CUSHING, Peter: Personal Scrapbook 3 XYZ ***Many illustrations, cuttings etc.

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This item: A PRIME COLLECTABLE   A Peter Cushing Scrapbook of 40 pages including covers. Peter Cushing, especially toward the final years of his life, cut and pasted a variety of pieces into scrapbooks; this is one of them bought from The Canterbury Auctions Tuesday, 30th July, 1996 (a number of scrapbooks were sold). These are large items with card style pages in which to attach pieces. Each scrapbook is a wonderful insight into this special man's interests which generally reflect his interest in art (many beautiful pieces), the war / military (especially World War I), old buildings, his humour, his love of Nature, his friends etc. Each is a very personal piece. Whilst many pieces were simply carefully pasted on to a page, some have Peter's handwritten dating and some  his fuller identification of the piece. This scrapbook features the 17 remaining pages of Matt Marriott strip cartoon sequentially arranged and referred to in the previously listed scrapbbok as 'CONTINUED IN SCRAP BooK XYZ', a superb pencil drawing displaying the humour of bad spelling as shown in Peter's The Bois Saga and the drawn message 'Gone for Beauty Treatment be back around 5 o'clock' and dated in Peter's hand 'viii, 61', an original hand coloured cartoon from friend and book illustrator Michael Godfrey to the back of a letter to 'My Dear Helen and Peter' showing bored troops ready to fight, a Birthday card from Diane Marchant (Australian Fan Club), a Birthday card from secretary Joyce Broughton to 'Sir', a small (4" x 3.5" approx.) beautifully detailed ink drawing (a Peter Cushing original artwork), hand coloured headed SPRING DRESS 1900 by Peter with various detailed notes regarding the dress design (a fine and typical example of the detail Peter was famous for).    Rare 

Size:    9.75 x 14.75 inches approx. (closed)

Condition: (Range from Fine – Very Good – Good – Poor with ++ to - - for further differentiation) :  Very Good + -:   minimal edge / corner wear, middle 4 pages intact but loose; overall, certainly very good.

POST & PACKAGING: all items are securely packaged, for as a collector myself I appreciated the need for secure packaging and all materials used are new. Posting / shipping depends on the item value and under £10.00 1st class post will be used; for items over this amount a tracked system will be used for both UK and international postings / shipping.