Fine Art Sale
Lot 532
ROYAL NAVY. AN ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS
ROYAL NAVY. AN ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS, 1934-45 of ships including HMS Despatch and Enterprise, the location mainly in the Mediterranean including Malta, Acre, Alexandria, Haifa, Gibraltar including Spanish Republicans taken by HM Hospital Ship Maine from Gibraltar to Valencia, HMS Hunter rescued after striking a mine 1937, ashore in Malta, the Arab Revolt in Palestine, a series of six dramatic shipboard photographs of explosions at sea during a Malta convoy run, the flight deck of an aircraft carrier and Japanese prisoners, 250 mounted mainly half-plate or snapshot photographs and a quantity of contemporary postcards of the places visited, cloth covers
Estimate: £100 - 150
Sold for £200