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Auction: 24025 - Historical Documents Featuring the Major David Cecil Underwood Jr Collection of Royal Visits to India 1876-1906
Lot: 173

(x) The Major David Cecil Underwood Jr. Collection
Field Marshal Earl Kitchener (1850-1916)
1910-1911 Autograph letter from Government House, Melbourne, with 2x1d OS stamps on the cover to Bathurst thanking the addressee for a box of cigars and whiskey; ALS from Whitehall Court regarding embroidering his arms on a chair, (writing to Mr Marillier, an expert on tapestry); and an autograph initialled response to a letter from the Fine Art Society regarding £25 for a "small Chinese shrine", which Kitchener suggests is too expensive. With a cut signature, cabinet photograph, full length photograph print copy signed "Kitchener 1909", press photograph with George V inspecting Canadian troops at Salisbury, four prints, postcards (11) including a woven silk portrait (23)

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Estimate
£150 to £200

Starting price
£120