Not William Gladstone...
January 12 2011
Picture: Bonhams
...as catalogued, but John Bright. Still worth buying though.
Bright wasn't Prime Minister, but he was one of the most important statesman of the Victorian age. He said the famous phrase during the Crimean War; "The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land. You may almost hear the beating of his wings."
Update 19.1.11; it made £1,440.
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