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Lot 152

CHURCHILL (WINSTON)
Photograph signed on the mount ("Winston S. Churchill"), showing the young Churchill half-length wearing a wing collar, seated in an armchair, Admiralty, 10 March 1915; with a letter from his private secretary Eddie Marsh

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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CHURCHILL (WINSTON)

Photograph signed on the mount ("Winston S. Churchill"), showing the young Churchill half-length wearing a wing collar, seated in an armchair, with his hands clasped, in the original wood and passepartout frame, glazed (unexamined out of frame), size of image 197 x 148mm., Admiralty, 10 March 1915

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A FINE PHOTOGRAPH OF CHURCHILL AS FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY DURING THE GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN: on the back of the frame is an autograph letter signed by Churchill's private secretary Eddie Marsh, written from the Admiralty on 10 March 1915: "Mr Churchill asks me to send you his thanks & kind remembrance, & to say that he has much pleasure in signing the photograph". The allied fleet was to launch its attack on Turkish positions in the Dardanelles eight days later, on 18 March.

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