HOT NEWS
27th December 2009 New Website Launched. Lots of drawings, paintings, prints and photographs of military interest. www.warart.zoomshare.com Still under construction, many more images to be added in the future.
Postal Auction
Date: to 13/10/2009
rare portait of bairnsfather sells at auction
a small pen and ink drawing sell or a bargin £62 artist unknown
4th october 2009
Two handy new FREE gadget has just been added to this website which enables followers of the website to subscribe to the latest updates, which will be emailed to them. To subscribe, simply enter your email address in the box provided in the top right hand corner, an email will then be sent to you, click on the link and select the options you require. By doing so, you will be able to keep up with the constantly evolving website with all the news on Bairnsfather/Old Bill happenings
Also a search engine has been added to enable you to search the site etc
29th september 2009
With the 50th anniversary of Bruce Bairnsfather's death a number of events have been organised, including a re-launch of the Holt's Best of Fragments from France containing Bairnsfather's Cartoons on 29th September with a charity auction in the evening of a number of cartoons by various cartoonists including a charcoal sketch and copy of Bullets and Billets donated by the host of this website. All proceeds are going to Help for Heroes. Wars are still being fought more than 90 years after Bairnsfather left the trenches and even with the current recession it is important to support these events.
original sketch and a copy of bullets and billets donated by joe bistow this websites host sells at auction for £650
with the final tally for the auction being £8000
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3/09/2009
COPY OF BULLETS AND BILLETS SIGNED SELLS AT EASTBOURNE AUCTION HOUSE FOR HEFTY £290
Bruce Bairnsfather - Bullets and Billets - first edition, published December 1916, signed by the author to the opening page in ink 'To H.D.P. from Bruce Bairnsfather - Here we are and there we were'
25/07/2009
THE LAST TOMMY HARRY PATCH DIES
REST IN PEACE HARRY
24/06/2009
2 news paper clippings unearthed in USA
March 30, 1936 from the Boston Herald.
From "The Hartford Courant Magazine" March 10, 1940 a cartoon that appeared in this publication "Old Bill on the Home Front
12/06/2009
WW1 BRUCE BAIRNSFATHER OLD BILL FIRE GUARD.
OLD BILL LOOKS OUT FROM A HOLE IN A WALL!!
trench art sells for £99
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bonhams auction house
11/06/2009
Lot No: 547
four various editions, with related postcards etc (qty)
Sold for £144 inclusive of Buyer's Premium
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10/06/2009
1935 Old Bill Looks at Europe Bairnsfather Signed + small poster sells for a bargin £54.44 on ebay
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10/06/2009
Chez nos Alliés Britanniques (with our British Allies in the Field) rare signed copy
rare book sells on ebay for a bargin £29.39
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8/6/09 GENUINE Bruce Bairnsfather Autograph Signature
sells on ebay for £122.76 with reference to bairnsfathers birth place in india
pen and ink drawing sells at auction 3/06/2009
drawn in 1914 by Bruce Bairnsfather depicting a baby sat on a shell
16/5/09 Giant bairnsfather /old bill sale goes to auction in bristol many rare originals and other collectables go under the hammer date to be announced very soon
Drawing 1. 'Its a washout gentlemen - he said' 7" X 9.5", double mounted
in hardwood frame. Monochrome watercolour, drawn around 1917. A rare,
serious subject.
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Drawing 2. 'Open fighting and elbow rooms the thing for me - he shouts'.
7" x 9.5", double mounted in hardwood frame. Monochrome watercolour, drawn
around 1917.
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Drawing 3. 11" x 7.5" with photograph of Bairnsfather 'ullo from Old Bill
and his trainer Bruce Bairnsfather, double mounted in pine frame.
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Drawing 4. 'Yes madame, these ere shoes were made from contented cows
thats why they're so comfortable see' 11" x 14", pen and ink, mounted in
dark wood frame with gilt, published drawing for The Daily Herald in
1930s.
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Drawing 8. 'Ello from Bruce Bairnsfather 1916' 27" x 33" Large charcoal
sketch. Mounted in a black metal frame with Old Bill & Bruce Bairnsfather.
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Book - Laughing Through the Orient. American edition with very good dust
jacket and pen & ink sketch to front free end page Hong Kong Old Bill
Bruce Bairnfather depicting Old Bill in oriental hat.
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all the above are up for sale no good offer refused
19th march 2009
With the 50th anniversary of Bruce Bairnsfather's death a number of events have been organised, including a re-launch of the Holt's Best of Fragments from France containing Bairnsfather's Cartoons on 29th September with a charity auction in the evening of a number of cartoons by various cartoonists including a charcoal sketch and copy of Bullets and Billets donated by the host of this website. All proceeds are going to Help for Heroes. Wars are still being fought more than 90 years after Bairnsfather left the trenches and even with the current recession it is important to support these events. See below for more details and a link for times, date etc.
CAPTAIN BRUCE BAIRNSFATHER AND HELP FOR HEROES
OLD BILL, BERT AND ALF COME BACK TO HELP
"BB4H4H"
50th ANNIVERSARY
29 September 2009 is the 50th Anniversary of Bairnsfather's death and in homage to him and in support of the charity Help For Heroes Pen and Sword Books are publishing some 140 of Bairnsfather' cartoons in a reprint of our Best of Fragments From France and we (Tonie and Valmai Holt) are giving all of our Royalties to the Charity. Therefore as long as the book is in print and selling, Help for Heroes will benefit.
Help for Heroes (H4H)
Help for Heroes was launched in October 2007 by a group of friends and service relations who wished to do something to help the wounded coming back from Afghanistan and Iraq . People all over the country have done something - run marathons, climbed mountains, ridden bikes, shaved their legs, eaten pies, washed cars, run balls, any number of things as long as they are legal, safe and decent. To date it has raised £17 million.
Our young men and women of the Armed Forces will say that they are not heroes, they will tell you that they are just doing their job. These are ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Some of them will live with the consequences of their service for life. This is almost exactly how Bruce Bairnsfather described his most famous cartoon character - Old Bill.
for more details please click on link below
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26th feb 2009
website host changes email
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14/2/2009 this website gets a new name to become active very soon
http://www.brucebairnsfather.com/
