Lot 1209 , A collection of Henry Family ephemera, including a Chilean Order of Merit (Officer) and miniature

A collection of Henry Family ephemera, including a Chilean Order of Merit (Officer) and miniature awarded to Henry Frank Anderson (1883- c.1960, United States Diplomat 1914 to 1943), cased, various certificates and acceptances for diplomatic postings (some with Roosevelt facsimile signature), family photograph albums and scrapbooks, albums of drawings and paintings and a 1944 medal awarded to Pamela Henry (Department of Art, Port Elizabeth Technical College), postcards, books dedicated to H F A and his wife, etc. together with a war scrapbook compiled by Ernest Combe Miller, Commander (retired) R.N.R. (1872-1953)
Estimate £200-300

Note: Frank Anderson Henry was born in New York in 1883. His diplomatic postings included Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, 1914-17, Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, 1917-19 , Teneriffe, 1922, Barcelona, 1924-29, Valparaiso, Chile, 1932, Melbourne, Australia, 1930 and Port Elizabeth, South Africa 1934. He married his English-born wife Gladys (nee Martin) in Teneriffe and Pamela Henry was his daughter. On his retirement, the family relocated to Nutley, East Sussex.


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Sold for £460