Item HAMILTON, ISM 19/15 - Bookplate printing blocks, 1915-1934, with illustrations of Hamilton, and of the Hamilton's cottage in Buckinghamshire

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HAMILTON, ISM 19/15

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Bookplate printing blocks, 1915-1934, with illustrations of Hamilton, and of the Hamilton's cottage in Buckinghamshire

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  • 1915 - 1934 (Creation)

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5 blocks

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Five bookplate printing blocks, comprising Hamilton as General Officer Commanding, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, talking to ANZAC troops, Gallipoli, 1915; design for books of Jean Hamilton (their cottage at Chesham, Bucks, 1912); Hamilton as Colonel of the Gordon Highlanders, in full dress uniform, and saluting in service uniform, 1920s; cartoon by D R Leslie, of Hamilton carrying the drums of 2 Bn Gordon Highlanders, which were left in Belgium and brought to Germany during World War One and presented to to Hamilton by German President FM Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, in Berlin, Germany, 1934. 5 blocks

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