Every day Sophie Dupre presents two items from her large stock of signed photographs, autograph letters, autographs for sale, royal memoralbilia and antiquarian manuscripts.
The photographs are presented with the catalogue descriptions.
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October 09
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1940 John Lennon was born. He was an English singer and songwriter who co-founded the Beatles the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music. He disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to raise his infant son Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the new album Double Fantasy. He was murdered three weeks after its release. In 1995 Alec Douglas-Home died. He was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister from October 1963 to October 1964. He is notable for being the last Prime Minister to hold office while being a member of the House of Lords, before renouncing his peerage and taking up a seat in the House of Commons for the remainder of his premiership.
LENNON (John, 1940-1980, Co-Founder with Sir Paul McCartney of ‘the Beatles’) Colour print of a naked couple and a vicar after an original drawing by John Lennon, with facsimile of Lennon’s signature, 23 x 31 cm, c. 1965. 38334
HOME (Sir Alec Douglas-, 1903-1995, Prime Minister) Attractive Signed Portrait Photograph, signed ‘Home’ as life peer (from 1974) Baron Home of the Hirsel, showing him half length, full face, seated at his desk, pen in hand, 6” x 7¾”, no place, no date, with a Typed Letter Signed to Mrs Maureen P. Callaghan, “gladly” enclosing “a signed photograph”, 1 side 8vo, The Hirsel, Coldstream, Berwickshire, 17th August 1983 56612
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