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Auction Info

Auction Name
Deeds Not Words. A Women's Suffrage Collection
Auction Date
11/20/2025 - 11/20/2025
Sale Number
#31671
Total Lots
61
Sold Lots
61.0
Lots Sold
100.00%
Unsold Lots
0
Total Sales (GBP)
193,062.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
63,000.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
104,500.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
63,000.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
104,500.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
184.75%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

for 'The Suffragette' newspaper, [c.1913-1914]

 [c.1913-1914] GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 46,080.00
35 PHILLIPS (MARY) -- HOLLOWAY COMMONPLACE BOOK

Notebook kept by Mary Phillips in Holloway, July to August 1908

 1908 GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 21,760.00
33 PHILLIPS (MARY)

Correspondence to militant suffragette Mary Phillips (1880-1969) from the leaders of the WSPU, 1907-1916

 , 1907-1916 GBP 15,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 20,480.00
14 HICKS (LILIAN & AMY)

Papers of Lilian Hicks and her daughter Amy, including letters written from Holloway & Aylesbury Prisons, 1912

 1912 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 7,680.00
52 TERRERO (JANIE) -- HOLLOWAY PRISON

Manuscript letter book compiled after her imprisonment in Holloway, 1912 [post-1918]

 1912 [post-1918] GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 5,632.00
75

Some 95 comic, photographic and graphic postcards on pro- and anti-suffrage themes

 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 5,632.00
67 Edited by Christabel Pankhurst.

The Suffragette, c.1118 issues, 8 November 1912-8 October 1915

 1912-1915 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 5,120.00
2

Illuminated printed address signed by Emmeline Pankhurst, [1909]

 [1909] GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 4,864.00
23 PANKHURST (CHRISTABEL)

Autograph letter signed to Rachel Barrett, with related items, [c.1908-1912]

 [c.1908-1912] GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 4,864.00
73

Rare series of six humorous postcards by Reg Carter of Southwold, with 11 others

 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 4,352.00
24

Postcard album of 50 portrait postcards, 30 signed, of WSPU and WFL members, c.1910

 c.1910 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 4,352.00
26 PEARSON (ANNIE SEYMOUR)

Autograph letter written on prison-issue toilet paper, January 1913

 1913 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 4,096.00
37

Group of 36 photographs from Mary Phillips' collection, [c.1908-1914]

 c.1908-1914 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 4,096.00
53 PEARSON (ANNIE SEYMOUR)

Scrapbook compiled by Annie 'Nance' Seymour Pearson, [first quarter twentieth century]

 [first quarter twentieth century] GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 3,840.00
34 PHILLIPS (MARY)

Papers from the collection of Mary Phillips (1880-1969), including TLS from Emmeline Pankhurst

 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,584.00
48 MORRIS (WILLIAM)

News from Nowhere, NORAH DUVAL'S COPY, SIGNED BY 1910; and another, EMILY DUVAL'S COPY, SIGNED BY HOLLOWAY PRISONERS

 1910 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,328.00
66 Edited by Frederick & Emmeline Pethick Lawrence

Votes for Women, vol. 1-4 & 6, October 1907-December 1913

 1913 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,816.00
70

Collection of 59 postcards, all RPPCs

 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 2,816.00
41

The Trial of the Suffragette Leaders,

 [1909] GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,432.00
27 JOHN (NANCY A., editor)

Holloway Jingles. Written in Holloway Prison during March and April, 1912. FIRST EDITION, LILIAN KELSALL'S COPY, [1912]

 1912 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,304.00
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