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The First World War Centenary Sale | Knightsbridge, London | Wednesday 1 October 2014 21999 ALE S ENARY ENARY T WORLD WAR CEN WORLD WAR T Wednesday 1 October 2014 Wednesday Knightsbridge, London THE FIRS THE FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY SALE | Knightsbridge, London | Wednesday 1 October 2014 21999 THE FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY SALE Wednesday 1 October 2014 at 1pm Knightsbridge, London BONHAMS ENQUIRIES SALE NUMBER IMPORTANT INFORMATION Montpelier Street 21999 The United States Government Knightsbridge Books, Manuscripts, has banned the import of ivory London SW7 1HH Photographs and Ephemera CATALOGUE into the USA. Lots containing www.bonhams.com Matthew Haley £20 ivory are indicated by the symbol +44 (0)20 7393 3817 Ф printed beside the lot number VIEWING [email protected] Please see page 2 for bidder in this catalogue. Sunday 28 September information including after-sale 11am to 3pm Medals collection and shipment. Monday 29 September John Millensted 9am to 4.30pm +44 (0)20 7393 3914 Please see back of catalogue Tuesday 30 September [email protected] for important notice to bidders 9am to 4.30pm Wednesday 1 October Militaria ILLUSTRATIONS 9am to 11am David Williams Front cover: Lot 105 +44 (0)20 7393 3807 Inside front cover: Lot 48 BIDS [email protected] Inside back cover: Lot 128 +44 (0) 20 7447 7448 Back cover: Lot 89 +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Pictures and Prints To bid via the internet Thomas Podd please visit www.bonhams.com +44 (0)20 7393 3988 [email protected] New bidders must also provide proof of identity when submitting Collectors bids. Failure to do this may result Lionel Willis in your bids not being processed. +44 (0)20 7393 3804 [email protected] Please note that bids should be submitted no later than 4pm on Works of Art the day prior to the auction. Michael Lake +44 (0)20 8963 2813 Live online bidding is [email protected] available for this sale Please email [email protected] CUSTOMER SERVICES with “Live bidding” in the subject Monday to Friday 8.30am to 6pm line 48 hours before the auction +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 to register for this service. Bidding by telephone will only be accepted on a lot with a lower estimate of £1,000 or higher. Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams 1793 Ltd Directors Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Robert Brooks Co-Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Jonathan Baddeley, Andrew McKenzie, Simon Mitchell, Jeff Muse, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Malcolm Barber Co-Chairman, Antony Bennett, Matthew Bradbury, Mike Neill, Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Harvey Cammell, Simon Cottle, Andrew Currie, Peter Rees, Julian Roup, Iain Rushbrook, Matthew Girling Global CEO, David Dallas, Paul Davidson, Jean Ghika, John Sandon, Tim Schofield, Veronique Scorer, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Patrick Meade Global CEO, Charles Graham-Campbell, Miranda Grant, James Stratton, Roger Tappin, Ralph Taylor, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Geoffrey Davies, Jonathan Horwich, Robin Hereford, Asaph Hyman, Charles Lanning, Shahin Virani, David Williams, James Knight, Caroline Oliphant, Sophie Law, Fergus Lyons, Paul Maudsley, Michael Wynell-Mayow, Suzannah Yip. Hugh Watchorn. Gordon McFarlan, Central SALE Middlesex Hospital INFORMATION Park Royal Coronation Road W Bonhams, e d s P t Park Royal a e a rn r o A k R v e R e s A4 o 0 a y Park a h l C Royal Western Ave A40 R o 0 Station a 0 d Acton 0 4 Cemetery North A Acton d Station a o R a i r o t c i V BIDS IMPORTANT NOTICE TO HANDLING & STORAGE PAYMENT +44 (0) 20 7447 7448 BUYERS COLLECTION & CHARGES All charges due to Bonhams STORAGE AFTER SALE Horn Lane +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax West Acton Transfer and storage charges must be paid by the time of [email protected] Sold lots marked with a specialStation for all W lots removed to the collection from Bonhams’ www.bonhams.com symbol W will only be retained warehouse will commence on warehouse. at Bonhams Knightsbridge until Wednesday 8 October 2014 PAYMENTS 5pm on Thursday 2 October and will be applicable for each Payment in advance Buyers 2014. Lots not collected by then working day. Tel: +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 will be removed to Bonhams Park to ascertain amount due by: +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Royal Warehouse at: The charges levied by Bonhams cash, cheque with banker’s are as follows: card, credit card, bank draft Sellers Unit 1, Sovereign Park or traveller’s cheque. Payment of sale proceeds Coronation Road All lots marked with W +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Park Royal Payment at time of collection +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax London NW10 7QP Transfer per lot £30.00 By credit card / debit card Tel: +44 (0)870 811 3867 Daily storage per lot £3.00 VALUATIONS, TAXATION Hours of opening 9.30am to IMPORTANT NOTICE & HERITAGE 4.30pm Monday to Friday All other objects A surcharge of 2% is applicable +44 (0) 20 7468 8340 when using Mastercard, Visa and +44 (0) 20 7468 5860 fax All W lots removed to Bonhams Transfer per lot £10.00 overseas debit cards. [email protected] warehouse on Friday 3 October Daily storage per lot £1.70 will be available for collection The following symbol is used CATALOGUE SUBSCRIPTIONS from 2pm on Monday 6 October All the above charges are to denote that VAT is due on To obtain any Bonhams 2014. These lots will be subject exclusive of VAT the hammer price and buyer’s catalogue or to take out an to transfer and storage charges if premium annual subscription: they are not collected within the Subscriptions Department period outlined below. † VAT 20% on hammer price +44 (0) 1666 502200 and buyer’s premium +44 (0) 1666 505107 fax All other sold lots will remain [email protected] in Bonhams Knightsbridge * VAT on imported items at a Collections department until preferential rate of 5% on hammer SHIPPING Wednesday 15 October 2014. price and the prevailing rate on For information and estimates Lots not collected by then buyer’s premium on domestic and international may be removed to Bonhams shipping as well as export licenses warehouse. These lots will W These lots will be removed to please contact Bonhams Shipping also be subject to transfer and Bonhams Park Royal Warehouse Department on: storage charges. Please refer to after the sale. Please read the +44 (0) 20 8963 2849 the departments. sale information page for more +44 (0) 20 8963 2850 details. +44 (0) 20 7629 9673 fax Lots may be released from [email protected] Bonhams warehouse on Y These lots are subject to CITES production of the Collection regulations, please read the Order obtained from cashiers’ information in the back of office at Bonhams, Knightsbridge the catalogue. or New Bond Street and a form of photographic ID. If a third party is collecting on behalf of the client, the client must provide Bonhams with written authority prior to collection. The third party must present a photographic form of ID when collecting. FIRST WORLD WAR TIMELINE 1914: June 28 Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo July 28 Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia August 1-4 Declarations of war under terms of alliances August 7 First members of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) land in France August 23 Battle of Mons, first engagement between British and German forces September 6 First Battle of the Marne November 22 Trenches established along the whole of the Western Front 1915: January First Zeppelin raids on Britain April 22 First Battle of Ypres April 25 Allied landing at Gallipoli May 7 German U-boat torpedoes the Lusitania with the loss of American lives May 31 First Zeppelin raid on London September 25 Battle of Loos December 15 Sir Douglas Haig replaces Sir John French as C-i-C of the BEF 1916: February 9 Conscription introduced in Britain February 21 Beginning of the Battle of Verdun April 29 Besieged British garrison at Kut in Mesopotamia surrenders May 31 Battle of Jutland July 1 Battle of the Somme September 15 First deployment of tanks by Britain December 7 David Lloyd George elected Prime Minister 1917: January Declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare by the Germans March 15 Tsar Nicholas II abdicates April 6 US declares war on Germany April 9 Battle of Arras June 7 Battle of Messines Ridge June 25 First US troops arrive on the Western Front July 31 Third Battle of Ypres, commonly known as Passchendale begins November 20 Battle of Cambrai begins, the first large-scale deployment of tanks 1918: March 3 Soviet Russia concludes separate peace at Brest-Litovsk with Germany and her allies March 21-July Germans launch large scale Spring Offensive August 8 Battle of Amiens November 9 Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates and flees to Holland November 11 Armistice is signed at 5.00am and comes into effect at 11.00am 1919: June 28 Treaty of Versailles signed, exactly five years after assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand THE FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY SALE | 3 1 1 1 ALFRED NOBEL AND NITROGLYCERIN “Nitroglycerin Aktiebolaget was Alfred Nobel’s very first company. The Collection relating to the Nobel prize and to Alfred Nobel’s first manufacture of nitroglycerine on an industrial scale started there as company and the production of nitroglycerin, mainly originating from early as 1865, and for more than fifty years the Vinterviken factory was the archives of Nobel’s first company, Nitroglycerin Aktiebolaget, and to deliver Nobel explosives and blasting devices of various kinds for the personal collection of its director Sigurd Nauckhoff (1879-1954), civil engineering, with a steadily expanding capacity.
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