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Lot 33
λ After Sir Joshua Reynolds A George III lacquered brass mounted, gilt-composition ebonised and tulipwood miniature hanging display cabinet with portraits of Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Harrington and Mrs Edwin Lascelles, later Lady Harewood to doors 232 x 166mm (portraits), 342 x 510 x 112mm (cabinet)
Lot 153
Important Archive of Brenda Long Secretary to General Sir H.Ismay (later Lord Ismay) Chief of Staff to Sir Winston Churchill from mid 1944 until the end of 1945. Provides a fascinating insight into the life of a highly competent and personable young secretary working and travelling with key members of Churchill's top team, also includes some very rare and historic passes and documents as well as letters and photographs. Brenda also worked for Lt.Gen. Sir Leslie Hollis, Secretary to the Chiefs of Staff Committee (41-42) and the Treasury (1948) etc. etc. She was a friend/colleague of Olive Christopher, who also worked for the Cabinet team and is mentioned many times in the recent book about her "From Churchill's War Rooms letters of a secretary 1943-45".(she has signed a personal note to Brenda Some of most interesting items from this large collection include Letter from Chequers, and an encounter with Churchill, Account of conditions in Berlin souvenir taking in Hitlers Shelter with photos, photographs of an uninviting Moscow Airfield in October 1944 with photos of Stalin etc.Passes to the Quebec Conference 1943 and rather grand pass to the Berlin Conference of the Three Allied Powers July 1945 etc.
Lot 214
Large and Impressive Imperial German Photograph Album of Royalty / Kaiser Interest, large leather bound album with finely detailed silver leaf tooled House of Hohenzollern Imperial eagle to the front and “UNSER KAISERHAUS” (Our Imperial House). Album contains 60 cabinet size photographs and artist illustrations of members of the Imperial German Royal Family pre 1900 including various examples of Kaiser Wilhelm II, Princesses of Prussia, Crown Princes, Kaiser Wilhelm I, Frederick III King of Prussia, Empress Frederick (Victoria Princess Royal), Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, Prince August Wilhelm, Frederick I Grand Duke of Baden, Prince Heinrich von Preussen, Prince Oscar von Preussen, plus others. Various photographers and periods before WW1. Some damage to the album pages but all images can be removed. Gilt edged album pages and leather album covers edged in silver with four fittings to the back cover.
Lot 216
Grouping of Mostly Photographs of India Interest, including an interesting cabinet photograph of a grouping of Indian women in traditional dress with a European lady standing behind holding a small infant. Reverse of the image has inked key identifying the subjects and date “4/88”; photograph by Bourne & Shepherd titled “The Princes First Tiger” showing Edward VII with a group of men standing and kneeling behind a tiger which they have hunted; Large photograph in card mount of the Memorial Well Cawnpore Bengal East India with annotation below; Large photograph in card mount of “Tea Party Given by K Seetharama RAO, Proprietor Modern Café and Platform Conductor M & S M Railway; various loose images taken in India in the early 1900’s and a modern album with original and re-printed images taken in India.
Lot 5
Great War Report Regarding German Zeppelin Air Raid on 13-14th October 1915, typed two page document marked to the top, “SECRET FOR THE INFORMATION OF THE CABINET ONLY”, details the Zeppelin attack and casualties caused during. The attack was made by five Zeppelins attacking Croydon, Tunbridge Wells, Woolwich, Sandgate, Ipswich and District, Hertford and Guildford. Some folds, tears and rusting from stapled top but an interesting document.
Lot 584
RASHLEIGH, Philip - Specimens of British Minerals, selected from the cabinet of Philip Rashleigh ... with general descriptions of each article : 2 vols bound in one, 53 hand coloured plates of minerals showing many examples, one hand coloured geological plate of the strata, cont. half gilt morocco, cloth sides, 4to, 1797-1802.* excellent copy of this scarce early illustrated work on mineralogy
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