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'Prehistoric material'

Correspondence between B Champion and AD Lacaille re disposal of material; also includes auction catalogue of Harrods and Allsop & Co sale no 27 held on 10-11 Jul 1939: prehistoric and ethnological specimens, savage implements and weapons; list of prices and buyers names

Transfers

Pre-War Dispersal

Files

'Allsop & Co'

[?Arms and weapons]

'Bicycles'

'Mr Sydney Burney'

'By-gones'

'Callender (model ships)'

'Christie, Manson & Woods (sculpture)'

'Harrods and Allsop'

'Knight, Frank & Rutley'

'Lantern slides'

'Lady Moore-Guggisberg'

'Pearson, Mr'

'Puttick and Simpson'

'Robinson, Fisher & Harding'

'Sculpture'

'Sotheby (sculpture)'

'Surplus material'

'Weapons'

'WHMM material sent for resale or disposal'

'WHMM presentations'

'Prehistoric material'

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About this work

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Publication/Creation

Physical description

Acquisition note

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