3rd Dec, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST
Militaria & Ethnographica
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A 19th Century Hand Written Account "The Observations on the Campaign of the Year 1815 (Waterloo)", in a maroon cloth bound notebook with leather spine, the inner cover inscribed James Mure, 20 Gloucester Place, Portman Square, the contents are very detailed, with numerous diagrams, notes and statistics, the first 86 pages are numbered, followed by 24 un-numbered pages, the final paragraph reads " Surely no General ever deserved the credit of Victory less than the Duke of Wellington whom fortune, or we ought rather to say Providence, gave the Victory notwithstanding all his enormous faults"; a Small Quantity of Military Ephemera, mainly from the First/Second World Wars, including postcards and official Royal Navy Christmas cards, Field Report Books, Public Information leaflets etc, and two small bronze plaques dated 1916, each with profile bas relief bust portrait of a British high ranking officer - possibly Haig
Sold for £160
Estimated at £180 - £250
Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 3rd Dec, 2021
Militaria and Ethnographica Sales encompass items across diverse areas of collecting, from European and Eastern armour to 18th and 19th century firearms, military uniforms and documents, edged weapons, World War I and World War II ephemera, masonic regalia and medals.
Also included are a vast range of objects created in the early 20th century or earlier by indigenous cultures around the world, from early American civilisations to African tribes and Polynesian island cultures, incorporating religious idols, domestic and ritual objects, figurative sculpture, jewellery and weapons of all descriptions.
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