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2/5/2017 - 6/1/2017

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Lot # 26
Estimate 100.00 - 150.00 USD
Lead 13 items (12 signed by Victoria Cross recipients).
Description
[British Military/Victoria Cross] 13 items (12 signed, mostly cut signatures). Last 10 listed accompanied by a book or magazine illustration (several from Vanity Fair). Book illustrations mostly 4to/folio. Mostly very good to near fine. ++ 1 leaf from an autograph book, carrying 6 cut signatures from British defenders of Kars during the Crimean War, June-Nov. 1855: Major-General Sir Christopher Charles Teesdale (1833-93, awarded Victoria Cross in 1857); Colonel Sir Henry Lake (1808-91, Royal Engineers); Humphrey Sandwith (1822-81), Army doctor; Henry L. Thompson (1829-56), Major in the Turkish Army; General Sir William Fenwick Williams (“W W Williams,” 1800-83); and Henry H. Churchill (1828-86), secretary and interpreter. Williams surrendered Kars to the Russian Army in November 1855, and was taken prisoner. He returned to England in 1856 and was created a baronet “of Kars.” ++ John Edmund Commerell (Admiral). ALS, dated “April 25/ 1900.” Glued to underside of orig envelope. ++ Lord Gifford. Cut signature. Foxed. ++ Sir H. Evelyn Wood (Oct. 3, 1915), Victoria Cross winner. Brief TLS about transferring the opening sentences of his book to the Preface. ++ Gen. John C. McNeill. ANS. ++ Gen. Hugh Gough. ALS (1 sentence, Apr. 18, 1900, stationery of St. Thomas’ Tower at the Tower of London). W/ orig envelope. Gough fought in Abyssinia, the Afghan campaign, etc. Awarded a Victoria Cross, ca. 1881. Keeper of the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London beginning in 1898. ALS is foxed, ALS and envelope mounted to what had been a scrapbook leaf. Illustration marginally dampstained. ++ Lt.-Gen. Walter Congreve. Signature on a slip of paper. ++ Gen. Sir Sam Browne. ALS. Minor stains to letter. ++ Gen. Henry Havelock Allan, Victoria Cross awardee. Cut signature. Havelock Allan received the Victoria Cross for his role at Lucknow in the Sepoy Rebellion. ++ Col. William Beresford. Signature card, dated “May 23d 1895.” Received the Victoria Cross in 1879, for his role in the Zulu War. ++ Major General Gerald Graham. Cut signature. Awarded the VC for his role in the Crimean War in 1855. ++ Admiral Arthur Knyvet Wilson. Cut signature. Dated “23d Nov. 09.” Earned the VC at the Battle of Teb. ++ Facsimile of a Victoria Cross. Blue ribbon, similar to those awarded to Naval recipients until 1918.
Name WAV #273 June catalog
Auctioneer
Type Internet Absentee Bidding
Date(s) 2/5/2017 - 6/1/2017
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Description
Fine and rare books, maps, autographs, Americana and prints; 2 volumes of Lorca poetry signed and inscribed by Federico Garcia Lorca; ALS of Joseph Brant; with books, autographs and portrait prints, ex inventory of The Queen's Shilling (Military and Historical). Signed material from NASA astronauts and manuscript sheet music by John Quincy Adams. Prints include two images from Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities and a signed mother and child by Francoise Gilot.
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