MISCELLANEOUS 646
(Part Lot)
ORIGINAL WARTIME VINTAGE ROYAL NAVY CAP TALLIES (3), comprising ‘H.M.S. Hood’, ‘H.M.S. Repulse’ and ‘H.M.S. Victory’, standard black silk tallies with gilt embroidered ship titles, in good condition (3)
£40-60
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INDIANMUTINY PERIOD MAPS OF NORTH AND SOUTH INDIA, formerly the property of Captain H. W. Parish, 45th Regiment, being large linen-backed folding maps for ‘North’ and ‘South’, by Edward Stanford, 6 Charing Cross, London, the front cover of each ink inscribed, ‘Woodbine Parish from D. Miller, 1858’, in their original slip case, good condition
£60-80
Henry Woodbine Parish was appointed an Ensign in the 45th Regiment in March 1839 and advanced to Lieutenant in April 1842. Then in 1846-47, as a recently promoted Captain, he witnessed active service in the Kaffir campaign (Medal), while in 1851-52, he commanded two Companies of his regiment, a detachment of Cape Mounted Riflemen and 900 Zulus, sent from Natal to the assistance of Major Warden, the British Resident (Despatches). Given the Brevet of Major in June 1856, and advanced to substantive Major in June 1864 and to Lieutenant-Colonel in July 1867, Parish commanded the 45th Regiment in the Abyssinia campaign in the following year, when he was present at the storming of Magdala, services that won him another “mention” and the award of the C.B. Latterly employed at the Brigade Depot, Devizes, he attained the rank of Major-General in February 1880.
648
SUFFRAGETTE INTEREST: a rare Autographed Photograph, signed by Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, this famous photograph was taken by the Daily Mirror on 13 October 1908, of the two leading Suffragettes awaiting arrest on the roof of the head office of the W.S.P.U. for issuing handbills inciting a ‘rush’ on the House of Commons during the State Opening of Parliament, mounted in glazed wooden frame, 222 x 175mm., good condition
£800-1000
These handbills resulted in a march on the House of Commons when 24 women and 21 men were taken to prison, and 10 to hospital. Mrs Pankhurst and her daughter were arrested soon after the photograph was taken. Emmeline was sentenced to three months imprisonment, and Christabel to ten weeks.
649
SUFFRAGETTE INTEREST: W.S.P.U. Illuminated Testimonial signed by Emmeline Pankhurst, ‘To Grace Williams, on behalf of all women who will win freedom by the bondage which you have endured for their sake, and dignity by the humiliation which you have gladly suffered for the uplifting of our sex, We, the Members of the Women’s Social and Political Union, herewith express our deep sense of admiration for your courage in enduring a long period of privation and solitary confinement in prison for the ‘Votes for Women’ Cause, also our thanks to you for the great service that you have thereby rendered to the Woman’s Movement. Inspired by your passion for freedom and right may we and the women who come after us be ever ready to follow your example of self-forgetfulness and self-conquest, ever ready to obey the call of duty and to answer to the appeal of the oppressed. Signed on behalf of the Women’s Social and Political Union. E. Pankhurst’, 455 x 340 mm, in 520 x 397mm. glazed wooden frame, document folded over at the extreme margins, otherwise good condition and a rare item £800-1000
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