Fine Art Sale
Lot 562
SIEGE OF SIDNEY STREET. THIRTY REAL PHOTGRAPHIC POSTCARDS BY ALFRED BARRATT
SIEGE OF SIDNEY STREET. THIRTY REAL PHOTGRAPHIC POSTCARDS BY ALFRED BARRATT, 1911 including eight of Sidney Street with the fire brigade and Scots Guards, twenty-two of the ensuing funeral processions and 5 contemporary real photographic postcards of Sergeants Robert Bentley and Charles Tucker and groups of police, unused (35)Provenance: Inspector George Henry Wheeldon of the City of London Police, the author in 1907 of Instructions in Self Defence (see The None PC Guide to Policing, Daily Mail article, 1 January 2010)
Estimate: £100 - 200
Sold for £250