Revolutionary freesheets and a note from the King of Siam
UK: ONE of a group of seven newspapers, plus a printed edict, issued in March 1917, at the outbreak of the Russian revolution, which sold for £400 (Hanson). They were apparently distributed free in the streets of Petrograd and these copies were acquired by Gertrude Hitchcock, who was there working for a British engineering company at the time.
Other highlights of the autograph section of Dominic Winter's sale included a letter of 1852 (in Eng…