Lot 599 :
Sold for £110 hammer
Estimate £80-£120
A late 19th Century military telegram message from Queen Victoria to Sir Samuel Wolseley after the battle of Tel el Kebir, reads 'Warmest congratulations, thank God for victory reply of beloved Arthur expect to all my admiration and sympathy and sorrow for heavy losses' with envelope, also message and signal sheets relating to action around Fleur with a pad of unused instructions for army book 165 for the use of mounted officers and two 19th Century German hand written and leather bound poetical works (qty)
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