Historical Documents, Autographs and Ephemera
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# 1 - Great Britain 1513-1837, a group of documents (14), mostly British in... »
Great Britain 1513-1837, a group of documents (14), mostly British including 1510 piece from indenture for land in Hawkley, 1513 pi...
£200 to £250
# 2 - Great Britain Queen Elizabeth I 1559-1586 Vellum document in Latin wit... »
Great Britain Queen Elizabeth I 1559-1586 Vellum document in Latin with a complete seal of Elizabeth I attached (9cm in diameter). T...
£400 to £500
# 3 - Great Britain Elizabethan Privy Council Document 1599 (28 Feb.) entire... »
Great Britain Elizabethan Privy Council Document 1599 (28 Feb.) entire letter from Privy Council at Richmond with address panel read...
£800 to £1,000
# 3A - Great Britain 1600-1800 a large collection of papers, copies and reco... »
Great Britain 1600-1800 a large collection of papers, copies and record books including two page document titled "A List of the Per...
£300 to £400
# 4 - Great Britain Household Accounts of the Prince of Wales 1616-17 two pa... »
Great Britain Household Accounts of the Prince of Wales 1616-17 two page document titled "A note of Money disbursed by me Hierome Co...
£600 to £800
# 5 - Great Britain King Charles I Privy Council 1629 (September) entire let... »
Great Britain King Charles I Privy Council 1629 (September) entire letter from the Privy Council with address panel reading "To yee...
£200 to £300
# 6 - Great Britain King Charles I 1642 (20 January) letter signed "Cha... »
Great Britain King Charles I 1642 (20 January) letter signed "Charles R" being a Warrant addressed to Governor or Commander of the K...
£800 to £1,000
# 7 - Great Britain The Arrest of Two Captains off Ireland 1642 (17 Aug.) en... »
Great Britain The Arrest of Two Captains off Ireland 1642 (17 Aug.) entire letter from John Browne, "Cleric Parliamentor" on the shi...
£300 to £400
# 8 - Great Britain King Charles II (1630-1685) c1650 Pair of red silk stock... »
Great Britain King Charles II (1630-1685) c1650 Pair of red silk stockings with silver thread surmounted by a Crown and thistle desi...
£1,000 to £1,500
# 9 - Great Britain Robert Blake, The Eve of the First Anglo-Dutch War 1652... »
Great Britain Robert Blake, The Eve of the First Anglo-Dutch War 1652 (17 Feb.) letter signed by Robert Blake and Richard Deane aboa...
£800 to £1,000
# 10 - Great Britain 1658 (Dec.) pair of documents relating to single State... »
Great Britain 1658 (Dec.) pair of documents relating to single State Messenger journey executed by Richard Vyne from London to Nott...
£300 to £400
# 11 - Great Britain Coronation King Charles II 1661 "A Sermon Preached... »
Great Britain Coronation King Charles II 1661 "A Sermon Preached at the Magnificent Coronation of The Most High and Mighty Charles t...
£80 to £100
# 12 - Great Britain 1684 (5 March) Deed of Common Exemplification over two... »
Great Britain 1684 (5 March) Deed of Common Exemplification over two pages of vellum with superb printed heading vignette of King J...
£300 to £400
# 13 - Great Britain King James II 1688 Printed broadside issued in the name... »
Great Britain King James II 1688 Printed broadside issued in the name of the King, "At the Court at Whitehall" meeting in his presen...
£300 to £350
# 14 - Great Britain Family Album 1760-1904 The Family album of Thomas Wingfi... »
Great Britain Family Album 1760-1904 The Family album of Thomas Wingfield and Mary Ann Ibbetson containing numerous watercolours, fa...
£250 to £300
# 15 - Great Britain Autographs 1760-1830 A range of cut signatures laid down... »
Great Britain Autographs 1760-1830 A range of cut signatures laid down on four sides of an album page, including George III (2, one...
£150 to £200
# 16 - Great Britain Coronation King George III 1761 Two engraved tickets to... »
Great Britain Coronation King George III 1761 Two engraved tickets to Westminster Abbey numbered 121 and 1010 printed in black and b...
£400 to £500
# 17 - Great Britain Autograph Album 1787 on - Album with autograph letters o... »
Great Britain Autograph Album 1787 on - Album with autograph letters or cut signatures. Queen Victoria (an envelope to the Duchess o...
£300 to £400
# 18 - Great Britain 1799-19th Century, a collection of documents (c.70+) mo... »
Great Britain 1799-19th Century, a collection of documents (c.70+) mostly relating to Goslings and Sharpe (founded 1743 and amalgam...
£100 to £150
# 19 - Great Britain Autograph album Admiral Lord Nelson (1758-1805) 1805 Add... »
Great Britain Autograph album Admiral Lord Nelson (1758-1805) 1805 Address panel in the hand of Nelson, signed "Nelson&Bronte", writ...
£1,200 to £1,500
Collections and Ranges
Collections and Ranges1691-1953, a vast collection of c.350+ newspapers, Chronicles and Circulars; publications include "Bell's Weekly Messenger" 1811-15, "Bristol Gazette", 1852, "Bristol Mirror" 1848, "Bristol Time and Mirror", 1920 and 1922, "British Workman", 1859, "Chambers Edinburgh Journal", 1847, "Daily Chronicle, 1918, "Daily Express", 1939-40, "Daily Herald", 1940, "Daily Herald", 1940, "Daily Mail" 1940, "Daily Mirror" 1919-40, "Eliza Cooks Journal", 1850, "Evening Mail" 1795-1796, "Evening Standard", 1940, "Family Herald", 1863, "Felix Farley Bristol Journal", 1817, "Hoggs Weekly I...
Collections and RangesPlaying Cards1789-c1870 Five packs of playing cards, c1789 by Rowley & Co, England (52); oval cards in the original box "Neue Ovale / Salon-Spielkarten / A. Twietmeyer, Leipzig (52); c1850 French costume cards by Gibert, Paris (52); c1850 Spanish cards by S. Comas (48); c1870 German suited by G. Thienne (32)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) Collections and RangesPress Photographs - Aviation1920s-30s an archive of European press photographs (c.200+) relating to aviation with photographs of planes and pilots of various nationalities. Includes a group (c.16) relating to August Andree's ill-fated balloon flight launched from Spitzbergen with photographs of preparation, camp, letters from Andree and the eventual discovery of bodies. As is the case with working press images, the frames have been edited, cropped or marked. A most interesting group.Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
(x) Collections and RangesPress Photographs - International Affairs1920s-60s, a large archive of European press photographs, 5 showing Albert Einstein, c.50 showing First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, c. 30 showing President Roosevelt, c.30 documenting European far right and far left movements, c.50 of Neville Chamberlain at home and visiting war zones, c.39 showing meetings of the League of Nations, and c.40 depicting Socialist campaigners Norman Thomas and Margaret Bondfield, c.50 covering the Korean War, and 5 1960s images of John F. Kennedy As is the case with working press images, the frames...
(x) Collections and RangesPress Photographs - Sports1924-64, an archive of Italian press photographs relating to sports including 1924-61 French football; 1926-51 tennis featuring John Borotra in his famous berret; 1928-48 Olympic Games; 1929-62 English football, most Cup tournaments featuring teams such as Sheffield Wednesday, Southampton, Nottingham Forrest, Portsmouth, Arsenal, Sunderland; 1926-36 Golf with many of Percy Allis; a large number covering Argentinian football between 1953-64; 1940s-50s Chess selection focusing on Raul Capablanca with many images of training and international fi...
(x) Collections and RangesPress Photographs - Kemal Ataturk1929-30s, an archive of European press photographs (c.25) centring on Turkey and Kemal Ataturk with pictures including visits from King Edward VIII, a luxury yacht owned by the Turking Government, Ataturk's summer home, and his funeral. As is the case with working press images, the frames have been edited, cropped or marked. A most interesting group.Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
(x) Collections and RangesPress Photographs - India1930-40, an archive of European press photographs focusing on India including 1930s images showing protests and government officials; also 1940s advertising stills for titles such as "Drums", "Jungle Book", "Mutiny in the Mountains", "Tangier", "The Thief of Bagdad", "Elephant Boy", mostly featuring Sabu Dastagir. As is the case with working press images, the frames have been edited, cropped or marked. A most interesting group.Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
(x) Collections and RangesPress Photographs - H.R.H. The Prince of Wales - Golf1930s-40s an archive of European press photographs (c.38+) of depicting the Pince of Wales playing glof on various courses and with a variety of personalities, including Wallis Simpson. As is the case with working press images, the frames have been edited, cropped or marked. A most interesting group.Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
(x) Collections and RangesPress Photographs - World War IIA large archive of European press photographs (100s) relating to World War II including c.100 depicting Japanese and Chinese soldiers with photographs of warzones, a range of press and police photographs of Nazi spies in Argentina, c.40 showing Italian military officials, a large range covering King George VI's official military visit to the armed forces, c.30 showing Gdynia, Poland, c.30 relating to President Roosevelt, c.50 covering the lives of women and children, images of destruction in Britain including images of the 1st mobile Po...
(x) Collections and RangesPress Photographs - Pope Pius XII1952, an archive of European press photographs relating to the Catholic Church (c.39) relating to Pope Pius XII, Pope between 1939 until his death on 9 October 1958. As is the case with working press images, the frames have been edited, cropped or marked. A most interesting group.Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
Collections and RangesPassports & Travel Documents1822-1896 Collection of British passports (large format, single sheet) with signatures of Clarendon (2), Malmesbury, Derby (2), Rosebery, issued in London for travel to the Continent, one issued by the British Consul in Lisbon (1896), six large format issued "Au Nom Du Roi" for travel to Calais or Bologne (1830-1843), Venezuela passport issued in 1854 with supporting documents (3), 1814 passport issued in Calais to a British subject, 1845 travel document in booklet form issued to Lieut. Colonel James Caulfield, 33 pages complete for travel to...
Collections and RangesEntertainment1920s-30s, a collection of programmes, letters and signatures of actors, authors and playwrites including 1931 (22 October) autograph letter signed with thanks to Charles Wilmott for his good wishes for the last night of 'Cavalcade', signed in full "Noel Coward", two typed letters signed from Charles Chochran to Charles Wilmott with reference to 'Cavalcade' and 'Bitter-Sweet', undated autograph letter signed to Charles Wilmott with reference to 'The Dancing Years', 1936 typed letter to Wilmott signed by Novello with reference to 'Careless Rapture', 1932 typed...
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
(x) French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsNapoleon Bonaparte in Cairo"Au Caire le 9 Thermidor an 6" (1798, 27 July) letter signed headed "Bonaparte General en Chef Ordonne" in Cairo, ordering that merchants of the Saga (gold market) pay eleven thousand Talaris to the French administration in the form of a tax. Signed in full "Bonaparte". Offered together with a printed document title "Bonaparte, membre de l'Institus national, General en Chef; Au Directoire Executif" being an official report of the landing of troops in Alexandria. A Rare and early document from the Egyptian campaign.Notes: o...
(x) French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsNapoleon Bonaparte in Cairo - Massacre of the Guides"Au Caire le 25 fructidor au 6" (1798, 11 September) letter headed "Bonaparte General en Chef Ordonne" being an order that the Guides be assimilated with the French troops for the purposes of paying wages etc. Signed in full "Bonaparte". Rare.Notes: The Guides Company acted as a form of reserve army, usually tasked with the escort of General in Chiefe, especially during the Italian campaign. In Egypt, Guides on horseback were utilised by Bonaparte in a form that would resemble the future Consular G...
(x) French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsNapoleon Bonaparte in CairoPart printed document headed 2Au Quartier-general du Caire le 3 Pluviose an 7" (1799, 22 January), designated "Armee D'Orient" being a "Commissaire Ordonnateur en Chef, Daure" ordering payment in relation to an investigation on a widow named "Blein", which Bonaparte had requested. Signed "Daure" and "Bonaparte". Rare.Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
(x) French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsNapoleon's Syrian Campaign, Signing in Gaza1799 (26 February) entire letter signed "Bonaparte", and headed with Republican date in his hand "Gaza 8 Ventose au 7" (Gregorian 26 February 1799) ordering the payment of "neuf mille francs" to cover the cost of engineering works required for the first three cities conquered by Napoleon in Syrian: "Catieh" (Kattieh), "Iharich" (El-Arish) and "Gaza". Also signed at foot "Max Cafferelli" by General Caffarelli. The reverse with filing endorsement reading "Campagne Egypte, 8. Ventose au 7" and numbered in separ...
(x) French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsJacques-François Menou's Proclamation to the People of Egypt16 Drumaire an 7 (1800, 28 October) six page document in Arabic over two folios being the original manuscript copy of Menou's Proclamation to the people of Egypt. Headed [in Arabic] "Liberty" and "Equality", addressed "From Adbullah Jacques Menou, general-in-chief of the Army of the French Nation, to all citizens of Egypt". Remarkable contents include:"Listen, Citizens of Egypt, to what I have to say to you on behalf of the French Nation. You used to endure troubled time, so the French army...
(x) French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsNapoleon's Syrian-Egyptian CampaignA series of nine documents signed by Generals, Commanders and Chiefs in Bonaparte's Armee D'Orient, including 1798 (19 May) ALS from Hector D'Aure, Commander, written in French just one day before his departure from Toulon for Egypt, "I am leaving tomorrow with the fleet ... all the youth are leaving, LaSalle Clement are already in Civita Vecchia"; 1798 (7 December) ALS from Louis-Charles-Antoine Desaix in Cairo to General Donzelot in 'Upper Egypt', the day Desaix travelled with 1,000 men to support the area. Desaix...
(x) French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsNapoleon's Planned Invasion of England1804 (26 Feb.) part printed letter dated 7 Ventôse, Year 12 of the Republic, headed "Ministry of War" featuring an allegorical illustration of the Republic ("Marianne"), addressed by the corresponding minister, Marshal Berthier, to the Minister of Public Treasury, Martin-Michel-Charles Gaudin (one of the key figures in the financial reorganization of France under Napoleon, promoting tax reforms and modernizing the economic administration) within the "1ère Division, Bureau de la Solde" (First Division, Pay Bureau)...
(x) French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsThe Coronation of Napoleon I as Emperor; A Unique Entry Ticket and Invitation Letter Assembly1804: Entry ticket to Notre-Dame in Paris for the coronation ceremonies of Napoleon as Emperor on 2 December 1804. Printed on both sides on card, one side featuring the large Imperial arms and the inscription "Napoléon 1er., Empereur des Français.", and on reverse, "Cérémonie du Sacre et Couronnement.-Président d'Assemblée de Canton." (Coronation Ceremony- President of Cantonal Assembly), showing in centre red vertical oval chachet of the "Grand Maître des Cé...
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsNapoleon - The Charvet Papers1811-1819 Collection of the papers of M. Charvet, Valet de Chambre (Keeper of the Wardrobe) to Napoleon, intact, last sold on auction "By Mr Stanley at his Rooms, Old Bond Street, on Friday 2nd July 1819, as lots 29 and 30", with a copy of the sale catalogue descriptions. The collection comprises:1.The original manuscript passport signed by Charles Philip, Prince of Schwarzenberg two weeks after the capture of Paris, permitting M. Charvet who has business at Fonteinbleau, to freely pass through advance posts, dated 10th Apr...
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsNelson and his Admiralsc1800 Four side facing coloured wax portraits, titled in pen on the reverse of each "Nelson / Duncan / Howe / St. Vincent", with a printed label of St. John's College, each housed in a contemporary wooden frame with gilt slip and circular suspension at the top of each frame. Slight crack to Duncan not detracting. A rare group (12x15cm) (4)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsAdmiral Horatio Lord Nelson, The Siege of Bastia1794 (18 March) Autograph letter signed from "Agamemnon off Bastia" written over two pages with integral address panel reading "William Suckling Esquire, Custom House London". Contents report that "We are still blocking up Bastia the attack of which has been given up in a most extraordinary manner. What might if it had not been deem'd a most impertinent observation, Viz that Bastia from a place I had found on much closer examination than our General Dundas, could be attack'd to our great advantage. I wrote...
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsAdmiral Horatio Lord Nelson, An Early Left-Handed Example to John Palmer1797 (4 Sept.) Autograph letter signed from Bath to John Palmer, M.P. with reference to Palmer's son, reading "I left Lord St. Vincent perfectly well 15 days ago, and he begged me to assure you that the moment your son has served his time that he will instantly promote him." Signed "Believe me Dear Sir, Your Most Obedient Servant, Horatio Nelson". Reverse panel removed otherwise very fine example, among the earliest known of Nelson's left-handed letter writing.provenance: The John G...
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsAdmiral Horatio Lord Nelson, Recovery from Amputation1797 (8 Dec.) autograph note reading "An officer desires to return thanks to almighty God for his perfect recovery from a severe wound, and also for the many mercies bestowed upon him. Decr. 8th 1797, for next Sunday". Framed within glazed wooden frame, the wood is said to have been taken from the main mast of H.M.S. 'Victory'.The frame has an original papered backing with some damage but with seemingly contemporary inscription reading "A notice sent by Lord Nelson to the Curate of St. George's Hanover...
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsCaptain E.T. ParkerAdmiral Lord Nelson (1758-1805)1801 June - 4 sided autograph letter written by Captain Edward Thornborough Parker RN, protege of Nelson and his aide-de-camp during the attack on Boulogne, to Emma, Lady Hamilton, mistress of Nelson and mother of their illegitimate daughter, Horatia.He writes from H.M. Ship St. George at Kioge Bay (in Danish waters), and thanks Lady Hamilton for her friendship. He is "now happy beyond measure to tell you he {Nelson} has most perfectly recovered his late indisposition, which I assure you was much as to cr...
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsAdmiral Horatio Lord Nelson, Lady Emma Hamilton1802 (27 April) autograph letter signed from Merton with integral address panel [addressed in Lady Hamilton's hand] to Alexander Davidson in St. James Square, London. Letter reads "My Dear Davison, My Poor Dear Father is no more, God bless you." Signed "Nelson & Bronte".At foot, a further note is subscribed in the hand of Lady Emma Hamilton reading "Lord Nelson wishes your friend the Chancellor to give Commyn of his Fathers Livings could you not speak to him about his death he has wrote to his Lordship he be...
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars1805 (7 November) "The Times" newspaper [No. 6572] featuring "The London Gazette Extradordinary. Wednesday, No. 6, 1805, Admiralty Office" reading "Dispatches, of which the following are Copies, were received at the Admiralty this dat, at one o'clock A.M. from Vice-Admiral Collingwood, Commander in Chief of his Majesty's ships and vessels off Cadiz: Sir, Euryalus, off Cape Trafalgar, Oct. 22, 1805 The ever-to-be lamented death of Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson, who, in the late conflict with the enemy, fell in the hour of victory ...". Newspaper weak...
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsPrisoners Letter1813 Letter addressed to "His Excellency the Minister of War, Duke of Feltre at Paris", posted from Cambray, written by John William, giving a "statement of my being captured...on the 26th of April 1812, being off Plymouth Fishing in a small Fishing Boat belonging to the Said place was put on board the Spanish Ship Televero from Charleston bound, to Plymouth...and was sent to this Depot...have the goodness to take into your consideration the case of an unfortunate Fisherman aged 55 years with a distressed Family and give the necessary in...
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsEmma, Lady Hamilton (1765-1815)1813 Pair of autograph letters initialled "E.H." by Lady Hamilton, mistress of Nelson and mother of their illegitimate daughter, Horatia. She writes to Sir Richard Puleston from 12 Temple Place, a debtors prison, in appreciation for the financial assistance he rendered her. After Nelson's death in 1805 she was in straightened financial circumstances, relying on others. She writes dramatically "Remember my gratitude will never cease to you but with my Life". She writes of losing "life, liberty and all is gone". The second...
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsBattle of Waterloo1815 Watercolour by an unidentified hand with an ink description on the reverse of "so destructive and decisive a battle...this is as it appears about a week after the battle. The farm house was seized by the French to aid their attack on St Jean and was a seat of great slaughter. The Telegraph is where Buonaparte was stationed during the engagement. Already the Farm House is repaired and used (as) an inn" (11x17.5cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsDuke of Wellington (1769-1852)1840 Autograph letter signed "Wellington" with the address panel to General Sir Willoughby Gordon at Horse Guards, red wax seal, thanking him for the Plan. "I will keep it and consider it as confidential".Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsAdmiral Rodneyc1770 Enamel Birmingham plaque titled "ADML. RODNEY" below a fine portrait after a well known engraving. Admiral George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (1718-1792) was prominent in the War of the Austrian Succession, the Seven Year's War, American War of Independence and Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (7x5cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsLouis XVIc1780s Bilston enamel box with a portrait of King Louis XVI (1754-1793), titled "LOUIS XVI" and "KING of FRANCE" above and below his image (5x4x2.5cm, some restoration)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsThe French Revolutionc1789 Bilston enamel box showing an execution titled "La Guillotine". A rare and gruesome image (5x4x2cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsAdmiral Lord Nelsonc1790 Bilston enamel box with an image of a naval anchor titled "Glory to Britain" (4x3x2cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsAdmiral Keppelc1790 enamel box with an untitled portrait of Admiral Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel (1725-1786), prominent in the early years of the American Revolutionary War (5x4x2.5cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsAdmiral Lord Nelsonc1798 Bilston circular enamel box with an image of H.M.S. Vanguard, Nelson's flagship. Titled "ADMIRAL NELSON" and "VANGUARD/74 Guns/ Augs.1st 1798" above and below the image, commemorating the battle at Aboukir Bay (Battle of the Nile) where Nelson was wounded and almost lost the sight of his remaining eye. A major British victory over the French fleet (4cm diameter x2cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsLouis XVIc1789 Bilston enamel box titled "Louis's last farewell of his Queen" showing King Louis XVI with Queen Marie Antoinette and possibly the dauphin, prior to his execution on 21 January 1793 (5x4x2cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsNapoleonc1800 Bilston enamel box of Napoleon Bonaparte, showing him looking to the right with "BUONA" and "PARTE" on either side of his image. Very unusual and rare as it is of English manufacture and not typical of the satirical images of him more commonly seen at the time (4.5x3x2cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsAdmiral Lord Nelsonc1800 Oval enamel motto box with a patriotic message across the entire area of the lid "May the Bosom of the British Fair, Glow with the ardour of Liberty, & may they Bestow their Affections on those Men only who have the Virtue & Courage to defend it" (5x4x2cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsAdmiral Lord Nelsonc1805 Enamel box with an image in watercolour titled "NELSON AND BRITISH GRATITUDE" (4x3x2cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsAdmiral Lord Nelsonc1805 Enamel box with a monochrome design titled "NELSON AND BRITISH GRATITUDE" (4x3x2cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsAdmiral Lord Nelson1805 Enamel circular box with a monochrome side facing portrait of Nelson, titled above the image "Adml Nelson, Octbr. ye 21st 1805" (4cm diameter x 2 cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsCharles James Fox MPc1806 Enamel circular box with a side facing portrait titled "CHAS. Js. FOX" (1749-1806), prominent British Whig politician and statesman, who served as Foreign Secretary, Lord Commissioner of the Treasury and Admiralty, Leader of the House of Commons at the time of his death. Supported the American Patriots at the time of the Revolution, and agreed with the French Revolution; was a prominent opponent of King George III. Buried in Westminster Abbey. A rare commemorative box (4cm diameter x2cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. Fo...
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsAdmiral Warrenc1806 Circular enamel box with a portrait titled "ADML Sr J.B. WARREN" in uniform. Warren (1753-1822) served in the American, French and Napoleonic Revolutionary Wars (4cm diameter x 2cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsNapoleonc1820 Oil handpainted portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), on a circular paper mache box (10cm diameter x 1.7cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsNapoleon - St. Helenac1840 Pair of circular bone boxes with detachable lids, carved and decorated with scenes on St Helena relating to Napoleon's exile there. The lids are superbly carved with a scene titled "Napoleon's Tomb", the base of one is titled "Napoleon's House", and each has island scenes around the box. A rare pair (3.5cm diameter x3cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great Britain Historical Documents: 16th - 21st Century
Great Britain1513-1837, a group of documents (14), mostly British including 1510 piece from indenture for land in Hawkley, 1513 piece from indenture for three acres of meadows and 2 acres of woods in Sandhurst, 1777 court document with embossed revenues, later bills and receipts, three French documents and various others. An interesting group.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainQueen Elizabeth I1559-1586 Vellum document in Latin with a complete seal of Elizabeth I attached (9cm in diameter). This was the First Great Seal in use from 1559. "The Queen, seated on a throne resembling a bedstead, crowned, holding in the right hand a sceptre ending in a fleur-de-lis, and supporting a huge orb on the left knee. From the baldachino two curtains descend to the sides of the throne". (The Great Seals of England, Wyon, 1887). The counter-seal (reverse) has an escutcheon supported by a greyhound and a crowned eagle, surmounted by the crown of England, the seal for le...
(x) Great BritainElizabethan Privy Council Document1599 (28 Feb.) entire letter from Privy Council at Richmond with address panel reading "Our lovinge friends the high Shryfe and rest of ye commissioners for ye musters in ye county of Norffolke", contents cover the collection of money for the war in Ireland - "we required soche somes of money as you thought meeter accordinge to their habillities and direction you received from hir Majesty and from us for ye provisione of horse for the service of Ireland ... where in an other letter you do complain of the townes coporate of Lynn and Yarmouthe,...
Great Britain1600-1800 a large collection of papers, copies and record books including two page document titled "A List of the Persons names together with their Summes that was due to them in Arrear from the late King Charles the Second, undated copies of petitions made "To the King's most Excellent Maty in Council" with integral address panel endorsed "Post Paid 3d.", c.1600-1700s page titled "The Ccount of Ores from Issle of Man" listing amounts of copper and lead ore, 1700s rough parchment bound "Cash Book" over twenty manuscript pages, 1710 copy of "The Lord Guernsey's Speech" and, separat...
(x) Great BritainHousehold Accounts of the Prince of Wales1616-17 two page document titled "A note of Money disbursed by me Hierome Cocke for his Highness service from Michelmas 1616 unto Michelmas following 161 viz.", provisions include "Imprimis for 6. Quier of Venice paper at viij-d the Quier and 3. quiver of ordinaary paper at iiij-d", "bottle of Inck", "For 3 other Comissions for the howse, viz-t. one for Sr. Thomas Howard, another for Sr. Robert Cary and another for Sr. Robert Dowglas in vollome florished with silk strings", "For sending a lettre to Mr. King in Cornewall about Respite of...
(x) Great BritainKing Charles I Privy Council1629 (September) entire letter from the Privy Council with address panel reading "To yee right honourable and our very loveing friend, the Major of the Cittie of Norwich and to the Justices of Peace of the said Cittie", contents make complaint "whereby hys Maties service hath suffered in this cittie in the number of the trained soldiers which his honour saith is much decreased of late both in number and quality of their armes by the frequent borrowing from another ... horses wholy omitted ...". Signed by Thomas Woodehouse, Thomas Hyrne and Harry Cor...
(x) Great BritainKing Charles I1642 (20 January) letter signed "Charles R" being a Warrant addressed to Governor or Commander of the King's forces or garrison in or near Newark, ordering forces and assistance to Prince Rupert, "Whereas Our Highness Prince Rupert is employed in an expedition of importune for our especiall service in Leicestershire; which he may have occasion to use some forces from our Garrison. Letter split along folds and laid down on wove paper, leaving the majority of the filing endorsement visible on the reverse. Rare and important.provenance:J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (d.1912...
(x) Great BritainThe Arrest of Two Captains off Ireland1642 (17 Aug.) entire letter from John Browne, "Cleric Parliamentor" on the ship 'Mercury' "To the house or any other[?] attending this House of his Deputy, to be conveyed to the Earle of Warwick", ordering Warwick, the Lord Admiral, to arrest Captains Kettleby and Sir Henry Stradling of the Swallow and Bonaventure, which were on guard duty off the coast of Ireland who "have lately departed the Charge whereby they have opposed his Mat's. good subjects in that Kingdome to create danger in this tyme of Rebellion"; also 1642 (27 July) entire...
Great BritainKing Charles II (1630-1685)c1650 Pair of red silk stockings with silver thread surmounted by a Crown and thistle design, in a cardboard box annotated "Charles II stockings". He was King of Scotland from 1649-1651 and King of England, Scotland and Ireland from the Restoration in 1660 to his death in 1685 (75cm, pair)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) Great BritainRobert Blake, The Eve of the First Anglo-Dutch War1652 (17 Feb.) letter signed by Robert Blake and Richard Deane aboard the ship "Tryumph sixe Leage of the Isle of Weight" to the Commissioners of the Navy, contents make reference to "hopeing wee should have by this tyme beene able to give you some Certayne accompt of the Dutch Fleete wee haveing had good Grounds to bee in Expectation of them Continually", the movements of "Vantrump with his Fleete" and the recruitment of further ships to bolster his fleet. Sold folds as to be expected otherwise fine and a rare signature.prove...
(x) Great Britain1658 (Dec.) pair of documents relating to single State Messenger journey executed by Richard Vyne from London to Nottingham & Derby to deliver writs against "Recusants and delinquents"; one document signed by John Doddington with note to pay "Richard Vyne one of the messengers of his highnes' [Cromwell's] Court of Excheqr" who "preaieth allowance for his travel and chadges in ridieng in hast..."; the other signed "B Lake". An interesting duo.Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
Great BritainCoronationKing Charles II1661 "A Sermon Preached at the Magnificent Coronation of The Most High and Mighty Charles the IId, at the Collegiate Church of S. Peter Westminster, The 23rd of April (being S. George's Day) 1661. By George Lord Bishop of Worcester, Printed by R. Norton for T. Gartwait, at the Little North Door of S. Paul's", 62 pages, with an engraving by Hertochs of Charles II on the throne (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) Great Britain1684 (5 March) Deed of Common Exemplification over two pages of vellum with superb printed heading vignette of King James II. Dramatic.Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
Great BritainKing James II1688 Printed broadside issued in the name of the King, "At the Court at Whitehall" meeting in his presence with 15 named Councillors, stating that "no Form or Order of Common Prayer be openly used, other than what is Prescribed and Appointed to be used in and by the said Book". The King expressly declares the names of those members of the Royal Family "to be Prayed for", including Her Royal Highness Mary Princess of Orange, who was to ascend the throne with her husband, Prince William of Orange, in 1689, after the Glorious Revolution deposed James II (29.5x36.5cm)Sub...
Great BritainFamily Album1760-1904 The Family album of Thomas Wingfield and Mary Ann Ibbetson containing numerous watercolours, family history, correspondence and ephemera housed within envelopes laid down in the album, suitably annotated. Two letters from Quebec with Crown in Circle "Paid at Quebec" datestamps (1843), 1850 broadside to "The Householders of the Ward of Bishopsgate / Cardinal Wiseman" regarding the "Popish Archbishop of Westminster", 1850 leaflet on the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry", John Tracey's certificate as a Member of the Society of Arts (1855), Visit of Queen Vi...
Great BritainAutographs1760-1830 A range of cut signatures laid down on four sides of an album page, including George III (2, one loose), Frederick, Prince of Wales (Initial letter trimmed), George Prince Regent, Duke of Clarence, William IV, address panel by Mr Moore the Poet, "Miss Chambers" in the hand of Mrs Jordan, Napoleon facsimile, Warren Hastings, Duke of Wellington, Wellesley, Lord Liverpool, Admiral Lord Keith, Count Lieven, Palmerston, Spencer Percival (26)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainCoronationKing George III1761 Two engraved tickets to Westminster Abbey numbered 121 and 1010 printed in black and brown, with the seal of the Earl Marshal in the centre, above his printed name "Effingham M". Uncommon (9x7 inches); together with an engraving showing the moment of His Majesty's crowning, a view from the High Altar, with three pages from The Universal Magazine giving Coronation details (4). These are considered to be rare.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainAutograph Album1787 on - Album with autograph letters or cut signatures. Queen Victoria (an envelope to the Duchess of Nemours); Marie Amelie of France, Queen Adelaide religious verse, Bishops of Bath, Oxford, Newfoundland, Burdett Coutts, Countess Nelson, Murchison, George III (Army appointment signed), Bishop Colenso, Voltaire to Admiral Hamilton, and verses copied from various sources included in the album, with a range of facsimile signatures or tracings (80 original)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great Britain1799-19th Century, a collection of documents (c.70+) mostly relating to Goslings and Sharpe (founded 1743 and amalgamated with other in 1896 to form Barclays), correspondents include Lord Gage, Lady Elizabeth Foster, Lord Walsingham. Also four bank balance sheets for the years 1891-95 stating between £1,654,534, 17/5d. and £1,765,945, 19/8d. An interesting group, and a range of postal history of the same periodSubject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainAutograph albumAdmiral Lord Nelson (1758-1805)1805 Address panel in the hand of Nelson, signed "Nelson&Bronte", written from Merton to Joseph Bird Esq, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, with a part Free datestamp, laid down in an autograph album that includes George IV, Duke of Wellington, envelope front with seal from Queen Victoria to The Duchess of Kent, Lord Melbourne, Sheridan, Castlereagh, Admiral Lord Hood, Canning, Wm Pitt, Prince of Wales (ALS) from Aldershot, Peel, Palmerston, Spencer, Wilberforce, Russell, Grey, St Vincent, Brougham, Linnaeus, and others (35)Subject to 20% V...
Great BritainCoronationKing George IV1821 "Coronation Anthem to be Sung at the Close of the Procession at Stockport", printed by Claye, in vivid gold lettering with the Royal Coat of Arms surmounted by G.IV.R. on dark blue silk. A magnificent item (32x17.5cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyKing William IV1829 Two page autograph letter written from Bushey House, signed "William" by the Duke of Clarence, who was to ascend the throne as William IV in 1830. He writes to an unnamed correspondent referring to the Carbineers and forwarding an enclosed answer to Lord Hill (Commander-in-Chief of the Forces at the time). He refers to an individual who "has been ill used by some of the officers on the service establishment". The Duke, who had a naval career, had been forced to resign as Lord High Admiral in 1828 after disappearing with a squadron of ships for ten days w...
Great BritainCoronationKing William IV1831 Engraving of William IV with a vignette at the foot showing him signing the Reform Bill, his signature "William R" mounted below, cut from a document headed "The Word", a regular page of passwords for Royal establishments. With a postally used entire letter from Bristol to Norfolk discussing "heavy failures in the sugar and corn trades; tomorrow being Coronation day of much preparation ... in the town", and an attractive Coronation ticket to the Guildhall for Bread (3)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and...
Great BritainCoronationKing William IV1831 Decorative admission cards to Westminster Abbey on the day of the Coronation of William IV and Queen Adelaide, with their cyphers in the centre, for entrance to the Choir Lower Gallery, Vaultings "not admitted after 7 o'clock" through Poets Corner, South Transept, Poets Corner (26.5x20cm) (3)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainFamily Archive1832-1888 A collection of diaries, notebooks and a writing portfolio ex the Cavendish and Harcourt families with many references to political and court affairs, including a manuscript recipe book dated 1853 kept by Elizabeth G.H. Crauford, her journal for 1852 beginning with her marriage to Colonel James Crauford and their travels to the Continent where on 6th August "We left Brussels in an open carriage to see Waterloo". Pocket books for 1832-1834, written by Elisabeth Georgiana Cavendish mention a ball at Buckingham Palace, Burlington House, social arrangements,...
Great BritainCoronationQueen Victoria1838 Admission card to Westminster Abbey via the South Door, Poets Corner, to the Upper Choir Gallery, unnamed but endorsed "Cancelled" in ink across the name of the Earl Marshal (most unusual), with an unused example, both printed on grey card. Together with a printed notice from Hastings Town Council arranging suitable celebrations for the day, a printed hymn to be sung by the children of the Wesleyan Sunday School, Haslingden, a coloured decorative card celebrating the Queen, with a printed broadside dated 21st June 1837 from the Court at St James's anno...
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Victoria1838 "THE SPLENDID PROCESSION OF QUEEN VICTORIA TO HER CORONATION...DISPLAYING EVERY PORTION OF THE ROYAL CORTEGE...From the Duke of York's Pillar to Her Majesty's Entrance at Westminster Abbey", published by Relfe and Fletcher, 17 Cornhill. Twenty two coloured panels, folded into a gilt titled, hardbound cover, in superb condition (16x10cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainMusicc1844 Lithographed portrait of John Hatton, musician and composer (1809-1886), inscribed and signed in pencil by him with a bar of music. Known for providing and conducting the music for Charles Kean's London Shakespearean revivals (23x30cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainWaterlow & Sons Ltd1849-1914 Archive of papers relating to the engraver and printer of currency, postage stamps and bond certificates, founded in 1810 and sold to De La Rue in 1961. Included are a 1d. Mulready wrapper to Waterlow & Sons, 66 London Wall with a printed advert for the London and Croydon Railways, 1873 Waterlow almanac, 1877 papers regarding a family dispute, discussing the Company's articles and various family issues, 1882 documents regarding their leasehold premises, 1914 typed letter to Dalziel Colour Press Ltd, London revealing "our Secret Mixture and process of m...
Great BritainQueen Victoria1851 (18 Nov.) autograph letter in German written over three sides on the Queen's personal mourning note paper from Windsor Castle to "Alfons" (Alphonse de Mensforff Pouilly) regarding a letter received from Hurmannlos[?] which she had immediately translated and with reference to "the very stupid article about Sir J. Clark and Mosulg[?] ... let me say that not one word of it is true. The Government here with one exception regrets his simple and unintelligent irresponsibility very much. Thank God he is going to America on the 20th". Signed off "Ever your dear cousin....
Great BritainRoyaltyPrince Albert1853 Pair of covers in the hand of Prince Albert (1819-1861), both signed "Albert". A mourning envelope addressed to Rear Admiral Baillie Hamilton (Second Secretary to the Admiralty 1845-1855), has a black wax seal on the reverse and was delivered by messenger. The cover addressed to the Earl of Malmesbury at Christ Church, Hants, is franked by an imperf penny red with the royal wax seal in red. A fine pair of covers with a carte de visite of the Prince and a contemporary engraving (4)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Term...
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Victoria1854 Autograph letter in the third person, written by Queen Victoria on silver embossed notepaper of Windsor Castle, with a note explaining that it was written "to General Grey 3rd Nov 54 in allusion to Gl. Codrington's last letter". Grey was private secretary to both the Queen and Prince Albert."Could the Queen have a copy of this very interesting letter with the little sketch? Nov 3". Gen Sir William Codrington served in the Crimean WarSubject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyKing Edward VII1855 Autograph letter written by the 13 year old Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, on scarce illustrated notepaper from Balmoral Castle, thanking Lord Breadalbane, the Lord Chamberlain, "for the two very useful presents which I received before we left for Balmoral. The knives contain so many contrivances that I can hardly fancy a difficulty out of which they will not get me".Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) Great BritainDr David Livingstone (1813-1873)1857 4 sided autograph letter signed "David Livingstone", written from 57 Sloane Street to an unnamed correspondent, shortly after his return from his first African Expedition, having seen the Victoria Falls. He refers to men of the ship the "Philomel", aboard which he was treated for dysentery at Loanda in May 1854. Livingstone refers to his book that was published later in 1857 by John Murray titled "Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa". "I have no time to spare in England. Am at close work over a book and when that is over will...
Great BritainSir Richard Owen (1804-1892)c1860 Two envelope fronts addressed by Owen to the Editor of the Morning Advertiser, London, signed "From Rd Owen" in place of the stamp, both charged 2d postage due. Owen, the renowned biologist and paleontologist coined the term "Dinosauria" (Terrible Reptile), more commonly known as Dinosaur today. He was an outspoken critic of Darwin. (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainAutograph Album1862-1879 Hardbound album titled "AUTOGRAPHS" belonging to George Impey of Birmingham, with many highlights, viz "The Names of ten New Zealand Chiefs who visited Birmingham, Jany 1864", printed autograph of Abraham Lincoln on card, C.L. Balfour, five "Election Squib" carte de visite issued at the election in July 1867 and July 1868, reproducing caricatures, published by Thrupp, Birmingham, and Haden, Henry Fawcett, Sir Wm Trevelyan (address panel), Elihu Burritt, John Gladstone, ALS by Cardinal Newman (1869), A. S. Herschel writing about a "star shower", Cruickshank...
Great BritainAfrican ExplorationJ. H. Speke (1827-1864)1863 (?) Autograph letter signed "J.H. Speke" by John Henning Speke, British military officer and explorer, who led three expeditions to Africa in search of the source of the Nile. He was the first European to reach Lake Victoria. The letter, dated 3rd June reads:"My dear Sir, These are the three boxes of which we spoke yesterday which I shall feel obliged by your forwarding to England this mail with the other two, Yours truly. J. H. Speke". Together with an uncommon carte de visite photograph of Speke, both in a mount (29x45cm)Subject to...
Great BritainCrime1864 Two copies of "THE ILLUSTRATED POLICE NEWS" reporting on "The Great Murder And Piracy Case" involving sailors of the ship "Flowery Land" who mutineered while sailing from London to Singapore resulting in the murder of the Captain and charges of piracy. Illustrated with a further page of the Penny Illustrated News reporting on the hanging of five of the seven accused (3)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great Britain / ChinaMilitaryGeneral Gordon (1833-1885)1864 Three sided autograph letter signed "C.G.Gordon", written from Quinsan, China. Gordon was posted to China as part of a Franco-British Force at the end of the Second Opium War. He lead the imperial army in suppressing the Taiping Rebellion, earning him the nickname "Chinese Gordon". In this letter he writes to the mother of a soldier taken prisoner and killed by the Rebels."I regret very much to be the bearer of bad news to you relative to your son Alfred Hughes, who joined the Force of Drilled Chinese in Jan '64. He served in the 4th...
Great Britain / GermanyRoyalty1868-1899 Group of letters and invitations to Mr Phillipson, a bookdealer, from the German Court regarding sourcing books, maps and prints for the Crown Princess, written by A.M. Byng from the Kronprinz's Palais, with payment remittances (16); 1868 letter from Darmstadt enquiring on behalf of Prince & Princess Louis of Hesse about installing "W.closets in the new Palace quite free from any bad smell"; the Duke of Teck and Adolphus of Teck writing in 1892 re their schedules; undated letter on behalf of the Duchess of Albany re mounted panels and mounting midget pho...
Great BritainCharles Dickens (1812-1870)1868 Cheque drawn on Messrs Coutts & Company for £350, payable to Alderman Sir Sidney Waterlow, signed by Charles Dickens, completed in his characteristic blue ink. Waterlow (1822-1906) was a prominent philanthropist and Mayor of London in 1873. Endorsed by him and another party on the reverse (19x9.5cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainMilitaryGeneral C.G. Gordon (1833-1885)1871-1885 Group of six autograph letters to various correspondents written by Gordon from Gravesend, on notepaper of the "Commission Europienne du Danube", London and Jerusalem. He thanks Bain for a "little packet of honeydew"; writes from Galatz in 1872 to General Adye, Director General of Artillery, Pall Mall (with addressed not postally used envelope), and separately to Mr Sutzer regarding a map sheet of Galatz; 1872 writes to the Secretary of the United Services Club re his membership; writes in 1880 to Mr Sturge stating "China will never...
Great BritainCharles Darwin (1809-1882)1872 Cheque signed "Ch. Darwin", the noted naturalist, geologist and biologist, payable to his son "G.H.Darwin" (1845-1912), drawn on the Union Bank of London for One Hundred Pounds in the year that George Darwin was admitted to the bar. The cheque is completed in the hand of Charles Darwin and endorsed on the reverse by G. H. Darwin. A rare financial item relating to the Darwin Family for a considerable amount in those days (18x8cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyPrince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (1844-1900)1872, 1874 Covers addressed and initialled "A" by the second son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, posted from London and Portsmouth, with an autograph letter initialled, written on Clarence House notepaper regarding a violin performance, the Duke was a keen violinist. He married the daughter of Tsar Alexander II of Russia and became Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in 1893 (3)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyKing Edward VII1872, 1910 Autograph envelopes in the hand of Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, posted from Cadenabbia, Italy, initialled "AE", and a second as King, initialled "ER", posted Official Paid with his cypher stamp EVIIR, three months before his death. A fine pair (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainEgypt / Sudan / MilitaryGeneral C.G. Gordon (1833-1885)1878 Autograph letter written from "near Wadi Halfa" by Gordon as Governor General of the Sudan, to Col. Harvey RE, Manchester, while "wending my way along the old Nile to Cairo", philosophising about their experiences and his imminent meeting with the Khedive "to see about the Finances". He signs it with an impression of his Arabic seal "to which I always write my name, for fear of forgery". With a document in Arabic dated at Cairo, the very seal impressed and signed, regarding the dismissal of a Dahabieh and arranging to pay...
Great BritainDr Christopher Dresser (1834-1904)c1880 Three designs possibly for headed notepaper intended for Dr Dresser, renowned designer and design theorist and a major figure in the Aesthetic Movement. The design printed in raised lettering describes him as "Architect and Ornamentalist, Tower Cressy:Notting Hill" with a dragon fly and insect titled "THE PURSUIT OF BEAUTY". The other two designs are solely of his Notting Hill address, and vey dramatic in style. Numbered 73, these could have been in a printer's sample book, uncommon (11x13cm, 11.5x5.5cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium...
(x) Great Britain(General Sir Reginald Talbot 1841-1929)1882-1903 A series of eight letters to Talbot or his wife, referring to personalities, events and military issues.1882 Sir Edward Hamilton re General Wolseley and the Egyptian Campaign; 1900 Sir Coleridge Grove, War Office, discussing the British military situation and political turmoil in Egypt; 1902 views re civilian engineering affairs; 1902 Broderick to Mrs Talbot re her husband's KCB (2); 1903 Alfred Lord Milner to Lady Talbot re a meeting prior to his departure for South Africa; 1904 Eldon Gorst from the Foreign Office to Lady Ta...
Great BritainQueen Victoria1885-1892, two military appointments issued to Arthur Fredereick Braun: 1885 (10 April) appointing him Captain of Volunteer Forces, 1892 (3 Dec.) appointing him Major of Volunteer Forces. Both with blue wafer seal, signed "Victoria R" at top, with their original "ON HER MAJESTY'S SERVICE" envelopes and in glazed frames, one of which with crack.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Victoria1887 Golden Jubilee. Six admission tickets to the Jubilee Thanksgiving Service at Westminster Abbey, the guest name on one amended the day before by the Commander in Chief, Portsmouth, whose cachet appears on the ticket, with various printed advertising and souvenir items, the dance card for the Guildhall celebration, decorative invitation to the reception and ball there (28.5x36,5cm), and an unusual leaflet by the "Anti Jubilee Committee" (30)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great Britain / GermanyRoyaltyVictoria Princess Royal, Empress Frederickc1888 Mourning envelope "By Royal Messenger" in the hand of the eldest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, whose husband, Emperor Frederick III died prematurely in 1888 after a reign of 99 days. The cover with her black wax seal and cypher on the reverse is addressed to General Sir John Cowell, the Master of the Household, at Buckingham Palace.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) Great Britain / BelgiumRoyaltyQueen Victoria1888 Autograph letter in French signed "VRI" by Queen Victoria to her cousin the King of the Belgians, Leopold II, with the original postally used envelope, franked 5d from London, addressed "A La Majeste / Le Roi des Belges / Ostende". Writing on mourning notepaper from Osborne, the Queen refers to a painting that needs altering and thanks the King for explaining to the artist what is needed. She says how pleased she'd be to see him at Balmoral but "unfortunately we can't put you up there as the Castle will be quite full". She sends best wishes...
Great BritainFirearms1888 Legal agreement relating to "The British Patent for Improvements in Cartridges for Breech-loading Firearms" and "A new or improved implement for resizing and pressing cardridge cases for firearms", with an Assignment of Letters Patent" originally drawn up in Philadelphia, USA (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyPrince Albert Victor of Schleswig-Holstein (1867-1900)1889-1894 Letters to Col. C.P. Cramer of the Kings Royal Rifles by Prince Christian Victor, grandson of Queen Victoria, who served in the Regiment, written from India in 1891 (2), referring to Gen. Sir William Lockhart, C-in-C Punjab Command, and Cumberland Lodge 1895 (1), with an Orderly Officer's report Aldershot 1890, signed by Prince Christian Victor 2nd Lieutenant; letter from Prince George, Duke of Cambridge from White Lodge, Prince Francis of Teck in 1892 re the death of Prince Albert Victor and in 1894 from Dubli...
(x) Great BritainFlorence Nightingale (1820-1910)1892 Autograph letter, two sides and signature page, written in characteristic pencil on mourning notepaper from her residence in South Street, Park Lane (London), to Miss Stanley arranging to meet Miss Macdonald. "There is no danger of my being 'away'. I only leave London once a year and that is in the autumn when I am wanted. Ever sincerely yours, F. Nightingale". A warm and friendly letter by the founder of modern nursingSubject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Victoria1895 3pp Autograph letter written by Queen Victoria to her grandson, Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein (1867-1900), written on her personal VRI notepaper of the Grand Hotel de Cimiez, Nice, with the original autograph envelope addressed to the Prince at the Kings Royal Rifles, Dover. (The 25c stamp damaged). The Queen addresses the Prince as "Dear Christle", his family name, and sends him birthday wishes while she was on holiday, signing herself "Ever your devoted Grandmama VRI". Family letters are uncommon.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. F...
(x) Great BritainBig game huntingF.C. Selous D.S.O. (1851-1917)1897 autograph letter written by Selous from the "Bighorn Stock Ranche, Wyoming", written to Mr Christy (in the UK), who arranged lecture tours for prominent individuals. "I am just back from the mountains and returning to England at once through Canada. The rumour about a promised lecture at Rugby is all nonsense. I gave a lecture at the school there last opening".Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
Great BritainSt George's Circus, Southwarkc1897 Original pen and wash sketch titled "Proposed Clock Tower at St George's Circus, London S.E.", with a superb design of the Clock Tower, its interior and the oil lamps intended to light the intersection at the first purpose built traffic junction in England. Designed by Jan F. Groll for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, it was demolished in the 1930s (49x65cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainQueen VictoriaDiamond Jubilee1897 Two admission tickets to the Service of Thanksgiving at St. Paul's Cathedral, another to view the Royal Progress, with a large decorative card (closed tears) to view the Pageant; other tickets to Buckingham Palace, Constitution Hill, Horseguards and other London venues to view the Queen's procession; printed souvenirs of high quality; and a scarce Diamond Jubilee postcard (40)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainElkington & Company Ltdc1900 Illustrated trade catalogue for Elkington & Co, Manufacturing Silversmiths with showrooms in London, Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham (58 pages), with their brochure for the Inventions Exhibition in South Kensington (1885), original designs, notes, photographs of their products (11) and 28 candlestick and candellabra photographs with reference numbers. A fascinating archive (55 items)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great Britain / CanadaRoyaltyKing George V1901 Printed speech delivered in Ottawa by the Duke of Cornwall and York signed "George" by him at the end of the second page, during the Royal Tour of the Colonies aboard H.M.S. Ophir. The Duke pays tribute to the peoples of Canada and refers to the death of Queen Victoria. An important document emphasising the continued relationship between the British Crown and Canada (21x33cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyKing Edward VII1901 Remarkable autograph instruction by the King, initialled "ER", written on mourning notepaper of H.M.S. OPHIR, while visiting Portsmouth to bid farewell to the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (the future King George V and Queen Mary), about to depart on a tour of the Colonies. The King requests his Equerry, Lord Carrington, to represent him at the funeral of the Earl of Arran. Affairs of State are never far from the daily life of the Sovereign.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainMilitary / RoyaltyGeneral Sir Dighton Probyn VC1902-1905 Group of five autograph letters on notepaper of various Royal residences by Sir Dighton Probyn VC, Keeper of the Privy Purse, to "Pollock" regarding travels of Queen Alexandra, a photograph of "our Queen... the most beautiful woman in the whole of your collection"; travel arrangements to Scotland involving a "blunder" (missing a page) and an important letter from Buckingham Palace (1906) mentioning Probyn's garden at Windsor Castle and giving advice as to the availability of a gardener. The "Moat Garden" was created by Proby...
Great BritainRoyaltyKing Edward VII Coronation1902 The most comprehensive collection of printed ephemera, invitations, and admission tickets to Westminster Abbey for both Coronation dates (the 26th June as scheduled was postponed to 9th August due to the King undergoing an emergency appendix operation). Tickets to view the Procession from various stands, official Procession programmes, rehearsal tickets, correspondence from the Earl Marshal and souvenir items. An important collection that would be difficult to assemble with ease (130)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information...
Great BritainAeronauticsFrancis Herbert Wenham (1824-1908)1903 Two page autograph letter signed by Wenham advising his correspondent that "if you are constructing a flying machine I shall be willing to advise on any point on which you may find a difficulty of construction..." He refers to technical issues and a report in the Aeronautical Journal. Wenham was a British marine engineer who studied human flightSubject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyKing Edward VII1904 Postally used envelope (opened out) from Dublin to Copenhagen, addressed in the hand of the King and initialled "ER" by him, to Princess Charles of Denmark (his daughter Princess Maud), who in 1905 was to become Queen of Norway with her husband, Prince Charles taking the name of King Haakon VII. The royal black wax seal has the King's cypher EVII; with a postcard of the King and Duke of Connaught at Punchestown Races during the Royal Visit to Ireland (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buy...
Great BritainSir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)1906 Autograph letter signed, on mourning notepaper from Undershaw, Hindhead, Surrey, by the writer and creator of Sherlock Holmes."Dear Sir, I have no objection so long as you acknowledge in a footnote that it comes from "Songs of Action" published by Smith, Elder & Co", a volume with 28 poems written by Conan Doyle, first published in 1898. (Partly laid down on an album page )Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainMusicSir Henry Wood (1869-1944)1907 Photograph of Sir Henry Wood, English conductor and founder of the annual Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, inscribed "To my old friend Smallwood Metcalfe, Sincerely yours, Henry J. Wood, Xmas 1907". The image shows Wood seated at his desk, pen in hand (22x18cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainDr H.H. Crippen (1862-1910)1910 Typed letter signed by the infamous Dr Crippen, hanged at Pentonville Prison for the murder of his second wife. He was the first criminal to be arrested with the aid of wireless telegraphy.Crippen writes on headed notepaper of "The Aural Remedies Coy, Craven House, Kingsway, London" listing his ophthalmic qualification. He was a medicine dispenser and homeopath."When your present supply of remedies is exhausted if you will kindly send me 6/8d I will at once send you a further three weeks supply of the remedies..."The letter is dated 1st February. C...
Great BritainDeath of King Edward VII1910 (6 and 8 May) two telegrams from Sir Francis Knollys at Buckingham Palace to the Mayor of Windsor, the first writing "Sincere thanks for telegram deeply regret to say His Majesty's condition is now most critical. Knollys", the second headed "OHMS of last night, Buckingham palace", writing "Queen Alexandra is deeply touched with the kind message you convey to Her and wishes you to convey to the inhabitants of Windsor her grateful thanks for their sympathy. Equerry". Also a printed invitation to admit "Rt. Hon. Austen Chamberlain" (half-brother to Nevill...
Great BritainRoyaltyKing George V Coronation1911 The comprehensive collection of admission tickets to various parts of Westminster Abbey on Coronation day, with On Duty passes, correspondence from the Earl Marshal's office, police carriage regulations, Ceremonial bound in red leather with the King's cypher in gold, Order of Service, printed ephemera. A fascinating range of items difficult to assemble (77)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainGrenadier GuardsIreland1915-1919 Indexed Folder of the Irish Command Grenade School with lecture schedules, Command Orders issued at Dublin, sports programmes, Curragh Camp details, Royal Dublin Fusiliers memoranda, instructions for the use of ball grenades, Secret Report on the Bombing Operations at Hooge, July 19th-20th 1915 (45)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyKing George VI1915 Autograph letter signed "Albert", written on Buckingham Palace notepaper on his 14th birthday, to his French tutor Monsieur Lassimone, thanking him in French for a book on "Ships of all Nations" and referring to "stomach...problems" that bothered him for many years. With the original postally used Official Paid envelope initialled "A" and the cypher stamp of King George V.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainSpiritualismSir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1939)1917 "The Strand Magazine for July (some wear) with an article titled "Is Sir Oliver Lodge Right", in which Conan Doyle and fellow author Edward Clodd give their opinions for and against life after death. The front cover of the magazine asks "Can the Dead Communicate with the Living? YES by A. Conan Doyle / NO by Edward Clodd". It is signed "Arthur Conan Doyle and he has circled "YES". The debate resulted from the publication of a book "Raymond" by Lodge, renowned physicist, about the life and "after life" of his son who was killed in...
Great BritainWorld War I Surrender1918 (11 November) highly dramatic notice reading: "The Armistice with Germany was signed at 5a.m. this morning. Hostilities will cease upon the whole front at 11a.m. today.".Typed on Buckingham Palace embossed thick card (c.192 x 245mm.) Small ink blot over date and on reverse otherwise fine, very visual and a remarkable item of importance.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainWWIRoyal Air Force1918-1919 Christmas and New Year greetings card for the "213 Squadron R.A.F. / Flanders", with a print of a downed German aircraft tipped in, signed on the back of the card by 18 members of the Squadron (24.5x15cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyThe National Anthem1919 Correspondence on the subject of proposed changes to the National Anthem, comprising a typed letter from Lord Stamfordham, private secretary to the King, to Sir Henry Newbolt, asking for his advice on the proposed revision, mentioning that he did not know Rudyard Kipling, and enclosing typewritten copies of his letter to the Poet Laureate. A fascinating exchange of letters."There is a desire in some quarters...for new words for the National Anthem. The soldiers, it is said, were inclined to weary of the reiteration of the three verses, all referrin...
Great BritainPlayscriptsMajor George Cornwallis-West (1874-1951)c1920s Eleven typescripts of plays written by Cornwallis-West, who married Lady Randolph Churchill in 1900 and was born in the same year as his stepson, Winston S. Churchill. Four are annotated and signed by Cornwallis-West as his property, the group comprising "Little Mrs Ellison, Baldy, Stare Eyes, The Play Action, The Highlander (2), All the King's Men, A Modern Cinderella, Some Do And Some Don't, For Better Or Worse (Act II & III)" (11)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Condition...
Great BritainRoyaltyEdward Prince of Wales (King Edward VIII)1920 Eight sided autograph letter written in pencil by the Prince of Wales to his mistress, Mrs Freda Dudley Ward "On the train" to Portsmouth, where he was to embark aboard H.M.S. Renown for a tour to Australia and New Zealand. With the addressed envelope initialled "E", sealed with the spider wax seal used on his correspondence to her. Part of an extensive correspondence of intimate love letters that were published in "Letters from a Prince", edited by Rupert Godfrey, (Little, Brown and Company 1998). They provide a deep insight i...
Great BritainRoyaltyPrincess Mary, Princess Royal1920 Letter on Buckingham Palace notepaper from her Lady in Waiting forwarding a signed photograph of Princess Mary dressed in her Girl Guides uniform at an official parade. She served as Honorary President from 1920. An uncommon image signed and dated, sent to the recipient who "won the photograph as a prize for reading the message in morse code".Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyLord Louis MountbattenMarch 1920 Autograph letter written by Lord Mountbatten on his personal notepaper, amended to "Train to Portsmouth", while accompanying the Prince of Wales at the start of a Royal Visit to Australia and New Zealand. Written to the Prince's mistress, Mrs Freda Dudley Ward at Cumberland Terrace, Regent's Park, thanking her for a party invitation. Knowing of the relationship between the two, Lord Louis promises to "look after him" during the seven month tour. The letter is signed "Dickie", and the envelope is initialled "LM", franked with a stamp that isn...
Great Britain / JapanRoyaltyLord Louis Mountbatten1922 Autograph letter written by Lord Mountbatten while travelling with the Prince of Wales on his Royal Tour of the Far East. Lord Louis writes on gold embossed notepaper of the Omiya Palace, Tokyo, where they spent a week. The envelope, initialled "LM" with the same gold chrysanthemum on the flap, was posted in London a month after the date of writing. Mountbatten refers to his wedding and affairs of the heart, advising his correspondent "to be absolutely faithful ... if that doesn't work you can always pretend to have an affair". He signs h...
Great BritainRoyaltyKing George VI1923 Autograph correspondence card of York Cottage, Sandringham, with the original envelope postmarked at Sandringham / Norfolk, initialled "A" by Prince Albert, thanking Mrs Reavely in Cheltenham "for your calendar", presumably a Christmas present received by the future King.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainWembley Exhibitions1924-1925 The Archive of the Publicity Department of the Company formed to Organise and Promote the British Empire Exhibitions, comprising notes, minutes of meetings, accounts, photographs, brochures, together with typed notes in a preprinted file headed "British Empire Exhibition (1924) Incorporated", relating to the pavilions to be featured in the exhibition (Hong Kong, East Africa, West Indies, Canada, British Guiana, Palestine, West Africa, Ceylon, India, Malta, Malaya, Cyprus, Newfoundland, NZ, Fiji, S. Africa) with newspaper cuttings, as part of the pre...
Great Britain / RussiaRoyaltyKing George V1924 Registered envelope posted from Sandringham / Norfolk, addressed in the hand of King George V initialled "G", to "Her Imperial Highness, The Grand Duchess Xenia, Copenhagen, Denmark", readdressed to Hvidore, Klampenborg, the residence of her mother, the Dowager Empress of Russia. Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna (1875-1960) was the sister of Tsar Nicholas II, rescued in 1919 from the Crimea aboard a gunship, the HMS Marlborough, sent by her cousin King George V to convey members of the Russian Imperial Family to England, via Malta. The King assis...
Great Britain"THE LEGION BOOK"Limited de luxe edition1929 "One hundred copies of this edition of The Legion Book have been printed. No copies are for sale, as all are held in the gift of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales. This is Number 78"."The Legion Book" edited by Captain H. Cotton Minchin was intended as a fund raising venture for the British Legion. 89 prominent writers and artists contributed to the volume. This quarto de luxe volume, with a pigskin binding, decorated in blind and gilt, top edge gilt, is signed over five pages by each of the contributors. There are 16 captioned plates, some si...
Great BritainRoyaltyPrince Arthur, Duke of Connaught (1850-1942)1930 Autograph message on a correspondence card of Clarence House, written by the last surviving son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, regarding the Airship R101 disaster. "The disaster of the complete destruction of R101 is a ghastly affair and I feel the greatest sympathy with the Air Force. Personally I hate the airship and doubt its utility".The R101 crashed in France during its maiden flight killing all 48 of the 54 passengers aboard, including Lord Thompson, the Air Minister who had initiated the program to build it.Subj...
Great BritainMilitaryLieut. Peter Scawen Roberts VC1933-1952 Scrapbook kept by Muriel E. Roberts, covering the abdication of Edward VIII, society affairs and the awarding of the Victoria Cross and D.S.C. to Lieutenant Peter Roberts R.N. on 30th June, 1942, "one of Britain's youngest V.C. winners who saved his submarine by crawling through a gun casing to remove live bombs that were jammed". A family reunion dinner menu at Hatchett's Piccadilly celebrating the investiture at Buckingham Palace is signed "Peter" by the recipient and other attendees. Press coverage of the simultaneous award of th...
Great BritainRoyaltySilver Jubilee1935 Six textile samples identified as fabric used by members of the Royal Family for their clothing worn at the Silver Jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary, "Duchess of York's coat, Queen's silver coat worn in the procession, Queen's silver evening coat, Queen's gold coat, Princess Helena Victoria's coat, Princess Mary's coat"". An unusual group of items professionally mounted (31x47cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainCoronationKing George VI1937 Invitation from the Earl Marshal plus admission ticket to Westminster Abbey on Coronation day, invitations from the Lord Chamberlain to a Ball at Buckingham Palace on 14th May 1937, invitation from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to a Ball at Portsmouth on 18th May with lists of presentations to the King aboard the Royal Yacht, and a collection of brochures, programmes including the Coronation Costume Ball at the Royal Albert Hall, and journals covering the new stamp issues. A fascinating group of items (60)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premi...
Great BritainCoronationKing George VI1937 Decorative invitation issued by the Earl Marshal with the forwarding letter, together with a range of admission tickets to Westminster Abbey on Coronation day, all named, indicating which entrance to use, with an "On Duty" pass, the printed "Ceremonies to be Observed" and a ticket to Westminster Hospital to view the procession (17)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainAutograph Album1938 - Autograph album with pages signed by Grace Cooper, Ramon Navarro, Tommy Fields, Wilfrid Grantham, Alfredo, Stanley Holloway, Larry Adler, Sybil Thorndike, Sarony & Holmes, George Formby, Anton Dolin, Flora Robson, Elsie & Doris Waters, Vic Oliver, Sarah Churchill, Jean Batten (and many more) with two programmes signed by Frankie Vaughan and an autograph letter from Roy Plomley (1953) on how to deal with the BBC.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth II1943 & 1952 Pair of autograph envelopes addressed by Princess Elizabeth and then as Queen, initialled "E" and "ER", posted by registered post from Buckingham Palace. The later envelope was sent exactly 3 months after the death of King George VI, both bearing an impression of the King's cypher stamp, as that of the Queen was not yet introduced.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainWorld War IIThe Oak1944-1945 Twelve copies of the two sided news bulletin "THE OAK" with three copies of the magazine "printed at the Steirerdrock Graz (Austria) by the 46th Division", covering news from all theatres of war and a report on 7th June 1944 headlined "INVASION" reporting on Mr Churchill's statement to the House of Commons, and later news about V.E. Day. With a copy of the Stars and Stripes Combat Edition (Italy, 28 Oct 1943), printed messages from Field-Marshal Alexander (April/ May 1945) on the approach of victory against the German and Italian Forces), Eighth Army...
Great BritainUnconditional Surrender of Germany1945 (7 May) the original back copy of the telex notification from SHEAF Allied Headquarters in Rheims, France for Winston Churchill in the War Rooms. The message readsfrom d.s.o. jejoto signalmaster uagpherewith is clear text of msge the cypher text will follow shortlypara one pd a representative of the German high commandsigned the unconditional pren from shaef forward signed Eisenhowercite shgct unparen surrender of all German land cma sea cma andair forces in Europe to the alied expeditionaryforce and simultaneously to the soviethigh command...
Great BritainRoyaltyPrincess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (1901-2004)1948 Autograph letter signed "Alice" on notepaper of York House, St. James's Palace, thanking Mrs Gray "for your kindness and hospitality to us on our way to and from Ceylon. We managed to sleep a little on our night journey to N. Africa. The Duke had a very successful operation done on his foot. I hope you have had no more visits from armed robbers in the neighbourhood!" The Duke of Gloucester served as Governor General of Australia 1945-1947. With a pair of signed photographs of the Duke and Duchess, with faults (3)Subject...
Great BritainRoyaltyPrincess Margaret1950 Autograph letter on notepaper of Buckingham Palace, with the original registered envelope addressed to Miss Sharman Douglas, Claridges Hotel (London), initialled "M" with the cypher stamp of King George VI. Her father was the American Ambassador to the Court of St. James from 1947-1950 and Princess Margaret became a close friend. She thanks her for a "magnificent Christmas present. You know how my eyes nearly drop out with excitement when I even glance at Nylons...I am just rushing off to Malta to stay with Lilibet for a week which sounds glorious and...
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth II1950 Autograph letter as Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, written from Clarence House, with the original registered autograph envelope, to Mr Haynes regarding a Welsh corgi who was bred in the Royal Kennels and born on 16 May 1949. The dog's Kennel Club registration certificate is present, where HRH Princess Elizabeth is named as the breeder. The "Our Dogs Pedigree Form" is present naming the Princess, who in her letter forwards a photograph (still with this letter) of the dog's father "in case you are interested to see what he looks like". The fu...
Great BritainRoyaltyPrince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh1951 Autograph letter on Clarence House notepaper with the original registered envelope initialled "P", written by Prince Philip to his former headmaster at Cheam School, Rev HMS Taylor. He refers to a visit to Australia that prevents him from attending an annual dinner, and thanks him for forwarding a copy of the "Chronicle". Prince Philip attended Cheam from 1930-1933. The Royal Visit to Australia scheduled for 1952 was cancelled due to the ill health of King George VI.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view...
Great BritainRoyaltyKing George VI1952 Hard bound copy of the Order of Service for the Burial of King George VI at the Chapel of St. George, Windsor Castle (rare), with a typed letter on mourning notepaper from the Lord Chamberlain's Office indicating which members of the Household would escort visiting dignitaries. A batch of "Newspapers re the death and funeral of the King 6-16th February", are includedSubject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyPrince Philip1953 Autograph letter written on Buckingham Palace notepaper with the original express registered envelope initialled "P" by the Duke of Edinburgh, to the Rev HMS Taylor, his former headmaster at Cheam School. Prince Philip refers to the imminent historic Royal Tour accompanying the Queen to various Commonwealth countries aboard the "Gothic". "I think our trip round the world ought to have many moments of intense interest but I'm afraid there will be many others of relative dullness. " They departed on the day this letter was written and were away for six mont...
Great BritainCoronationQueen Elizabeth II1953 Rare printer's proof Admission Cards to Westminster Abbey, with a gilt border and embossed crown "TO THE HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II's BOX". The smaller version is of a type not previously recorded. With an unissued Invitation Card "to be present at the Abbey Church of Westminster on the 2nd day of June 1953". Together with a range of pages from a journal illustrating various printed items relating to the Coronation, The above admission card is illustrated together with the invitation card. A fascinating record (4)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’...
Great BritainCoronationQueen Elizabeth II1953 Buckingham Palace Luncheon Party 1st June 1953. Seating plan for visiting Commonwealth Prime Ministers and High Commissioners, two days before the Coronation. The Queen is seated between Sir Winston Churchill and the Prime Minister of Canada (30x42cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyPrince Philip1949,1951 Typed letter from Villa Guardamangia, Malta signed by the Duke of Edinburgh's equerry, Michael Parker, acknowledging wedding anniversary wishes, with a further 1951 letter headed "H.M.S. Magpie" on the Duke's birthday. Both letters with envelopes posted from London. A double sided log book entry with a dated 23 JUN 1951 cachet of H.M.S. Magpie is signed "Philip" as Commander of the anti-submarine frigate (September 1950-July 1951). A fascinating group of items relating to naval life before Princess Elizabeth's accession to the throne in February 1952...
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Mary1951 Autograph memorandum from Marlborough House, with the original registered express envelope initialled "MR" posted from Buckingham Palace, written to her housekeeper, Mrs Bruce at Windsor Castle. Queen Mary refers to the floods at Windsor "you must be nearly drowned at Windsor; the account of the Thames is very bad, hope you keep well in spite of the damp"Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth II Coronation1953 Invitation to Sir Arthur Penn (1886-1960), soldier and courtier, member of the Household of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, together with rehearsal instructions, the Order of Carriage Processions, the ceremonial at Westminster Abbey, various internal memoranda regarding arrangements on Coronation Day, including the timetable from the Earl Marshal's Office, the List of those invited to the State Banquet at Buckingham Palace, newspapers, the Coronation Thanksgiving Service at St. Paul's Cathedral and 19 excellent photographs from Central Pr...
Great BritainCoronationQueen Elizabeth II1953 Comprehensive collection of admission tickets to Westminster Abbey on Coronation day, including those to the Royal Gallery and to "Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth's Box", mostly unissued (ex the printers) (44, 7 named), admission tickets and passes for the Gold Staff Officer, rehearsals, duty passes, tickets to various stands to watch the procession, entrance to the Coronation Thanksgiving Service at St. Paul's, and an unissued invitation card in the name of the Earl Marshal "to be present at the Abbey Church of Westminster on the 2nd day of June 1953"...
Great BritainCoronationQueen Elizabeth II1953 Admission ticket plus named card placed on the seat of The Earl of Ypres, son of the 1st Earl of Ypres (1852-1925), Field Marshal Sir John French (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great Britain / CanadaCoronationQueen Elizabeth II1953 The collection of Mr N.C. Stibbs who attended the Coronation with his wife, officially representing the City of Nelson, British Columbia, of which he'd been Mayor. Included are the official invitation and admission tickets to Westminster Abbey from the Earl Marshal, regulations and instructions as to dress, afternoon garden parties and other events. Invitations from the High Commissioner of Canada, Agent General for British Columbia, Luncheon guest list for delegates from the Canadian Federation, letters from the Dept of the Secretary of S...
Great BritainRoyaltyRoyal Weddings1960-2011 Orders of service and/or Ceremonials for the marriages of Princess Margaret (1960, with admission ticket), Duke of Kent (1961), Princess Alexandra (1963), Princess Anne (1973, with ticket), The Prince of Wales with Lady Diana Spencer (1981), Prince Andrew (1986), Viscount Linley (1993), Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones (1994), Service of Prayer and Dedication following the Marriage of HRH the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall (2005), Prince William of Wales with Miss Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey (2011). A scarce group (14)Subject to...
Great Britain / USASpaceBritish £1 QEII banknote signed by Alan Shepherd Jr. (1923-1998), the first American astronaut to travel into space in 1961 and in 1971 the fifth and oldest person to walk on the moon. Also signed by the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret ThatcherSubject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyalty(Queen Elizabeth II)1964-1972 Items collected by Mr H. Leake, Telegraph Clerk, Buckingham Palace, including a woven badge for the GPO / Buckingham Palace, two registered FDC for the 1966 World Cup Winners stamp, postmarked at the Palace, facsimile letter from Prince Charles thanking the Household for his 21st birthday present (" high fidelity record, radio and tape equipment"), printed cards from the Queen and Duke for Christmas 1966, 1967, cards from the Royal Household Social Club (3), invitation to a dance at Windsor Castle, photographs of the Royal Family at Ballater a...
Great BritainFootball1966 - 1986 Album containing signatures of Bobby Robson (2), Stanley Mathews, Gordon Banks, George Cohen, Ray Wilson, Nobby Stiles, Jackie Charlton, Bobby Moore, Alan Ball, Roger Hunt, Geoff Hurst, Martin Peters, Alf Ramsey, 12 laid down in an self adhesive album that has affected the condition of certain items (14)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyRoyal Funerals1968-2002 Orders of Service or Ceremonials for the funerals of Princess Marina (1968), the Duke of Gloucester (1974, with admission ticket), Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1979), Princess Margaret (2002), with a Service of Thanksgiving for her at Westminster Abbey (9)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip & The Queen Mother1972-2012 Comprehensive collection of Royal Ceremonials and Orders of Service for the Silver Wedding (London, Glasgow, Cardiff) and Guildhall Luncheon, with list of guests (1972), 60th birthday of the Queen, Golden Wedding of the Queen and Duke, 80th birthdays of Prince Philip and later the Queen, Diamond Wedding of the Queen and Prince Philip, 90th birthday of the Duke of Edinburgh (20). Similar for the 80th, 90th and 100th birthdays of the Queen Mother and a Service of Thanksgiving for the Queen Mother and Princess Mar...
Great BritainRoyaltyThe Queen Mother1973 Autograph letter written from Birkhall, with the registered envelope cancelled at Balmoral Castle and initialled "ER" by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, sent to her Page of the Backstairs, William Tallon, commiserating on the death of a family member. Signed "I am, yours sincerely, Elizabeth R".Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainQueen Elizabeth II1977 Ceremonial wooden staff decorated in silver with the Queen's cypher in gold surmounted by the wording "Silver Jubilee"; "1952-1977" below, with red top and bottom. Used for processional purposes at one of the official events commemorating the Jubilee (53cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainTheatre / Film1978 Autographs of Sir Laurence Olivier (signed photograph "Boys from Brazil"), Sir Alec Guiness (inscribed correspondence card), Alfred Hitchcock (signed card), Marcel Marceau, typed letter on Savoy Hotel notepaper, signed with a drawing forwarding a photograph (not present) (4)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great Britain / GermanyPrime Ministers1979 First day cover commemorating "First Direct Elections to European Parliament" signed by Prime Ministers Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair. Also by German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, in office 1974-1982 (18x12cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyCharles, Prince of Walesc1980 Black leather briefcase with the Prince of Wales's feathers in gilt on the upper flap, titled "COMPTROLLER TO H.R.H. / THE PRINCE OF WALES" in gilt lettering below the security lock, with its original key (28x42x8cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyPrince and Princess of Wales1983-2000 Large scrapbook kept by Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Creasy, Comptroller to the Prince and Princess of Wales, including invitations to royal and other events. Highlights are a 1983 signed photograph of Charles and Diana with baby Prince William, a black and white formal photograph of the Princess of Wales signed "Diana 1984", two Christmas cards inscribed "To you both" signed by Charles and Diana, six pages of letters and photographs relating to "Harvey", Prince Charles's labrador who was taken over by Colonel Creasy in 1984. Two memoranda...
Great BritainPrime MinistersMargaret Thatcher (1925-2013)1983 Personal cheque for £17 drawn on the Midland Bank plc, Sloane Square Branch, in favour of the "Million For Maggie" Fund, signed "Margaret H. Thatcher" by the Prime Minister, with an accompanying letter on 10 Downing Street notepaper forwarding the donation with "congratulations on completing the seventeen mile walk" (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyPrince Andrew1984 Typed notes, part manuscript, for a scheduled Breakfast Time TV interview with Prince Andrew about his involvement in the Royal Tournament, touching on his experiences in the Falkland Islands. The questions posed and his responses are given. An unusual insight into his personality too with personal questions asked and answered (12 pages)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyCharles, Prince of Walesc1985 Blue leather notebook, pages blank, with the Prince of Wales's feathers in gilt on the front board, as used within his Household (23.5x32.5x1.5cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainPrime Ministers1986 Commemorative envelope for the 32nd Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, issued by Margaret Thatcher's constituency association, signed by nine British Prime Ministers - Harold Macmillan (Lord Stockton), Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Wilson (Wilson of Rievaulx), James Callaghan, Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown (thick black pen), David Cameron (22x11cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Russia / Great BritainGorbachev / ThatcherMikhail Gorbachev - "Perestroika, New Thinking For Our Country And The World", published by Collins, London 1987, signed on the title page by Gorbachev, First Secretary of the Communist Party and Margaret Thatcher, British Prime MinisterSubject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great Britain / USAReagan/Thatcher1987 photograph of President and Mrs Reagan, Prime Minister and Denis Thatcher on the balcony of the White House, signed by all four on the mount. Reproduced in "Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years" published 1993 (20x25cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great Britain / FranceEuro Tunnel1990 Envelope commemorating the Euro Tunnel, with a dual franking of British and French stamps, signed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and French President Francois Mitterand (20x11.5cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyKing Charles IIIEnvelope addressed in the hand of Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, initialled "C" by him, to Lady Patricia Brabourne in England, the daughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten and later 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (1924-2017). Posted from Vaduz, Liechtenstein during a skiing holiday.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainPrime MinisterMargaret Thatcher (1925-2013)1997 Commemorative pictorial "Palace of Westminster" envelope postmarked at the House of Commons, signed "Margaret Thatcher", Prime Minister 1979-1990 (22x11cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Camilla2010 Letter written by the then Duchess of Cornwall on her cyphered notepaper, with the envelope posted from Buckingham Palace, thanking the recipient for writing to her and concluding with her autograph, "This comes with my best wishes to you for 2010, Camilla".Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainBritish Artists20th CenturyGroup of reproductions of paintings signed by the artists below the images, Francis Bacon (1909-1992), Patrick Heron (1920-1999), Henry Moore (1898-1986) and John Piper (1903-1992) (4)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth II2022 "The State Funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Monday, 19th September, 2022 at 11 a.m." at Westminster Abbey. A copy of the Funeral Service with the Royal Arms on the front cover, printed in colour and embossed, as distinct from copies that were made at a later stage. Together with the "Ceremonial for the State Funeral" detailing the Processions from the Palace of Westminster to Westminster Abbey, and from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch, Hyde Park Corner (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and...
Great BritainRoyaltyKing Charles III2023 "The Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla" at Westminster Abbey on "Saturday, 6th May, 2023 at 11 a.m."The printed Coronation Service as followed in the Abbey, with the Royal Cyphers of the King and Queen on the front cover, gilt embossed.Scarce itemSubject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Overseas Historical Documents
AustraliaDame Nellie Melba (1861-1931)1895 Two sides of an album page with photographs laid down of Nellie Melba, the operatic singer. She has signed both, one with several bars of music, an extract from Gonoud's "Romeo and Juliet" in French, running to several bars. On the verso below her photograph is a quote "et moi, je suis Ophelie", from Ambroise Thomas's opera, "Hamlet" (page size 22x29cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Egypt / Ottoman EmpireRulers2 carte de visite photographs of the Khedive of Egypt; Abdul Aziz and his son (3) and Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire (10.5x6cm) (6)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) EgyptExplorationc1862 Three autograph letters, probably from Cairo, written in French by Alexandrine Pieternella Tinne (1839-1869), Dutch traveller, to the explorer and zoologist Theodor von Heughlin. Tinne, one of the wealthiest women in Holland organised an expedition along the Nile hoping to meet up with Speke's expedition in Gondokoro. She explored the Nile basin and surrounding territories. These letters written during that period refer to difficulties. Her mother and aunt died during these travels. Tinne returned to Cairo where she lived in an oriental style. In 1869 she left Tripoli...
(x) Egypt / Great BritainSir W.M. Flinders Petrie (1853-1942)1903 Two autograph letters (one incomplete) written by Petrie, the renowned Egyptologist, from Baliana, a small village near Beni-Suef, to Canon Rawnsby giving an opinion as to Rawnsby's son, who was working for Petrie. He thanks him for a glowing review of "Royal Tombs of the Earliest Dynasties", published in 1901. "I read with much pleasure seeing how you had put life into the dry bones which I had collected".Only the signed second page of the additional letter has survived, in which Petrie gives his opinion of Egyptian workers. "I...
Falkland Islands / South AmericaH.M.S. Southampton1919-1921 Photograph album of the visit of the flagship of the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron to the South American Station. The fully annotated album has photographs of Uruguay, including Fray Bentos, polo playing, stops at Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, Chile and the Falkland Islands, with images of penguins, and the South Georgia whaling station. Various maps, charts and a booklet on the Antofagasta (Chili) & Bolivia Railway Co. Ltd are inserted. A printed shooting "Bag of H.M.S. Southampton" is laid down on the endpaper. An important and s...
FranceKing Louis XVI1786 (May) part printed document signed "Louis" (secretarial) Louis XVI, King of France with integral address panel to St. Denis de la Salle, appointing Capt. Claude St. Denis de las Salle to the Regiment of Orleans. Also signed "Louis Joseph de Bourbon" (Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé) after a long postscript in a small hand, and two others. Repaired slits at sides (one with small segment missing) where the letter was sealed, with normal folds, clear of the signatureSubject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) FranceNapoleon III1845 (4 Aug.) A.L.S. of Napoleon III from Ham to Giuseppe Orsi in London. The stationery has the blind-embossed crown stamp of a British stationer in Bath at the upper left. Napoleon was serving life imprisonment in the fortress town of Ham and was writing to his friend on the subject of artillery and gunpowder, in part, "... The drawings which you promise me will, no doubt, be very useful to me at this time, but do not forget to inform me of the exact number of the manuscript, so thus I believe that the drawing you sent me is from the Chronicle of St. Denis, Sloan No. 24...
FranceEmperor Napoleon IIIPressed gilt metal cypher "N" of the Emperor surrounded by an elaborate decorative border; the Royal Arms of France surmounted above a hand coloured studio photograph of Napoleon III. All laid on a light blue cloth backing, in a glazed box frame.Below this is a gilt plaque recording his biography:"Charles Louis Napoleon Buonaparte, B. in Tuileries, Paris 20 AP.1808. Family banished from France 1815. Attempted risings Strasburg 30 Oct. 1836 and Boulogne 6 Aug. 1840. Imprisoned in Fortress of Ham 7 Oct. 1840. Escaped 25 May 1846. Elected Member in N. Assembly of French...
FrancePrison Letter1884 Letter written from Fort du Ha, Bordeaux, by Lt Colonel G. Longley, Royal Engineers, to Baroness Burdett Coutts, the English philanthropist, c/o the British Consul at Biarritz. Longley, a prisoner, has posted the letter unstamped, attracting 2x15c postage due stamps. He appeals for help after being arrested for not paying a hotel bill due to a misunderstanding and was sentenced to three months hard labour in a "horrid dungeon where I lay for two nights with drunkards and murderers". He refers to his army service in the Crimea and China, the injustice of his position, "i...
FranceJules Verne (1828-1905)1889 Autograph letter signed by the novelist, poet and playwright, Jules Verne, written in French from Amiens to an unnamed correspondent, apologising for a late response to his letter and thanking him for news.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
FranceGeneral De Gaulle (1890-1970)1942 Photograph of General Charles De Gaulle in uniform, inscribed, dated and signed below his portrait, while in London as leader of the Free French Forces (photograph 19x24.5, framed and glazed 43x37cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) France18th to 20th Century - an impressive collection of autograph letters signed, autograph letters, signed documents and photographs with comprehensively covers national life throughout the period. Housed in thirty-four ring binder albums ordered A-Z, in three carton boxes, personalities include politicians, academics, artists, writers and performers. Important names include: Paul Adam (Author), Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (Author and accademic), Jean-Pierre Aumont (Actor and holder of Legion d'Honneur and Croix de Guerre for his WWII service), Brigitte Bardot, (Actor), Louis-Alexandre B...
FrancePresidents Mitterand & Chirac1995 Photograph of outgoing President Mitterand, greeting his successor, Jacques Chirac at the Elysee Palace, signed by both on the mount. With a press cutting from the Times reproducing this image (22x28cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
GermanyMusicJacques Offenbach (1819-1880)1879 Receipt from "Choudens pere & fils", signed by Offenbach, to confirm receipt of 3,333 francs as the balance due to him for the fixed payment of the first performance of "La Marocaine", dated two days after the premiere. Possibly the remaining 1/3 of the total sum agreed.Choudens were a Parisian music publishing house that acquired the rights to later works by Offenbach in the 1870s. A fascinating financial item, with a French 10c revenue stamp affixed. Some faults (26x10cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Ter...
HawaiiQueen Emma1866 Four carte de visite photographs of Queen Emma (1836-1885) during her visit to England, where she was received by Queen Victoria. Three are portraits by John & Charles Watkins of London, the other shows Queen Emma with Anglican Church dignatories at Oxford, photographed by Mowbray (10.5x6cm) (4)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) IndiaSir Charles Napier (1782-1853)1844 Autograph letter written from Karachi by Napier, as Governor of Sindh, addressed to Lt. Col Poole of the 22nd Regiment, Poonah, postally used, with Napier's signature on the address panel. Postmarked "Karatchee/Free", readdressed within Poonah to the British Hotel.Napier refers to honours awarded to soldiers of the Regiment. "Here I am as strong as a horse after being all but in the coffin last June", a reference to war with the Ameer rebels led by Sher Mohamed, during which 43 of his men died of sunstroke. "Tell me what people think about the Sikhs...
(x) IndiaRoyaltyKing George V & Queen Mary1875-1922 Extensive collection of letters, postcards and items related to the Royal Family including their visits to India and Egypt (The Duke of Connaught), with a wide range of postcards and printed portraits of rulers and Maharajas, photograph of Sir Pertab Singh, documents re the 1905 visit by the Prince and Princess of Wales, the 1922 visit by Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, and a range of cabinet photographs of Prince George and Princess Victoria Mary.Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
IndiaRabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)c1920 Album page in the hand of Tagore, the Bengali poet, writer, philosopher and social reformer. Winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature. The poem translates as "Looking at your face / This is what comes in my mind / As if I know you / Much before I met you" (15.5x9.5cm), with a photograph of him (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
IndiaAga Khan III (1877-1957)c1920 Autograph letter signed by Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah as the Aga Khan, undated, no place, but refers to his sailing to Mombasa aboard a Union Castle boat and he is "entirely and absolutely at the service of Govt".Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) IndiaMahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)1933-1940 Three autograph letters written in Gujarati to members of the Dr P.J. Mehta family by Gandhi, who was a close personal friend; together with objects relating to his stay with Dr. Mehta in Burma on three occasions in 1902, 1915 and 1929.6 March 1933 one page, written on both sides, with a filing and punch hole not affecting the text. Gandhi writes to Mr Ratilal Mehta and Mrs Champa R. Mehta, son and daughter in law of the late Dr P.J. Mehta, concerning the estate and a fair and equal division of the assets. Written from Yervada Mandir he proffers ad...
IndiaMotilal Nehru (1861-1931)1921 Typed letter signed by Nehru, Indian lawyer, activist and politician and father of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister. Nehru writes on notepaper of the "Office of the All-India Congress Committee, Anand Bhawan, Allahabad" to the Civil Chaplain at Lucknow, referring to his son and difficulties in bringing "together the leading men of all shades of opinion at a social function". Nehru had been President of the India National Congress from 1919-1920 and later 1928-1929.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and...
IndiaIndira Gandhi1979 (31 Aug.) typed letter signed on air mail envelope addressed to John Simmons in England (address excised), letter thanks the addressee for their previous and is signed in ink "Indira Gandhi".Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) IndiaLibraryA range of books of Indian interest.Arthur: "The Life of Lord Kitchener" (3 vols), Birdwood: "Khaki and Gown", Burn Murdoch: "From Edinburgh to India & Burmah", Curzon: "British Government in India" (2 vols), Galloway: "Exalted, Eminent and Imperial / Honours of the British Raj", Low: "A Vision of India", Menpes: "Durbar", Rafiullah: "Gwalior's Part in the War", Raven Hill: "Indian Sketch-Book", Ronaldshay: "The Life of Lord Curzon" (3 vols), Smith-Dorrien: "Memories of Forty-Eight Years Service" (spine detached, inscribed by Rear Admiral A.H. Smith-Dorrien), The Lord Kitchene...
(x) IndiaLibrary1875-1906 Books. "India in 1875-76, The Visit of the Prince of Wales", by Wheeler, a fine copy with map; The Royal Tour in India of TRH The Prince & Princess of Wales 1905-6" by Reed, with bookplate of Nilambag Palace , Bhavnagar (fine copy), with another, spine detached; "Gwalior 1905" by Johnstone; "Through India with the Prince" by Abbott, (spine damaged); Graphic Jan-June 1906 covering the Visit; "References in the Press to the Visit of Their Royal Highnesses" published by the Foreign Dept of India (reprint); photocopies of "Letters and Telegrams Received" concerning the Vi...
ItalyMusicGiacomo Puccini (1858-1924)1896 Large format cabinet photograph of the composer Puccini, inscribed to Carlo "Carlino" Carignani, with Christmas greetings. He was a childhood friend of Puccini, attended the Giovanni Pacini Music Institute of Lucca with him, and edited all his works. Some damage (from previous framing) to the lower mount not affecting the image or inscription (17x24.5cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
ItalyGlass slidesc1900 Collection of 290 glass slides of scenes around Naples, Rome and Florence, with Vesuvius and other well known places, including two images of Rossini and Leo Tolstoy. All mostly titled with a group labelled "Ente Nazionale Industrie Turistiche Italia - 2. Via Margera - Roma" (8x8cm, 10x8.5cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Mauritius / MalayaSir Frank Swettenham (1850-1946)1909 Black leather despatch box with the Royal cypher of King Edward VII in the centre, with all lettering in gilt, used by "F.A. SWETTENHAM, K.C.M.G. (CHAIRMAN) / MAURITIUS ROYAL COMMISSION 1909". Swettenham was the First Resident General of the Federated Malayan States (1896-1901). In 1909 he was tasked with looking into the affairs of Mauritius and this Government Box would have been issued to him to hold his private and secret papers.Brass handle to the left side of the box, with the original security lock officially neutralised, two rings...
Malta1930-1932 Two photograph albums, one titled "H.M.S. Glorious" showing the Flycatcher aeroplane in action at Malta, with photographs of crashes, flight formations, aerial views, Imperial Airways "Horsa", the "City of Arundel" all round trip England to Malta non stop, aircraft carriers and the Prince of Wales visiting H.M.S. Glorious. First album fully captioned (49 images). The second showing aerial views and further crash scenes (21). Seventy photographs in total.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) Morocco1924 Autograph letter written in French and signed by Marshal Hubert Lyautey (1854-1934), Governor, on headed notepaper "Resident General au Moroc". Lyautey writes to a military acquaintance referring to a tense situation and his distrust of the rebel leader Abd el-Karim, who had, by the end of 1924, conquered Chefchaouen and forced the Spanish Army to withdraw. In April 1925 he launched a surprise attack on French forces at Ouraga, with reinforcements called up urgently.Lyautey, based at Rabat, administered French Morocco for 18 years, contributing to the progress of the protector...
New ZealandEast Whau, Manukau Harbour1858 Manuscript plan of the township East Whau, in the western suburbs of Auckland, drawn on waterproof fabric, endorsed Titirangi top left (32x42cm, reinforced with ducktape along the folds)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Portugal19th Century, a range of documents relating to Naval and Commercial activity at Lisbon including 1811 bound document titled "A Son Excellence Le Ministre Directeur de L'Oaminstation de la guerre", 1808 copy of letter from Sir Arthur Wellesley in Lisbon, 1876 autograph note from Duke de Saldanha (2), 1841 letter signed Lord Stuart de Rothesay at Lisbon, 1840 letter signed "Wellesley", and a range of Portuguese Ministers. Additionally letter signed "Jean Michel de Vives", document signed "Trebijano" by Don Manuel Maria Trebijano, France King Lous XVI document with secretarial signature...
RussiaOperaFeodore Chaliapin (1873-1938)1928 Photograph of Chaliapin, the world famous opera singer, inscribed, signed and dated in blue ink on the image (16x21cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
RussiaImperial FamilyThree carte de visite photographs of Tsar Alexander II, Empress Marie and the future Alexander III; AIII with Princess Dagmar of Denmark (both by Russian photographers); and Princess Alexandra of Wales with her sister Dagmar, future Empress of Russia, wearing matching dresses, by Maull & Co, London (10x6cm) (3)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
SpainCarlist War1836 Entire letter from San Sebastian to London, postally used with a Portsmouth Ship Letter handstamp on arrival, written on pictorial notepaper of the LEGION BRITTANICA incorporating the Royal Arms, with good military content relating to the LegionSubject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
SudanRudolph C. Slatin, Pasha (1857-1832)1908 Autograph letter signed R. Slatin with the original envelope posted from Vienna to England (stamps torn off), written in English to Major Wheatley discussing the death of a mutual friend, "Phippy" Pownell. He discusses his recent operation, and expresses his love for England, "your country will never be again to me what it was".Slatin, an Austrian Colonel, Governor of Darfur, had been a prisoner of the Mahdi and escaped in 1895 after years of captivity. Framed and glazed (220x155mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information pleas...
SwedenRoyaltyPrince William of Sweden (1884-1965)1946 "THIS LAND OF SWEDEN" published by Norstedts, inscribed in English, "Mr and Mrs Hargrave, In remembrance of their visit to Stenhammar, May 1950, with the author's compliments, Prince William of Sweden". He was the son of King Gustav V and was married to Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia in 1908, whom he divorced in 1914Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) United States of America1749-88, a trio of documents including 1766 signed by Samuel Ward, Rhode Island Governor, appointing two officials and countersigned Henry Ward as Secretary with intact wafer seal; 1788 signed by John Collins as Rhode Island Governor, appointing officials with intact wafer seal; and 1749 bond signed by Thomas Storvell to the Treasurer of Harvard College. Fine and scare trio.Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
USAPresident Lincoln and othersGroup of carte de visite portrait photographs of President and Mrs Lincoln (3), General Grant, Jefferson Davis (2), General Stuart (2), Robert E. Lee, Longfellow, Cyrus W.Field (10x6cm) (11)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
USAGeneral W.T. Sherman (1820-1891_1888 Cabinet photograph of General William Tecumseh Sherman, prominent general in the Union Army during the Civil War, later Commanding General of the U.S. Army (1869-1883). Superb studio photograph in uniform by Sarony of 87 Union Square, New York copyright 1888, signed W.T. Sherman / General 1888" (11x16.5cm)(Provenance: The collection of Mary Chamberlain, daughter of William Crowninshield Endicott, Secretary of State of War in the first Cleveland cabinet, and wife (1888) of the British statesman Joseph Chamberlain)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium....
USA / GBCabinet of President Grover Cleveland(Mrs Joseph Chamberlain 1864-1957)1888-1895 Collection of inscribed and signed cabinet photographs of leading members of the first Cleveland Cabinet, presented to Mary Endicott, daughter of the Secretary of War, William Crowninshield Endicott, who married the British statesman, Joseph Chamberlain MP as his third wife in 1888. Included are signed photographs (either on the front or inscribed on the reverse) of Frances Cleveland, wife of the President, Attorney General Garland, Secretary of the Navy Whitney, Postmaster General Vilas, Secretary of Sta...
USAPresident Johnson1964 "The Professional Lyndon B. Johnson" by William S. White, published 1964, inscribed by the 36th President of the USA "To James R. Furley, with best wishes, Lyndon B. Johnson"Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
USAPresidents Reagan and Bush1981-1989 Photograph taken in the Oval Office of President Reagan and Vice President George H.W. Bush (40th and 41st Presidents), signed by both on the photograph (20x25cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
USA / Great BritainReagan/Thatcher1987 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher with President Ronald Reagan at a White House press conference, signed by both and dated 17 July 1987 by Mrs Thatcher. Illustrated in her memoirs "The Downing Street Years", published in 1993 (20x25cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
YugoslaviaRoyaltyKing Peter II (1923-1970)c1941 Photograph of King Peter II in exile signed on the mount by Harrods, photographers. In a decorative leather folder (24x28cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Signed Studio Photographs and Christmas Cards
Royalty1861-1870 Group of carte de visite photographs of the Royal or Imperial families of Belgium (2), Brazil (4), France (1), Mexico (4), Spain (2), (6.5x10.5cm) (13)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen VictoriaGroup of 28 carte de visite depicting Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, their children and grandchildren, including the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Hesse family, Prussians (future Kaiser Wilhelm II in a sailor suit), Princes Leopold, Arthur, the Tecks and Duke of Cambridge. A superb range of studio photographs (6.5x10cm) (28)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyCollection of superb cabinet photographs of Queen Victoria (2), the Prince and Princess of Wales, including King Edward VII in Homburg and Marienbad (5), Princess Alice, the Duke of Teck, Princess Mary Adelaide of Teck with Prince Francis (her son) and Lady Katherine Coke; and the children of Prince Alfred of Edinburgh in Scotland (11x17cm) (11)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen VictoriaJuly 1894 Studio photograph by W&D Downey, "The Four Generations". Queen Victoria with the Prince of Wales, Prince George of Wales and baby Prince Edward, the future Kings Edward VII, George V and Edward VIII. Superb quality, mounted on the photographers card, 30x22cm. With a photogravure portrait of Queen Victoria and her facsimile signature, published for the Golden Jubilee, 1897 (22.5x16.5cm) (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyKings Edward VIII and George VI1894-1910 Collection of cabinet photographs of the children of the future King George V and Queen Mary, with Prince Edward on his first birthday (2), Prince Albert (2), Princess Mary, 1901 with the Princes wearing sailor suits and a hatband of HMS Ophir (the royal yacht that conveyed their parents on a world tour), and a studious photograph of Prince Henry at Eton (11x17) (9)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great Britain / RussiaRoyaltyKing George VI1903 Studio photograph of the eight year old Prince Albert of Wales, later King George VI, signed "Bertie" and annotated by him "Christmas, 1903". Wearing a sailor suit (16x12cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen AlexandraStudio photograph by Mary Steen, of Queen Alexandra standing in the home she shared with her sister, the Dowager Empress of Russia, on the outskirts of Copenhagen. Hvidore was purchased after the death of their father, King Christian IX of Denmark in 1906, and lived in until their passing in 1925 and 1928. Superb quality (23x17.2cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyTeck Family1904-1905 Four picture postcards addressed to HSH Prince George of Teck (1895-1981) and Princess Helena (1899-1969) at Schloss Pohorelitz, by their mother, the former Lady Margaret Grosvenor, who had married Prince Adolphus, later 1st Marquess of Cambridge. Posted in Bohemia with messages in English to her children, signed "Mama", she writes of military manoeuvres, and their travels (4)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great Britain / NorwayRoyaltyCoronation22 June 1906 Formal Coronation photograph of King Haakon VII and Queen Maud of Norway at Trondheim, in their robes and holding the regalia of Norway. Annotated with the date and place, minor tear lower right, not detracting. Queen Maud was the daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra (14.7x17.7cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great Britain / RussiaRoyaltyTsar Nicholas II1909 formal photograph by Debenham of Cowes, of Tsar Nicholas II and Prince George, Prince of Wales, during the historic visit by the Imperial Family of Russia to the Isle of Wight. The first cousins bore a remarkable resemblance to each other, their mothers were sisters (Queen Alexandra and the Dowager Empress of Russia) (24x17cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyPrince Alexander of Teck (1874-1957)1912 Signed photograph in uniform of Prince Alexander of Teck, future Earl of Athlone, brother of Queen Mary, (26x13.5cm) with two formal studio photographs of him by Russell of Windsor (11.5x16cm). He served as Governor General of South Africa (1924-1930) and Canada (1940-1946) (3)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth the Queen Mother1922 Photograph by Lafayette, London of Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon on her wedding day, after which she was known as the Duchess of York until the Duke of York ascended the throne in December 1936. Laid down on the photographer's card, in a cream folder (13.5x20cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Mary1922 /1953 Formal postcard photograph signed "Mary R / 1922". The Queen wears the Grand Duchess Vladimir Tiara. Presented to Miss Runting, who was invited to her funeral, with an entrance ticket to St. George's Chapel (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth the Queen Motherc1922 Photograph of the young Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon signed on the mount by Swaine in a presentation folder, showing the future Queen Elizabeth looking pensively downwards and dressed very simply. A rare studio image (19.8x14.7cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyPrincess Mary, Princess Royal1927 Photograph by Marcus Adams signed by Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood (1897-1965), only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary, with her sons Gerald and George, whose names she has added on the mount (11x15cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyKing, Queen, Princesses Elizabeth & Margaret1929 & 1939. Photographs by Marcus Adams, signed by him in pencil. Princess Elizabeth aged 3 holds a toy, mounted into a small folder. A variation of this was used for Newfoundland's 6c stamp issued in 1932, the first photograph of |Princess Elizabeth to appear on a stamp (7x5cm). The formal photographs of the Royal Family taken in February 1939 were the last before the outbreak of war. Both have their original studio presentation folders (12x15.5cm) (3)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms...
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Mary (1867-1953)1934 Pair of photographs of Queen Mary. One dated and signed on the mount by the photographer, H.H. Tansley of Sheringham, Norfolk (22x30cm), the other by Hay Wrightson, London (crease top right) (32x23cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyPrincesses Elizabeth & Margaret1935 pair of studio photographs by Marcus Adams, of Princess Elizabeth, aged nine, and Princess Margaret, aged five, signed "Lilibet" and "Margaret" on the mount. The future Queen Elizabeth II signs using her family name. These were certainly presentation photographs for a member of the Royal Family. Marcus Adams has signed and dated each just below the image. The royal visit to his Children's Studio in London in December 1935 is recorded in "Marcus Adams / Royal Photographer" (Royal Collection Publications, 2010). "...they were photographed...
Great BritainRoyaltyDuke and Duchess of York1935 Christmas card sent by the future King George VI and Queen Elizabeth with an aerial photograph of The Royal Lodge (Windsor Great Park), signed in ink "from Albert". "Elizabeth" is signed using a stamp as the Duchess of York was indisposed at the time. The Duke has written "1936" after the printed message "With all good wishes for Christmas and the New Year 1936". This was their last card before the abdication of Edward VIII in December 1936 when they ascended the throne. Some marks to the front of the card but perfect within (16x19.5cm)Subject...
Great BritainRoyaltyKing George VI & Queen ElizabethJanuary 1937 Formal photograph by Dorothy Wilding of the King and Queen in the month after their accession to the throne. The King wears the uniform of Admiral of the Fleet (24.5x18.6cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyKing George VI & Queen ElizabethMay 1937 Official Coronation Photographs of the King and Queen by Dorothy Wilding, with her studio label on the reverse of each, standing in the throne room of Buckingham Palace after the Ceremony at Westminster Abbey. A rare pair of iconic images that would frame well, each on a cream mount (24.8x17.4cm, 25.6x16cm) (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyThe Duke & Duchess of Windsor3rd June 1937 Marriage of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor at the Chateau de Cande, Nice. Formal wedding photo by Cecil Beaton signed by him in red ink on the mount and signed "Wallis", also "Edward" by the former King Edward VIII and dated in the hand of the Duchess. The abdication of the King and his subsequent marriage to the twice divorced Wallis Simpson rocked the British throne. This signed wedding photograph is a great rarity and symbolises the drama of the time (22x16.5cm, on a larger mount), traces of an album page on the reverse.Subje...
Great BritainRoyaltyKing George VI1937 Photograph of the King, by Dorothy Wilding with her studio label on the reverse. The King is in the uniform of Admiral of the Fleet. (20x16cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyCoronation 19371937 Photograph by Dorothy Wilding of King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, standing in their robes at Buckingham Palace following the Coronation Ceremony at Westminster Abbey. The photograph is signed by all four on the mount and dated by the King. A rare image in a dark blue leather frame (24x31cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyKing George VI1937 Photograph by Soper of Park Lane, London, of King George VI, signed by the photographer to the lower left of the image, with the original studio folder. The King is in the uniform of Colonel-in-Chief of the Grenadier Guards (26.4x21cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyKing George VI1938 Photograph of King George VI, by Bertram Park, signed by him in pencil with his studio label on the reverse, laid down on cream card. The King is in full dress uniform of a Field Marshal, wearing riding boots (19.7x15.5cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyKing, Queen & Princess MargaretTwo photographs from the same sitting but differing in composition, taken by Dorothy Wilding, one with her studio label on the reverse. The King in naval uniform (24.2x25.8cm & 16.9x18.4cm) (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyKing George VIThree photographs of the King by Hugh Cecil, signed by Cecil in pencil on the mount, showing the King in uniform as Marshal of the RAF with his arms folded, and another in the uniform of a Field Marshal, facing the camera (16x11,7cm, 25.2x19,7cm, the latter with its blind embossed folder) (3)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth1937 & 1946. Formal photographs by Dorothy Wilding of Queen Elizabeth wearing the fringe tiara (1937); the other two were used as presentation photographs during the 1947 Royal Visit to Southern Africa, all mounted on card with Wilding's imprint on the photographs (19.7x15.9cm, 20.8x15.9cm) (3)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyKing George VIPhotograph by W.& E. Drummond Young of Edinburgh, of King George VI in full dress uniform of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, of which the King was Colonel-in-Chief from 1936-1952. Signed on the mount by the photographer, and housed in a studio folder. An uncommon image of the King (29x16cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyPrincess Alexandra of Kent b1936Pair of photographs of the only daughter of the Duke of Kent and Princess Marina, by Cecil Beaton, with his stamp on the reverse (10.5x7.5cm) and a later photograph of her seated wearing the same jewellery, signed on the mount by photographer Anthony Armstrong Jones, who was to marry Princess Margaret in 1960 (29.5x24.5cm) (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyKing, Queen, Princesses Elizabeth & Margaret1938 Photograph by Marcus Adams of the Royal Family with a favourite corgi standing in Buckingham Palace, with the original studio tissue wrap. Signed by Adams to the lower left on the image. Rare in such fine condition (23.8x17.4cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth the Queen Mother1939 Studio photograph of Queen Elizabeth by Cecil Beaton, signed by him on the print to the lower left, with his stamp on the reverse. The Queen wears a Hartnell crinoline dress, the diamond fringe tiara and the coronation necklace. A painted background serves as the backdrop. Laid down on card (23.5x18.8cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth the Queen Mother1939 Studio photograph by Cecil Beaton of Queen Elizabeth, showing her head and shoulders, smiling, wearing a Hartnell silk dress, the fringe diamond tiara and the diamond coronation necklace. Signed in pencil by Beaton just below the photograph (25.5x20.3cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyDuke & Duchess of Kentc1939 Photograph of the Duke and Duchess of Kent with their signatures mounted individually below the image, "Marina" (1906-1968) and "George" (1902-1942). The signature of Princess Marina is on a Christmas card that has been laid down (30x39 including mount)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyPrincess MargaretTwo photographs of Princess Margaret, by Studio Lisa, in costume for the pantomimes staged at Windsor Castle during World War II. One signed by the photographer in a decorative folder (20.3x15.1cm, 20.7x15cm). A rare pair (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyPrincesses Elizabeth & Margaretc1940's Folding concertina set of four photographs of the Princesses with their horses, with the photographer's imprint STUDIO LISA on the outer cover. Rare, the final image of Princess Elizabeth holding a silver trophy, signed in pencil "Lisa" (9x11cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyPrinces William and Richard of GloucesterPhotograph of the young sons of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester by Dorothy Wilding, with her studio label on the reverse. Prince William (1941-1972) wearing a kilt and Prince Richard (b1944) holding a ball (12x11.3cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyKing George VI & Queen Elizabeth1946 Photograph by Dorothy Wilding of the King and Queen facing the camera, with the studio label on reverse. This image was used by the stamp issuing countries of Southern Africa to commemorate the 1947 Royal Visit by the Royal Family (23x29cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyPrincess Margaret by WildingPair of photographs by Dorothy Wilding with her studio label or stamp on the reverse, showing Princess Margaret in 1946 and some years later. Both with her looking to her left. An attractive pair (21x16cm) (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth II1949 Christmas card handsigned "Elizabeth" and "Philip" by the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, with a coloured reproduction of a painting by Hearne of "Edinburgh from Arthur's Seat" (20x16cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Mary / Queen Elizabeth II1950 Postcard photograph of Princess Elizabeth with Prince Charles and newly born Princess Anne, inscribed "from Mary R 1950". A great association between a great grandmother, grandmother and the monarchySubject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth the Queen Mother1952 Photograph of the funeral procession of King George VI, with the Royal Family following the coffin into St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, dated and signed on the mount "February 15th, 1952 / From Elizabeth R, The Queen Mother". A rare personal presentation by the widowed Queen (30x22cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth II1952 Studio photograph of the Queen by Dorothy Wilding, in the year of her accession to the throne, signed "Elizabeth R 1952" by the young Queen, with Wilding's studio label and negative number on the reverse. A iconic image reflecting the start of a new reign. Slight creasing to the top left, not detracting from the superb quality and rarity of the photograph (35x26cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth II1952 Accession photograph by Dorothy Wilding of the young Queen, mounted on card with the negative number on the reverse, the Queen wears the George IV State Diamond Diadem and the Nizam of Hyderabad's diamond necklace, a wedding present to her in 1947 (24.3x19.8cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth the Queen Mother1953 The iconic Christmas card signed "from Elizabeth R" with a coloured image of the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret in their Coronation robes; their pages dressed in red tunics standing alongside them. One of the great images by Cecil Beaton taken in Buckingham Palace after the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey (24x20cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainSir Roger Bannister (1929-2018)(1954) Reproduction photograph of Roger Bannister, neurologist and middle distance athlete, who set the world record for running the first under 4 minute mile, signed boldly in blue thick blue pen (20x25cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth the Queen Mother1955 Studio photograph of Queen Elizabeth by Cecil Beaton with his stamp on the reverse (20x25cm), with an unsigned Christmas card reproducing the image as the Queen Mother's greetings for that year (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth IIStudio photograph by Cecil Beaton of the young Queen, seated, wearing the George IV State Diamond Diadem and a diamond necklace, mounted on card with Beaton's stamp and negative number on the reverse (24x18cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth II1955 Studio photograph by James Reid, of the Queen, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Charles and Princess Anne, with two corgis, taken at Balmoral Castle, laid down on a card mount (28x18.5cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth II1956 Studio photograph of the Queen by Baron, his stamp on the reverse. The Queen wears the Grand Duchess Vladimir Tiara set with emeralds and a matching emerald necklace (28.7x24cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth II1956 Studio photograph by Baron of the Queen wearing the Grand Duchess Vladimir tiara set with emeralds and a matching necklace, mounted on card with the photographer's negative number on the reverse (24.2x18.4cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth II1957 Studio photograph by Anthony Armstrong-Jones, later the Earl of Snowdon, of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh at Buckingham Palace. Negative number on the reverse, laid on card (24.5x18.5cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth II1957 Christmas card handsigned "Philip" and "Elizabeth R", dated by the Queen, below a coloured photograph with Prince Charles and Princess Anne, and two corgis (20x23cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth II1958 Christmas card handsigned "Elizabeth R" and "Philip" with a reproduction alongside of "The Holy Family by Sebastiano Ricci (1659-1734) (23x20cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth II1959 Christmas card handsigned "Elizabeth R" and "Philip", dated 1959 in the hand of the Queen, signed below a photograph together with Prince Charles and Princess Anne (20x21cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth II & Prince Philip1960-2021 A comprehensive year by year collection of the annual Christmas cards sent by the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh, each signed "Elizabeth R" and "Philip", and dated by the Queen, thought to be signed by autopen from 1960 onwards. The cards have gilt cyphers on the outside and commemorate family and national events throughout the reign of the Queen. Occasions include the Queen's Jubilees, official visits, D-Day commemorations, significant birthdays, wedding anniversaries, and the 1981 marriage of the Prince of Wales to Lady Diana Spen...
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth the Queen Mother1960-2002 Thirty five Christmas cards sent by the Queen Mother, with photographs of her and the Royal Family, commemorating milestone birthdays and events. Images include her racehorses, visits abroad (Canada, Venice), the Queen's Jubilee and her residences. The final card shows her at Walmer Castle. 28 of the cards are handsigned "from Elizabeth R", six have printed signatures in her last years and the card for 1966 is unsigned (as is the case that year). A comprehensive collection with seven gaps in the sequence. Each printed on thick crea...
Great BritainRoyaltyPrincess Margaret by BeatonGroup of four photographs of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930-2002) by Cecil Beaton, with her wedding photograph to the Earl of Snowdon signed "Cecil Beaton" in pencil on the mount; another two formal images of her signed in pencil or red pencil "Beaton" and the fourth unsigned. Two with the studio stamp on the reverse and all with negative numbers. An uncommon and a very attractive group (20.8x16 approx) (4)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyDuke of Kent / Princess Alexandra1965-1971 Christmas cards signed by the Duke and Duchess of Kent "Edward" and "Katherine" for 1965, 1968, 1969 showing photographs of their two eldest children, with two cards signed "Alexandra" and "Angus" by Princess Alexandra and Angus Ogilvy and their children. An undated card from Alexandra bears an autographed signed message (6)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyPrincess Margaret1971 Photograph by Patrick Lichfield, with his studio stamp on the reverse, of Princess Margaret and her two children David and Sarah, mounted on grey card (19x17.7cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyalty / Medicine1971 Formal photograph of Sir John Weir (1879-1971), Scottish physician and homeopath who was Physician Royal to all monarchs from King George V to Queen Elizabeth II. His signature appeared on all notices of Royal illnesses and births. Signed on the mount, he is shown wearing the mantle and chain of the Royal Victoria Order. With various press cuttings on his death (14x20cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyRoyal confirmation1978 Photograph of Prince Edward, Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones (daughter of Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon), Lady Helen Windsor (daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Kent) and James Ogilvy (son of Princess Alexandra and Angus Ogilvy). All four cousins were born in 1964 and confirmed together at Windsor Castle. Signed "Sarah" on the mount by Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones. A rare private presentation photograph commemorating the occasion (25x20cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth the Queen Mother1979 Photograph in colour of the Queen Mother, signed "Elizabeth R" , dated by her on her 79th birthday, with her Household and favourite corgi at Clarence House (20x18cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth the Queen Mother1979 Photograph signed "Elizabeth R" and dated in the hand of the Queen Mother on the mount, in a superb navy leather presentation standing frame, with the royal cypher "ER" in gold at the top (22x31cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyPrince of Wales1979 Photograph of Prince Charles with his labrador "Harvey" in a green leather presentation frame by Jarrolds, Knightsbridge, with the Prince of Wales's feathers in gilt (13x19cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth II1980 Photograph taken in Scotland of the Queen, Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Mother, Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret, signed on the mount "Elizabeth R" (The Queen), "Elizabeth R" (Queen Mother) and "Margaret". A rare privately presented signed photograph (25x20cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyRoyal Colonels-in-Chiefc1980 Photograph of King Charles III (as Prince of Wales), the Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Edward, Duke of Kent signed by all three, dressed (L-R) as Colonels-in-Chief of the Welsh Guards, Grenadier Guards and Scots Guards. The "Frock Coat Order" dress uniform is only worn by officers of the Household Division on particular ceremonial occasions. A rare signed photograph (25x20cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyPrincess Alexandra b1936c1980 presentation photograph of Princess Alexandra and her husband, Angus Ogilvy, signed by them on the mount, with her cypher in gold at the top of the mount. In a red leather frame with gilt edging (18x24cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyRoyal Wedding 19811981 Marriage of the Prince of Wales with Lady Diana Spencer. Official photograph in colour of the bridal couple taken at Buckingham Palace after the ceremony at St Paul's Cathedral, signed on the mount by the official photographer Patrick Lichfield, with his label on the reverse (25x20cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyRoyal wedding 19811981 Formal photograph of Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones (b1964) dressed as a bridesmaid for the wedding of her cousin Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer, signed on the image by the photographer, her father, Lord Snowdon, and inscribed, signed and dated by her "with a mass of love, from Sarah / July 1981" (25x30cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainPrime MinisterMargaret Thatcher (1925-2013)1982 Photograph of the Prime Minister and Denis Thatcher, signed by both, with an annotation on the reverse in the hand of Margaret Thatcher "Arriving at St Pauls for Falkland Islands Thanksgiving Service / 'The Times'". Held on 26th July 1982 following the conclusion of the war between Britain and Argentina (14x20cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyPrince and Princess of Wales1983 Presentation photograph dated and personally signed "Charles" and "Diana", in a green leather frame by Jarrolds Knightsbridge, with the Prince of Wales's feathers in gilt at the top (18x23.5cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyPrincess Margaret (1930-2002)1984 Side facing formal photograph of Princess Margaret, wearing the Poltimore Tiara, inscribed and signed on the mount "with love from Margaret, 1984" (21x26cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyPrince and Princess of Wales1986 Presentation photograph dated and personally signed "Charles" and "Diana", in a green leather frame by Andrew Soos London, with the Prince of Wales's feathers in gilt at the top (18x24cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainPrime MinisterMargaret Thatcher (1925-2013)c1990s Photograph of Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister (1979-1990), signed below on the mount (20x25cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth the Queen Mother1990 Photograph celebrating four Royal birthdays in that year, of the Queen Mother (90), Princess Margaret (60), Princess Anne (40) and Prince Andrew (30), signed on the mount by the Queen Mother "Elizabeth R" and Princess Margaret. A rare private presentation photograph (25x20cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth II1992 Presentation photograph of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh with their signatures "Elizabeth R" and "Philip" on the mount, in a brown leather frame by Smythson (24.5x32cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth II1997 Photograph of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh at Windsor Castle, by Patrick Lichfield, who has signed the mount to the lower right. Taken on the occasion of the Queen's Golden Jubilee (25x30cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth II2000 - 2019 A range of Christmas cards with the signatures of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh within, each having a photograph of the Royal couple (2000, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2019), Golden Jubilee (2002), D-Day (2004), Naming of HMS Queen Elizabeth (2014), Royal Ascot (2015), London Zoo (2017) (10)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth II2002 Photograph of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh standing in the back of their official car, driving through the crowds on the occasion of her Golden Jubilee, with "Jubilee" written on the reverse in the hand of the Queen (25x20cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
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