A LARGE ARCHIVE OF POSTCARDS AND LETTERS IN RELATION TO ADOL...

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A LARGE ARCHIVE OF POSTCARDS AND LETTERS IN RELATION TO ADOLF HITLERS MEETING WITH NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN IN 1938, this archive includes some real photograph postcards showing Chamberlains arrival and his negotiations at Bad Godesberg in September 1938, one postcard has a quick productions and was posted to Luxembourg and another had a special meeting postmark, also included is an unusual Nuremberg Rally card, an Adolf Hitler birthday sheet on a cover to the UK, six envelopes addressed to Chamberlain that arrived from all over Europe after his talks with Hitler, there is also a copy of 'The People' dated 3rd September 1938, there is also two 'White papers', the first is the Henderson Report and the other is about the treatment of German nationals in Germany 1938-1939, one of the postcards features the historic meeting and has Chamberlain-Hitler on the reverse next to the date stamp, also included is a photocopy of the paper on which Chamberlain waved on his return to the UK, there are seventeen pieces in total and show an interesting insight to the famous meeting, this was previously sold at Cavendish Philatelic Auctions on 20th October 2000, as part of the George Crabb collection and was lot 385, Customers must satisfy themselves prior to sale in regards to conditions and authenticity, viewing is advised, condition reports are available on request

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30th Aug 23 at 9:30am BST

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Wed 30th Aug 2023 9:30am BST (Lots 1 to 356)