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№ 576

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13 December 2012

Hammer Price:
£85

Boer War Interest: The Absent-Minded Beggar, by Rudyard Kipling - the poem on a silk triptych, emblazoned by an image of the poet and “A gentleman in kharki”, approx. dimensions (open) 57 x 28cm.; The Ladysmith Lyre, dated 15 December 1899, single double-sided sheet; Photographs (16) 215 x 165mm., by G. A. Watson, Photographer, Johannesburg: most identified: ‘Boers Long Tom Ladysmith’; ‘Boers Long Tom Ammunition Pit Umbalwana’; ‘Tintown-Natal’ (2); ‘Fort Deakin Cæsar’s Camp’; General White’s Residence during Siege of Ladysmith’; ‘Monument of 5th Dragoon Guards’; the grave and gravestone of Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts, V.C., Lieutenant, King’s Royal Rifles; ‘Lord Milner’s Reception at Ladysmith-Natal-Oct. 31st 1901’, etc., paper and photographs with some tears and creases, generally good condition (18) £20-30