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Military interest - naval brass three draw telescope, no maker mark; WW1 trench art shells x2, German, dated Sept 1914 & June 1915; WW2 medals awarded to: Sergeant Michael Frederick Wynne, REME (unmarked but consigned by the recipient's son), France and Germany Star, 1939-45 medal, Defence medal.(6)
Political & Historic Interest: a three draw telescope in brass and mahogany (length 24.6cm opening to 76.7cm) with folding eyeguard, made and inscribed by 'Keyzor & Bendon, successors to W.Harris & Co, 50 Holborn, London' with a dedication inscribed into the brass mounting: 'R C Graham from the Hon'ble Mountstuart Elphinstone, Hookwood 1858'. R C Graham is almost certainly Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1852 – 1936) a Scottish politician, writer, journalist and adventurer, a Liberal Party MP who became the first socialist member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. He was a founder, and the first president, of the Scottish Labour Party and went on to be a founder of the National Party of Scotland in 1928 and its first president in 1934. The telescope was gifted to him by his uncle the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone FRSE (6 October 1779 – 20 November 1859) a British statesman and historian, associated with the government of British India (one time Governor of Bombay, now Mumbai), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and one of the seven founders of the Royal Geographical Society.
WW2 British Army Sniper / Spotter, Signalling Telescope and Case, Original WW2 period telescope for signalling and spotting. Maker marked ‘Dollond, London’ and ‘Signalling IV S’ with broad arrow. Comes with the leather eye piece/lens covers plus a spare lens in a small leather pouch. Overall, very nice condition, clear lenses, including the spare.

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