CHURCHILL REPLIES TO A TOAST [SAVAGE CLUB (E.E. Peacock, Hon. Sec.)]

Pictorial Menu of the club's 44th Anniversary Dinner with a mass of cartoon portraits by Oliver Paque of leading figures of the day, including guests Sir L. Alma Tadema and Winston Churchill M.P., who is shown hauling a bottle of champagne on a miniature gun-carriage labelled 'Pretoria', and Archdeacon Sinclair standing by a mitre marked "nolo episcopari" ("I don't want to be a bishop"), on the verso are the toasts and the names of no fewer than 28 entertainers including Courtice Pounds, printed in black, verso also in red and gold, 2 sides card 14¼" x 11", Hotel Cecil, 7th December short tear in fold without loss

This is very early Churchilliana, dating from the immediate post Boer War period.

Item Date:  1901

Stock No:  51784      £675

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