Lot 248
TWO BRITISH NORTH AMERICA MILITARY CAMPAIGN INTEREST ITEMS
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Auction: Day One | Wednesday 18 Feb at 10am | Lots 1 to 352
Description
including GENERAL SIR ISAAC BROCK’S WAR OF 1812 CAMPAIGN CHAIR, a Regency simulated bamboo chair, the front of the seat set with a white metal presentation plaque engraved ‘General Sir Isaac Brock’s chair, Which he used previous to taking Detroit 1812, Presented to Sir J. E. Alexander A.D.C, by Mrs Drake Amherstburg'; together with THE LAST PEN USED BY GENEREL SIR BENJAMIN D'URBAN, a metal ‘Joseph Gillott’s Patent' nib pen, together with a newspaper cutting of D'Urban's death, inside a morocco leather case with a white metal plaque bearing inscription ‘The last pen and pencil, Used by my deeply lamented Chief His Excellency Lieut. General Sir Benjamin D’Urban, GCB KCH KCTS E c, Commander of HM Forces British North America, May 25th 1849, Montreal, J. E. Alexander Knt. A.D.C' (2)
Dimensions
the chair 89cm high, 57cm wide, 42cm deep; the pen case 19.5cm long, 3.5cm wide
Provenance
General Sir James Alexander, thence by descent