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Lot 560
An original WWII Second World War Third Reich Nazi German Army stahlhelm M42 pattern steel uniform combat helmet. Later painted to represent a single-decal green SS helmet. SS runes to one side. Fitted with a replica liner and replica leather strap. Painted by the vendor to a very high standard, for display purposes. Shell with no impressed letters. Original seamless shell, later painting.
Lot 579
An original WWII Second World War era Italian Army Officer / Infantry Officers uniform comprising dress tunic and trousers. The field grey tunic / jacket bullion Infantry badges to each shoulder epaulette and gorget patches to the black velvet faced collar. Captain rank stripes to each sleeve. Complete matching with uniform trousers.
Lot 585
An original WWII Second World War Third Reich Nazi German Army ' SS ' Stahlhelm steel combat M42 helmet. Original shell, restored and repainted by the vendor into an SS Winter Camouflage helmet. Fitted with a reproduction liner and chin strap. Painted to a high standard. Original shell, later painted.
Lot 595
A WWI First World War medal group awarded to one 31112 Lance Corporal Frederick William Broom of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers, killed in action 16th September 1917, age 29. Comprising; his War Medal (imp 31112 Pte. F W. Broom KOSB (King's Own Scottish Borderers)), Victory Medal (31112 Pte F. W. Broom KOSB), and his MM Military Medal (impressed 41233 L Cpl F. Broom 2/RS FUS). All with original ribbons. Supplied with an original period photograph of Broom in uniform alongside his wife, a period newspaper clipping announcing his death and giving more details on his MM awarding '...he had received the Military Medal only about two months ago for conspicuous gallantry in rescuing his officer and two comrades at Ypres...'. The collection also includes an original handwritten letter from the Army Chaplain to Mrs Broom which, in part, reads 'May I join with the others in sending my very sincere sympathy on the death of your husband...I am told the company Officer will be writing to you with details of how his death occurred. I buried him last night along with six others in a quiet cemetery near to where he fell...'. The collection also features a wealth of later printed research and copies of documents, roll cards and service history etc.
Lot 600
An original vintage British Army / RAF Royal Air Force Gentleman's Omega wristwatch. Black dial, with luminous hands and hour dot markers. Stores reference to rear 6645 101000 and further references 6B/542 4920/53. The black dial signed Omega, with Air Ministry Broad Arrow beneath. With its original leather strap. Appears in working order. Rare original RAF watch.
Lot 63
WWII Second World War - two items of original WW2 German Third Reich Nazi Army related items, comprising of a battle damaged field binoculars 'Dienstglas 7x50 ' (likely by Leitz or similar), in their original camouflage colourscheme, along with an original PASSIERSCHEIN - SAFE CONDUCT surrender pass from President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Lot 69
A WWI First & WWII Second World War interest medal group awarded to one 3108 Acting Sergeant William Munday of the RAMC Royal Army Medical Corps. Comprising; 1914-15 Star (3108 Pte. W. Munday RAMC), War Medal (3108 A SJT W. Munday RAMC), Victory Medal (3108 A SJT W. Munday RAMC) and his WWII War Medal. All with ribbons. Supplied with a WW1 period photograph of Munday in uniform, and a copy of his Medal Roll card.
Lot 74
Two original WWI First World War period maps, comprising:- Trench Map: Bailleul-Kemmel area. Sheet 28 SW, edition 6. Belgium & France. Coded in bottom l/h corner GS GS (General Staff Geographical Section) 2742 and published by the Ordnance Survey December 1916. On folding linen. Scale 1:20,000. Size 89 by 65 cm. Detailed key. Original owner’s name to reverse. The owner served in the Durham Light Infantry and the Northumberland Fusiliers, and was wounded in France- British Army map of Amiens, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton for the Geographical Section General Staff 1916. Code 2364 to bottom left corner. On folding linen size 88 by 66 cm. Scale 1:100,000. Key gives information on many geographical features and has an explanation of French names for them. Soldier’s name in pencil above front cover.
Lot 93
An original WWI First World War 1903 pattern Imperial German Army mauser rifle bayonet. The bayonet having a flat pommel with push release button and a smooth wooden grip. Cross guard with muzzle ring marked 39356. The blade appearing VG+ and housed in a blackened steel scabbard. Measures approx 40cm.
Lot 98
An original early 20th century WWI First World War British Army type trench warfare knuckleduster / knuckle duster. Likely pre-war. Steel construction, of curved form with four symmetrical holes for fingers and larger opened palm section. Scarce piece of trench weaponry. Measures approx; 11cm long.
Lot 2091
Silver motorcycle racing medal awarded by the British Motorcycle Racing Club for the 1000cc 10 Mile Record Race 2nd prize to W G Howard, Brooklands August 9th 1913, in fitted case, with two postcards depicting W G Howard 'Uncle Billie' on his Matchless Motorcycle and two Matchless Motorcycle catalogues for 1912 and 1914, and a newspaper snippet, (6),PROVENANCE: William George Billie Howard from Walton on Thames worked in his fathers undertakers shop but his great love was motorcycles. He raced for Matchless Motorcycles and we believe this silver medal to be his best performance. Billie joined The Royal Army Service Corps in 1915 riding motorcycles. He transferred as a Lieutenant to the Royal Garrison Artillery and was killed in 1917 of shrapnel wounds, buried at Ypres. He is forever remembered on the Walton on Thames War Memorial. The picture of Billie on one wheel we believe was taken in Weybridge.
Lot 2141A
Large collection of medals and medallions, to include War Medal, Defence Medal, The Africa Star, The Italy Star and The 1939-1945 Star, collection of Queen's Own 4th Hussars cap badges and insignia, silver Regular Army Reserve Officer's button, Masonic 'Quest Lodge' enamel jewel, equestrian enamel badges and pins, silver house relay race keychain, Third Reich badge, and others, together with buttons and belt buckles (qty)
Lot 2142A
Collection of British Army uniforms and caps , to include WWII British Army dress uniform jacket Conway Williams of London label inscribed in pen ' S.T. Eve Esq. 4th Hussars, 2.4.37 and no 5954', another khaki uniform including jacket and trousers with matching oak leaf badge, 4th Hussars field service side cap by Herbert Johnson, New Bond St, Queen's Own 4th Hussars peaked forage cap by Herbert Johnson, British Officers khaki peaked cap by Herbert Johnson with original Herbert Johnson box, and 4th Hussars cloth shoulder badges
Lot 172
Major-General William Arbuthnot (1838-1893) a very large collection of over 300 pieces of correspondence relating to the death of his first wife Alice Charlotte Pitt-Rivers (1842 - 1865) who was tragically killed by lightning during the couple's wedding tour whilst ascending the Schilthorn Alp, near Mürren in Switzerland.The eldest son of Archibald Francis Arbuthnot and the Hon. Gertrude Sophia Gough, William was educated at Eton before he enlisted in the Army Rifle Brigade in 1856, serving during the Indian Mutiny. He married his first wife, the Hon. Alice Charlotte Pitt-Rivers (the fourth daughter of the George Pitt-Rivers, 4th Baron Rivers, and Lady Susan Georgiana Leveson-Gower) on 26 April 1865.A newspaper clipping included in the collection describes the unfortunate event in vivid detail:"Tidings of a lamentable and extraordinary incident have come to us from Switzerland, by which names that belonged to the 'fashionable' paragraphs of London Society, pass into the dark and solemn hierarchy of sorrow. One of the 'marriages in high life', which have helped to make the season gay, was celebrated lately between the fourth daughter of Lord Rivers and Mr. Arbuthnot. The bride was young and beautiful, the bridegroom envied and happy; and when they started for a wedding tour on the Continent, the last thought in the mind of those who loved them would have been that their new felicity was to be a thing of days, cut short by a momentary stroke. The travellers had arrived at Interlachen, the well-known and picturesque little Swiss town buried in the Bernese Alps. On Thursday morning they set out on horseback, with a guide, to ascend the Schelthorn, one of the mountain peaks overhanging the village. The weather was fine, the expedition without danger; two fortune-blessed human creatures could not have appeared more secure in their enjoyment of this beautiful and wonderful world, and of those delights which are attached to young affection. They rode about half-way up the mountain till the path was too steep for horses; and then they alighted, walking some distance further. The sky, meanwhile, had become clouded; but the great Alps are always exchanging shadow and sunshine upon their crests, and the guide saw nothing to fear in the gloom that had come over the peak. Presently Mrs Arbuthnot, feeling a little tired, sate down to rest, while her husband and the man proceeded some distance further up the ascent, but never out of sight or hearing of their companion. In a few minutes, however, a furious thunderstorm broke above their heads, and they descended as quickly as possible to the spot where they had left Mrs Arbuthnot. She was still there, but she was dead- a flash of the lightning had struck her, and killed her instantaneously! The bright and happy bride who ascended the mountain so joyously in the morning was carried down in the afternoon a corpse; and, a bitter mockery of the 'mastery' of man over the power of Nature! the young husband, made in one awful moment a widower, had to transmit the news of his misery to the hundred friends at home by that same subtle agency which, from the thunder-cloud, had slain the sweet life of his bride. The electric force that had done the deed, now flashed intelligence of its own work to England"The letters belonging to William mainly date from the two years spanning 1865-1867, with a large proportion of the 1865 correspondence within the collection comprising of condolence letters, and as such, they have been written on black edged mourning paper. In the Victorian era it was customary for individuals mourning a family member to use mourning paper for the months and even years following the death, the thickness of the black border slowly reducing as the mourning period progressed. The majority of the letters have been written by his mother Gertrude Arbuthnot and father-in-law George Pitt-Rivers, with other senders including his brother Robert Arbuthnot, Henry Pitt-Rivers, Lord Granville George Leveson-Gower, Rev. Francis William Bourdillon and many other notable individuals.As well as William's green leather-bound passport containing a Safe Passage Request by Earl Russell, Viscount Amberley, one other particularly interesting part of the collection is the correspondence revolving around-and documents pertaining to- the creation of a memorial headstone for Alice to be placed on the mountain. An architect named Henry Hirschgartner of Bern appears to have been responsible for this, and there are numerous letters, invoices and blueprints that detail the extraordinary care and precision with which this task was undertaken. The end result of these meticulous plans can be seen in the included photographs of the erected memorial, as well as the large hand inked blueprint measuring 137x64cm. There are also a quantity of telegrams from the days immediately following the tragedy, including the telegram sent on June 22nd from William to Lord Granville breaking the news of his niece Alice's death.Also included within the collection are documents and letters belonging to Alice from before her marriage to William. These items include baptism certificates, poetry and childhood letters sent to and from her mother at Rushmore, and letters addressed to her then-fiancé William. One particularly bittersweet item in the collection is an article printed on silk detailing the wedding from the Dorset Country Chronicle and Somersetshire Gazette of Thursday, April 27th, 1865:"Loud and hearty were the rejoicings on April 26, 1865, in the neighbourhood of Rushmore Park, for never did a lovelier April morning smile upon a fairer or more joyous scene than that which was witnessed in the union of Alice Charlotte Pitt, fourth daughter of the Right Hon. Lord and Lady Rivers, of Rushmore Lodge, with Capt. William Arbuthnot (14th Hussars), of Hyde Park Gardens, London...we may say they have carried with them the heartiest wishes of all for their lasting happiness and prosperity- a wish in which we cordially and heartily join"Provenance: From the estate of Major-General William Arbuthnot thence by descent through the family
Lot 704
Dwight D. Eisenhower signed 6x4 album page signature obtained on board RMS Queen Mary 26th Sept 1946. Dwight David Ike Eisenhower GCB OM GCS CCLH KC NPk ( October 14, 1890 - March 28, 1969) was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe, and achieved the rare five-star rank of General of the Army. He was responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942-1943 and the successful invasion of Normandy in 1944-1945 from the Western Front. Comes from the Autograph collection of a RMS Queen Elizabeth ships Chief Radio Officer. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 843
Stunning Display! Evil Dead Bruce Campbell hand signed professionally mounted display. This beautiful display consists of a 10 x8 photo, hand signed by Bruce Campbell as Ash from the horror, Evil Dead: Army of Darkness. This has been mounted with a logo underneath the photo, and the overall size of the mounted display is 14 inches x 11 inches. This signed photo is guaranteed authentic, and is supplied from one of the UK's leading autograph memorabilia companies. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 44
A mixed lot to include the Records of Henley Royal Regatta, circa 1903 and other books, a framed and glazed coloured print of Henley Regatta, artist initials KMS within the picture, quantity of tea and cigarette cards mainly mounted in albums, geometry sets, silver plated cutlery, Army and Navy cased field glasses, an enamelled kettle and other items
Lot 141
Broadside - Towle (Christopher). The present schools as Mr. Towle, teaches in for the year of 1783, as viz. Oxford, Coventry, Northampton, Daventry Woburn, Newport-Pagnell, Wellingborough, Wolston, and Hill..., Newport-Pagnell: Printed for B. Leverett, where every article of letter-press printing is reasonably performed, [1783], single-sheet broadside, ornamental border, slight wear where previously folded, margins trimmed close to border, generally in good condition, folio (35 x 21.2cm)Qty: (1)NOTESESTC T228549. One location only (British Library). This is the earliest recorded piece of printing from Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, and the printer Leverett is otherwise unknown. A lengthy broadside handbill for an 18th century dancing master, asserting the value of dance to all branches of human achievement and offering instruction in virtually all the arts and sciences. Towle, based in Coventry but obviously itinerant, here offers tutoring by the fortnight or quarter. The key to life, in his view, is the ability to dance, "No man can be well prepared in any sort of genteel trades, professions, sicances [i.e. sciences], employments, servitudes, music, the army, or navy, unless they can dance exceedingly well; dancing will make make a man stand and walk, and look, and speak well; to be courteous, and civil, obliging, and complaisant, and genteel, and of a fine forgiving merciful disposition ... I have known and heard of persons who as been good dancers, to advance themselves from a Quirsiter to a Bishop, from a Private Man to a General, from a Cabinboy to a Admiral ... dancing gives a person a easy looking and speaking, to his superiors and inferiors, it takes off those slow and effeminately proud deluding look that some of the sectary make of ... in short dancing is the very greatest support to trades and manufactures of all sorts, and professions of every kind that can be mention'd, and all those sort of persons who has any thing to say against dancing are enemies to the whole community &c." Through Towle's training a boy of twelve can be brought to expertise with the gun and sword in 12 months, "he will prepare a person that must go to sea, to understand the use of the sails upon any sort of vessel, beginning at a scull or oar, up to a first rate man of war"; likewise he professes expertise in 20 musical instruments, and undertakes concerts, balls and assemblies on request. He will give instruction in "all sorts of English, French, Italion [sic], and Flemish, slow and quick dances", but prefers the English forms "The English dances that he teaches, is ten thousand times preferable to all the foreign-dances" and are useful "in the single-stick, quarter-staff, broad-sword, small-sword, wrestling, boxing, running, jumping, swimming, ringing, and horsemanship of all sorts, painting, drawing, stage-players of all sorts, music, surgery, in ev'ry circumstance of fraction and dislocation, &c." Christopher Towle's home establishment was a ladies boarding school in Coventry, where he offered "Needle-work, spelling and reading, at 12.l. 12.s. per year ... music, dancing, writing, French, and drawing, at usual prices to be paid for separately."
Lot 147
* Charles I (1600-1649). King of England, Scotland & Ireland, 1625-49. Document Signed, 'Carolus R', Beverley, [Yorkshire], 19 July [1642], in Latin, a Royal letters patent to Henry Earl of Bath, Edward Viscount Chichester, Edward Seymore and others, appointing Commissioners of Array for Forces in Devon for the defence of the county against the King's enemies, also calling for beacons to be put in place to give warning of danger, a little ink loss affecting lettering of one or two words near the centre of lines 5-14, a few letters rubbed with a little loss of lettering near lower right margin not affecting sense, blank upper margin clipped at centre [to accommodate tag at lower margin when folded], lacks pendant Great Seal, a little yellowing at extremities (probably from previous framing for display), decorative initial 'C' and signature of the King upper left, countersigned Willys lower right, endorsed 'A Commission of Array for the County of Devon, Willys', 27 x 51 cm, accompanied by an old printed transcription and English translation on two card sheets with mounting remains to extremities where presumably displayed with the documentQty: (1)NOTESAlthough long obsolete, commissions of array were revived by King Charles I in 1642 at the start of the Civil War, in an unconstitutional manner, without Parliament having been consulted, in order to counteract the equally unconstitutional Militia Ordinance enacted by Parliament in 1642 without the usual Royal Assent. Both decrees were issued in order to attempt to gain control of existing militia forces and to raise further troops. The Commission of Array issued by the king thus sought to muster a Royalist army at the onset of the English Civil War. Commissioners were appointed for each county, generally from leading members of the local aristocracy and gentry who might be assumed to wield great influence over their feudal tenants and the population in general. The commissioners proceeded to the major population centres and read out in public gatherings the text of their commission. Frequently such innovative royal decrees, uncertain in precedent and purpose, were met with open hostility on the part of the local inhabitants who suspected them as being instruments designed for general suppression of the people. Opponents of the king, whilst playing down the role of the Militia Ordinance in augmenting civil strife, portrayed the Commission of Array as being a sign that it was the king and not Parliament who was the real aggressor in the developing conflict. 28 Commissioners of Array were appointed in Devon.
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Lot 169
[Turing, Alan, 1912-1954]. The World at War. A brief history of the origins, military operations, and related events of World War II. Materials for the use of Army Orientation Program. Prepared from public sources by Military Intelligence Division, War Department, Washington: Infantry Journal, 2nd edition, 1945, signed on title in blue ink 'A M Turing', original printed wrappers, some creasing and soiling with small split at base of spine, 8voQty: (1)
Lot 219
Mitchell (T. J. & G. M. Smith). Medical Services, casualties and medical statistics of the Great War [History of the Great War], reprint edition, London: Imperial War Museum, 1997, publishers original green cloth, 8vo, together with; Callwell (C. E. & Marshal Foch), Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, His Life and Diaries, 2 volumes, reprint edition, Montana: Kessinger Publishing, 2010, publishers uniform original wrappers, 8vo, and Jones (Spencer), From Boer War to World War, tactical reform of the British Army, 1902-1914, 1st edition, Oklahoma: University Press, 2012, publishers original wrappers, 8vo, plus other modern military reference & related, including publications by Oxford, Tale, Ian Allan, Cambridge, Sutton, many original cloth in dust jackets, many paperback editions, G/VG, 8voQty: (6 shelves)
Lot 231
Hywel-Jones (Ian). The Victoria Cross and the George Cross, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Methuen, 2013, colour & black & white illustrations, publishers original blue faux leather in slipcase, 8vo, together with; The Century Co. [publisher], Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, 4 volumes, New York, 1884-1888, numerous black & white illustrations, minor marginal toning, publishers original uniform gilt decorated cloth, boards & spine lightly rubbed, large 8vo, and Oman (Charles et al), A History of the Peninsular War, 9 volumes, mixed editions, Oxford: Clarendon Press/ New York: AMS Press/ London: Greenhill Books, 1902-99, monochrome maps, some minor toning, publishers original cloth, volumes 8 & 9 in dust jackets, volumes 1-5 spines faded & slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus other WW1, Peninsula war & other military reference, including publications by Army Records Society, HMSO, Yale, Greenhill Books, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8voQty: (6 shelves )
Lot 322
* Russia. Hogenberg (Franz), Schmolenska, circa 1590, hand-coloured engraved city plan showing it under siege by the Polish army, top margin skilfully extended, displayed in a double-aperture mount with another uncoloured example, each 245 x 325 mm, framed and glazedQty: (1)NOTESOriginally published in Hogenberg's "Geschichtsblättern" and shows an early view of the city of Smolensk in Western Russia. The scene depicts the siege of Smolensk by the Polish Army, from 1609-1611, with the Dniepr River shown above the City.
Lot 494
A collection of Welsh Guards military and sporting items, for the British Army, inter Rugby Championships 1952, winners medal awarded to the Second Lieutenant David Howard Davis of the First Battalion the Welsh Guards and an Army Rugby Union medal awarded to the same 1951 to 1952, an enamel fob for the North Wales Centre ACU, a miniature National Service medal from 1939 to 1960, military cloth and other badges, to include Welsh Guards, a map of Berlin, Berlin metal and cloth badges, etc.
Lot 43
Hay, Edward. History of the Insurrection of the County of Wexford, A.D. 1798, including an Account of Transactions Preceding that Event, with an Appendix. Dublin: Printed for the Author, by John Stockdale, 1803. 8vo. Full tree calf gilt, title in gilt on black morocco letterpiece on restored spine. Folding chart. Wanting map. V.g. Edward Hay (1761-1826) was the author of this book on the Irish Rebellion of 1798, and a witness to many of the events of that time. He was born, about 1761, at Ballinkeele (near Crossabeg), County Wexford, into a Catholic family. His family were large landowners and were long-established in the county. Hay was educated in France and Germany. His father was Harvey Hay. Ballinkeele house and estate was sold in 1825 to the Maher family, who shortly afterwards replaced the old Hay home with a new house. Hay was witness to many of the events in Wexford town during the Rebellion. His brother, John, was a prominent Rebel leader, and was executed near the end of the Rebellion on Wexford bridge, 26 June 1798. Another brother, Philip, was a member of the British Army, and was buried in England. Edward Hay was tried for involvement in the Rebellion, but was acquitted. It is clear from Hay's own account and from Miles Byrne's 'Memoirs' that Hay himself had little involvement in the actual fighting, but his actual role is in organizing and promoting the Rebellion is far less certain. Hay's book was first published in 1803 and was one of the first accounts of the Rebellion. It was reprinted many times, most of these reprints omit Hay's 1803 Introduction and Appendix, as well as his large fold-out map of the County Wexford. Hay lived in Dublin in later years and was a prominent member of the Catholic Committee and a very active member of the Catholic Association. He was Secretary of the Catholic Association, 1806 - 1819. Edward Hay died at Dublin, 13 October 1826, and is buried in St. James' graveyard, Kilmainham, Dublin, where his headstone can still be seen. The appendix contains the speech of Edward Sweetman, Captain of a late independent company, at a meeting of the freeholders of the County of Wexford. Together with: Authentic Detail of the extravagant and inconsistent conduct of Sir Richard Musgrave, Baronet; with a full refutation of his slander against Edward Hay. Together with: Extract from the account of the population of Ireland [County Wexford] as taken in the year 1788, by G.P. Bushe. With folding sheet 'Analysis of a statistical account of a parish' as proposed by the Royal Irish Academy.
Lot 31
Five commemorative glasses and rummers c.1820, variously inscribed 'England has Done her Duty', 'Our Brave Allies', 'Wellington for Ever', 'Ld Wellington for Ever' and 'Duke Wellington and his Army', 11.9cm max. (5) Provenance: the collection of the late Terence C Woodfield. The proceeds from this lot will be donated to charity.
Lot 364
ZHUKOV GEORGY KONSTANTINOVICH (1896-1974)Order to the troops of the Kiev Special military district on personnel. Kiev, September 12, 1940 1 p.; 28,5x20 cm. Handwritten signatures of the district commander General G. K. Zhukov, member of the Military Council and army Commissar Borisov, chief of staff of the district Lieutenant General Purkaev. Minor loss of paper fragments in the left margin without damage to the text.On the appointment of I. V. Galich and S. G. Lortkipanidze to new positions.Georgy Zhukov (1896-1974) - Marshal of the Soviet Union, four times Hero of the Soviet Union, great commander. A man of rare military talent, G. K. Zhukov remained in history as one of the main creators of Victory in the great Patriotic war.Maxim Alekseyevich Purkaev (1894-1953) - commander of the Second world war, General of the army. In 1940, Lieutenant General M. A. Purkaev was appointed chief of staff of the Kiev special military district. He was the first to report the German attack on the Soviet Union to General of the army G. K. Zhukov, then Chief of the General staff of the Red Army. In his book «Memories and reflections» Zhukov wrote about last pre-war day: «In the evening of 21 June, I was called by the chief of staff of the Kiev military district, Lieutenant-General Purkayev, who reported that the guards met the defector – German Sergeant major, who claimed that the German troops were preparing for the offensive, which will begin June 22».
Lot 367
YEVGENY KHALDEI (1917-1997)Victory Flag over Reichstag, 1945 Inscription in Russian, signed by E. Khaldei (on the reverse)Gelatin silver printMid-20th century print29 x 23 cmProvenance: photographer’s personal archiveThe photo is an icon, became a symbol of victory in World War II, was on the cover of «Ogonyok» magazine, was included in all anthologies.Yevgeny Khaldei (1917- 1997) was a Soviet Red Army naval officer and photographer. He is best known for his World War II photograph of a Soviet soldier Raising a flag over the Reichstag, in Berlin, capital of the vanquished Nazi Germany.
Lot 476
Mondaine, A Gentleman's stainless steel swiss Railways wristwatch with white enamel dial, mounted on a black leather strap, a Victorinox Swiss Army stainless steel Gentleman's watch with brushed steel dial, a Swiss Army watch with steel and red bezel and a Nautica Gentleman's sports watch with black dial. (4)Condition Report: All require batthery replacement Ewbank's do not guarantee the working order or accuracy of any lots sold.
Lot 121
MAXIMILLIEN LUCE (FRENCH 1858-1941)LE CHARRETIEROil on canvas Signed (lower right)64 x 91cm (25 x 35¾ in.)Provenance:Galerie Georges Moos, GenevaSale, Christie's, London, 30 March 1973, lot 134Sale, Sotheby's, London, 6 February 2001, lot 216Sale, Christie's, London, 7 February 2006, lot 208Literature:J. Bouin-Luce & D. Bazeloux, Maximillien Luce, Catalogue Raisonne de L'oeuvre Peint, Vol. II, Paris, 1986, no. 2187, p.513 (illustrated)Maximilien Luce was born in Paris in 1858 and went on to become one of the most established artists of the Post-Impressionist movement. After training to become an engraver and studying in London Luce returned to France in 1879. He was enlisted in the army but continued to study painting forming a strong bond with Camille Pissarro who introduced Luce to artists such as Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. Luce's interest in Seurat's divisionist technique developed into his pointillist style. Luce was drawn to scenes of country pastures showing ordinary people at work, demonstrating a real concern for the study of the working-class. These beliefs shaped Luce's political philosophy of anarchism. In 1894 he was arrested for the suspected involvement in the assassination of President Marie Francois Sadi Carnot. He was released two days later and created a series of lithographs to document his experience and other political prisoners whilst confined in Mazas prison. Luce died in 1941 and was buried in Rolleboise. His work is held in prestigious public collections across the world including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Musee d'Orsay in Paris. Condition Report: Unlined. Paint surface good original condition. Inspection under UV reveals no visible signs of damage or restoration. Cleaned and revarnished. Condition Report Disclaimer
Lot 122
MAXIMILLIEN LUCE (FRENCH 1858-1941)LE GRAND ARBRE, ROLLEBOISEOil on canvas Signed lower right 63 x 79cm (24¾ x 31 in.)Provenance:Private Collection, Georges Couturat, ParisSecretan, Lausanne, Switzerland Sale, Christie's, London, 7 Feburary 2006, lot 218Exhibited:Belgium, Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Maximillien Luce, October - December 1966, no. 80 (illustrated) Literature:J. Bouin-Luce & D. Bazetoux, Maximillien Luce, Catalogue Raisonne de L'oeuvre peint, Vol. II, Paris, 1986, no. 2400, p. 555 (illustrated) Maximilien Luce was born in Paris in 1858 and went on to become one of the most established artists of the Post-Impressionist movement. After training to become an engraver and studying in London Luce returned to France in 1879. He was enlisted in the army but continued to study painting forming a strong bond with Camille Pissarro who introduced Luce to artists such as Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. Luce's interest in Seurat's divisionist technique developed into his pointillist style. Luce was drawn to scenes of country pastures showing ordinary people at work, demonstrating a real concern for the study of the working-class. These believes shaped Luce's political philosophy of anarchism. In 1894 he was arrested for the suspected involvement in the assassination of President Marie Francois Sadi Carnot. He was released two days later and created a series of lithographs to document his experience and other political prisoners whilst confined in Mazas prison. Luce died in 1941 and was buried in Rolleboise. His work is held in prestigious public collections across the world including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Musee d'Orsay in Paris. Condition Report: Unlined. Paint surface good original condition. A few black marks to the upper left quadrant. Otherwise in good original condition. Condition Report Disclaimer
Lot 281
Fine Edwardian photograph album, c. 1907, relating to the Pitt family comprising Henley Regatta, India, Conwy, Filey, Luckington Court, Army manoeuvres, India, golf, tennis, cricket, including a rare and early view of the Olympic at Queenstown with a tender alongside, possibly on her maiden voyage, together with related postcard albums of foreign and other views.
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