Auction Catalogue

25 September 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 1365

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25 September 2008

Hammer Price:
£190

Suffragette interest:The Suffragette’, No.29-Vol. 1, of Friday, May 2, 1913, p.489-495, the front page blank except for the headers and the word, ‘RAIDED!; together with eight comic postcards relating to the Suffragettes, one duplicated - five bearing messages; with a National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies receipt for annual subscriptions (5/-) to ‘Mrs Walters, Farnham & District Society’, good condition (lot) £200-300

The Suffragette features articles on the police raid on Lincoln’s Inn House; ‘What Militancy Means’, by Christabel Pankhurst; Police Court Proceedings; ‘Mrs Pankhurst Defeats the Government’; ‘The “Cat and Mouse” Bill’; ‘A Record of Fact’ - listing sundry arson attacks and explosions and others.