Auction Catalogue

14 December 2006

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Arms, Armour and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 277

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14 December 2006

Hammer Price:
£330

WWI Recruiting Posters, two scarce issues paper on linen back published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee. Poster No 12 ‘Fall In’, ‘Answer Now in your Country’s Hour of Need’ (khaki clad army bugler) and Poster No 15 ‘This Scrap of Paper’ showing the 1839 declaration of independence and neutrality for Belgium; ‘The German Raid on Scarborough December 16th 1914’, the official history of the naval bombardment of the town (some 19 people were killed and 80 wounded); together with a large accumulation of documents handbooks and correspondence concerning both world wars, posters in very good condition, the Scarborough item with frayed covers (parcel) £60-80