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WALPOLE ROBERT: (1676-1745) British Prime Minister 1721-42. D.S., R Walpole, one page, folio, n.p. (London), February 1723. The manuscript document relates to Jane, Countess of Rochester, and is a warrant to make a payment of £1000 without account to her, being one half of the annual amount due to her as granted by His Majesty 'in consideration of the loss sustained by that Family from the Fire which burnt their House at Petersham near Richmond in Surrey'. Signed by Walpole in the right margin and countersigned by Henry Pelham (1694-1754) British Prime Minister 1743-54 and George Baillie (1664-1738) Scottish Politician, Lord Commissioner of the Treasury. Signed by the Countess of Rochester and her witness individually to the verso beneath a brief manuscript note acknowledging receipt of the full payment. With a single ink line running diagonally through the text of the document. With blank integral leaf. Some light age wear and some minor creasing and a few small tears to the right border, only very slightly affecting the signatures, about VG Jane Leveson-Gower (1672-1725) Countess of Clarendon and Rochester, wife of Henry Hyde (1672-1753) 4th Earl of Clarendon and 2nd Earl of Rochester. English Nobleman and Politician.
CRICKET: An 8vo sheet of plain notepaper individually signed by nine English cricketers including Jack Hobbs, Andrew Sandham, E. Patsy Hendren, George Geary, H. T. W. Hardinge etc., also signed by Denis Compton to the verso, with an additional note in his hand. Together with an irregularly clipped signed piece by eleven members of the Sussex County Cricket team of 1939 including James Langridge, John Langridge, George Cox, W. L. Cornford etc. (laid down). Also including an oblong 4to page, probably removed from a visitor's book, individually signed by over 30 cricketers including Jack Hobbs, Herbert Sutcliffe, Frank Woolley, Peter May, George Duckworth, John Arlott, R. E. S. Wyatt, W. Stuart Surridge, Alf Gover, Ian Peebles, Greville Stevens, Doug Insole, Andrew Sandham, Herbert Strudwick, J. W. Hitch, Joe Mercer etc. All have signed with their names alone in bold blue ink. G to EX, 3
SCOTT CHARLES W. A.: (1903-1946) English Aviator, winner (with Tom Campbell Black) of the London to Melbourne Centenary Air Race, 1934. A good original, vintage pencil drawing of Scott by amateur artist R. A. Swainston, the image depicting the aviator in a head and shoulders pose wearing his flying cap and goggles, signed in pencil by Swainston and dated 3rd February 1935 in his hand to the lower right corner. Signed by Scott in bold fountain pen ink with his name alone to a clear area beneath the drawing. Together with two oblong 8vo pages removed from an autograph album multiple signed in pencil by various members of Tom Campbell Black’s Air Circus of 1936 including Eric ‘Jock’ Bonar, Josephine Stanton-Nadin, Pauline Gower etc. G to VG, 3
BRITISH POLITICS: Small selection of four 8vo pages removed from an autograph album each multiple signed by various British Government Ministers, Civil Servants, a few Prime Ministers etc., including J. Ramsay MacDonald, William Jowitt, Tom Shaw, J. R. Clynes, George Lansbury, Arthur Henderson (Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1934), Philip Snowden, Walter Citrine, Herbert Morrison, Margaret Bondfield, Arthur Greenwood, A. V. Alexander, Henry Primrose, Hugh Moulton, Montagu Norman (Governor of the Bank of England; also including other signatures relating to the Bank of England), Edward Shortt, John Anderson, H. H. Asquith, Walter Runciman, Maurice Bonham-Carter, Charles Hobhouse etc. Together with a selection of signed neatly clipped small slim oblong 12mo pieces, and some slightly larger, many multiple signed, by various other British political leaders including Neville Chamberlain, Leo Amery, Robert Cecil (Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1937), Henry Cowan, Brendan Bracken, J. E. B. Seely, Charles Masterman, Christopher Addison, Harry Gosling, Hamar Greenwood, Austen Chamberlain (Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1925), Edward Carson etc. Generally VG, 24 Provenance: The present pages and signatures were removed from a number of autograph albums featuring signatures acquired by Mr. W. L. White, Restaurant Manager of the Connaught in London's Mayfair.
A 9ct gold gentlemen's dress ring, platform-set with three small white stones, size V and four 9ct gold ladies' dress rings; one with rope-effect platform top, size P, one set with single blue stone, size R, an opal and small diamond floral-set ring, size P and a cameo ring, size P, approx combined 16.7g (5).
Five 9ct gold ladies' dress rings; a floral-set example with central green stone and white stone surround, size P, two with solitaire white stones, sizes M and R, an opal example with white stone surround, size M and a floral-set sapphire and white stone surround example, size O, combined approx 9.5g (5).
A generational group of medals, associated ephemera, death plaque etc., to include a Queen Victoria Egypt medal with The Nile 1884-1885 and EL-TEB_TAMAAI clasp, with blue ribbon, marked 1905 PTE W OFFIELD1/GORRD HIGH RS, a WWI medal trio, comprising 1914-1915 Star, Campaign and Victory medals, similarly marked 16622 PTE W OFFIELD NORTH N R, death plaque, an Egypt 1884 medal, associated ephemera to the family members, to include soldiers demobilization account, other partial handwritten ephemera, postcard photograph of Offield, funeral card, other related ephemera, etc. (a quantity)

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