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[Royal Navy ephemera.] Printed commemorative newspaper: ‘Siver Jubilee Naval Review 1935’. Filled with articles, advertisements and illustrations. Contributions by Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes, Frank C. Bowen and Evelyn H. Healey.

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Silver Jubilee Naval Review 1935 [Royal Navy; Spithead; Portsmouth and Sunderland Newspapers; Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes; Frank C. Bowen; Evelyn H. Healey]
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1935. ‘Published by Portsmouth and Sunderland Newspapers, Limited, Stanhope Road, Portsmouth. Price ONE PENNY.’
£180.00

A scarce item: no copies on WorldCat or JISC, nor at the Caird Library, National Martime Museum (though the latter does have a signed print of one of the illustrations). Twenty-six broadsheet pages, on news stock paper, in shiny paper covers printed in red, blue and brown. Filled with illustrations and topical advertisements for everything from corsetry to bicycles, from a full-page one on the inside front cover for ‘Brickwoods Jubilee Brew / 4d. per Small Bottle in Public Bars’, to one on the back cover reading ‘On Review / United Ales & Stout Are Supreme’.

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Autograph Signature ('Roger Keyes').

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Sir Roger Keyes [Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes] (1872-1945), British naval officer
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Without date or place.
£18.00

On a leaf of pink paper (roughly 16 x 20 cm) removed from an autograph album. Firm signature, 6 cm long, with the initial 'R' blotted by Keyes. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. The page bearing the signature is headed, in another hand, 'Famous Men Military and Naval'.

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