3rd Dec, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST

Militaria & Ethnographica

 
  Lot 160
 

160

R.A.F. Biggin Hill - A Sergeant's Mess Dinner Menu to Celebrate the Destruction of the One Thousanth Enemy Aircraft From the Sector, inscribed W/Cdr. A. Deere. D.S.O. D.F.C. and dated 11th June 1943, the reverse with a signed ink cartoon sketch by Pierre Closterman and twenty nine other hand written signatures of pilots including Battle of Britain Aces Sailor Malan - Station Commander, Irving S Smith, Ralph "Tich" Havercroft 92 Sqn., T Higginson and Rene Mouchette - French Ace, with a printed transcription and research material; an Honours Banquet Menu for "........so few", held in the Battle of Britain Hall at the RAF Museum, Hendon, dated 3rd December 1990, with twenty three hand written signatures; three RAF Commemorative Folios: - Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1939-45, signed by Bill Townsend; 40th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain 1940-1980, signed by Douglas Bader; and Royal Air Force Fighter Command 1939-1945, signed by Alan Deere

Sold for £1,100
Estimated at £200 - £250


 

The 1943 menu is an original and not a copy

 


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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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