Every day Sophie Dupre presents two items from her large stock of signed photographs, autograph letters, autographs for sale, royal memoralbilia and antiquarian manuscripts.
The photographs are presented with the catalogue descriptions.
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May 09
On This Day
On this day in 1930 John Masefield was appointed Poet Laureate on the death of Robert Bridges. Many felt that Rudyard Kipling was a likely choice, however, on the recommendation of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, King George V appointed Masefield. He held the post until his death.
In 1887 Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opened in London. His Wild West Show returned to Europe in December 1902 with a fourteen-week run in London, capped by a visit from King Edward VII and the future King George V. The Wild West travelled through Great Britain during the 1902-03 performing in nearly every city large enough to support it
ORIGINAL PEN AND INK DRAWING OF A SHIP
MASEFIELD (John, 1878-1967, O.M., Poet Laureate)
‘Philip the King’ signed and inscribed “For Martha Hodgkiss” and dated on the front free endpaper above a detailed pen and ink drawing of a ship in full sail, together with a typed copy of a couplet of poetry, ‘The luck will alter and the star will rise/ The days that make us happy make us wise ..’, the book published Heinemann, 1930, the inscription dated 20th April 1961
37137
CODY (William Frederick, 1846-1917, ‘Buffalo Bill’, American Scout and Showman)
Superb postcard photo signed “W. F. Cody, ‘Buffalo Bill’”, and dated showing him three quarters length, standing with his hand on his hips wearing a tailcoat and cowboy hat, 5½” x 3½”, no place, 1903
38388
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