Historical Archive

Duke of Wellington Autograph Signed Letter - a letter hand written and signed by Arthur Wellesley the 1st Duke of Wellington who famously defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. The two page letter is dated 4 January 1827 and is addressed to the Marquess of Tweeddale. Wellington states that he has received his correspondent's letter and would have answered earlier if he "had not been certain that you could have seen from what I was hoping... that there was no chance of the war extending beyond these operations for which provision has already been made." The daughter of the Marquess of Tweeddale married Wellington's eldest son

Nelson Mandela Autograph Signed Long Walk To Freedom - black ink signature of Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid revolutionary and politician who served as President of South Africa between 1994 - 1999, on a limited edition copy of his autobiography Long Walk To Freedom. This is the first impression of the first UK edition published by Little, Brown and Company in 1994 in a limited edition of 1,000 copies. This copy is #111 of 1000 and signed by Mandela on the title page. Quarter bound in black leather with green cloth covers and gilt top edge. A pristine copy with clear-cut authenticity

Nelson Mandela Autograph Signed Photo - black ink signature of Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid revolutionary and politician who served as President of South Africa between 1994 - 1999, on a colour photo. Mandela dates the signature 7.12.2001. A rare and highly collectable autograph

Jimmy Carter & Gerald Ford Autograph Signed Photo - blue ink autographs of former American Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford on a photo from one of their televised Presidential Campaign Debates in 1976

Lord Randolph Churchill Autograph Display - vintage black ink signature of Lord Randolph Churchill mounted with a black and white photo. Churchill was a gifted yet controversial Tory politician his day and is now best knwn as the father of Sir Winston Churchill

David Lloyd George Autograph Display - black ink autograph of British Liberal politician David Lloyd George who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 1916-22. Lloyd George is the only Prime Minister to have been Welsh and the only one to speak English as a second language

Lord Sidmouth Autograph Signed Display - an envelope panel handwritten and signed by Lord Simouth,Henry Addington, who was British Prime Minister from 1801 - 1804

Theodore Van Kirk Signed Photo - blue ink autograph of Theodore Van Kirk on a black and white photo. Van Kirk was the navigator of the Enola Gay which dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6th August 1945

Indira Gandhi Autograph Signed Photo Display - black ink autograph of Indira Gandhi, the only female Prime Minister of India, on a postcard size black and white photo. Indira Gandhi was was assassinated in 1984

William Orpen Autograph Display - authentic black ink autograph of Irish painter Sir William Orpen who is best known for his role as an official war artist of the Western Front during the First World War

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery Autograph Display - black ink autograph of senior British Army officer Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery mounted with a black and white photo. The signature has been attached to black card

Arthur T Harris Autograph Signed Display - black ink autograph of Arthur T Harris the Marshal of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War

Hiram Maxim Autograph Signed Display - vintage black ink autograph of Hiram Maxim who invented the first portable fully automatic machine gun

William Michael Rossetti Autograph Letter Signed - a rare fascinating letter handwritten and signed by William Michael Rossetti , brother of Christina and Dante Rossetti, and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The letter is addressed to poet Algernon Swinburne and refers to his poem Song Of Italy. The letter also makes reference to Robert Browning and William Blake

Lord Baden-Powell Autograph Signed Letter - a letter handwritten and signed by Lord Baden-Powell who is best known as the founder of the Scout Movement. The two sided letter dates to 12 December 1905 and is a request to use an image of Oliver Cromwell in the Calvary Journal. A highly collectable item

Paul Tibbets Signed Photo - blue ink autograph of Paul Tibbets on a black and white photo. Tibbets was the pilot of the Enola Gay which dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6th August 1945

George R Caron Signed Photo - blue ink autograph of George R Caron on a black and white photo. Caron was the Tail Gunner and only photographer on the Enola Gay which dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6th August 1945

Tom Ferebee Signed Photo - blue ink autograph of Tom Ferebee on a black and white photo. Ferebee was the bombardier aboard the Enola Gay when it dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6th August 1945

Isambard Kingdom Brunel Autograph Signed Letter - an extremely scarce letter handwritten and signed by Victorian engineering genius Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The letter has been attached to a page from a Victorian scrap album. On the reverse is a letter by the architect Matthew Digby Wyatt who worked with Brunel and was the Secretary of the Great Exhibition

Frank Whittle Autograph Display - black ink autograph of English inventor Frank Whittle who is credited with inventing the turbojet engine. The signature has been cut from a First Day Cover and attached to black card

Olof Palme Autograph Display - black ink autograph of Olof Palme who was Prime Minister of Sweden from 1969-76 and 1982-86. Palme was assassinated in mysterious circumstances in 1986

Paul Tibbets Autograph Signed Photo - blue ink autograph of American Paul Tibbets who was the pilot of the Enola Gay which dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6th August 1945

Chris Bonington Autograph Photo - black ink autograph of British mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington on a superb photo of Mount Everest

PG Wodehouse Autograph Display - vintage pencil signature of popular English novelist PG Wodehouse who is best known for his Jeeves and Wooster stories. The autograph is on an irregularly cut piece of paper and attached to black card - hence the lower than usual price