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Lot 348
Hamilton, The First Seven Divisions, 1916, Griffith, Up to Mametz, 1988, Campbell, The Mixed Division (T), 1916, The 1st Canadian Division in the Battles of 1918, 1919; Stirling, The Territorial Divisions 1914-1918, 1990, Ross, The Fifty-First in France, 1918, Baker and Rust, A Short History of the 50th Division, 1966
Lot 921
Star Wars 2015 First Day Cover signed by the original Darth Vadar Dave Prowse with Yoda Stamps. We are delighted to be able to offer you this wonderful piece of signed memorabilia. This is a single stamp cover bearing the years 1977 - 2015. 1977 is when the first Star Wars film was released and 2015 is the release year for The Force Awakens. The cover bears a single stamp from the set released by the Royal Mail this year and we have four different stamp variations to offer. Each single stamp has a film scene label attached to it from the Lucas film archives. The cover itself folds out to reveal details about British film studios, and it is postmarked Pinewood Studios, Pinewood Road, Iver, where The Force Awakens was shot. We arranged for Darth Vader himself, Dave Prowse, to autograph these covers when they were produced. He has added Darth Vader to his autograph. David Charles Prowse, MBE (born 1 July 1935) is an English bodybuilder, weightlifter and character actor in British film and television. Worldwide, he is best known for physically portraying Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy. Prior to his role as Vader, Prowse had established himself as a prominent figure in British culture as the first Green Cross Code man, a character used in British road safety advertising aimed at children. Good Condition. All signed pieces come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.99, EU from £5.99, Rest of World from £7.99.
Lot 630
Roger Bannister signature piece. (23 March 1929 - 3 March 2018) was a British middle-distance athlete and neurologist who ran the first sub-4-minute mile. Good Condition. All signed pieces come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.99, EU from £5.99, Rest of World from £7.99.
Lot 70
Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner signed 10x8 colour Star Trek photo as Captain James T Kirk and Spock. Leonard Simon Nimoy was an American actor, film director, photographer, author, singer and songwriter. He was best known for his role as Spock of the Star Trek franchise, a character he portrayed in television and film from a pilot episode shot in late 1964 to his final film performance in 2013. William Shatner, OC is a Canadian actor, author, producer, director and singer. In his seven decades of television, Shatner became a cultural icon for his portrayal of James T. Kirk, captain of the USS Enterprise, in the Star Trek franchise. Star Trek is an American space opera media franchise based on the science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry. The first television series, simply called Star Trek and now referred to as The Original Series, debuted in 1966 and aired for three seasons on the television network NBC. Good Condition. All signed pieces come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.99, EU from £5.99, Rest of World from £7.99.
Lot 369
Kent County Cricket 1970 First Day Cover Signed By Colin Cowdrey, Derek Underwood & Alan Knott. Good Condition. All signed pieces come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.99, EU from £5.99, Rest of World from £7.99.
Lot 1313
A George III mahogany four height chest of drawers of small proportions, fitted with a dressing slide Natural veneer cracks, scratching and some staining to the top. Small area of replacement veneer to front corner. Area of slight damage to frame above lock of first long drawer. Other minor damages commensurate with age and use. 99cm by 44.5cm by 85cm.
Lot 38
An Arts and Crafts silver spoon, A E Jones, Birmingham 1961, with twisted stem and melon finial; a Scottish provincial silver coffee spoon, Highland Home Industries of Iona, Edinburgh 1942; and an Elkington electroplated White Star Line sugar spoon, date letter for 1927, the first 14cm long (3)
Lot 272
BORMANN MARTIN: (1900-1945) German Chief of the Nazi Party Chancellery 1941-45 and Private Secretary of the Fuhrer of the German Reich 1943-45. An interesting T.L.S., Bormann, one page, 4to, Berlin, 2nd March 1940, to SS-Gruppenfuhrer Schaub, in German. Bormann informs his correspondent, in full, 'Miss Thea Henkel, previously a waitress at the Cafe Heck in Munich, was found a place, at her own request, with the district administrative authorities (the department for issue of permits). I have already informed the Fuhrer of this matter'. With a couple of pencil lines and the official received ink stamp of the Adjutant des Fuhrers (dated 6th March 1940), two file holes to the left edge, and a small, very neat split to the rigt edge of the central fold, not affecting the text or signature. VG Julius Schaub (1898-1967) German Chief Aide and Adjutant to Adolf Hitler 1925-45. Schaub was present in the Fuhrerbunker towards the end of World War II although was ordered to leave in April 1945 and destroy all of Hitler's personal belongings and papers. The fact that Bormann was writing to Schaub to let him know that Adolf Hitler had been made aware of the employment of a young lady from a cafe would, at first, seem somewhat trivial until it is appreciated that the Cafe Heck was in fact Hitler's favourite spot in Munich and the place where he would frequently meet friends and associates in the 1920s.
![[BOHME FRANZ]: (1885-1947) Austrian General in the Wehrmacht who served as Adolf Hitler's Plenipotentiary Commanding General](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dc812136-c7eb-4933-ad4f-a9ee00ea80f9/02623021-4eed-46a6-b4e5-a9f30110b91e/468x382.jpg)
Lot 259
[BOHME FRANZ]: (1885-1947) Austrian General in the Wehrmacht who served as Adolf Hitler's Plenipotentiary Commanding General in the Balkans and Commander-in-Chief in German-occupied Norway during World War II. Bohme stood trial at Nuremberg in the Hostages Trial for having massacred thousands of Serbian civilians and, when his extradition to Yugoslavia seemed imminent, committed suicide in prison. An interesting, small group of four original typed mimeographed documents relating to the trial of Franz Bohme, unsigned, forty pages (total), folio, n.p. (Nuremberg), c.April 1947, in German. The documents were prepared for Bohme ahead of his military tribunal during the Hostages Trial at Nuremberg (July 1947 - February 1948) and cover various aspects including the punishment of persons guilty of war crimes, crimes against peace and against humanity, the organisation and powers of the military tribunals and their uniform rules of procedure, stating, in part, 'Each of the following acts is recognised as a crime...Crimes against peace. Initiation of invasions of other countries and wars of agression in violation of international laws and treaties.....or participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the foregoing....War Crimes. Atrocities or offenses against persons or property constituting violations of the laws or customs of war, including.....murder, ill treatment or deportation to slave labour.....of civilian population from occupied territory, murder or ill treatment of prisoners of war.....killing of hostages......' and further stating, in part, '.....this Ordinance is to provide for the establishment of military tribunals which shall have power to try and punish persons charged with offences recognised as crimes......pursuant to the powers of the Military Governor for the United States Zone of Occupation within Germany......certain tribunals to be known as "Military Tribunals" shall be established......The Military Governor shall designate one of the members of the tribunal to serve as the presiding judge......Neither the tribunals nor the members.....may be challenged by the prosecution or by the defendants or their counsel.....' Each of the four numbered documents bear Bohme's name ('Bohme') in green indelible pencil at the head of the first pages and all feature green and red indelible pencil underlinings to various parts of the text. Some light overall age wear, generally about VG, 4
Lot 298
POPITZ JOHANNES: (1884-1945) Prussian Finance Minister and a member of the German Resistance against the government of Nazi Germany. In 1943 Popitz conducted secret talks with Heinrich Himmler in order to try and obtain his support for a coup d'etat and subsequent peace deal with the Western powers, however Popitz was being watched by the Gestapo and was arrested on 21st July 1944, just one day after Claus von Stauffenberg's unsuccessful assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler, known as the 20 July plot. Popitz was subsequently sentenced to death and executed. A rare book signed and inscribed, being a hardback edition of Stein: Eine politische Biographie, two volumes, First German Edition published by Unftalt of Stuttgart and Berlin, 1931. The first volume is signed and inscribed by Popitz to the front free endpaper with a lengthy inscription in German to Dr. Landfried, thanking him for his faithful cooperation in the last step of the Prussian financial and administrative history. Signed by Popitz in his capacity as Prussian Finance Minister and dated Berlin, 26th September 1935 in his hand. With a small printed German transcript of the inscription neatly affixed at the base of the front free endpaper. Both volumes also bear the bookplate of history teacher Jurgen Himstedt. Bound in the original publisher's brown and red cloth with gilt stamped titles to the covers. A good and interesting association copy. Some light overall age wear, otherwise about VG Dr. Friedrich Landfried (1884-1952) German Lawyer & official with the Prussian Finance Ministry. When Hermann Goring was appointed Reichsstatthalter and Prime Minister of Prussia in 1933 he requested that his villa within the grounds of the Prussian Ministry be redesigned at a projected cost of some 720,000 Reichsmarks. Dr. Landfried refused to sanction the cost, prompting Goring's angry response 'I do not intend to begin my dictatorship by allowing the Ministry of Finance to lay down the law to me!' Of course, Goring got his own way and the new buildings included a roomy lion pit for his pet lion cub. Gerhard Ritter (1888-1967) German Historian and Author, Professor of History at the University of Freiburg 1925-56. Although Ritter was originally a supporter of the Nazi regime and cooperated on anti-Polish propaganda, he was later to become an adviser to Carl Goerdeler and became involved in the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Ritter was one of the few conspirators not to be liquidated by the Nazis although he was imprisoned in 1944 for the duration of World War II.
Lot 8
FOOTBALL: A good autograph album containing sixteen individual multiple signed pages by various English football teams of the 1950s comprising Manchester United (eleven signatures comprising Roger Byrne, David Pegg, Johnny Berry, Bill Foulkes [all of whom were involved in the Munich Air Disaster, two of them losing their lives] Jack Crompton, Johnny Carey, John Doherty, Stan Pearson, Henry Cockburn, John Aston and Allenby Chilton), Liverpool (over twenty signatures including Bob Paisley, Bill Jones, Billy Liddell, Ray Lambert, Jimmy Payne, Kevin Baron, Roy Saunders, John Heydon, Russell Crossley, Eric Anderson, Jimmy Rolfe, Eddie Spicer, Arthur Rowley etc.), Portsmouth (twelve signatures including Jimmy Dickinson, Jack Froggatt, Peter Harris, Duggie Reid, Jimmy Scoular etc.), Middlesbrough (eleven signatures including Dickie Robinson, Lindy Delapenha, Arthur Fitzsimmons, Joe Rayment, Billy Whitaker, Bobby Corbett etc.), Tottenham Hotspur (thirteen signatures including Alf Ramsey, Ron Burgess, Les Bennett, Ted Ditchburn, Eddie Baily, Len Duquemin, Harry Clarke etc.), Manchester City (fourteen signatures including Johnny Hart, Roy Clarke, Ken Branagan, Bert Trautmann, Roy Paul, Don Revie, Jimmy Meadows, Ivor Broadis, Jack Hannaway etc.), West Bromwich Albion (twelve signatures including Len Millard, Ronnie Allen, Ray Barlow, Reg Ryan, Arthur Fitton, Frank Griffin, Joe Kennedy, Jimmy Dudley, George Lee etc., most being members of the FA Cup winning team of 1954), Newcastle United (ten signatures including Ron Batty, Frank Brennan, Bobby Cowell, Tommy Walker, George Hannah, George Robledo, Reg Davies, Ronnie Simpson, Tommy Casey etc.), Bolton Wanderers (thirteen signatures including Nat Lofthouse, Doug Holden, Johnny Wheeler, Harold Hassall, George Higgins etc.), Sunderland (eleven signatures including Len Shackleton, Willie Watson, Jack Stelling, Arthur Hudgell, Tommy Wright, Harry Kirtley, Trevor Ford etc.), Wolverhampton Wanderers (thirteen signatures including Billy Wright, Dennis Wilshaw, Roy Pritchard, Bill Shorthouse, Bert Williams, Ron Flowers, Les Smith, Peter Broadbent, Jimmy Dunn etc., some of them being members of the Wolverhampton Wanderers team who won the First Division championship in 1953-54), Blackpool (ten signatures including Stanley Matthews, Harry Johnston, Hugh Kelly, Eddie Shimwell, Ewan Fenton, Tommy Garrett, Bill Perry, Allan Brown, Ernie Taylor etc., many of them members of the FA Cup winning team of 1953), Arsenal (eight signatures including Jimmy Logie, Cliff Holton, Peter Goring, Arthur Milton, Arthur Shaw, Joe Wade etc.), Derby County (eleven signatures including Reg Harrison, Albert Mays, Ray Middleton, Jack Parry, Ken Oliver, Jackie Stamps etc.), Preston North End (eleven signatures including Tom Finney, George Thompson, Tommy Docherty, Angus Morrison, Charlie Wayman, Willi Cunningham, Jimmy Baxter etc., many of them having played in the 1954 FA Cup final) and Plymouth Argyle (thirteen signatures on a small loosely inserted sheet of feint ruled notepaper including George Dews, Pat Jones, Paddy Ratcliffe, Maurice Tadman, Gordon Astall, Neil Dougal, Les Major, Bill Shortt, Eric Bryant etc.). Most of the signatures are in ink (some of them fountain pen inks) and some are in pencil. A number of pages are loose. Generally VG
![[NAZI WAR CRIMES]: A rare dossier containing the original English carbon typed documents relating to the trial of two German](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dc812136-c7eb-4933-ad4f-a9ee00ea80f9/691dfe75-a74b-4fc0-8cc1-a9f30110b9ef/468x382.jpg)
Lot 260
[NAZI WAR CRIMES]: A rare dossier containing the original English carbon typed documents relating to the trial of two German officers, SA-Oberscharfuhrer Johann Csar and Josef Pechbock, accused of the murder of Jews, the dossier comprising over 100 folio pages and including the certified English translations of the statements of the two accused officers and over thirty other individuals, most of them witnesses to the events surrounding the killings, and also including the Investigator’s Report, Identification Parade Reports, Exhumation Reports performed by the pathologist Dr. Tollich, as well as related photographs of the crime scene etc., all prepared for the Investigation Branch of the Atrocities Section at Graz and gathered from interviews taken at Leoben Police Station between January 1946 and March 1947. The documents state that the investigation concerned a Jewish transport which was passing through Trofaiach on the 7th April 1945 under the escort of SS officers when it stopped at the end of the village of Kurzheim, at the front of the Gladen Hill, as many of the Jews were too exhausted to ascend the hill before them. At this stage, the report continues, two Jews were led into the forest and shot dead, although also states that a third Jew was shot. The report also gives details of two graves which were opened at Kehrwald on 29th January 1946, one containing four bodies and the other seven, at least two of the bodies showing evidence of gunshot injuries despite the decomposed state of the corpses. The statements of the accused and witnesses etc. read, in part, ‘On 7th April 1945, the Volkssturm from Trofaiach was ordered to escort a Jewish transport. The order was given by the Company-Leader HOFEREG……In his order the Zugfuhrer used the following words, “If anybody steps out of the convoy, he has at once to be shot at.”……..At the end of the village Kurzheim, a horse and cart was standing beside the road on the meadow, and a dead man was loaded on to it…….Some 50 steps from the cart two foreign labourers were dragging a man from the forest and he was still giving signs of life. He had a hole in his head above his right ear, and was bleeding out of the wound. I was of the opinion that somebody had shot this man with a pistol…….I heard two shots coming from the direction where the cart was standing. In my opinion these were pistol shots’ (extract from the statement of Sebastian Aigner, a crane driver residing at Trofaiach, 25th January 1946), ‘In April 1945, on the morning of the day when the big Jewish transport was conducted through Trofaiach I was with my comrade CSAR……It might be that CSAR had a pistol, I myself was not armed……..It is an insolent lie, if CSAR or anybody else alleges that I took part in the Jewish transport and that I was in Kurzheim. I cannot imagine at all, how anybody can come to this assumption……Before CSAR and I went to look for LOSCH……He said that he had not enough escorts for the Jewish transport and that he needed some more men. I told him I could not go with the transport because I had got a special order, respectively another order. This was rather an excuse lest I should be obliged to join the transport. In fact I was looking for a captain of the Wehrmacht’ (extract from the statement of Franz Berbin, Ortsobmann with the DAF, the German Labour Front, 30th January 1947), ‘Mrs. PREIS told me that CSAR must not return to Trofaiach as he had committed offences against the Jews……She told me, that CSAR had shot some Jews and she intended to report him…….I was not informed by my sister where he had murdered the Jews, and what kind of fire-arm he had used’ (extract from the statement of Elsa Burg, 17th June 1946), ‘I do not wish to give any statement about the accusation of Mrs. HOFFERECK and perhaps some other witnesses saying that my husband had murdered 2 or 3 Jews, as I have four children’ (extract from the statement of Gertrude Csar, 17th June 1946), ‘In November, 1944…..I was a Volkssturm man at first, later on being promoted to the rank of a Gruppenfuhrer and Zugfuhrer…….There were 8 or 10 men produced by the Company for the Jewish transport…..I myself was not detained for this purpose. I rode on my bicycle after the transport……I was dressed in S.A. uniforms and was armed with a pistol, I rode alongside the column in order to see if everything went right and without incidents. In doing so I heard several shots from the top of the hill, in the forest. I went to that place and I saw in the forest……Two shot Jews lying on the ground……I did not see who had shot the Jews and I also was not present…….I had nothing to do with the whole Jewish-transport and I did not give any orders…….the Komp. Fuhrer HOFFERECK declared at a meeting, at which I took part as well, that the Jewish transport was to be carried through with strict discipline……..And all Jews who are unable to follow on the march are to be shot inconsiderately. I repeated this order to the men before marching away and I also told them that any Jews, being unable to march on should be shot at once……’ (extract from the statements of Johann Csar, 25th January 1946 & 31st January 1947), ‘The Jew had a bald head and I could see a wound on his forehead. I presume it was rather a shot wound than any other kind of injury……..At that moment also, a certain LECHNER and AIGNER passed by us. PECHBOCK and I noticed that the Jew was still death-rattling, that is to say he was still alive. I fired on my own accord two shots to the head of the Jew from a distance……The shots were fired one after another. After that……PECHBOCK shot at the Jew with his rifle, without having been induced by me to do so……the Jew did not give any sign of being alive afterwards. As far as I know PECHBOCK shot at the head of the Jew’ (extract from a further statement made by Csar on 17th June 1946), ‘In Kurzheim, at the end of the village…….there was a stoppage of the transport due to exhaustion of transport prisoners, who were unable to walk up the hill so quickly…….The SS man called two Jews who were so exhausted that they were nearly unable to march on. The SS man then conducted the two Jews a little into the forest. When the Jews were still marching, the SS man drew his pistol and shot the Jew into his neck……..I saw this man fall then turned away, because I did not like to watch that. Immediately after I heard another shot and I thought that the SS man now had shot the other Jew as well……..When the SS man came out of the forest, I went to meet him telling him that I would stop with these dead men. The SS man told me to do so, and said that the Jews would be fetched by a cart later……It was about five minutes after the SS man had gone, that I heard a shot…….In my opinion it was a pistol shot…….As far as I remember, CSAR was armed with a pistol and I think that PECHBOCK might have had a rifle’ (extract from the statement of Arthur Delugan, a wood cutter, 13th January 1947), ‘I was made “Sturmfuhrer” by the SA Brigade with retrospective effect from April 1938….. I was only engaged in the SA, but did not take any active part in the activities of the NSDAP with whom I was a simple member…….I did not only look after the political interests but also after human interests of the population and workers…….It is mean and irresponsible if anyone alleges that I should have given instructions for ill-treatings or shootings of Jews. That is a big lie and a slander…….OWING TO RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED BY THE SALEROOM THE COMPLETE DESCRIPTION FOR THIS LOT CANNOT BE DISPLAYED - PLEASE CONTACT IAA Ltd FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Lot 255
SACHSENHAUSEN: A mimeographed copy of the written testimony of 'Blockältester' Karl Schwerbel, former SS member, sent to Sachsenhausen for the crime of homosexuality under §175 StGB of the German Criminal Code, nine pages, folio, Sandbostel, 18th December 1945. The testimony being a first-hand report on the evacuation of the Sachenhausen concentration camp in April 1945, describing the conditions of fellow prisoners, their food rations, guards, encounters and the environment they experienced during the forced march, in part, 'All prisoners who were fit to march were to leave the camp on foot, in marching units of 500… The Children, the sick and those not fit to march, were to stay behind in the camp… When the order to evacuate became known, disturbances, surprise raids, and plundering started… It was impossible, however, to prevent the theft from the camp post office of what were said to be some 2000 Red Cross parcels… Some Russian and Ukrainian prisoners had apparently attacked a truck loaded with provisions, and they had been driven off by shots from an SS NCO…every prisoner had issued to him as a 3 day march ration, 1 army loaf, together with 350 or 500 grams of tinned meat, (¼ of a tin)… To each marching group were allotted, in addition, armed prisoners, who had been picked for the Dirlewanger unit… The group commander, from the side of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, was the former SS Sturmscharfuhrer Breitling… After a march of about 15kms., we rested… During this time I witnessed the following incident… a prisoner who lingered behind a column which was passing by us was shot by a member of the SS on the open road… the incident was, however, also observed from a car of the International Red Cross… In the evening, we found shelter in barns… Here again we all had cooked potatoes, and some of us buttermilk as well… On 22. and 23.4.1945… we saw also in the ditches on both sides of the road many bodies of male prisoners with shot wounds. There must have been over 20 of them… on 24.4.45… an SS officer - not known to me - who was passing our column on a motor-cycle, shouted out an order from Keindl, the commandant, not to shoot any prisoners, since the sick and the feeble would be taken on in lorries… In Below, there began for the prisoners the most dreadful suffering… no further food for 5 days… Every morning, for this reason, some 50-60 corpses lay close to the edge of the camp. Cases of cannibalism are also believed to have taken place… On account of the ever-worsening situation, Keindl, the commandant, decided to allow a proportion of the prisoners to return home… In addition, the escort was most strictly forbidden to use their firearms against the prisoners… The last three nights of the march were spent under the open sky by prisoners and escort… It frequently occurred that bands of famished prisoners fell upon turnip and potato stockpiles… SS Hauptsturmfuhrer Petri also tried, in one village, to stop a peasant woman from giving milk to prisoners and SS men. On the other hand, I also noticed that the escort personnel secretly gave the prisoners… potatoes, turnips, cigarettes and water… In the afternoon of 2.5.1945, the terrible march of my column came to an end… through its disintegration and flight to safety with the American troops.' With various pertinent words and paragraphs highlighted in red indelible pencil. With two files holes to the left edge and very light age wear, otherwise VG The Blockältester (block or barracks leader) had to ensure that rules were followed in the individual barracks and also responsible for the prisoners in the barracks.
Lot 274
GOEBBELS MAGDA: (1901-1945) German wife of Joseph Goebbels, the Propaganda Minister of Nazi Germany. An ally, companion and political supporter of Adolf Hitler, Goebbels is often referred to as the unofficial First Lady of Nazi Germany. A rare T.L.S., Magda Goebbels, one page, small 4to, Berlin, 6th January 1938, to [Trude] Burkner, in German. Goebbels sends her correspondent sincerest thanks for a Christmas lullabies booklet, with which she was very happy, and concludes by wishing Burkner a happy new year. With blank integral leaf. Two file holes to the left edge, not affecting the text or signature, otherwise EX Trude Burkner (1902-1989) nee Mohr. German Member of the NSDAP, the first Reichsreferentin of the Bund Deutscher Madel (BDM - The League of German Girls), appointed in June 1934 after her female arm of the Hitler Youth, based in the Brandenburg district of Germany, had grown to become the second largest group in the country under her leadership. At the end of World War II Burkner was captured and imprisoned by the British.
Lot 213
BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS: A multiple signed First Day Cover by five British Prime Ministers comprising Edward Heath (1970-74), James Callaghan (1976-79), Margaret Thatcher (1979-90), John Major (1990-97) and Tony Blair (1997-2007). The Palace of Westminster cover features an image of the Houses of Parliament and is post marked at the House of Commons, 9th July 2000. Each of the former Prime Ministers have signed in bold blue or black inks with their names alone to clear areas of the cover. Some very minor creasing to the upper left corner, otherwise VG
Lot 157
MORSE SAMUEL F. B.: (1791-1872) American Inventor associated with the single-wire telegraph system and the development of the Morse Code. A good A.L.S., Saml. F. B. Morse, three pages, 8vo, New York, 30th April 1862, to Rev. J. Treadwell Walden. Morse acknowledges receipt of his correspondent's courteous letter and a copy of the Atlantic Monthly, remarking 'I have read with deep interest your admirably written article to which you refer, and were I to designate its character, and the impressions it has made upon me, of its high intellectual power, in fitting terms, I might perhaps, be accused of being unduly influenced by its panegyric and the flattering terms in which you are pleased to speak of my humble instrumentality in introducing to the world the invention which has modified so greatly, and is still further to modify the intercourse of the nations' and further adding 'While conscious of the position which humanly speaking has justly been assigned to me by the almost unanimous voice of the civilized world (Great Britain as a Government is an exception) I can say to you that I yet am fully sensible that I am a wea[k] if an honored instrument in the ha[nd] of the giver of every good and perfec[t] gift, by whom it has pleased Him to grant this boon to his children, and to Him be all the glory'. In concluding Morse invites his correspondent to call upon him either at his residence in New York during the winter or in Po'keepsie during the summer and in a postscript adds 'I send you a copy of a pamphlet (no longer present) which embodies my views on the troubles that distract our country'. A letter of interesting content relating to Morse's contribution to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system. Some light overall age wear and light staining and a few small areas of paper loss, neatly and professionally repaired, only very slightly affecting a few words of text and not the signature, G Jacob Treadwell Walden (1830-1918) American Episcopal Clergyman and Author who was appointed on two special commissions by the United States Sanitary Commission in 1864 to investigate the treatment of prisoners of war. He later lived in England from 1886-89 during which time he preached in Westminster Abbey and wrote The Story of England in Westminster Hall. Father of Arthur Treadwell Walden (1871-1947) American Klondike Gold Rush Adventurer and a member of Byrd's first Antarctic Expedition. Morse's declaration that the Government of Great Britain were an exception to the 'unanimous voice of the civilized world' was made as a result of the English scientist and inventors Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875) and William Cooke (1806-1879) launching a commercial telegraph prior to the American inventor. Wheatstone and Cooke patented the electrical telegraph in 1837 however, within a few years their multiple wired signalling method was overtaken by Morse's cheaper method and the American fought vigorously to be called the sole inventor of the electromagnetic telegraph despite the previous inventions. The Morse telegraphic apparatus was officially adopted as the standard for European telegraphy in 1851 and only the United Kingdom (with its extensive overseas empire) kept the needle telegraph of Wheatstone and Cooke.
Lot 234
PEGOUD ADOLPHE: (1889-1915) French Aviator who became the first fighter ace in history during World War I. A rare vintage signed postcard photograph by Pegoud, the aerial image depicting the aviator landing his plane at the Aerodrome Bleriot having completed a flying loop. A crowd of onlookers can be seen rushing towards the aircraft. With a circular inset portrait of Pegoud and brief printed caption in French at the head of the postcard. Signed ('A. Pegoud') in bold, purple fountain pen ink with his name alone to a clear area at the head of the image. Autographs of Pegoud are rare in any form as a result of his death at the age of 26 when he was shot down and killed in action during World War I. About EX
Lot 203
LLOYD GEORGE DAVID: (1863-1945) British Prime Minister 1916-22. Vintage signed sepia postcard photograph of Lloyd George seated outdoors in a full length pose with his first wife, Margaret Lloyd George, seated in a full length pose alongside, and their young daughter, Megan, standing in between. Signed by both David Lloyd George and Margaret Lloyd George individually with their names alone in fountain pen inks to the base of the image. A printed caption to the verso states that the postcard was sold and issued for the Welsh Troops Picture Postcard Day in aid of the National Fund for Welsh Troops of which Margaret Lloyd George is named as Chairman. Together with a dark fountain pen ink signature ('D Lloyd George') by Lloyd George on a small oblong 12mo piece, neatly laid down. G to VG, 2 Dame Margaret Lloyd George (1864-1941) Wife of David Lloyd George from 1888-1941. In 1918, towards the end of World War I and during her husband's term as Prime Minister, Margaret was appointed Dame Grand Cross of the British Empire (GBE) in recognition of her raising over £200,000 for war charities. Lady Megan Lloyd George (1902-1966) Welsh Politician, the first female Member of Parliament for a Welsh Constituency.
Lot 230
SOONG MAY-LING: (1898-2003) Madame Chaing Kai-shek. First Lady of the Republic of China 1948-75. Vintage World War II date signed and inscribed sepia 13 x 10.5 photograph of Madame Chaing Kai-shek in a head and shoulders pose. Signed ('Mayling Soong Chiang') to the lower photographer's mount and dated 1940 in her hand. Inscribed to the upper photographer's mount to Major McHugh and also featuring the pencil signature of the photographer immediately beneath the image. The signature and inscription are faded, although legible, and with some scuffing to the image and some creasing, tears and light age wear and staining to the photographer's mount, FR
Lot 125
BYRON LORD: (1788-1824) British Poet, a leading figure in the Romantic Movement. Signed Free Front envelope panel, addressed in his hand to a Reverend on the Isle of Man and dated London, 26th February 1823. Signed ('Byron') to the lower left corner and bearing a red circular Free frank. Curiously, the name of Byron's correspondent has been crossed through making it illegible, although the first initial may be C. A further contemporary ink annotation immediately above the signature has been lightly erased. Very slightly irregularly trimmed, some very light dust staining and slight traces of former mounting to the verso, G
Lot 231
RHEE SYNGMAN: (1875-1965) South Korean Politician, the first and the last Head of State of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea 1919-25, 1947-48 and the first President of South Korea 1948-60. Vintage signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph of Rhee in a formal head and shoulders pose. Signed ('To the Campus Club, Syngman Rhee') in dark fountain pen ink to the image, across a darker area although reasonably legible. A few heavy surface and corner creases and some small tears to the upper edge of the white border, G
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BUTE EARL OF: (1713-1792) British Prime Minister 1762-63. A rare A.L.S., Bute, one page, 4to, London, 14th April 1781, to the Earl of Buchan ('My Lord'). Bute states that when his correspondent had sent 'an account of the improper choice you had made of a President' he recollects having informed Buchan that 'I was retired from all business' and that 'your Lordship would of course execute the trust you had declared on me…..to the completion of your plan', further adding 'I am obliged to repeat this declaration on receiving your Lordship's letter' and commenting that 'the character proposed can be of no use' in so much as he is acquainted with such matters 'of which your Lordship is in truth the proper judge'. Bute's letter is written in a somewhat infirm hand, thereby making a few words challenging to transcribe. Docketed in ink to the verso, 'Earl of Bute to the Earl of Buchan. I chose Lord Bute for President of the Soct…..but the unhappy man was in himself quite incapable of doing any good'. Some very light, minor age toning to the right and lower edges and very slightly irregularly torn to the left edge, only very slightly affecting a few words of text but not the signature. Some light traces of former mounting to the right edge of the verso. About VG David Erskine (1742-1829) 11th Earl of Buchan. Scottish Antiquarian and patron of the Arts and Sciences. Buchan founded the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1780. John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, was the first British Prime Minister from Scotland following the Acts of Union in 1707. He was elected the first President of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1780. Provenance: A pencil annotation to the verso of the present letter indicates that it was previously part of the famous collection of books and manuscripts formed by the English antiquary Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet (1792-1872).
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TROOST GERDY: (1904-2003) German Architect, wife of Paul Ludwig Troost. A member of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) and acquaintance of Adolf Hitler, Gerdy Troost was an architectural adviser to the Fuhrer's circle during World War II. She supervised the construction of the Ehrentempels ('The Honor Temples') which were erected in Munich in 1935 and housed the sacrophagi of the sixteen members of the NSDAP who had been killed in the failed Beer Hall Putsch. T.L.S., Gerdy Troost, one page, 4to, Munich, 11th January 1938, to [Trude] Burkner, on the printed stationery of Atelier Troost, in German. Troost states that some days of rest and snow have prevented her from writing earlier and continues to express her happiness at the lovely Christmas and lullaby book which her correspondent had sent as a gift. Two file holes to the left edge, not affecting the text or signature. Some very light, extremely minor creasing, VG Trude Burkner (1902-1989) nee Mohr. German Member of the NSDAP, the first Reichsreferentin of the Bund Deutscher Madel (BDM - The League of German Girls), appointed in June 1934 after her female arm of the Hitler Youth, based in the Brandenburg district of Germany, had grown to become the second largest group in the country under her leadership. At the end of World War II Burkner was captured and imprisoned by the British.
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FONDA HENRY: (1905-1982) American Actor, Academy Award winner. Small collection of A.Ls.S., Hank, (and one with his initial H), six pages (4to) and two written on picture postcards, various places (mainly California), 1940-51 and some undated, all to Meta Sterne. Fonda writes a series of social letters to his friend, stating, in part, ‘He hasn’t killed me yet – but he hasn’t given up – Neither have I – ‘ (7th May 1940), ‘I forgot, of course, that I can’t write a letter to an officer…..It was fun seeing you last week – wish I could have sat down and really shot the breeze without having to run……the weather has been like summer and the sinus condition has disappeared and taps just sounded and I’ve got to get this light the hell out’ (‘Monday nite’, accompanied by the original envelope post marked by the US Navy 17th February 1943 and signed by Fonda in the return address), ‘This won’t stand up for a letter – but will let you know I survived – and thanks for the good thoughts’ (16th December 1951), ‘It’s much too late for excuses – let’s just face it – I don’t write many letters. Now that I’ve started this one – I don’t know what to write about – I don’t want to talk about “Point” which of course is closest to me at the moment, because I want you to see it first and then we’ll talk. I don’t want to talk about politics – because even now I am still too emotionally involved – though we’ll have to talk about it sometime – there are many things I don’t understand about some people I used to know. That leaves the weather and our healths – the first is fine here – and the second improving……Our summer is still unplanned – there is talk about a movie of “Mister Roberts” but nothing very definite – Unless there is an exciting movie to do – we’ll come back to Long Island for the summer…..’ (Chicago, 2nd February, annotated ’53?’ in pencil in an unidentified hand), ‘There is little I can tell you of my work other than that the hours are long – often exciting – and sometimes interesting – never dull because you’re too damn busy…..We’ve moved forward three times since I’ve been with the command – and new operations follow each other so fast that we find ourselves working on two at the same time. The war seems to have taken an amazing turn out here – but I’m no more optimistic than I was last spring that we’ll have finished it sooner than two or three more years – However that is a minority opinion’ (n.d.). Together with two unsigned photographs, a Christmas greetings card bearing a secretarial signature and inscription and a small mimeographed sheet of text featuring a Hollywood news story regarding the rape and murder of a Hollywood Canteen hostess, annotated in ink by Fonda, ‘…..say what you want about Hollywood’. Some light overall age wear, minor creasing and small tears etc., generally G to about VG, 10 Meta Stern (1899-1975) American Researcher & Script Supervisor who worked on various films, mainly during the 1940s and 1950s, including Drums Along the Mohawk (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), and Fort Apache (1948) all of which starred Henry Fonda and were directed by John Ford. Henry Fonda enlisted in the US Navy in November 1942, serving for three years initially as a Quartermaster 3rd Class on the destroyer USS Satterlee and was later commissioned as a Lieutenant Junior Grade in Air Combat Intelligence in the Central Pacific. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and Navy Presidential Unit Citation.
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NEHRU JAWAHARLAL: (1889-1964) First Prime Minister of independent India, 1947-64. Vintage signed postcard photograph of Nehru in a profile head and shoulders pose wearing a Gandhi cap upon his head. Signed by Nehru in fountain pen ink to the lower white border and dated 23rd January 1949 in his hand. Two slight paperclip indentation marks to the right edge of the image and some very slight traces of former mounting to the verso. Together with Indira Gandhi (1917-1984) Prime Minister of India 1966-77, 1980-84. The world's second female head of government and daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru. Assassinated. Blue fountain pen ink signature ('Indira Gandhi') and date, 1966, in her hand on a piece. Accompanied by a T.L.S. by R. K. Goel, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, one page, 8vo, New Delhi, 3rd March 1966, to Percy Warren, forwarding the signature as requested. Two neat black ink lines to the lower half of the letter, not affecting the text or signature. About VG, 2
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GABLE CLARK: (1901-1960) American Actor, Academy Award winner. D.S., Clark Gable, being a signed cheque, n.p. (California?), 1st September 1955. The partially printed cheque is drawn on the Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles and is made payable to Fanny Wakefield for the sum of $9.37. Gable's signature is not affected by the perforated bank cancellation. About EX
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RUST BERNHARD: (1883-1945) German Reich Minister of Science, Education and National Culture 1934-45. T.L.S., Rust, one page, 4to, Berlin, 14th March 1938, to [Trude Burkner] ('Sehr verehrte gnadige Frau!'), on the printed stationery of Der Reichs und Preussische Minister fur Wissenschaft, Erziehung und Volksbildung featuring a blind embossed Nazi eagle and swastika, in German. Rust writes a brief letter sending his and his wife's sincerest congratulations on the birth of Burkner's son. With blank integral leaf. Two file holes to the left edge, not affecting the text or signature, and a couple of very light, extremely minor creases, otherwise VG Provenance: The present letter was previously part of the official papers retained by Trude Burkner nee Mohr (1902-1989) German Member of the NSDAP, the first Reichsreferentin of the Bund Deutscher Madel (BDM - The League of German Girls), appointed in June 1934 after her female arm of the Hitler Youth, based in the Brandenburg district of Germany, had grown to become the second largest group in the country under her leadership. At the end of World War II Burkner was captured and imprisoned by the British.
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GAGARIN YURI: (1934-1968) Russian Cosmonaut, Pilot of Vostok 1, becoming the first man to journey into space, 1961. Vintage signed 3 x 4 newspaper photograph of Gagarin in a head and shoulders pose wearing his uniform and medals. Signed with his name alone in ink to a light area of the background. Neatly mounted to a plain postcard bearing extensive ink annotations to the lower border and verso in the hand of a South American collector. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, otherwise VG
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BODIE WALFORD: (1869-1939) Scottish Showman, Hypnotist, Ventriloquist and Stage Magician, famous for his mock electrocutions involving a replica of 'the electric chair'. Bodie inspired both Harry Houdini and Charles Chaplin. Vintage signed postcard photograph of Bodie in a head and shoulders pose. Signed ('Yours aye Bodie') in dark fountain pen ink to the image, across a darker area although reasonably legible. Again signed ('kindest thoughts….Walford Bodie M.D.') to the verso in dark fountain pen ink. Post marked at Bradford, 15th July 1906, and addressed in another hand to Miss. S. Nairn in Dublin. Together with a small selection of vintage signed postcard photographs by a variety of other famous men and women comprising Anita ('The smallest adult lady in the world'), John Burns, Walter Long (First Lord of the Admiralty 1919-21), William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley (Governor-General of Australia 1908-11) and his first wife Rachel Gurney, Lady Dudley. Some very light, extremely minor age wear and slight silvering to a couple of images, generally VG, 6
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WITTJE CURT: (1894-1947) German SS-Gruppenfuhrer and Politician who was released from the SS in 1938 on suspicion of homosexuality. Wittje had previously acted as a liason between Heinrich Himmler and Theodor Eicke when the latter took control of the Lichtenburg concentration camp in May 1934. Brief L.S., Wittje, on one side of a correspondence card, Hamburg, n.d., to [Trude Burkner], in German. The attractively printed form letter sends congratulations on the occasion of the New Year celebrations. Two file holes to the left edge, one of which only very slightly affects part of Wittje's printed address. VG Provenance: The present letter was previously part of the official papers retained by Trude Burkner nee Mohr (1902-1989) German Member of the NSDAP, the first Reichsreferentin of the Bund Deutscher Madel (BDM - The League of German Girls), appointed in June 1934 after her female arm of the Hitler Youth, based in the Brandenburg district of Germany, had grown to become the second largest group in the country under her leadership. At the end of World War II Burkner was captured and imprisoned by the British.
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NUREMBERG TRIALS: A good collection of individually signed pieces, cards, D.S. (1), A.Q.S. (1) by twelve of the defendants who stood trial before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg from 20th November to 1st October 1946, some of them being the most important political and military leaders of the Third Reich, comprising Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893-1946) German Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs 1938-45. Arrested in June 1945, Ribbentrop was tried at the Nuremberg Trials and found guilty on all four indictments, including war crimes and crimes against humanity, convicted for his role in starting World War II and enabling the Holocaust. On 16th October 1946 he became the first of those sentenced to death to be hanged. Bold pencil signature ('Joachim v Ribbentrop') and date, Nuremberg 1946, in his hand on a slim oblong 8vo piece; Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903-1946) Austrian-born Nazi official of World War II, an Obergruppenfuhrer in the Schutzstaffel 1943-45. Kaltenbrunner served as Director of the Reich Main Security Office 1943-45. The highest ranking member of the SS to face trial at the Nuremberg Trials, Kaltenbrunner was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to death by hanging. Fountain pen ink signature ('Dr Kaltenbrunner') and date, 1st October 1946, in his hand. Annotated and dated in pencil in an unidentified hand to the lower edge, the signature dated just over two weeks before Kaltenbrunner was executed; Alfred Rosenberg (1893-1946) German Theorist, Leader of the Foreign Policy Office of the NSDAP 1933-45. At the Nuremberg Trials Rosenberg was sentenced to death and executed by hanging for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Dark fountain pen ink signature ('A Rosenberg') on a 12mo piece, neatly annotated and dated 30th May 1946 in a small, unidentified hand to the lower edge; Hans Frank (1900-1946) German Law Leader of the Third Reich who served as Adolf Hitler's personal lawyer. Governor-General of the General Government in occupied Poland 1939-45. At the Nuremberg Trials Frank, who expressed repentance, was sentenced to death and executed by hanging for war crimes and crimes against humanity. D.S., Dr. Hans Frank, one page, oblong 8vo, n.p. (Nuremberg), 1st September 1945. The typed document, in English and German, states 'This is to certify that the following is my proper signature'. Dated in Frank's hand at the head of the document; Julius Streicher (1885-1946) German Gauleiter of Franconia 1929-40, a prominent member of the NSDAP who founded and published the anti-Semitic newspaper Der Sturmer. At the Nuremberg Trials Streicher was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death by hanging. Rare, bold, dark fountain pen ink signature ('Julius Streicher') and date, Nuremberg, 1945, in his hand on an oblong small 8vo ruled sheet of paper removed from a notebook. Annotated in blue ink in an unidentified hand beneath the date; Walther Funk (1890-1960) German Economist, Reich Minister for Economic Affairs 1938-45. At the Nuremberg Trials Funk was tried and convicted as a major war criminal and sentenced to life imprisonment (and released on the grounds of ill health in 1957). Bold fountain pen ink signature ('Walther Funk') and date, Nuremberg, 4th September 1946, in his hand on a laminated card. Neatly annotated 'Cell 20 - Funk' in an unidentified hand to the lower edge and dated just under a month before the conclusion of the Nuremberg Trials; Fritz Sauckel (1894-1976) German Politician of World War II, Gauleiter of Thuringia 1927-45 and General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment 1942-45. At the Nuremberg TrialsSauckel was sentenced to death and executed by hanging for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Fountain pen ink signature ('Fritz Sauckel') on a laminated card, neatly annotated with his name and 'Cell No 11' in an unidentified hand beneath the signature, evidently dating from the time of the Nuremberg Trials when Sauckel was kept in cell 11 whilst awaiting his fate; Alfred Jodl (1890-1946) German General of World War II, Chief of the Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command. Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of the Third Reich as the representative of the then President Karl Donitz in 1945. Jodl was found guilty on all four counts at the Nuremberg Trials and sentenced to death and executed in 1946. Fountain pen ink signature ('A. Jodl') with rank ('Generaloberst a. D.') and date, 20th June 1946, in his hand beneath on a laminated oblong 12mo piece, dated just under four months before Jodl was executed; Arthur Seyss-Inquart (1892-1946) Austrian Nazi Politician of World War II, Reich Minister without portfolio 1939-45. Seyss-Inquart was found guilty of war crimes against humanity at Nuremberg and sentenced to death. Fountain pen ink signature ('Seyss Inquart') and date, 3rd October 1946, in his hand on a 12mo piece. datedjust less than two weeks before Seyss-Inquart was executed; Konstantin von Neurath (1873-1956) German Diplomat who served as Foreign Minister 1932-38 and Protector of Bohemia and Moravia 1939-43. Tried as a major war criminal at Nuremberg and sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment for his compliance and actions in the Nazi regime. Dark fountain pen ink signature ('C. von Neurath') and date, 1946, in his hand on a slim oblong 8vo piece; Hjalmar Schacht (1877-1970) German Economist, Reich Minister of Economics 1934-37. Schacht was tried at Nuremberg and acquitted. A.Q.S., Hjalmar Schacht, Reichsbankpresident, on a plain postcard, n.p. (Berlin), 16th April 1926, in German. In bold dark fountain pen ink Schacht has penned a brief quotation, 'Immer strebe zum Ganzen' ('Always strive to the whole'), adding his signature, title and date beneath. Addressed to Georg Feith in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in another hand to the verso; and Hans Fritzsche (1900-1953) German Nazi Official of World War II, Ministerialdirektor of the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. Fritzsche was present in the Fuhrerbunker during Adolf Hitler's last days and stood trial at the Nuremberg Trials where he was charged with conspiracy to commit crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Fritzsche was one of only three defendants at the trials to be acquitted. Bold pencil signature ('Hans Fritzsche') and date, 1946, in his hand on an irregularly torn piece. Some light creasing and minor age wear to most of the pieces, and a few with slight age toning and minor discoloration, the faults only very slightly affecting some of the signatures, G to VG, 12
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BRITISH ROYALTY: An unusual D.S. by King George IV ('George PW', as Prince of Wales), King William IV ('William', as the Duke of Clarence and St Andrews) and Prince Frederick ('Frederick', as Duke of York and Albany), being the three eldest sons of King George III, one page (vellum), large folio, n.p. (London?), 20th September 1790. The attractively penned manuscript document states, in part, 'We the undersigned Do hereby jointly and overally promise to pay to Louis Phillipe (sic) Joseph D'Orleans, Duke of Orleans, first Prince of the Blood of France or Bearer at the Banking House of Messrs. Ransom, Morland and Hammersley, Pall Mall, London, the yearly sum of Five Hundred pounds by Two equal Half yearly payments on the Twenty fourth day of June and the Twenty fifth day of December in each and every year pursuant to the Condition of a certain Bond or Obligation under our respective Hands and seals……marked with the letter (F) as in the margin…..' with a second clause beneath originally signed by William Morland and Thomas Hammersley (their signatures neatly excised at a later date and only a few partial letters of each signature now visible) in their capacity as the appointed Receivers of the Revenue, Rents and other profits of the Duchy of Cornwall owned by Frederick, Prince of Wales. The document is also signed twice by William Sleigh as a witness. One neat area of paper loss to the right margin and with some light, extremely minor creasing and age wear, otherwise VG Louis Philippe Joseph D'Orleans (1747-1793) Duke of Orleans, a cousin of King Louis XVI of France and one of the wealthiest men in France. The Duke actively supported the French Revolution of 1789 and was a strong advocate for the elimination of the absolute monarchy in favour of a constitutional monarchy. He voted for the death of King Louis XVI, however the Duke was himself guillotined during the Reign of Terror in November 1793.
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LATHAM HUBERT: (1883-1912) French Aviation Pioneer, the first person to attempt to cross the English Channel in an aeroplane. Due to engine failure on his first of two attempts to cross the Channel, he became the first person to land an aeroplane on a body of water. Vintage signed postcard photograph depicting Latham's aircraft in flight and with a small inset circular portrait of the pilot in a head and shoulders pose. Signed in dark fountain pen ink with his name alone to a light area at the head of the image. Autographs of Latham are rare in any form following his early death at the age of 29 in somewhat uncertain circumstances whilst on an expedition of the French Congo. Some very light overall staining and age wear, G
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AUTOGRAPH ALBUM: An autograph album containing over 90 signatures by various stage and screen actors and actresses and a few other famous individuals including Betty Balfour, Maud Tree, Malcolm Keen, John McCallum, Ambrose Manning, Pauline Frederick, Lilian Braithwaite, Pat Kirkwood, Seymour Hicks, Dorothy Dickson, Margaret Bannerman, Cecil Parker, Sybil Thorndike, Doris Keane, Matheson Lang, Lilian Baylis, Edna Best, Laurence Olivier, Ian Carmichael, Peggy O'Neil. Eric Portman, Cyril Ritchard, Harry Lauder, Stanley Holloway, Julian Holloway, Richard Murdoch, Cyril Raymond, Kathleen Harrison, Diana Wynyard, Douglas Byng, Paul Robeson, Gladys Cooper, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Diana Churchill, John Gielgud, Joyce Carey, Doris Hare, Irene Worth, opera singers Teresa Berganza and Placido Domingo, writer Edgar Wallace etc. The album would appear to have had two owners, the first being M. E. D. Adams of the Booking Office at the King's Theatre in Edinburgh (their ownership signature appearing at the beginning of the album). The majority of pages have neat pencil annotations and small affixed paper portraits, evidently added by a later custodian of the album. Some pages are multiple signed and a few signatures are on pieces neatly laid down to pages. Generally VG
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