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Buckingham Covers, Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF. TEL: 01303 278137 Millvina Dean

At two months old, Millvina Dean was the Titanic’s youngest passenger. She travelled on the ship with her older brother and parents. When the accident happened, it was her father, Bertram Frank, who initially discovered what was going on. After being alerted of the situation, Eva Georgetta Dean, her mother, boarded a lifeboat with both children in tow. Shortly after, they were rescued from their lifeboat by the ship Carpathia. Tragically, their father died on the Titanic.

Millvina Dean, signed 1969 Ships FDC, she has written Titanic Baby Poem SGD014T £100

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Buckingham Covers, Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF. TEL: 01303 278137 Millvina & Bertram Dean At two months old, Millvina Dean was the Titanic’s youngest passenger. She travelled on the ship with her older brother and parents. When the accident happened, it was her father, Bertram Frank, who initially discovered what was going on. After being alerted of the situation, Eva Georgetta Dean, her mother, boarded a lifeboat with both children in tow. Shortly after, they were rescued from their lifeboat by the ship Carpathia. Tragically, their father died on the Titanic.

Millvina and Bertram Dean, signed 1968 Queen Elizabeth last voyage cover, Millvina has added Titanic Baby Poem

SGD014U £250 £50 per month over 5 months The Portfolio Signed Buckingham Covers, Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF. TEL: 01303 278137 Maurice Dodd & John Lewis Hart

Maurice Dodd (25 October 1922 - 31 December 2005) was an English writer and cartoonist best known for his years spent working on The Perishers comic strip published in the Daily Mirror. John Lewis “Johnny” Hart (February 18, 1931 - April 7, 2007) was an American cartoonist noted as the creator of the comic strips B.C. and Wizard of Id. Hart was recognized with several awards, including the Swedish Adamson Award and five from the National Cartoonists Society.

1995 American Comic Strip cover, signed by creator of the Perishers Maurice Dodd who has added a doodle, and Wizard of Id cartoonist Johnny Hart

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Buckingham Covers, Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF. TEL: 01303 278137 Mikhail Gorbachev & Princess Anne

Mikhail Gorbachev was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, as well as the only President of the Soviet Union from 1990 until 1991. Gorbachev is probably best known for his pivotal role in bringing the Cold War to an end by engaging in trade relations with the USA, Germany and the UK. He was also responsible for bringing the Soviet Union to an end. In 1990 he received the Nobel Peace Prize in part for his domestic reforms granting greater freedom of speech. Anne, Princess Royal, is the second child and only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Princess Anne is the seventh holder of the title Princess Royal. She is known for her charitable work, and is patron of over 200 organizations. She is also known for equestrian talents and is the first member of the British Royal Family to have competed in the Olympic Games.

SGG055D £495 £99 per month over 5 months 1990 Princess Royal visit to Russia, which both Princess Anne and Mikhail Gorbachev have signed and both feature on the cover

The Portfolio Signed Buckingham Covers, Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF. TEL: 01303 278137 American Cartoonists

Stanley “Stan” Goldberg (May 5, 1932 - August 31, 2014) was an American comic book artist, best known for his work with Archie Comics and as a Marvel Comics colourist. He was inducted into the National Cartoonists Society Hall of Fame in 2011. Dean Wayne Young (born July 2, 1938) is the head writer of the popular comic strip Blondie, which he inherited from his father Chic Young, who died in 1973. Richard Willson, (1939 - 2011) best known as a caricaturist, political cartoonist, advertising artist and illustrator, was also an active environmental campaigner both in Britain and overseas. William Hague, British Conservative politician and life peer. He represented Richmond, Yorkshire as MP (1989 - 2015). He also served as Leader of the House of Commons (2014 - 2015), Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (2010 - 2014), and as Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition (1997 - 2001). SGG118 £150 £50 per month over 3 months 1995 American Cartoonists cover, signed by Stan Goldberg (has drawn Archie), Richard Wilson (has drawn William Hague, who has also signed it) and Dean Young (who has drawn Dagwood) The Portfolio Signed

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Lord John Hunt Lord John Hunt was a British army officer and is best known for leading the expedition to Everest in which Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the mountain’s summit for the first time in recorded history. As a child, Hunt spent much time in the Alps where he started developing his mountaineering skills. He continued climbing throughout adulthood, and when, in 1931, his military regiment was posted to India he began climbing various parts of the Himalayas. After WWII, in which Hunt achieved the rank of Colonel, he was chosen to lead the Everest expedition on account of his military leadership skills as well as his proven abilities at climbing. In later life he became the first Director for the Duke of Edinburgh awards, and in 1966 was awarded life peerage for his work with young people.

SGH029B £150 £50 per month over 3 months Lord John Hunt, signed 1990 200th Anniversary of George Everest cover.

The Portfolio Signed Buckingham Covers, Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF. TEL: 01303 278137 Bob Kane

Bob Kane (born Robert Kahn; October 24, 1915 - November 3, 1998) was an American comic book writer and artist who with writer Bill Finger co- created the DC Comics superhero Batman. He was inducted into the comic-book industry’s Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1994 and into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1996.

Bob Kane, signed 1993 American Broadway Musicals cover, he has added a doodle of Batman SGK055 £175 £25 per month over 7 months

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Janet Leigh and Jean Simmons

Janet Leigh (born Jeanette Helen Morrison; July 6, 1927 - October 3, 2004) was an American actress and author. She is best remembered for her performance in Psycho (1960) for which she was awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and received an Academy Award nomination. Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE (31 January 1929 - 22 January 2010) was an English actress. One of J. Arthur Rank’s “well-spoken young starlets”, she appeared predominantly in films, beginning with those made in Great Britain during and after the Second World War, followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950 onwards.

Janet Leigh and Jean Simmons, signed 1998 American Alfred Hitchcock cover SGL042E £150 £75 per month over 2 months The Portfolio Signed Buckingham Covers, Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF. TEL: 01303 278137

Bernard Montgomery

Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, served in both World Wars. During WWI he was badly wounded near the Belgian border when a sniper shot him through the lung and knee. Nevertheless, he continued his service and became commander of the Eight Army in North Africa during WWII. Montgomery led the Eight Army to the first large-scale allied victory of the war, and eventually forced all Axis forces in North Africa to surrender. Later in the war he was placed in charge of all Allied ground forces in Operation Overlord, under general leadership of Dwight D Eisenhower.

Field Marshal Montgomery signed 1970 25th Anniversary of VE day cover SGM042Q £400 £100 per month over 4 months The Portfolio Signed

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George Martin

Sir George Henry Martin CBE (3 January 1926 - 8 March 2016) was an English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer and musician. He was referred to as the “Fifth Beatle”, including by Paul McCartney, in reference to his extensive involvement on each of the Beatles’ original albums. Martin had 30 number-one hit singles in the United Kingdom and 23 number-one hits in the United States.

George Martin, signed 2007 Beatles Royal Mail Cover

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The Portfolio Signed Buckingham Covers, Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF. TEL: 01303 278137 John Smith

John Smith QC (1938 -1994) was a Scottish Labour Party politician who served as Leader of the Labour Party from July 1992 until his death from a heart attack in May 1994. Smith first entered Parliament in 1970 and, after junior ministerial roles as Minister of State for Energy and Minister of State for the Privy Council Office, he entered the Cabinet at the end of James Callaghan’s tenure as Prime Minister, serving as Secretary of State for Trade and President of the Board of Trade. During Labour’s time in Opposition to Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government, he rose through the Shadow Cabinet, serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Trade, Shadow Secretary of State for Energy, Shadow Secretary of State for Employment, Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer.

SGS097 £250 £50 per month over 4 months 1979 Europa Day National stamp week cover signed by ex- Labour leader John Smith, extremely rare signature, we have never had his signature on a cover before The Portfolio Signed

Buckingham Covers, Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF. TEL: 01303 278137 Edward Teller

Edward Teller (Hungarian: Teller Ede; 1908 -2003) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who was born in Hungary, and is known colloquially as “the father of the hydrogen bomb”, although he claimed he did not care for the title. Teller emigrated to the United States in the 1930s, and was an early member of the Manhattan Project, charged with developing the first atomic bomb. During this time he made a serious push to develop the first fusion-based weapons as well, but these were deferred until after World War II. After his controversial testimony in the security clearance hearing of his former Los Alamos Laboratory superior J. Robert Oppenheimer, Teller was ostracized by much of the scientific community. Throughout his life, Teller was known both for his scientific ability and his difficult interpersonal relations and volatile personality, and is considered one of the inspirations for the character Dr. Strangelove in the 1964 movie of the same name. SGT094 £ 75 Edward Teller, prominent physicist, creator of the hydrogen bomb, signed American cover, our choice The Portfolio Signed Buckingham Covers, Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF. TEL: 01303 278137 On the Buses Reginald Alfred “Reg” Varney was an English actor, entertainer and comedian best known for his television roles on The Rag Trade and On the Buses. Robert St Clair “Bob” Grant was an English actor, comedian and writer, best known for playing Jack Harper in the television sitcom On the Buses. Grant trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, working in his spare time, (coincidentally, in view of his later career) as a bus driver. Stephen Lewis, was an English actor, comedian, director, screenwriter, and playwright. He is best known for his roles as Inspector Cyril “Blakey” Blake in the LWT sitcom and film versions of On the Buses, Clem “Smiler” Hemmingway in Last of the Summer Wine, and Harry Lambert in BBC Television’s Oh, Doctor Beeching! Anna Karen is a South African-born English film, television and theatre actress. Her best-known roles are in the sitcoms On the Buses and The Rag Trade. She has also appeared in BBC TV’s EastEnders from 1996 on SGV007C £200 £40 per month over 4 months a recurring basis as Sal Martin. 2001 Benham Small Silk cover, signed by stars of On the Buses, Bob Grant, Reg Varney, Anna Karen and Stephen Lewis The Portfolio Signed

Buckingham Covers, Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF. TEL: 01303 278137 Robin Williams Robin McLaurin Williams (1951 -2014) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, director, producer, writer, singer and voice artist. Starting as a stand-up comedian in San Francisco and Los Angeles in the mid-1970s, he is credited with leading San Francisco’s comedy renaissance. After rising to fame as Mork in Mork & Mindy (1978- 82), Williams went on to establish a career in both stand-up comedy and feature film acting. Williams won the 1997 Academy Award for Best Supporting Robin Williams, signed 1994 American Love cover. Actor for his performance as SGW012A £75 Sean Maguire in Good Will Hunting. He also received two Robin Williams, signed 1992 American Christmas cover Emmy Awards, six Golden SGW012B £75 Globe Awards, two Screen Robin Williams, signed 1979 Dogs First Day Cover Actors Guild Awards, and five SGW012C £75 Grammy Awards throughout his career. The Portfolio Signed