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63 ● CHURCHILL,WINSTON S. Photograph Signed, 3/4-length seated portrait, show-
ing the Prime Minister smiling. Signed on the mat below the image. 91/2x71/2 inches
(image), 12x10 inches overall; faint scattered foxing to the mat; framed.
Np, [1952] [2,000/3,000]
WITH—Letter fromWing Commander G.H.Wiles to Alan Davidson at the British Embassy sending
a photograph that had been hanging in the British Joint Services Mission inWashington and request-
ing help in rectifying the lack of the Prime Minister’s signature on the photograph. Davidson’s signed
reply is written in the blank lower margin:“Rectification performed!”Washington, 17 January 1952.