GAITSKELL
(Hugh Todd Naylor, 1906-1963, Labour Politician)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to “My dear Ava”, LADY WAVERLEY
(1896-1974, wife of Sir John Anderson, Viscount Waverley) explaining that he is writing to her rather than her husband as “I am not sure whether he is seeing letters. Being away in India and... seeing the English newspapers only intermittently, I only heard on my return about the O.M. I am so glad about this. There can have been few more worthy recipients. Will you please... pass my very warm congratulations - belated as, I’m afraid, they are? You, I know, must have been having such an anxious and difficult time. Dora joins me in sending our best wishes and the prayer that all will be well...”, 2 sides 4to., House of Commons headed paper, with original autograph envelope, 3rd January postmarked
Item Date:
1958
Stock No:
43726
£125
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[GEORGE
(1869-1957, Prince of Greece & Denmark, Admiral, 2nd son of George I, King of the Hellenes)]
Unsigned Vintage original albumen photo
showing the Prince surrounded by four uniformed officers, labelled “Prince George of Greece & Admirals at Crete” together with another unsigned photo of three graves labelled “’H.M.S. Vulcan’s’ grraves at Platea, Greece”, each photo 5” x 4”, the gravestones dated in the
mounted on an album leaf
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
43702
£125
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THE SALARIES FOR THE BRITISH ARMY IN SCOTLAND
GEORGE II
(1683-1760, King of Great Britain), Samuel SANDYS (1st Baron Sandys, 1695-1770, Whig Politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer) and Phillips GYBBON (1678-1762, Whig Politician, Lord of the Treaury)
Fine Large Document Signed at the head,
listing the salaries of the Staff Officers in North Britain, starting with the Commander in Chief in North Britain who was paid £1460 per annum and ending with the Clerk of the Courts Martial in North Britain on £136.17s.6d with a further “Levy Money for 288 Non Commission Officers and private Men for Augmenting Maj. Gen. Hamilton’s Brigr Bland’s Regts of Dragoons...” for a total of £4260 signed at the foot by Sandys and Gybbon, on the verso is the list of the salaries of “His Majesty’s First Troop of Horse Guards, 2 sides large folio, no place, 31st December
Item Date:
1742
Stock No:
43703
£475
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GEORGE III
(1738-1820, King of Great Britain) and Henry HOWARD (12th Duke of Suffolk, 1739-1779, MP, Secretary of State for the Northern Department)
Fine Commission Document signed as King,
printed with the details filled in by hand, appointing “Thomas Inglis Gent... to be ensign to the Company... commanded by Our Trusty and Wellbeloved Lieutenant Generall Robert Boyd...” countersigned by Earl of Suffolk, 1 side oblong folio on vellum with papered seal and revenue stamp, Court at St James’s, 12th August
Item Date:
1778
Stock No:
43707
£375
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A LOCK OF KING GEORGE III’S HAIR
[GEORGE III
(1738-1820, King of Great Britain)
Several strands of hair attached to a piece of notepaper with a wrapper with a contemporary annotation
“George the Third’s Hair, Cut 22nd July 1819...”, 5½” x 3”, no place, 22nd July
Item Date:
1819
Stock No:
43717
£775
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