Douglas Haig Interest - A Portrait Sketch of General Haig by Cecil Cutler, bust length, signed, watercolour and bodycolour, 25cm by 17cm, framed and glazed; a Pair of Brass Sprung Loaded Candlesticks and a Brass Trench Art Table Bell, which originally stood on Haig`s desk, the bell inscribed to D HAIG from D`Arcy Legard, July 1901; a Hand Written Letter from Haig, addressed "Dear General Dudgeon...", and thanking him for his work with the British Legion, also with a newspaper cutting of a letter to the Editor from Brigadier General Robert Maxwell Dudgeon, "Attacks on Lord Haig - Wild Statements Usurp the Seath of Truth" ,defending the reputation and good name of the recently deceased Lord Haig*Christies sold the `Thank you letter` from Churchill in 2010**Brigadier General Dudgeon was the vendor`s father-in-law***The candlesticks and the bell were a gift from Lady Haig to Brigadier General Dudgeon in recognition of the support given to her husband
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Gallipoli Interest - A First World War Pre RAF Aviation Cockpit Timepiece, the circular white enamel dial with large black Arabic numerals and blued steel spade hands enclosing a subsidiary seconds dial, the jewelled movement with compensated balance, the backplate stamped with a Swiss type cross P33103 - DRP 175275 U.S.A. R 816321, the nickel case with extended top winding, the whole set into an aluminium mount with screwed bezel on a circular teak cockpit mount set with a silver plaque engraved ``SALVED FROM A BRITISH AEROPLANE SHOT DOWN BY THE TURKS, SALT LAKE, SUVLA BAY, GALLIPOLI. OCTOBER 1915`` with hallmarks for Birmingham 1916, 13cm diameter overall **Reports include - Derbyshire Yeo War History: ``On another occasion one of our own planes provided the excitement. When at 9,000 feet and well behind the enemy lines its diving gear jammed, necessitating a forced descent. It appeared as if it must land behind enemy trenches but just cleared them, being fired at by everything which the Turk could bring to bear. It literally skimmed our trenches and took the ground in the mud of Salt Lake..... Turkish field guns immediately opened fire, hitting it with the third or fourth shot and at the same time making what seemed very close shooting at the two airmen who were ploughing their way in thick deep mud back to Lala Baba but without hitting them``; Captain Kenneth McKenzie, 3rd LH Bde HQ, Table Top, From his diary entry of Thursday 14th October, a report of the shooting down of an English aeroplane over the Salt Lake by the Turks:``British aeroplane came down on dry lake. Aviators ducked & plane shelled by Turks, smashing one wing. Brought in at dark``; The Roughriders (A S Hamilton MM) `` The Trenches were violently bombarded on the 13th, after the Turks had smashed up a British plane which made a forced landing on the Salt Lake...``
Douglas Haig Interest - A Portrait Sketch of General Haig by Cecil Cutler, bust length, signed, watercolour and bodycolour, 25cm by 17cm, framed and glazed; a Pair of Brass Sprung Loaded Candlesticks and a Brass Trench Art Table Bell, which originally stood on Haig`s desk, the bell inscribed to D HAIG from D`Arcy Legard, July 1901; a Hand Written Letter from Haig, addressed "Dear General Dudgeon...", and thanking him for his work with the British Legion, also with a newspaper cutting of a letter to the Editor from Brigadier General Robert Maxwell Dudgeon, "Attacks on Lord Haig - Wild Statements Usurp the Seath of Truth" ,defending the reputation and good name of the recently deceased Lord Haig*Christies sold the `Thank you letter` from Churchill in 2010**Brigadier General Dudgeon was the vendor`s father-in-law***The candlesticks and the bell were a gift from Lady Haig to Brigadier General Dudgeon in recognition of the support given to her husband
Gallipoli Interest - A First World War Pre RAF Aviation Cockpit Timepiece, the circular white enamel dial with large black Arabic numerals and blued steel spade hands enclosing a subsidiary seconds dial, the jewelled movement with compensated balance, the backplate stamped with a Swiss type cross P33103 - DRP 175275 U.S.A. R 816321, the nickel case with extended top winding, the whole set into an aluminium mount with screwed bezel on a circular teak cockpit mount set with a silver plaque engraved ``SALVED FROM A BRITISH AEROPLANE SHOT DOWN BY THE TURKS, SALT LAKE, SUVLA BAY, GALLIPOLI. OCTOBER 1915`` with hallmarks for Birmingham 1916, 13cm diameter overall **Reports include - Derbyshire Yeo War History: ``On another occasion one of our own planes provided the excitement. When at 9,000 feet and well behind the enemy lines its diving gear jammed, necessitating a forced descent. It appeared as if it must land behind enemy trenches but just cleared them, being fired at by everything which the Turk could bring to bear. It literally skimmed our trenches and took the ground in the mud of Salt Lake..... Turkish field guns immediately opened fire, hitting it with the third or fourth shot and at the same time making what seemed very close shooting at the two airmen who were ploughing their way in thick deep mud back to Lala Baba but without hitting them``; Captain Kenneth McKenzie, 3rd LH Bde HQ, Table Top, From his diary entry of Thursday 14th October, a report of the shooting down of an English aeroplane over the Salt Lake by the Turks:``British aeroplane came down on dry lake. Aviators ducked & plane shelled by Turks, smashing one wing. Brought in at dark``; The Roughriders (A S Hamilton MM) `` The Trenches were violently bombarded on the 13th, after the Turks had smashed up a British plane which made a forced landing on the Salt Lake...``
After Alvar Aalto, a bent birch and white laminated circular dining table, late 20th century, of circular form, the square section legs curved to the top, 72 cm high x 125 cm diam: together with four late 20th century bentwood and wicker dining armchairs, after designs by Thonet (5). Note: The original table was designed by Alvar Aalto for Artek, model 904, in 1935
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