Sworders: DREAMS | A Unique Private Collection, A1244, Essex

Auction Details

Auction Date: July 09, 2025 - July 09, 2025

Page Size: 223 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
126		A collection of press photographs of mixed royalty and aristocrats,	20th century	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
127		A collection of royal press photographs,	20th century	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 130.00
128		Photographs of mixed royalty,	20th century	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 130.00
129		Photographs of European royalty,	20th century	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 130.00
130		Photographs of Romanian royalty,	20th century	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 260.00
131		Photographs and slides of Princess Diana,	20th century	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
132	Cecil Beaton (1904-1980),	a collection of five silver gelatin print photographs, one of Queen Elizabeth II with infant Prince Andrew, one of Lord Snowdon and three of the photographer himself, with notes verso,		GBP 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
133		A collection of photographs of Dutch royalty,	20th century	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
134		A collection of photographs of Belgian royalty,	20th century	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
135		A collection of press photographs of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson,	20th century	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 130.00
136		An album of portraits of German aristocrats and nobility,	c.1860	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 1,105.00
137		Of American Civil War interest:	late 19th century	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 650.00
138		A large collection of British regimental photography and ephemera,	19th/20th century	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 338.00
139		A Boer War prisoner-of-war 'whimsey' art in a bottle,	c.1901	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 156.00
140		A collection of naval and military photograph albums,		GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 975.00
141		A First World War photograph album,	c.1914-1918	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
142		A collection of military albums, scrapbooks and photographs,	early 20th century	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 78.00
143		A group of ephemera,	early 20th century	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 494.00
144	Sir Muirhead Bone (1876-1953),	a collection of lithographic prints depicting various scenes from the First World War, c.1917	c.1917	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 845.00
145		A collection of military folk art,	20th century	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 117.00
146		A collection of negatives and letters,	20th century	GBP 50.00 - 70.00	GBP 455.00
147		Two American Second World War photograph albums,	20th century	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 91.00
148		A collection of GDR (East German) slides of Western tanks,	c.1970s	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
149		Photographs and ephemera relating to warships,	20th century	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
150		A large collection of radar and aviation-related photography,	20th century	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 1,170.00

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