Lot 1092
British Military, Six pages including autographs in various forms of Lord Louis Mountbatten, Sir Andrew Cunningham, Sir Bruce Fraser, Sir Archibald Wavell, Alexander of Tunis, Montgomery of Alamein (3, one on a broadside delivered to the troops in Sicily on September, 1943, just after defeating the Germans in Africa and just prior to carrying the fight to Italy); also a stampless feldpost cover with the Palm Tree & Swastika handstamp of the Africa Corps; a 1943 Christmas airgraph from the British 8th Army; and a 1940 cover written home by a member of the crew of the Germany battleship Graf Spee, while interned in Argentina (the ship had been scuttled by her crew rather than surrender it to the British).
Estimate 750 - 1,000
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| Realized $550 |
