30th Sep, 2025 15:00

Bulldog Spirit: The Churchill Sale
 
Lot 325
 

[Churchill (Winston Spencer)]
Large collection of Churchill items, photographs and other ephemera

Including: many photographs from throughout Churchill's career and life including Clementine Churchill and friends in Cologne in 1919; Churchill [painting in his later years; wartime photographs group photographs of social events in Churchill's later year duplicated thank you note from Clementine Churchill (hand amended|); Christmas card signed by Christoper & Mary Soames; photographic Christmas card signed by Clementine Churchill; printed flyer of Churchill with a tommy-gun; typed transcript of a BBC radio speech of April 1945 "War Commentary" by Wing Commander John Strachey (Evelyn John St Loe Strachey 1901-1963 - 8 typed pages, autographed, plus covering note, signed); letter to William Deakin, colleague of Churchill and c.9 photographs associated with Deakin and Churchill; invitation to Mr & Mrs Deakin to Churchill's funeral and the General Instructions at the funeral; leaflet for St Martin's Church, Bladon (Churchill graves) with amateur photograph of Churchill’s coffin arriving at the church; Buckingham Palace table plan for Monday 8th November 1971 given by Queen Elizabeth II to honour President Tito, including Mr & Mrs Deakin; other photographs, black & white, all of Churchill, his colleagues and associates; a collection of loose large-format photographs [c.11 qty] to include: press agency photographs of Randolph Churchill (Winston's son) and the young Robert Spemcer-Churchill; Winston Churchill at war and a wartime social photograph, plus a large format image on a card mount of Churchill riding in the countryside etc [qty]

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Dimensions: v.s.

Provenance:

From the collection of British army veteran and noted Churchillian Major Alan Taylor-Smith (1928-2019) of Westerham, Kent.

Sold for £315

Includes Buyer's Premium


 

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