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WW2 Memorabilia - Damaged Cafe informing suppliers

WW2 Home Front Memorabilia - Damaged Cafe Colette of Swallow Street, London sending information on a printed card to inform suppliers that (likely due to Bomb damage?) owing to enemy action they are unable to operate'. This card was sent to their laundry. Date: 1940

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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Sketch for Le Peintre, by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier

Sketch for Le Peintre, by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1815-1891). The artist leans back to view his work, resting his head on a woman's shoulder. The final painting, Le Peintre (The Painter) was completed in 1877. There is also an undated watercolour of the same subject. Date: 1849

© Mary Evans Picture Library

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First Balkan War (1912 - 1913) - Hand-to-hand combat

Hand-to-hand combat during the First Balkan War as Greek troops overun a Turkish gun battery. The war lasted from October 1912 to May 1913, pitted the Balkan League (Serbia, Montenegro, Greece, and Bulgaria) against the Ottoman Empire. The combined armies of the Balkan states overcame the numerically inferior and strategically disadvantaged Ottoman armies, and achieved rapid success. As a result of the war, almost all remaining European territories of the Ottoman Empire were captured and partitioned among the allies, and an independent Albanian state set up. Despite their success, the Balkan states were unsatisfied with the peace settlement, and the tensions among them, with the unifying Ottoman threat gone, would soon result in the Second Balkan War

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection