Auction Catalogue

22 September 2006

Starting at 11:30 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1203

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22 September 2006

Hammer Price:
£30

Vice-Admiral A. F. B. Carpenter, V.C., Royal Navy,

Autographed Book, The Blocking of Zeebrugge, by Captain A. F. B. Carpenter, V.C., R.N., Herbert Jenkins, London, 1924, 295pp, blue boards, frontispiece formerly reaffixed with tape, now detached, fairly good condition £30-40

V.C. London Gazette 23 July 1918 (Zebrugge).

With author’s signature, ‘Alfred F. B. Carpenter, Captain, R.N.’ cut from another source and affixed to the half title page.