Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Art Value Price Guide

Feb. 29, 2024
The Scout Movement and the Boer War - Edith Jane Maas RMS (1861 - 1925), a portrait miniature, Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB, KStJ, DL (1857 - 1941)
Est: £40 - £60
The Scout Movement and the Boer War - Edith Jane Maas RMS (1861 - 1925), a portrait miniature, Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB, KStJ, DL (1857 - 1941), signed with monogram, inscribed to verso, painted for the Artist's War Fund 1900, watercolour on ivory, 7.5cm x 6cm Ivory Submission Reference BJXGYS48
Bamfords Auctioneers and Valuers Ltd
Mar. 16, 2023
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941)
Est: €250 - €350
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British Lieutenant-General, the founder and first Chief Scout of the world-wide Scout Movement. An interesting, lengthy A.L.S., Robert Baden-Powell, four pages, 8vo, n.p., 1st April 1927, to Lieutenant-Colonel [Edwin] Smedley Williams, on the printed stationery of the Union-Castle Line R.M.M.V. Carnarvon Castle. Baden-Powell informs his correspondent that he has sent Mansergh a final appeal 'to reconsider his view against decentralisation in the distant ports of the Cape Province and against the making (of) a Central Coordinating executive for the Union', adding that Mansergh responded with a further definite refusal, and continuing 'I have pointed out in letters and conversations and, in what his executive committee termed ''homilies'', to them how essential such reorganisation is to progress and how it is asked for by the four other Provinces and by the three northern districts of the Cape Province. I explained that if the Scout spirit prevailed at Cape Hd. Qrs. they would as members of our team sink their own local prejudices or even interests for the good of the whole. All they did was to move a resolution not quite complimentary to me. I could not help thinking new Scouters would laugh if they saw it! At any rate I did - as I felt inclined to explain to them that our brotherhood is not a Parish Council and we don't move resolutions against people - least of all against ''poor bloody old me'' as General Tucker would say', further adding 'I am glad however to have seen for myself the entire absence of the Scout spirit at C P. H Q. and thus, if the Union Council ask Imperial Hd. Qrs. in England for powers to alter the Constitution so as to admit of decentralisation and coordinating executive we shall know how to act', concluding by remarking that he is pushed for time as the ship is departing and that he wishes for Strickland and Raftery at Kimberley to see his letter 'to show them how matters stand and that I am entirely in sympathy with your desire to go ahead and expand this movement to do big work for the country, under personal touch of leaders through a completed organisation of compact districts under Dist. Commissrs'. Some light foxing to the upper edges of the page and with a couple of paperclip rust stains to the upper left corner, otherwise about VG In September 1926 Baden-Powell had travelled to South Africa, where he was to remain for six months, in an effort to iron out the radical tensions in the fledgling scouting movement there, Originally, it was proposed that Indians be allowed to become Scouts, but in segregated troops. If this worked, then blacks and 'coloureds' would be formed into troops. However, this was unacceptable to Scouts in the Transvaal, where a separate movement for non-whites, called 'Pathfinders', had been instituted. For some, Scouting was to be a whites-only privilege. In 1927, Natal refused to start a 'Pathfinder' group and began to register Indians as Boy Scouts. Similarly, the provincial commissioner for Cape Colony, C. L. Mansergh, decided to ignore a separate organisation for 'coloureds' called 'Paladins' on the grounds that if he recognised them, the Boy Scouts would remain an all-white preserve. Clearly, Baden-Powell faced a difficult situation with each side lobbying for his support. The Chief Scouts efforts at compromise proved futile as, in 1931, the South African government created a youth movement for boys of Dutch descent - the Voortrekkers.
International Autograph Auctions Europe, S.L.
Jan. 25, 2023
Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). Autograph Letter Signed, 'R.S.S. Baden-Powell', 21 December 1900
Est: £100 - £150
Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). Autograph Letter Signed, 'R.S.S. Baden-Powell', 21 December 1900 * Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). Autograph Letter Signed, 'R.S.S. Baden-Powell', 32 Prince's Gate, SW, 21 December 1900, to Messrs Arnold, 'I beg to send herewith my will and other papers which I desire that you will keep for me during my absence in South Africa - i.e. till April next. Or until required by any member of my family', some overall spotting, 2 pages with blank integral leaf, adhesion remains from previous mounting to final blank page, 8vo QTY: (1)
Dominic Winter Auctions
Nov. 24, 2022
Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). 'Sketch for page 187..., c. 1923
Est: £300 - £500
Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). 'Sketch for page 187..., c. 1923 * Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). 'Sketch for page 187. "A FIZZER". Pig-sticking or hog-hunting, Lord Baden-Powell, [so titled on mount], c. 1923, pencil drawing on wove paper, showing a man on a horse with a pig in pursuit, ink note by Baden-Powell upper right 'H. G. L. & his Waler. 6 to 4 foxhunting. 100 to 1 pig-sticking', minor dust soiling and light fold marks, 12.5 x 33.5 cm, laid down on a modern card mount with printed caption centered on mount beneath QTY: (1) NOTE: Originally published in 1889, a revised and enlarged edition was published in 1924 with 42 new illustrations by the author.
Dominic Winter Auctions
Nov. 24, 2022
Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). Autograph Letter Signed, 'Badenpowell', 1 September 1937
Est: £150 - £200
Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). Autograph Letter Signed, 'Badenpowell', 1 September 1937 * Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). Autograph Letter Signed, 'Badenpowell', Pax Hill, Bentley, Hampshire, 1 September 1937, to Mrs Murphy and Mrs Hales, '(I've never written to two people at once but my excuse is that this is in reply to your own duplicate letter). I want to tell you that I read yours with amazement at such an unexpected communication, and with a deep sense of gratitude - not only on account of the princely sum you enclosed but for your very sympathetic appreciation of what my wife and I are trying to do in the Scout and Guide movement. Such a "pat on the back" given with a real understanding of the aims and possibilities of our scheme goes far to give us fresh incitement to press on with our work... ', 3 pages, 4to, together with another Autograph Letter Signed, 'R.S.S. Badenpowell', South African Constabulary, 9 March 1901, to Miss Given, a short note thanking her for her pretty card and birthday wishes, a little spotting, 1 page, 8vo, together with original postmarked envelope, plus a cabinet card photograph of Baden-Powell by Elliott & Fry and Stevengraph of Baden-Powell QTY: (4)
Dominic Winter Auctions
Nov. 24, 2022
Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). A sketch of a native fruit seller by General Sir R. Baden-Powell
Est: £150 - £200
Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). A sketch of a native fruit seller by General Sir R. Baden-Powell * Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). A sketch of a native fruit seller by General Sir R. Baden-Powell at Barbadoes [so titled on mount], c. 1912, watercolour on paper, signed 'R. Badenpowell' at foot, 135 x 90 mm, laid on to a piece of old album mount, contemporary inscription in a contemporary hand to mount, together with a pencil caricature of an unidentified gentleman with chest puffed out, drawn on ruled paper, signed 'Badenpowell' in pencil lower right, image size 17 x 10 cm, a little dust soiling, 1 page with integral blank, folio, plus a small drawing of a young woman with walking stick, jacket and hat drawn on a folded piece of South Africa Constabulary, Johannesburg, letterhead, signed twice in pencil at foot, 'RSS Badenpowell', some spotting and toning, 14.5 x 10.5 cm, plus a watercolour of a woman riding with two horses, titled in the lower margin 'A.B-P. [Agnes Baden-Powell, younger sister] Riding Tandem, Malta 1892', some spotting, contemporary paper mount of the same size, 11.5 x 17.5 cm QTY: (4)
Dominic Winter Auctions
Nov. 24, 2022
Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). A Russian Drosky-Sleigh, sketched in Moscow, c. 1911
Est: £200 - £300
Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). A Russian Drosky-Sleigh, sketched in Moscow, c. 1911 * Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). A Russian Drosky-Sleigh, sketched in Moscow, c. 1911, pen and black ink drawing on wove paper, signed and titled beneath, 110 x 190 mm, framed and glazed QTY: (1) NOTE: Baden-Powell visited Russia in eraly 1911 where he met the Tsar and was entertained by the Russian Boy Scout Committee.
Dominic Winter Auctions
Nov. 24, 2022
Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). A Montenegrin, [1913]
Est: £200 - £300
Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). A Montenegrin, [1913] * Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). A Montenegrin, [1913], sepia pen and ink drawing on wove paper, signed and titled to lower margin, 135 x 100 mm, framed and glazed QTY: (1) NOTE: Published in The Scout, 18 October 1913, with the caption: 'a Montenegrin-brave, fierce but honest'.
Dominic Winter Auctions
Nov. 24, 2022
Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). An original hand-made poster for a tug of war match on board ship
Est: £2,000 - £3,000
Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). An original hand-made poster for a tug of war match on board ship * Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). An original hand-made poster for a tug of war match on board ship, signed 'R.S.S. BadenPowell, RMS Orient, 23.3.07', pen & ink and watercolour on thick white wove paper, entitled 'CHALLENGE', showing caricatures of a suffragette and a boxer upper left and right, both figures in profile facing each other with fists raised, with ink and watercolour caption below on 9 centred lines: 'The SUFFRAGETTES of the Captains Table have challenged not only the Orient - but THE WHOLE BLOOMIN' WORLD to a Tug of War - and so have the MEN! 2PM TODAY. There will also be Mixed Bathing (I should say Hopping), Tschschtaiskowsky Stakes, Spotting for Gents, Elephant Sticking (Natural History Section), Murphy Manipulation, etc. etc.', a few spots, 37 x 26 cm, framed and glazed QTY: (1) NOTE: Provenance: purchased from Christie's, London, 28 November 1997, lot 342, where it was noted that 'Baden-Powell presented the sketch to the vendor's grandfather, a passenger of the R.M.S. Orient, bound for South Africa. Baden-Powell was ambidextrous and apparently drew the two figures simultaneously.'
Dominic Winter Auctions
Oct. 26, 2022
Baden-Powell Expands the Boy Scouts with: “Be Prepared,” first used in His 1908 handbook, “Scouting for Boys”
Est: $1,200 - $1,500
BADEN-POWELL, ROBERT. (1857-1941). English soldier and founder of the Boy Scouts; during the Second Boer War, Baden-Powell held Mafeking through a 217-day siege. ALS. (“Robert Baden Powell”). 2pp., 8vo. Pirie Dam, February 20, 1927. To Lieutenant Col. [Edwin] Smedley-Williams. “(Excuse my note paper!) On my way out here today I called in at Dale College, KW Town, and had a talk with the Principal, Mr. Sutton. He is favourable to having Scouts there if it were not that Cadets are compulsory. He would welcome the raising of the age for Cadets to admit scouting among junior boys. I have already written to Col. Croswell on this point and hope to see him next month about it. So ‘Be Prepared” to help them in starting Scouts ere long! Also I saw the boys of the Industrial School loafing about the roads badly wanting something to do. Just the class who most need Scouting—largely Dutch boys—a great opening for our work, if you can find a Scoutmaster for them. The two sons of my host, Mr. John Page of Kings W[illiam’s] T[own], would make valuable scouters or Commissrs. I expect. They are both young, married men, good sportsmen, educated at Dale, one was in the Indian Cavalry, the other in the Flying Corps in the war. Both command companies in the Kaffaria Rifles. Keep your eye on them! I find they admit boys to the Preparatory side of Dale College at 8 so they might very well start Wolf Cubs there as a thin end of the wedge, What about it? If you once got scouting going, and ultimately Rovering, in Dale Coll. it would mean a valuable help in Scouters for the movement in a few years time...” Baden-Powell fought with the British Army in India and Africa and his service record includes his heroic stand at Mafeking through a 217-day siege by the Boers in 1900. After returning to England, he discovered that the military training manuals he authored were widely read by young people. He responded to their interest in 1907 and organized the first Scouting encampment, which is considered the beginning of the Scout movement, and authored Scouting for Boys in 1908. Scouting’s popularity spread around the world during the first half of the 20th century with Baden-Powell leading the way. His books helped finance his world-wide traveling, and include Life’s Snags and How to Meet Them, written the year of our letter. In 1929, he became Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell because of the scouting center he established at Gilwell Park in England. Our letter regards Boy Scouts at Dale College Boy’s High School in King William’s Town (modern Qonce), South Africa, one of the oldest schools in the country and mentions Wolf Cubs for the youngest scouts and Rover Scouts for adults. Our letter’s recipient was a Welsh colonel in the Kaffrarian Rifles during the Boer War and, later, founding headmaster of the Shelborne Primary School in East London, South Africa. Written on the recto and verso of a sheet of lined paper. With a paperclip stain in the upper left corner where Baden-Powell has added “personal” in pencil. Folded and creased, otherwise, in very good condition. Letters by Baden-Powell mentioning scouting are rare, especially those with the organization’s famous motto, “Be Prepared,” first used in Baden-Powell’s 1908 handbook, “Scouting for Boys.”
Lion Heart Autographs
Dec. 16, 2021
Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). Typed Letter Signed, 'Robert Baden-Powell', 3 June 1913
Est: £100 - £150
Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). Typed Letter Signed, 'Robert Baden-Powell', 3 June 1913 * Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). Founder of the Scout movement. Typed Letter Signed, 'Robert Baden-Powell', 116 Victoria Street, London, 3 June 1913, to Vice Admiral A[rthur] Galloway [1855-1918], 'At last I return your maps and papers of the despatch-running scheme. I have read them with the greatest interest and wonder - wonder at the amount and time and thought which you must have so generously lavished upon evolving it. I must sincerely congratulate you on the result... ', and later, 'I shall endeavour to impress the general idea on Commissioners and Scoutmasters, but can have but little hope of so complete a scheme being carried out anywhere else', embossed letterhead, minor marks and two slight rust marks from an old paperclip to left margin not affecting text or signature, one page, 4to Qty: (1)
Dominic Winter Auctions
Sep. 09, 2021
* Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). Peace & War, Mafeking 19.11.99
Est: £250 - £350
* Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). Peace & War, Mafeking 19.11.99, pen & ink on wove paper, depicting a soldier on horseback in foreground, with nun walking and buildings in background, captioned, signed & dated to lower margin, light brown marks, 12.5 x 15 cm, modern window mount, gilt moulded frame, glazed, 27 x 28 cm Qty: (1)
Dominic Winter Auctions
Mar. 10, 2021
* Baden-Powell (Robert, 1st Baron, 1857-1941). A small pen and ink sketch of Baden-Powell's House
Est: £200 - £300
* Baden-Powell (Robert, 1st Baron, 1857-1941). British Army Officer, Writer and Founder of the Scout Movement. A small pen and ink sketch attributed to Baden-Powell of his house at Meerut, North West Province, circa 1900, drawn on a 13th Hussars' notecard with embossed motif to verso, caption in another hand in pink ink, 'BP's House Meerut. Afterwards Nigels', 12 x 9 cm, together with 'A (Guess Work) map of Meerut', early 20th century, pencil on paper in an unidentified hand, featuring streets and street names, identified buildings, crudely drawn figures and trees, etc., Baden-Powell's house seen facing 'our house' [presumably belonging to the Turners], some spotting, 32 x 40 cm, original folds with pencil caption to verso, plus three typed letters signed from Olave Baden-Powell, Pax Hill, Bentley, Hampshire, 12 September to 13 October 1929, all to Mrs Dugdale concerning thank yous and dinners and invitations, etc., 5 pp., 4to/oblong 8vo, plus two printed items: Simla ADC Memorandum of Association. rules, by-laws and general instructions to actors, 1 July 1898; a programme for a theatre performance by the 5th Dragoon Guards at Princess Charlotte of Wales' Theatre, 24 January 1898, featuring Miss Turner, heavily spotted, plus a group of 30 printed Christmas and New Year greetings cards, from the Baden-Powells, mostly with reproductions of Baden-Powell's drawings and printed facsimile signatures, some spotting, various sizes Qty: (37)
Dominic Winter Auctions
Feb. 17, 2021
Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941) British, 'Rome', A sketch of classical ruins amongst buildings, watercolour, s
Est: £100 - £200
Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941) British, 'Rome', A sketch of classical ruins amongst buildings, watercolour, signed and inscribed, 5.25" x 3.5", along with a hand addressed post card, 4" x 5".
John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers
Aug. 15, 2019
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British Lieutenant General who, in 1899 during the Second Boer War in South Africa, successfully defended the city in the Siege of Mafeking. Later Baden-Powell founded the Scout Movement. Autograph Manuscript signed,
Est: £300 - £400
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British Lieutenant General who, in 1899 during the Second Boer War in South Africa, successfully defended the city in the Siege of Mafeking. Later Baden-Powell founded the Scout Movement. Autograph Manuscript signed, with his initials BP, three pages, 8vo, Waiho Gorge, Westland, New Zealand, n.d. (1934), in pencil, on the printed stationery of the Glacier Hotel at the Franz Josef Glacier. Baden-Powell's manuscript, with several corrections throughout, is entitled On a Glacier and states, in part, 'As I write this I am sitting on a bluff on the shoulder of one of the great mountains which rear their snowclad heads high above me on every side. In front and below me runs a wide valley which is filled from side to side with a vast white sheet of ice; not the sort of ice you know at home but a jumbled mess of blocks and waves and walls of ice. It is a glacier, or frozen stream, a mile wide and twelve miles long from where it starts..I can see three tiny moving specks some two miles away on the glacier. These are my two daughters mountain climbing with their guide. Dressed in breeches and puttees and heavy iron-shod climbing boots and armed with ice axes for cutting steps in the ice and with goggles to escape the glare of the snow, they love the excitement of clambering over those great slippery crags..As for me I am taking it easy, sitting on my bluff and gazing over this mighty frozen torrent. There is a steady rumbling hum in the air, just like the roar of the traffic in London as you hear it sitting in Hyde Park. This rumbling is the sound made by that vast mass of ice slowly, slowly grinding its way over the rocks and stones beneath it. Watching it and standing on it you can perceive no movement, but moving it is all the same..It behaves just as a stream of water does in running down a steep water course, the difference being that it is all a solid block of ice.' The final page is lightly and neatly laid down to a page most likely removed from a scrapbook and the first two pages are neatly laid down to the left edges alongside. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, about VG The present manuscript was most likely written in preparation for Baden-Powell's book Scouting Round the World (1935) which records the Chief Scout's round-the-world voyage undertaken in 1934 in the company of his wife, Olave Baden-Powell, and their two daughters. The book features a description of his observations as his daughters climb the Franz Josef Glacier.
International Autograph Auctions
Dec. 13, 2018
Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). A group of three scrap albums compiled by Leila Evelyn Landon, relating to the events of the Second Boer War, with some references to her husband Major Kenneth McLaren's involvement in the War, and a revealing teleg
Est: £800 - £1,200
ram from Baden-Powell, 1899-1901, largely comprising hundreds of cuttings from newspapers and magazines of the day, one cutting [Daily Mail, 17 April 1900] giving the first news of McLaren's capture, 'he was now lying dangerously wounded in a laager two miles from the town. Owing to this officer being a Freemason, and to his meeting brother masons among the Boers, he is receiving every attention, and their anxiety on his account is quite remarkable. They send daily bulletins, and the last accounts were favourable. Sarah Wilson'; plus occasional further pencil corrections and notes to cuttings; a few scattered related ink signatures of officers involved including R.S.S. Baden-Powell, H. Plumer, W.P. Symons, Fred. Hammersley, A. Wormald, D.E. Wood, E.D. Miller; a pencil sketch map of Camp Junction, Limpopo; two menu invitations to Private W.H.F. Landon (Leila's brother); plus various telegrams sent to Mrs McLaren, mostly by her husband, messages reading: 'Buller has relieved Ladysmith', 1 March 1900; 'Cronje has surrendered', 27 February 1900; handwritten copy of a telegram sent by Lord Roberts to Colonel Plumer after the Relief of Mafeking; 'Roberts has taken Pretoria after twelve hours fighting' (date stamp indistinct); 'Splendid victory by Hunter 500 Boers captured' (30 July 1900); plus an interesting telegram sent by Baden-Powell to McLaren, received by the Eastern Telegraph Company from Funchal via Eastern, 23 July 1901, to McLaren, S.A. Constabulary, Colonial Office, London, 'Could you put me up Friday night incognito Bloater'; plus a few items loosely inserted including a short autograph note initialled in Kenneth McLaren's hand, Shashi Patrol, December 1899, concerning reconnaissance, a total of approximately 110 stiff card leaves, some leaves detached, contemporary red half roan, worn, covers detached and backstrips deficient, folio - Quantity (3)
Dominic Winter Auctions
Dec. 09, 2018
Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941) Hand Written Letter from Baden-Powell to the Scouts of NSW, 1911. R
Est: $250 - $450
Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941) Hand Written Letter from Baden-Powell to the Scouts of NSW, 1911. R Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941) Hand Written Letter from Baden-Powell to the Scouts of NSW, 1911. Referring to the accompanying gift of a Union Jack flag & the significance of the union to 'Mother Britain' & Australia. Together with a silver gelatin photo of Baden-Powell observing the Boy Scout march past, Sydney Hospital, Martin Place, Sydney 25x43cm (photo)
Davidson Auctions
May. 07, 2016
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British Lieutenant General,
Est: £200 - £300
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British Lieutenant General, founder of the Scout movement. An interesting T.L.S., Robert Baden Powell, four pages, 4to, Queenstown, South Africa, 25th February 1927, to Colonel Smedley Williams. Baden-Powell announces 'I was very pleased indeed to find the Scout Movement so much alive in East London. Well, I don't see how it could well be otherwise with you at the head…..and such a keen lot of Scouters and Lady Cub-masters' and continues his letter with seven headed paragraphs, in part, 'Rovers: I am glad that you have got the germs of Rovering started. It means such a lot to young fellows going out into life…I would like to congratulate you on the Scouty Lunch Club as a grand institution for bringing all together and fostering the Scout spirit. I should like to give the call to all ex-Scouts….to remember Lord Kitchener's saying “Once a Scout always a Scout”, and to roll up and rejoin our jolly Brotherhood either as Associates or Rovers and to give a hand as far as they can in pushing the Movement to the big development which lies before it. Scouts I would like to thank the Scouts for their splendid response to my request to do something at Christmas to the poorer children, including coloured and native youngsters, who through no fault of their own happen not to be white, but who can enjoy a day's happiness just as much as any of us. As a result of the Scouts' good turn these will have a greater feeling of good-will towards the whites…..Cubs I ought to have congratulated the Cubs….on the excellent and novel displays which they gave at the Rally. At the same time I should like to see more of them with Badges….and are doing their best….The Public The Public and Parents cannot fail to feel indebted to you and to those patriotic men and women who devote themselves to running the show for the good of their boys…..Schools I am glad that you personally have been one of the first of the educationists here to recognise the Educational value of Scouting…..The Future Now that I have nearly completed my tour of South Africa I am more than ever convinced of the power which Scouting possesses to help Education in developing the character and qualities needed in the men and women who will have the making of this country in their hands. So I urge you and your staff to continue your efforts, to consolidate your forces, and to make a bold forward move to develop Scouting on a yet wider footing, and so to impregnate a larger leaven of the youth with the right spirit and abilities. Personally I shall watch your onward progress with the greatest hope and closest interest…..Meantime to every Scouter, Rover, Scout and Cub I would commend this slogan, not merely as a precept but as one to say to yourself and to put into daily action in all that you do. “My country is a fine one, but I am going to do my bit towards making it yet a finer one”'. An unusually lengthy letter with fine content relating to the Scouting movement. With numerous light pencil marks throughout the text and some light creasing and minor overall age wear, some small pinholes to the upper left corner of each page, G
International Autograph Auctions
Apr. 19, 2016
Lord Robert Baden-Powell [1857-1941]- Lord Cecil with boy messengers in Maf
Est: £200 - £300
Lord Robert Baden-Powell [1857-1941]- Lord Cecil with boy messengers in Mafeking, 1908:- signed with initials, pen and ink drawing 10 x 10cm. * Note. An original sketch for Scouting For Boys. * Provenance. Purchased by the present owner from Pearsons Publishers.
Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood
Dec. 05, 2015
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British Lieutenant General,
Est: £100 - £120
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British Lieutenant General, founder of the Scout movement. T.L.S., Robert Baden Powell, one page, 4to, Hawkhurst, Kent, 13th May 1914, to Sir George Newman. Baden-Powell invites his correspondent to dine with the Mercers Company, remarking 'I have asked several men who are interested in the training of boys to come, and I think it might interest you to meet themÓ.' VG"""
International Autograph Auctions
Sep. 26, 2015
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British Lieutenant General, founder of the
Est: £200 - £300
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British Lieutenant General, founder of the Scout movement. T.L.S., Baden Powell, one page, 4to, London, 12th November 1930, to Goodchild, on the printed stationery of The Boy Scouts Association. Baden-Powell states that he is pleased to hear that his correspondent is starting a Troop Magazine and continues to remark 'I look upon a magazine as a very valuable and useful thing in a Scout Group, but it will only have the success which I wish it if every member makes up his mind to support it to the best of his ability either by reading it or, better still, by writing for it good [articles] or drawing pictures'. He concludes 'I hope the Magazine will have a long life and a big success and I shall be interested to see a copy of the first number'. A few light stains and minor age wear at the edges of the folds, about VG
International Autograph Auctions
Sep. 26, 2015
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British Lieutenant General, founder of the
Est: £200 - £300
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British Lieutenant General, founder of the Scout movement. T.L.S., Robert Baden Powell, one page, 4to, Westminster, London, 18th January 1911, to Scoutmaster J. B. Graham, on the printed stationery of the Boy Scouts Headquarters. Baden-Powell states 'I was much pleased at the presence of the Scouts of the 1st Malvern Troop at Cheltenham. I hope when next I visit Blackmore Park to be able to see more of them' and concludes by wishing the Troop all success for the coming year. Some light creasing and age wear to the left edge, caused by previous mounting to the verso, not affecting the text or signature, otherwise VG
International Autograph Auctions
Sep. 21, 2014
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British
Est: £100 - £120
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British Lieutenant General, founder of the Scout movement. Vintage signed 9.5 x 7.5 photograph, an engaging image of Baden-Powell seated in a half length pose, wearing his Chief Scout's uniform, before a microphone. Signed ('Thanks B P') in bold dark fountain pen ink to the lower left corner of the image. Some slight surface and corner creasing, otherwise about VG €125-150
International Autograph Auctions
Sep. 21, 2014
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British
Est: £100 - £150
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British Lieutenant General, founder of the Scout movement. T.L.S., Robert Baden Powell, one page, 4to, London, 28th February 1916, to Lieutenant Victor C. Roberts of the 7th Highland Light Infantry, on the blind embossed stationery of the Boy Scouts. Baden-Powell thanks his correspondent for having let him see their notes on sniping and comments 'I too have been going into the question at the front since sniping is of such importance in trench warfare. I hope that you have found, as other Officers have told me, that the Scout's training is a very helpful one towards making men efficient snipers'. A letter, written during the middle of World War I, of interesting content relating to the Scouts. Some light overall age wear and a few minor splits to the edges of the folds, G €125-190
International Autograph Auctions
Apr. 26, 2014
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British
Est: £100 - £150
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British Lieutenant General, founder of the Scout movement. Brief T.L.S., Baden Powell, one page, 4to, Pax Hill, Bentley, Hampshire, 16th June 1938, to [Sydney] Nicholson. Baden-Powell writes, in full, 'Just a line, which needs no reply, to congratulate you on the honour which the King has bestowed on you. I was so glad to hear of it.' Some very light overall creasing and minor age wear, about VG Sir Sydney Nicholson (1875-1947) English Choir Director, Organist & Composer, founder of the Royal School of Church Music. Organist and Master of the Choristers of Westminster Abbey 1919-28. In 1938, as the present letter indicates, Nicholson was knighted for his services to church music.
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Apr. 26, 2014
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British
Est: £100 - £120
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British Lieutenant General, founder of the Scout movement. Fountain pen ink signature ('Robert Baden Powell') on Baden-Powell's personal printed oblong 12mo visiting card bearing his addresses at Bentley, Hampshire and the Cavalry Club. Together with a vintage Stevengraph of Baden-Powell, woven in silk and depicting the Hero of Mafeking in a head and shoulders pose in uniform (the original mount extensively neatly trimmed). G to VG, 2
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Jul. 24, 2013
Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). Full-length
Est: £150 - £200
Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). Full-length portrait of Baden-Powell and his wife in scouting and guide uniforms, c. 1936, vintage sepia-toned gelatin silver print on card mount, 16 x 11.5cm, signed by both subjects in blue ink to mount beneath ÔBaden-Powell of Gilwell' and ÔOlave Baden-Powell', dated 1936, together with a Baden-Powell family printed Christmas card for 1936, with a scouting illustration after a drawing by Baden-Powell, 18.5 x 12cm. (2)
Dominic Winter Auctions
Jun. 09, 2013
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British
Est: £100 - £120
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British Lieutenant General, founder of the Scout movement. A.L.S., R Baden-Powell, one page, 8vo, Princes Gate, London, 21st March 1903, to an unidentified correspondent, marked Private. Baden-Powell writes, in full, 'I much appreciate the tactful resume of my examination which the Press received from you.' With blank integral leaf. About EX
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Jun. 09, 2013
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British
Est: £100 - £150
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British Lieutenant General, founder of the Scout movement. Vintage signed sepia postcard photograph of Baden-Powell in a head and shoulders pose wearing his military uniform. Signed in bold dark fountain pen ink to the image and dated 20th January 1908 in his hand. One heavy crease to the upper right corner, otherwise VG
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Feb. 23, 2013
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British
Est: £100 - £120
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British Lieutenant General, founder of the Scout movement. T.L.S., Robert Baden-Powell, one page, 4to (neatly trimmed), Buckingham Palace Road, London, 22nd July 1929, to a gentleman, on the printed stationery of The Boy Scouts Association. Baden-Powell states that he has received his correspondent's kind letter and replies by sending his 'sincere thanks for the help which you are giving in connection with our Boy Scout Jamboree.' Some slight wear to the extreme edges of the letter, about VG
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Dec. 15, 2012
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British
Est: £150 - £200
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British Lieutenant General, founder of the Scout movement. A.L.S., R S S Baden Powell, two pages, 8vo, Princes Gate, London (although on the printed stationery of the Inspector General of the Forces, Horse Guards, Whitehall), 14th May 1907, to 'My dear Charlie'. Baden-Powell thanks his correspondent for their letter and explains that he hopes to be in town on the 27th June, 'if I am not in Norway - but it is a little uncertain' and also adding that the 11th July is not a certain date either. Together with Olave Baden-Powell (1889-1977) World Chief Guide, a major contributor to the Girl Guides movement. Wife of Robert Baden-Powell. T.L.S., Olave Baden-Powell, one page, 8vo, Melbourne, Australia, 25th November 1957, to Mr. Benson, on the printed stationery of the Menzies hotel. Baden-Powell thanks her correspondent for the warm welcome shown to her yesterday, continuing 'I count it as a very great privilege to have been allowed to come to speak in your Church....it was so very good of you to have encouraged the Guides....They certainly acquitted themselves well; and it will have given them great encouragement I am sure.' With blank integral leaf. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, otherwise VG, 2
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Mar. 20, 2012
ESPIONAGE - Robert BADEN-POWELL (1857-1941). The
Est: £200 - £300
ESPIONAGE - Robert BADEN-POWELL (1857-1941). The Adventures of a Spy ... Illustrated by the Author. London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1924. 8vo. Half title, illustrations, 4-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end (occasional light spotting). Original red pictorial cloth. Provenance: illegible signature dated 1931 on front free endpaper. New Edition. With 44 other books, most on espionage, including a defective first edition of the above work, Henri le Caron's Twenty-Five Years in The Secret Service (London, 1892), William Le Quex's The Invasion of 1910 with a Full Account of the Siege of London (London, 1906), John Price Jones's The German Spy in America ... with a Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt (London, 1917), Steinhauer's The Kaiser's Master Spy (London, 1930), Compton Mackenzie's Water on the Brain (London, 1933) and Marthe McKenna's I was a Spy! ... Foreword by the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill (London, [n.d.]), most in original cloth, a few with dust-jackets. (45)
Chiswick Auctions
Jul. 17, 2011
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British
Est: £100 - £120
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British Lieutenant General, founder of the Scout movement. Autograph statement signed, Robert Baden-Powell, one page, oblong 8vo, n.p., n.d. In bold dark fountain pen ink Baden-Powell has penned, in full, 'I hope you won't become an autograph collector - it is a waste of time, doing no good to anybody'. Some light red staining, not affecting the text or signature, G
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Apr. 03, 2011
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British
Est: £200 - £300
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British Lieutenant General who, in 1899 during the Second Boer War in South Africa, successfully defended the city in the Siege of Mafeking. Later Baden-Powell founded the Scout Movement. Rare, original bold pen and ink drawing of a pig signed by Baden-Powell, one page, oblong 8vo, n.p., 27th October 1900. The well executed drawing, made while blindfolded, has been signed by Baden-Powell in bold black ink, adding the date beneath his signature. Originally from the noted collection of Ray Rawlins and bearing his small circular collection stamp to the verso. The drawing and signature are reproduced in his book The Guinness Book of World Autographs. A rare and attractive example of Baden-Powell's signature, dated just a few months after the Siege of Mafeking ended in May 1900. A couple of stray ink blots, about VG The Siege (or Relief) of Mafeking took place over 217 days from October 1899 to May 1900 and is regarded as the most famous British action during the Second Boer War, a crushing defeat for the Boers. It resulted in Baden-Powell becoming a national hero.
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Dec. 19, 2010
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British
Est: £100 - £150
BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British Lieutenant General, founder of the Scout movement. D.S., Baden Powell of Gilwell, as Chief Scout, one page, oblong folio, Gilwell Park, August 1938. The green printed document is a Course Certificate, number 43, presented to an unidentified Scout for their participation in a Training Course for Scouters at Roe Wen, North Wales, 23rd July - 28th August 1938. The certificate has a green printed border of a rope with an axe and log at the base. Matted in ivory to an overall size of 13 x 12. VG
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Nov. 13, 2010
Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941) letter to a fellow officer, 1901
Est: €200 - €300
Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941) letter to a fellow officer, 1901
Whyte's
Sep. 26, 2010
AUTOGRAPHS: BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941)
Est: £100 - £150
AUTOGRAPHS: BADEN-POWELL ROBERT: (1857-1941) British Lieutenant General, founder of the Scout movement. Autograph Manuscript Signed, with his initials BP, two pages, 4to, n.p. (Kenya), n.d. (1939). The manuscript, titled Summary of Lord B-P's case, is a medical diagnosis, in part, 'My reason for being in Kenya is, on doctor's advice, to avoid work owing to "tired heart". My scalp has had a skin ailment for the past two years, resulting from an abrasion through entering a low roofed car. Left leg has suffered from irritant sore spots for the past 18 months. Before leaving England 28 Oct 38 Dr. H. Davis applied X Rays to these, and also Radium to my R. eye....4 March Eczema showed itself on back and right arm. Since then it has developed on both hands and arms....Last week the irritation in both arms and leg was very great: both hands inflamed and oozing....The application of...ointment has had a soothing effect on the hands and arms, and curative effect on the scalp....In other respects I am in good health and the heart seems in good order.' Some light age wear at the folds, about VG Baden-Powell lived his last years in Nyeri, Kenya, where he died and was buried in 1941.
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Oct. 15, 2009
Sir Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941)
Est: £600 - £800
Sir Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941) The orphan, a deserted lion cub signed 'Baden-Powell' (lower right), and titled and inscribed 'THE ORPHAN a deserted lion cub Lord Baden Powell Pax Hill, Bentley, Hants' on a label attached to the backing board pencil and watercolour on paper 9¾ x 13¾in. (24.8 x 35cm.)
Christie's
Jan. 30, 2008
Baden-Powell (Lord Robert, 1857-1941). Orig. pen
Est: £200 - £300
Baden-Powell (Lord Robert, 1857-1941). Orig. pen and ink and watercolour drawing, signed 'Robert Baden-Powell', n.d., c. 1920s, depicting an idyll of worldly harmony, with a hand-holding chain of boy scout and girl guide leaders and children, plus a mallard, monkey, rabbit, kangaroo and African native, the scout and guide leader sitting on a log in the foreground jointly holding a small cherub-like child and looking over their shoulders through a three-leafed clover to a scene of woodland, rocky coast and sea with blue and white sky and a rainbow, a few stars and birds decorating the top, a little dust soiled, pin holes to extrems., and a few short closed marginal tears, pubs. pencil marks to verso, 254 x 320 mm An accomplished drawing which was probably used for one of the scouting publications. This item and the accompanying lot of photographs come from the Estate of Mrs Rebecca "Beccy" Manser, Guide Commissioner for Bournemouth, which was considered a show division to which visitors from abroad we directed if they wished to see the best of British Guiding. Mrs Manser became a friend of the Baden-Powells and especially of Olave, Lady Baden-Powell, who, like Mrs Manser had lived in Parkstone, Dorset. Mrs Manser died in 1969. (1)
Dominic Winter Auctions
Jan. 30, 2008
Baden-Powell (Lord Robert, 1857-1941). Black and
Est: £100 - £150
Baden-Powell (Lord Robert, 1857-1941). Black and white photograph signed, 'Baden-Powell of Gilwell, 1929', a half length portrait of Baden-Powell in scouting uniform and clasping a walking stick, a few minor marks and signature a little faded, 240 x 185 mm, in leather desk-frame, together with four photographs of his wife, Olave, one photo showing her half length holding a violin, tarnished at edges, 145 x 185 mm, signed and inscribed on mount beneath, 'To "Bechie" with love from Olave Baden-Powell', framed and glazed in leather desk frame (glass cracked), the second photo of her younger self signed 'Olave', 135 x 90 mm, contained in a limp leather photo wallet with buckle stud, sl. rubbed and soiled, plus two smaller photos of her in girl guides uniform, one signed by the photographer Walder in pencil on the mount, the other a real photo postcard showing her full length in front of a tent with two young girl guides looking on from behind (5)
Dominic Winter Auctions
Dec. 15, 2007
Autographs: BADEN-POWELL ROBERT, (1857-1941)
Est: £100 - £150
Autographs: BADEN-POWELL ROBERT, (1857-1941) British Lieutenant General, founder of the Scout Movement. Vintage signed 7 x 9.5 photograph depicting Baden-Powell seated in a three quarter length pose wearing his Chief Scouts uniform. He rests his hands on a walking cane and turns his head to look away from the camera. Photograph by Swaine of New Bond Street. Signed ('Robert Baden Powell') with his name alone to the base of the image, largely across a dark area although reasonably legible. Some very slight silvering to the extreme edges of the image, about VG
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