Auction Date:2010 Jul 14 @ 22:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Visitors Register for the Witney Institute, 7.75 x 9.75, 46 pages, containing approximately 1000 guest signatures from 1901-1920, most of which are accompanied by a member signature in the “Introduced By” column. Signed on the third page “Winston S. Churchill,” on January 3, 1902, also signed by Churchill’s cousin, the 9th Duke of Marlborough. In very good condition, with scattered toning and soiling, tear to lower right, and some stray ink marks. Register itself rates good to very good, with toning and soiling throughout, edge tears, some scattered paper loss, and moderate wear and surface loss to covers and spine.
The now-defunct Witney Institute was a ‘gentlemen-only’ social club visited by Churchill and his cousin, Charles “Sunny” Spencer-Churchill, on this January day while enrolling recruits for mounted units to serve in the Boer War. The very next day, Churchill was commissioned as a captain in the Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars (QOOH), a regiment of the British Army between 1888 and 1922. The regiment served in the Boer War and during World War I. Churchill remained an enthusiastic supporter his entire life, so it is not surprising that he would endeavor to secure others to the company’s ranks.
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