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Auction archive: Lot number 460

A Rare 10th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry Photograph Album

Auction 20.10.1999
20 Oct 1999 - 21 Oct 1999
Estimate
£200 - £300
ca. US$331 - US$497
Price realised:
£276
ca. US$457
Auction archive: Lot number 460

A Rare 10th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry Photograph Album

Auction 20.10.1999
20 Oct 1999 - 21 Oct 1999
Estimate
£200 - £300
ca. US$331 - US$497
Price realised:
£276
ca. US$457
Beschreibung:

A Rare 10th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry Photograph Album A cloth-bound album, 8in. by 11in. (22cm. by 28cm.), compiled by an unknown member of the 10th Battalion I.Y. (whose full-length portrait appears on the first page), containing 95 photographs, all except one being 2.1/8in. by 3.1/8in. (5.5cm. by 8cm.), mostly annotated in ink, showing troops on the move, holding a bridge, Boer prisoners, refugees, Boer doctor coming into camp, etc.; together with a sentimental greeting from a Royal Engineer in the form of painted vignettes and eight lines of verse on a piece of khaki drill cloth, which according to the poem, "Twas torn from the back of my old Khaki jacket" .

Auction archive: Lot number 460
Auction:
Datum:
20 Oct 1999 - 21 Oct 1999
Auction house:
Christie's
Spink London
Beschreibung:

A Rare 10th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry Photograph Album A cloth-bound album, 8in. by 11in. (22cm. by 28cm.), compiled by an unknown member of the 10th Battalion I.Y. (whose full-length portrait appears on the first page), containing 95 photographs, all except one being 2.1/8in. by 3.1/8in. (5.5cm. by 8cm.), mostly annotated in ink, showing troops on the move, holding a bridge, Boer prisoners, refugees, Boer doctor coming into camp, etc.; together with a sentimental greeting from a Royal Engineer in the form of painted vignettes and eight lines of verse on a piece of khaki drill cloth, which according to the poem, "Twas torn from the back of my old Khaki jacket" .

Auction archive: Lot number 460
Auction:
Datum:
20 Oct 1999 - 21 Oct 1999
Auction house:
Christie's
Spink London
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