOUTHWAITE BORD R] and a WWII war medal and Defence medal, the four medals mounted together on bar, (4)
Medals of 4 Quarter Master Sergeant and Warrant Officer 2nd Class Samuel T Clarke of the Royal Army Medical Corps also Chief Inspector of the Police Special Constabulary comprising WWI war medal and Victory medal [4 WO CL2 S T CLARKE RAMC], WWI 1914-15 star [4QM SJT S T CLARKE RAMC], WWII Defence medal and a George VI (IND IMP variety 1937-1948) Special Constabulary medal [CH INSPR SAMUEL T CLARKE], the five medals mounted together on bar, (5)
Medals of 2924535 Sergeant W M Lumsden of the Cameron Highlanders comprising George VI (INDIAE IMP variety 1937-48) Army Long Service and Good Conduct medal with Regular Army clasp [2924535 SJT W M LUMSDEN CAMERONS], and WWII war medal, Defence medal, Burma star and 1939-1945 star, the five medals mounted together on bar, (5)
Medals of 5553 and 291909 Sergeant J S Munro of the 7th Royal Highlanders comprising George V (bareheaded bust wearing Field Marshal's uniform, swivel bar variety, 1050 issued) Army Meritorious medal with third type ribbon [291909 SJT J S MUNRO 7/R HIGHRS], WWI war medal and Victory medal [5553 SJT J S MUNRO R HIGHRS], WWII war medal and Defence medal, and a Elizabeth II coronation medal 1953, the six medals mounted together on bar, (6)
Medals of The Reverend J K S Reid C F 4 of the Royal Army Chaplains Division comprising George VI General Service medal with PALESTINE 1945-48 clasp [THE REV J K S REID C F 4 RA CH D], a Elizabeth II Efficiency Decoration with TERRITORIAL clasp [1961 verso], WWII war medal, Defence medal, 1939-1945 star, France and Germany star and Italy star, the seven medals mounted together on bar, (7)
Medals of Florance H S Kelley of the Police Special Constabulary comprising George V (IND IMP variety) Special Constabulary Long Service medal with three claps LONG SERVICE 1942, LONG SERVICE 1956 and LONG SERVICE 1966 [FLORANCE H D KELLY], WWII war medal, Defence medal, 1939-1945 star, Africa star with 1ST ARMY clasp and Italy star, the six medals mounted together on bar, also a set of matching miniatures, (12)
Medal for M2 048309 Private Robert Trotter of the Army Service Corps comprising WWI 1914-15 star medal [M2-048309 PTE R TROTTER ASC] with copy ephemera. Medal for L3465 OS2 Robert John Henry Cockerton of the Royal Navy comprising WWI war medal [L3465 R J H COCKERTON OS2 RN] with copy ephemera. Medal for CH21605 Private Thomas Frederick Phillips of the Royal Marines Light Infantry comprising WWI war medal [CH21605 PTE T F PHILLIPS RMLI] with copy ephemera. (3)
Medals for 57910 Company Sergeant Major William Silburn of the Royal Garrison Artillery and Number 8 Mountain Battery Royal Artillery comprising Victorian India Campaign 1895-1902 India medal with RELIEF OF CHITRAL 1895 clasp [57910 SERGT W SILBURN NO8 MTN BY RA] and a Edward VII Army Long Service and Good Conduct medal [57910 COY SJT MJR W SILBURN RGA] with copy ephemera and research papers, (2)
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