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    A COLLECTION OF MORE THAN 1,000 HISTORIC AUTOGRAPHS IN SUSSEX

    Tuesday, January 10th, 2017

    A collection of more than a 1,000 signatures from historical figures from from Charles Dickens to the Duke of Wellington to the First Men on the Moon to Buffalo Bill and Harry Houdini will be offered by the Sussex auctioneers Campbells on January 24 in Worthing. Amassed by the late John Evans, who was passionate about politics and was one of the first Anti-Vivisection campaigners, the signatures are either framed or in albums.

    Auctioneer Paul Campbell said: “It’s been such a privilege to turn the pages of one man’s life and passion and to see and consider the history he brought together. The Dalai Lama is next to Spencer Perceval, the Prime Minister who was murdered inside the House of Commons in 1812.” Estimates range from £50 to £1,000, with the earliest signature dating from 1697 from the 1st Duke of Marlborough. Literary names include J.M Barrie; Rudyard Kipling; William Wordsworth; Arthur Conan Doyle and John Ruskin.  Most Prime Ministers from Robert Walpole to Winston Churchill through to Tony Blair are featured along with explorer Sir Edmund Hillary and Lord Hunt – who led the successful 1953 expedition to Mount Everest; photographs taken on the moon that were later signed by the first men on the moon including Neil Armstrong; Buzz Aldrin and Charlie Duke as well as artists including Pablo Picasso; Dante Gabriel Rosetti and Dame Laura Knight.

    A letter from Lady Hamilton

    A letter from the Duke of Wellington.

    BATTLE OF WATERLOO CAMPAIGN CLOAK AT SOTHEBY’S

    Thursday, June 18th, 2015

    The campaign cloak said to have been worn by the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo – 200 years ago today – comes up at Sotheby’s in London on July 14. Estimated at £20,000-30,000, the mud-spattered Waterloo campaign cloak can be traced back to Lady Caroline Lamb, who had an affair with Wellington in the summer of 1815. Never before sold or publicly exhibited it is the best documented item of Wellington’s costume ever likely to come to auction. Sotheby’s say that though it is not possible to be certain that Wellington was wearing this particular cloak on June 18, 1815, its appearance and characteristics, together with the provenance, leave little double that it was a campaign cloak used by Wellington during the Waterloo campaign.

    A Battle of Waterloo watercolour by Turner, who had visited Waterloo in 1817 and painted it in 1833, offers a view of the aftermath of the war torn battlefields. Estimated at £150,000-250,000 it will come up along with two portraits of The Iron Duke, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852). One is by French artist Jean-Baptise Isabey (£15,000-25,000) and the other by William Grimaldi (£6,000-8,000). They will be offered at  Sotheby’s Old Master and British Drawings sale on July 8.

    The Duke of Wellington's cloak from the Waterloo campaign.

    The Duke of Wellington’s cloak from the Waterloo campaign.  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £47,500

    J.M.W. Turner's watercolour of the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo.

    J.M.W. Turner’s watercolour of the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo.  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £221,000