The Collectors Sale HISTORIC AVIATION & TRANSPORT STAMPS & COINS, MEDALS, ARMS & MILITARIA MODELS, MEMORABILIA & EPHEMERA 15-16 MAY 2014
Dominic Winter SPECIALIST AUCTIONEERS & VALUERS
Lot 762
Front Cover: Lot 431
Dominic Winter SPECIALIST AUCTIONEERS AND VALUERS All lots are offered subject to the Conditions of Sales and Business exhibited in the saleroom. A buyer’s premium of 19.5% of the hammer price is payable by the buyers of all lots, except those lots asterisked, in which case the buyer’s premium is 23.40% Lots marked with a cross (+) are subject to VAT on the hammer price as well as the premium
HISTORIC AVIATION & TRANSPORT MODELS, MEMORABILIA & EPHEMERA Thursday 15 May 2014 Lots 1-460 commencing at 11am
Followed by
STAMPS & COINS MEDALS, ARMS & MILITARIA Friday 16 May 2014 Lots 461-923 commencing at 11am On view in the Upstairs Galleries Viewing Tuesday-Wednesday 13-14 May, 9am-7pm and morning of sales from 9am Payment may be made while the sale is in progress: please see the cashier in the auction office. Customers are asked to pay cash or establish a credit reference with the Auctioneers prior to the sale.
Please ensure that all commission bids reach us by 10am on the morning of sale. Telephone bids only accepted for lots with estimated value greater than £300 and should reach us by 9am on morning of sale Results will be posted on our website immediately after the sale.
Mallard House, Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Gloucestershire GL7 5UQ Tel: 01285 860006 www.dominicwinter.co.uk
Fax: 01285 862461 info@dominicwinter.co.uk
For directions on how to find us, please refer to map at rear of this catalogue
FORTHCOMING SALES Wednesday 14 May
Printed Books, Maps & Documents Colour Plate Travel & Polar Exploration Early Printed Books, Natural History & Science
Wednesday 18 June
Printed Books, Maps & Documents
Thursday 19 June
Children’s & Illustrated Books including Louis Wain & Jessie M. King Modern First Editions 20th Century Caricatures & Original Art
Wednesday 16 July
Fine Art & Antiques Old Master & Modern Prints Chinese & Japanese Watercolours & Woodblock Prints
Wednesday 23 July
Printed Books & Maps & Documents
Entries are invited for the above sales: please contact one of our specialist staff for further advice
Mallard House, Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Gloucestershire GL7 5UQ Tel: 01285 860006 www.dominicwinter.co.uk
Fax: 01285 862461 info@dominicwinter.co.uk
CONTENTS DAY ONE Aviation Photographs Aviation Ephemera Aviation Books Aviation Pictures Aviation Models Propellers Boddington Aviation Archive Aviation Memorabilia (various) Aviation Memorabilia from The Battle of Britain Public House, Gravesend Concorde Memorabilia Models of Pioneer Aircraft Motoring Books & Pictures Motoring Memorabilia Maritime Models & Memorabilia Scientific Instruments, Railway Ephemera & Miscellanea
1-37 38-64 65-71 72-110 111-125 126-131 132-137 138-213 214-222 223-247 248-383 384-396 397-420 421-439 440-460
DAY TWO Stamps Coins Military Ephemera Military Books & Pictures Gereral Sir John Hart Dunne Dugdale Family Military Archive Orders, Medals & Decorations Edged Weapons Firearms Militaria
461-510 511-668 669-703 704-725 726-729 730-743 744-815 816-862 863-892 893-923
For current and future Collectors’ Sale enquiries please contact our specialist in charge Henry Meadows MRICS | 01285 860006 | henry@dominicwinter.co.uk
AVIATION PHOTOGRAPHS To commence at 11am
1* Aircraft and Aviation. A large quantity of photographs and photographic prints, 1910-1950s, depicting aeroplanes and aviation events and personalities, including civil and military and images from fighting aircraft in both World Wars etc., variously contained loose, and in several loose-leaf folders, former-dealer’s stock (a carton)
£100-150
2 Ala Littoria - King Umberto of Italy. A presentation photograph album on the occasion of royal visits to Rome and Italian Protectorate States, c. 1930s, depicting arrival and departures in a Breda Type 44 Biplane passenger biplane (similar design to DH Dragon Rapide), with the royal entourage, dignitaries and personnel including air crew and airport personnel etc., c. 1934, subsequent images of a further visit c. 1939, one captioned “Tessengi 12/2/39 - XVII”, 25 pp. loose-leaf album format, contemp. card covers, together with another Ala Littoria presentation photograph album commemorating the visit to Rome of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks Junior, 1930s, comprising original press photographs depicting their arrival, stay & departure from Rome’s Ala Littoria International Airport, one photograph signed by Mary Pickford in blue ink with dedication, also including a further signed photograph of the Ala Littoria Air Crew and ground staff responsible for the celebrated Film Stars during their visit, signed by all personnel, folio-format loose-leaf album in blue soft covers with applied printed caption frontis., inscribed “Archivo Fotografico”, both oblong folio (2)
£150-200
Lot 4
3* Aviation Colour Slides. A quantity of Archive Reference photographic images formerly from the Jerry Scutts studio, including aviation and maritime subjects, variously categorised with some captions by the artist for reference purposes (approx. 700)
£80-120
4* Aviation History. Two early 20th-c. compilation photograph albums, c. 19141938, comprising a large quantity of press photographs of aviation events in both Continental Europe and the Americas, including record and endurance flights, air shows and displays, personalities, inventions, design and developments, airracing, military and civilian aeroplanes during the inter-war years, professional studies, composed in two loose-leaf albums, non-chronologically, having manuscript captions to most images, principally of French origins with many British, European and American pilots and events included with venues such as Le Bourget, Villacoublay, Hendon, Vincennes, Miramas, etc., approx. 42 double-pages in each album (2)
£1800-2500
5* Aviation History. A collection of early 20th-c. photos, c. 1914-1940s, comprising loose black and white press photographs of aviation events and developments during the inter-war years, mostly French origins including pioneering personalities, record attempts, air-racing, military & civilian subjects, also including some WWII images, record & endurance flights, flying boats, seaplanes, etc., all captioned variously with photographers or agency wetstamps verso, some hand-annotated others with printed press-snipes, various subjects and personalities including General Italo Balbo & his Italian Squadron on World Tour c. 1930s, and Pioneer aviator Bellonte etc. (approx. 120)
Left: lot 4 5
£150-250
Lot 6 6* WWI Aviation. A fine early 20th-c. photograph album compiled by Wendell M. “Dutch” Hauck, serving with US Military Air Force c. 1916-1918, a well compiled and extensive photographic documentary album charting the progress of an American Airman during the Great War, comprising copious high quality snapshot-sized photographs, depicting all aspects of initial training, in New York, transhipment to Europe via Liverpool, Milford Haven, Le Havre, entraining via Paris and the Balkans to the Italian front, and base at Campo Sud Foggia in 1917, each individual image clearly captioned with names and places, depicting camp-scenes, personnel, machines including some early pushertypes, crash landings, and large Italian bomber etc., various locations including Malpensa and Monte Grappa where fierce fighting took place during the campaign, and with some travel images including Rome, Naples, Sorrento etc., culminating in embarkation for home from Bari following the Armistice of 1918, loose-leaved with cord bindings contained in fine tooled-relief decorated polished leather hard covers (1)
8* Bell Aircraft Corporation. A collection of black and white aircraft photographs including 40 Bell Aircraft Corporation photographs, 7.5 x 9.5ins, and various experimental aircraft (47)
£70-100
10* Civil & Military Aviation. A collection of approximately 3000 unsorted 35 mm colour slides, comprising civilian and military subjects taken over the past 40 years, contained in a box, together with a collection of postcard-size Aircraft Recognition cards depicting mainly UK, US and German types, and others, c. 1940s50s, comprising approx. 300 photographic cards and approx. 350 silhoutette cards, contained in old cardstock box with lid (a carton)
9 Brown (Charles E.). Album. A good album of twenty-five fine aviation images by this renowned aerial photographer, 1920s-1940s, corner-mounted, mostly one to a leaf, featuring in part a film-shoot rehearsal of parachuting from the wings of a Vickers Virginia bomber over RAF Henlow (Beds) prior to the Hendon Air Display, c. 1930s, with photographer’s wetstamp and press-snipe verso, contemp. cloth, sl. wear, oblong folio (1)
£150-250
£500-700
7* Avro Shackleton. A collection of approx. 130 photographic images of the aircraft, c. 1940s-1980s, this remarkably long-lived derivative of the famous Lancaster, was retained in service for longdistance reconnaissance and air-sea rescue operations by the RAF for over 40 years, these images document its service-history from prototype to the last variants, mostly from Official Air Ministry or Manufacturer’s press release and archive, principally wartime and early 1950s b & w images, together with some later colour and related b & w images (approx. 130)
Lot 12
11* Civil Aviation. An interesting collection of approximately 1600 5.5” x 3.5” colour prints of various classic airliners, including the Boeing 707, DC-4/6/7, Viscount, Convair and various Russian types, c. 1960s, displayed alphabetically by type/operator in 8 sleeved albums (8)
£100-150
6
£400-500
12* Civil Aviation. A comprehensive collection of approximately 2500 5.5” x 3.5” and 6” x 4” colour prints of civil airliners, displayed by type including first generation jets such as Caravelle, Comet and Boeing 707, plus many propliners such as the Electra, DC-3/6 etc, in 17 ring binder albums (17)
Lot 7
£300-400
£400-500
15* De Havilland. A folio of original photographs of pre- & early post-war aircraft and aviation events, c. 1930s-1950s, press and factory promotional studies and some snapshots, tipped-in to card pages in transparent loose-leaved folder, approx. 30 double pages, together with two earlier large photo album pages depicting early Airliners and commercial civil aeroplanes, c.1920s, and including an image of the Hendon Aerial Derby 1919 (1)
£100-200
13* Commercial Aviation. A large collection of approx. 350 photographs of continental aviation interest, c. 1950s1960s, professional and promotional and other studies of aircraft and international Airports etc., compiled in six folders categorized by National status including Africa, Asia, Australasia, Brazil, Canada Latin-America (and including N. America, Caribbean, Japan and the Pacific arenas) (6 folders)
18* Hovercraft. A group of approx. 100 photographs, 1950s-1980s, corner-mounted on card, depicting experimental and commercial & military developments and service, contained in two modern poly pocket folders, together with a framed colour artwork illustration of Hover-Lloyd Cross-channel Ferrycraft “Swift” and inset Bell “Hoverplane Aerosystems” Air-Sea Rescue craft (1)
£100-200
14* Curtiss Aviation - Flying Boats. A small folio of early 20th-c. photographs, 1910-1920s, depicting aircraft built and developed by this leading pioneering manufacturer of sea planes and flying boats, variously annotated & part-captioned detailing early flights, construction methods etc., Italian text, from a private archive collection (1)
£100-150
Lot 15
£100-150
16* Early Flight. A rare vintage b&w photo showing Jacob Christian Hansen Ellehammer [1871-1946] on his sustained flight of 42 metres in his semi-biplane on Lindholm Island on 12th September 1906, signed and dated (‘12 Sept 1906’) presentation inscription by Ellehammer to upper sky area, Velox photographic paper, 100 x 75 mm (4 x 3ins) This (tethered) flight was the second successful attempt by a European to make a powered flight (after Traian Vuia on 18th March 1906). The photograph is believed to have been taken by Ellehammer’s cousin, Lars. Ellehammer was a Danish watchmaker and inventor. His later inventions included a triplane and helicopter. (1) £200-300
17* French Aviation. A group of ninetyeight photographs, c. 1917-1947, comprising mostly press & professional studies and some snapshots depicting cross-section of French aviation during the mid 20th century, including military & civilian activities, record attempts, air shows, air races, personalities and related aspects, corner-mounted on album leaves in a modern poly pocket folder (1)
£280-350
19* Middle East - Royal Air Force Station Hinaidi. A group of approx. 120 b & w photos of Iraq/Iran, late 1920s, a few ethnographic portraits and street scenes, the majority aerial photographs, some with RAF technical details and dates in the negative, mostly approx. 6 x 8 ins (15 x 20cm), numbered to versos and contained in poly sleeves and ring binder with recent manuscript index, together with a second ring binder containing twenty-five b & w photos of Eastern tablets and statues, etc., late 1920s, one with RAF official wetstamp to verso, plus a rough notebook on (night) photography, c. 1942, compiled by Flight Officer H.R. Walker, [Photographic Section, 6 First Wing, 5 Group RAF], orig. linen-backed boards, soiled, 8vo (3)
7
£200-300
20* Military Aviation. A collection of approximately 6000 35 mm colour slides, mainly depicting warbirds taken at various locations worldwide, predominantly 1980s/90s, contained in 22 six-drawer boxes (22)
£250-300
21* Military Aviation. A good personal photographic archive of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom, containing over 1200 images of this classic aircraft in service with both the US military (USAF, USN, USMC) as well as the RAF and various overseas operators for example the Greek, German, Japanese and Spanish Air Force comprising approximately 500 b&w photographs (7” x 5” & 5.5” x 3.5”) in two ring binder albums, plus approximately 700 colour photographs of various sizes (a lot)
£400-500
22* Model aircraft. Ten negative glass photographic plates of an early model aircraft in flight and being held by its owner, the container dated 1909, three of the plates measuring 4 1/2 x 6 inches (11.5 x 15cm), seven measuring 4 x 3 inches (10 x 7.5cm), together with a sheet of printed instructions for the “Wilfli” Model No. A15 made by Lanman Model Aeroplanes, Castle Street, Framlington, and an ink drawing of an early aircraft titled “Santos-Dumont 1908” measuring 48 x 75cm (2)
Lot 21 24 Pioneer Aviation. An early photograph album, c. 1912-1916, containing forty-eight corner-mounted b & w snapshot-size photographs, vdepicting early machines, events & personalities, mostly captioned in pencil below mounts, orig. cloth, rubbed, 8vo
£70-100
Personalities include B.C. Hucks, Claude GrahameWhite Maurice Farman, Noel Turner & Howard Wright, with interesting aircraft including 25hp Deperdussin “First Crossing of the Firth of Forth” and 30hp GD Baby “ Fast but unstable”, according to the compiler, presumably an early aviator, and including a Gordon Bennett event, etc. (1) £250-350
23* Pioneer Aviation. A collection of early 20th-c. photographs depicting seaplane trials, c. 1913, variously depicting the HR E 2 aircraft in hangar, on slipway, on water and aerial shots on the estuary of the River Hamble in Hampshire, silver gelatin images bearing manuscript captions in black ink to lower margins and dated 5th November 1913, mostly 8 x 10 ins (20 x 30cm) (12)
£180-250
Lot 24
25 RAF. Three photograph albums, comprising Album one: 38 snapshot b/w photographs, circa 1928, captioned including Imperial Airways “City of Delhi” at Hinaidi, Hangar Fire 55 Sqd Hinaidi, Two French Briquet machines crashed near Hinaidi flying from Alledo 28-7-28, Album two: 80 b/w photographs (approx.15 x 20cm), circa 1928, captioned including ‘Quetta Baluchistan from the Air’, ‘RAF camp, Kohat’, ‘Razani Camp, Bannu - Razmak Rd, N. Waziristan’, ‘Scene at Parachinar during Peace Jirgah after 1930 operations’, ‘Building the Khyber Pass Railway’, Album three: compiled by W/O F/Sgt Allen, 229 b/w photographs (14 x 22cm and smaller), compiled in Africa circa 1930s, captioned including Imperial Airways “Ceres” Empire Flying Boat D-E-S’, ‘ “Ceres” pilots cockpit’, ‘Nairobi Aerodrome’, ‘223 (B) Squadron Nairobi 1939’ (3)
8
£70-100
28* Space - USA Rocketry. A fine collection of US Army and other agency photographs, mostly approx. 9 x 7 in (23 x 18cm), with labels verso, some in colour, many excellent launching images, technical details, technicians at work and many others of siimlar interest, rockets illustrated and described include ‘Jupiter’, ‘Redstone’, ‘Atlas’, ‘Delta’, ‘Titan’, ‘Saturn’ and ‘Scout’, and other research vehicles, apprx. 320 images contained in three document wallets with some documentation (3)
£300-500
Lot 25
29* Space. A miscellaneous collection of International Space Agency photographs from many countries, together with other photographs relating to missiles and rocketry, approx. 200 images contained in two document wallets (2)
26* Saunders-Roe Aviation Flying Boats & SR-45 “Princess”. A group of original factory promotional photographs, c. 1940s1950s, depicting design and construction of the large flying boats, including factory locations, slip-ways at Calshot, wind-tunnel testing, component-building and assembly, landing-site development etc., professional studies, mounted on cardstock boards for display purposes, some with typescript captions to mounts, together with a printed four-page article on the history of the SR45 machines, 12 x 15 ins (30 x 38cm) (approx. 30)
£150-200
27* Space - International Programmes. A collection of official press and publicity photographs, illustrating many aspects of the space programmes of Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, India, Japan and other nations, including various rocket and research work carried out for experimental purposes, many fine colour images, most with descriptive labels verso, also included are a number of artists impressions, models of space vehicles, scientists, telecommunication satellites, launching facilities, a whole panorama of space and rocket research, approx. 225 images, contained in three document wallets
30* Supermarine Spitfire/Seafire. A group of original Supermarine Vickers official photographs for the Air Ministry, c. 1940s, variously depicting prototype and later variants commissioned by the Royal Navy for carrier-borne operations, together with Hawker Typhoon and other related wartime aircraft images etc.
(3)
(10)
£200-300
£100-150
9
£100-150
31* USAF - Jet Aircraft. A group of approx. 100 photographs of combat aircraft, 1950s-1960s, comprising press and promotional studies, including some colour images, mostly 8 x 10 ins (20 x 26cm), contained in two folders (2)
£100-150
32* USAF - Helicopters & Pistonengined Aircraft. A group of approx. 180 photographs, 1940s-1960s, comprising press & promotional studies depicting aircraft in use with US Air Force, Navy, Military and Air-Sea rescue services, Transport and Combat aircraft etc., contained in two folders (2)
£100-150
33 WWI - Royal Naval Air Service. A pair of photograph albums, possibly compiled by Flight Lieutenant Fenn, RN, 1916 and later, containing approx. 400 photos, the majority postcard size and smaller, mounted as multiples to each page, approx. half of family and holiday interest including some colour photos, but with one album containing a good quantity of mostly small format Royal Naval Air Service and related photos, subjects including Vendome RNAS Station 1916/17, aerial photos, Sopwith Camel take off and landing photos on board HMS Glorious, HMS Queen Elizabeth, HMS Argus, a few aerial views of Archangel, North Russia, dropping mines in the Baltic Sea 1917/18, plus photos of RNAS personnel, colleagues, friends, etc., many with ink captions to the mounts, some photos loose or detached, contemp. cloth, sl. rubbed, 4to/oblong folio, plus a 14-carat gold first world war submariner’s sweetheart brooch in the form of a B-Class submarine, 5cm (2ins), and a first world war period German Admiral’s flag with black iron cross on a white ground, 102 x 92cm (40 x 36ins) The compiler of the photo albums identifies himself only as ‘me’ in the captioned photos but there are some clues to suggest that he may have been Flight Lieutenant Fenn, married to Jackie and sometime involved in the Aldenham Harriers, Hertfordshire. (4) £200-300
10
34* WWII Luftwaffe - Seaplanes. A group of sixty-two photographs, c. 1930s-1940s, depicting flying boats and seaplanes of the German Naval and Air Forces during WWII, corner-mounted on album leaves, a few captions, modern poly pocket folder, together with a group of approx. forty b & w photo postcards of WWII Luftwaffe aircraft etc., c. 1910-1950s (approx. 100)
£150-200
35* WWII RAF - Air Ministry Official Photographs. A good rare group of original enlarged photographs, c. 1939-45, fine monotone & sepia-tone images depicting combat aircraft of the RAF including Hurricane, Spitfire, Mosquito, Whirlwind, Beaufighter, Beaufort, Kittyhawk and Tempest etc., including “Ace” WingCommander “Widge” Gleed in his Hurricane, mostly with “British Official Photograph - Crown Copyright” roneotypescript captions applied verso, and some with photographers wet-stamps verso including Charles E. Brown Central Press Agency and Fox Photos, each 16 x 20 ins (41 x 51cm) (12)
Lot 37 37 WWII USAF - Boeing B-17. A good presentation photograph album, c. 1940s, compiled by the Aircraft Factory as a presentation or sales promotional album, mostly 8 x 10 inch monotone images tipped-in with clear mounting-corners on loose leaf black pages mostly with captions on the negative print, comprising unveiling of prototype, test flights, transit capabilities, manufacturing plants 7 construction developments, active service, and air crew personnel etc., contained in heavy-tooled embossed leather hard covers with raised relief silvered B-17 aircraft frontis with American Eagle & Stars border design, cord bound (1)
£300-400
£250-350
36* WWII RAF - Vickers Wellington. A good enlarged framed photograph, c. 1940s, professional or Air Ministry Official photo possibly by Charles E. Brown, together with another framed photograph depicting Vickers Wellesley Biplane Bomber c. 1930s, together with a large quantity of loose photographs depicting military & civil aviation aeroplanes & events, 1940s-1980s, including an enlarged study of a Focke-Wulf Fw190 fighter (a carton)
Lot 37
£100-150
11
AVIATION EPHEMERA 40* Weir Autogiro Helicopter. A collection of 12 black and white photographs relating to the development of the Weir helicopter, 23 x 29cm, including team photograph with the helicopter, the engine, cockpit and skeletal frame, and in flight, together with 25 copied black and white and albumen photographs of the Weir Works, Glasgow c.1918, some titled verso, including ‘Airco D.H.9. Aeroplane ayt Munitions Aerodrome, Moor Park, 1918’, ‘Airco D.H.9. Aeroplanes being assembled at Messre G. & J. Weir Ltd, Glasgow, 1918’, many duplicates; a plastic model of a light aircraft No ‘G-ARFD’, 27cm wingspan in a glass display case plus various aviation ephemera including 8 Aero Magazines c.1911 / 1912, Flight and Aeroplane magazines c. 1950 / 70s, etc.
38* Air Show Posters. A collection of seven posters, including Festival of Britain Flying Meeting and Air Display, Bristol Airport (Whitchurch), July 14th 1951, 75 x 48.5cm, plus Daily Express South Coast Air Race Aug 6th, c. 1950s, 75 x 50cm (7)
£70-100
39 Aircraft Recognition Book. British, French, and German Aircraft [for Official Use Only], pub. Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Division, August, 1916, 122 pp., numerous b & w illusts. from photos of aeroplanes, seaplanes and airships, orig. printed stiff linen covers, a little soiled, small square 4to, together with The Royal Aero Club Official Souvenir Programme of the Schneider Trophy Contest, September 6 & 7, 1929, 72 pp., numerous b & w illusts., col. plts., ads. etc., orig. printed wrappers, a little soiled and worn, (staples rusted), 8vo, together with a Folland Aircraft Limited brochure, 1940s, 4 pp., seventeen b & w illusts. of Folland designed aircraft, with printed captions, creased where previously folded (3)
£100-150
In 1932 G & J Weir obtained the right to develop autogiros using Cierva patents at the factory in Glasgow. By 1939 Weirs had virtually taken over the Cierva company. They designed and built four experimental autogiros numbered W1 to W4 between 1933-37 after which they went on to produce twin rotor helicopters the W5 and W6 before work was brought to a halt by the needs of WWII in 1940. (a carton) £100-150
43* Aviation programmes & publicity material. A scarce original souvenir programme for the Bristol Airport Official Opening Air Display dated 31st May 1930, copiously illustrated detailing flying displays and activities organised by Bristol & Wessex Aeroplane Club Ltd., together with sundry early 20th-c. memorabilia including Gothenburg International Aero Exhibition programme 1923, and with Avro “Tutor” sales brochure, “L’Aeronautique” journals quantity of loose copies, c. 1930s, and related material, together with Supermarine Vickers, Avro, Blackburn & Others, a group of mid-20th-c. sales brochures and publicity material c. 1930s, including Vickers “Aircraft Demonstration Day” programme of flying including early Spitfire and Wellington Bomber etc., c. 1938/9, Flying-boats and Seaplanes etc. dated 1929, Avro “Tutor” 642 & 652 types, Fairey and Handley-Page literature c1950s, Airspeed AS16 & AS20 large format brochures, and with Blackburn Souvenir Brochure 1909-1919 having typescript headed letter to Howard Pixton Esq, the Seaplane Station, Bowness on Windermere dated 6th May 1920 (-)
41* Aviation & Military. Three original 1930s charcoal and gouache paintings of the interior of Project 180 ‘Intercontinental’, each signed ‘Somberg’, including cabin, dining area, etc., and captioned accordingly, 24 x 32cm and smaller, plus letter of provenance, together with a collection of German booklets including Dornier Do17, general aviation programmes, airshows, etc., loose b & w aviation photographs, Cromarty N120 sea plane, and various military and aviation books including Mayer (S.L.), ‘Signal Years of Triumph 1940-42, Hitler’s Wartime Picture Magazine’, Bison Books Ltd., 1978, hbb, numerous colour and b & w illustrations Project 180 (aka Intercontinental), was a full-size wooden mock-up of the huge centre wing section. Built before WWII, the project never came to fruition as a result of the war. (5 cartons) £100-150
42* Aviation postcards. A group of approx. 1,000 b & w photographic aviation postcards, mostly c. 1930s and later, including a large number published by Real Photographs Company, including those of pre-war aircraft, both military and civilian, all postally unused but many with additional pen or pencil notes to versos, contained in poly sleeves in four modern plastic postcard album ring binders (approx. 1000)
£400-600
12
£80-120
44 BOAC “Navigation Route Book”. A rare original Instruction Manual for Pilots & Navigators on Flying-Boats dated 1952, loose-leaf format, comprehensively detailing all airports & sea-port landing grounds and waterways, showing individual local features currents, illustrated take-off & landing flight patterns to all locations on trans-global Commonwealth & Empire Air-route intercontinental stoppingpoints, supported by typescript printed instructions local directions and related information data, contained in gilt-tooled blue cloth hard covers with nickel-plated metal bindings, together with a framed print after the original by Norman Wilkinson depicting Short Empire flying-boat “Canopus” launched by Imperial Airways July 1936 (2)
£180-250
Lot 46
Lot 45 45* Randall “Duke” Cunningham. A framed montage, comprising a portrait photograph, plus signed group photograph inscribed ‘Bob even more than the first picture I gave you I want to thank you for your friendship and especially your faith in the front. God bless Chuck... Cdr Randy Duke Cunningham, Duke’, also signed by Willie Driscoll, 34 x 50cm Randall Harold Cunningham, aka ‘Randy’ or ‘Duke’, was born in 1941, he served as an officer and pilot in the US Navy for 20 years, together with his Radar Intercept Officer William P. “Irish” Driscoll, he became the only navy flying ace from the Vietnam War to obtain five confirmed aerial victories during the conflict achieving “ace” status, Cunningham later became an instructor at the U.S. Navy’s Fighter Weapons School, better known as TOPGUN. (1) £70-100
46* Early Aviation. A group of five early aviation postcards, c. 1911-14, including five of B.C. Hucks, the Upside-Down Aviator, of which three are real photo postcards (one boldly signed upside down across image, the verso blank but with adhesion remains), two postally used, plus a photographic publicity postcard of Monsieur Salmet at the Daily Mail Aeroplane Tour, 1914, signed by H[enri] Salmet and also ‘J. Salmet’ [?brother], postally unused and clean (5)
£70-100
47* Early Aviation. A group of forty early aviation postcards, c. 1911-15, including approx. thirty real photo postcards, aviators depicted include Claude Grahame-White (including three with printed signature), Biscuit Charlie Hucks, James Valentine, Marcus Manton, G. L. Temple, R. Slack, E. Baumann, Pierre Prier (printed signature), R. H. Carr, Pierre Gandilion, Sydney Pickles, etc., and others of aircraft and meetings, two of airships, etc., many postally used and often with franked stamp to picture side, together with a group of approx. forty b&w aviation photos, mostly early to mid 20th century bi-planes, various sizes, the whole collection contained in poly sleeves and ring binder (approx. 80)
£300-400
13
48* French Aviation. A group of fourteen autograph b & w photographic postcards, c. 1911/12, all signed (and some dated) by the aviator concerned to picture side, aviators include Xavier de la Canorgue (x 2), Rene Caudron (plus a further card signed by Rene and his brother Gaston), Mme Drancourt, Ed. de Laet, Felix Fonteyne, Poulet, Chanteloup (pencil), Joseph de Davrichewy, Jean Dambricourt, A. Maicon, Dutil and Louis Bon, a few minor marks, all postally unused (14)
£200-300
49 Hawker Aircraft and Others. A quantity of literature, journals, pamphlets and related material, 1940s-1970s, including historical and promotional brochures, technical leaflets and publications etc., together with a large group of unframed posters and posterprints etc. (a carton)
£80-120
50* “Projet de L’Aeroplane d’Observation”. An unique early 20th-c. Design-Project folio from a pupil pilot at the Ecole Superieure D’Aeronautique in Paris dated c. 1917/18, a proposed design by Lieut. Italo Persegani, an Italian student at the Institute, comprising foolscap sheets of manuscript text in black ink introductory & explanatory treatise of 20 pages, in conjunction with hand drawn scale plans, entitled “Vue Generale de L’Appareil, in indian ink on cartridge paper having hand-annotated measurements, captions etc., and some colour wash to frame details, for a biplane design two-seater with 6-cylinder in-line water-cooled engine, the papers variously captioned signed in black ink by the author Lieutenant Italo Persegani and dated 1918, the treatise with 5 fold-out diagrammatic drawings with technical details, contained in soft-cover outer folio-folder with printed cover frontis. (1)
£500-700
51 Luftwaffe. Documents issued to Technical Officer Horst Haidrich, comprising pilot’s license, glider pilot license, log book for glider flying and pass for the same, c.1938 (4)
£70-100
52* Military Aviation. An impressive collection of 107 original WWII colour postcards, including military aircraft operated by the RAF, French Air Force, USAF and the Luftwaffe, including 18 by Andre Regniers, Braiser “Buffalo”, Curtiss “Hawk” 75A, etc., aircraft in flight, contained in one ring binder album
Lot 50
See also lot 99. (107)
Lot 52 14
£500-600
53 Photographic Scrap Book, presented to Captain Smith by Bill Kernahan, 27th September 1930, thirty-seven vintage b&w photos and numerous related press cuttings pasted to front pastedown and twenty-one leaves of an album, some images neatly cut down and several related press slips loosely inserted identifying the subject of these late 1920s photos, including the aircraft of Chamberlin, and Levine at Tempelhof, Germany, Captain Frank T. Courtney’s Dornier-Napier Whale flying boat, Commander Pinedeo on return after world flight, wreckage of the Old Glory, other aircraft include Spirit of St. Louis, America, Sir John Carling, Pride of Detroit and Oaklahoma, the cuttings referring to, among others, Charles Lindbergh, and many of the articles by Arthur Brisbane, contemp. cloth, edges rubbed, 4to (1)
£150-200
54* Post WWII Aviation. A Royal Air Force Pilots Flying Log Book kept by Flight Commander J.R. Owen, Air Force Cadets, commencing 9.10.1956, various training exercises (Valetta); 30.9.1957 (Provost T.I.); final entry 8.8.1959 (Anster), with some biographical information of service, together with several hundred Civil and Military b/w snapshot and larger photographs, 35mm Jetstream colour slides plus two boxes of Wartime magazines THE EIGHTH ARMY etc. (a carton)
55 Royal Flying Corps. A logbook kept by Captain C.E. Barrington, R.F.C., logbook commences 16.2.1916, training exercises; 12.4.1916 ‘9 landings’, total time solo 30hrs23mins; 22.4.1916 Allonville (Morane-Par); 24.4.1917, Hermes Bullecourt (Reconns); 28.4.1917 ‘Could not see guns fire shots near target’; 3.5.1917 ‘fuselage collapsed on landing!!’; 20.5.1917 ‘140 siege put out T being shelled’; 16.6.1917 ‘photos successful crashed landing’; 28.6.1917 ‘26 heavy on M.T. mangled, 1 in ditch’; 4.7.1917 ‘pursue 185 245 & 345 on DX8 squirt Hun’; 13.7.1917 ‘Arras 43 Sqn’; 23.8.1917 ‘Prince [Lt] wounded while with King self on leave , New wings & fuselage recovered’; 30.9.1917 formation ‘Woodcock & Gadd killed’; 11.11.1917 ‘Murray killed spin’; 12.11.1917 ‘practice bomb dropping’; 20.11.1917 ‘lost way, shot 2 huns in doorway’; 22.11.1917 ‘dropped 4 bombs on train near MARQUOIN watched & pressure dudd pitched up 40 yds of Hun telegraph wire behind Bourlon Wood and rammed tree near Varennes, landed ok. 5 Huns?’; 5.12.1917 ‘Brock leading formation with huns from Villes Outrause to Cambrai . 1 shot down self doubled about another, Brock wounded in leg. Nixon missing (prisoner war - wounded); 11.2.1918 ‘first Hun. Wind up’; 12.2.1918 ‘getting 15 rather like it’; 30.5.1918 signed off Lt, A/Adjt, No.40 Training Squadron Royal Air Force; 2.6.1918 ‘Joined 70 Sqdn’; 31.10.1918 ‘attacked by 5 Fokkers out of clouds, 1 in flames’; 11.11.1918 ‘ARMISTACE’, final entry 9.12.1918, together with a photograph album compiled by Captain Barrington containing 129 b/w photographs (snap shot and bigger), the inside cover enclosing aircraft canvas, the photographs mostly captioned to include, service in Brooklands 1916, Weybridge, Hythe, Gramlington, France 1916, St Omer, Reading in 1917, also included 34th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps Lilbourne programme of Farewell Concert 22 June 1916, approx. 26 aerial photographs (17 x 21.5cm) including Laverille, Hindenburg line near Bullecourt, Heilly, No.3 Squadron, plus various maps, Royal Flying Corps Hostile Map 29.3.1917, Candy Aerodrome Hun 20.11.1917, detailed map of the trenches dated 11.9.1917, final page has a handwritten telegram dated 11.9.1917, from Major Raymond Barker congratulating Captain Barrington on Military Cross Captain C.E. Barrington M.C., born in Barrington’s Bridge, Co. Limerick 1897, served with the Royal Artillery later RFC / RAF, a Sopwith Camel Fighter Pilot during the battle of Cambrai 1917, he was mentioned in despatches and awarded the Military Cross. (1) £300-500
56* Tissandier (Gaston). Bibliographie Aeronautique Catalogue... , Paris, 1887, together with Types of British Aeroplanes, Confidential, Air Ministry, May 1918, b & w illusts. from photos., both sl. spotted and soiled, orig. printed wrappers, frayed and soiled, wrappers detached, small folio, plus a group of approx. seventy civil and military aviation photographs, many air-to-air, credits include Short Brothers, Vickers Armstrongs, Charles E. Brown, De Havilland, Hawker Aircraft, etc., mostly approx. 20 x 25cm and sl. smaller, plus four Au Bon Marche aviation advertising cards (approx. 80)
£100-150
£70-100
15
57 WWI - Lt. Col. Robert Benedict Bourdillon C.B.E., M.C., A.F.C., A group of three diaries kept during 1917, containing information on his time as an Officer in the Intelligence Corps., R.F.C., R.A.F., his attachment to 27 Squadron on the Western Front, accounts of bombing missions, data on losses, successes and operational history information for the Squadron during 1917, including one bombing mission on hubments at Noorslede on 16 July 1917, ‘Dropped at 13000. Turned v soon after dropping and only got sight again of the target about 40 secs ater dropping. Then could see no bursts. I was slightly behind formation but easily caught up since they were only doing about ninety. We crossed at 9000, saw one Cooper burnt hanging as taildownwards from the rim of Johnstone’s left wheel. Presumably one of the vanes of the fan caught behind a spoke in a circle left open for access to the tyre valve. W. Smith and I find lights and made signals to Johnstone for a long time. At length when near Clairmarais he appeared to understand and side slipped about, did two loops and one Immelmann but did not dislodge the bomb. He finally glided down onto a pond between Clairmarais forest and the railway (West End Forest). Just before the machine landed Johnstone jumped out, hit the water a few feet to one side of and about one to two seconds before the machine brought (also behind it in space), never came up again. The water was about 10 foot deep with a muddy bottom and thick weeds. His body was found two days later but it is uncertain whether he was stunned by the impact or stuck in the mud and weeds. The machine stood on its nose in the pond, leaving the pilot’s seat undamaged and almost out of the water: i.e. if Johnstone had kept his seat he would have almost certainly been alright. The bomb did not explode ...’, a total of approx. 150 pp. written in a neat hand and mostly to rectos only with some blanks, ownership name and details of Bourdillon at front of each volume with one containing a note to explain that this is a purely personal and unofficial diary and that if he is kills or missing asking for the diaries to be forwarded to his father F. W. Bourdillon, two contemp. aerial photos loosely inserted and one pencil signed mimeographed memorandum by Bourdillon (suggestion for means of communication between aeroplanes and the ground, or other aeroplanes) tipped in to rear of one vol., contemp. limp cloth/linen backed marbled wrappers, sl. wear, small 4to An interesting group of diaries, one time the property of the aviation historian Chas Bowyer (labelled jiffy bag included). 2nd Lieutenant R. B. Bourdillon, having involved a simple but effect bomb sight using nails and wire was sent to the Central Flying School, Upavon, in December 1914. There he devised the C.F.S. bomb-sight which was in service for three years. The pilots used a stop watch to time the difference bewteen two sights taken on one object. He then obtained the correct angle for bomb dropping by setting removable forsight on a timing scale to the measured observation interval. (3) £500-800
16
58* WWI Airships. A Great War b & w group photograph titled ‘Kingsnorth Airship Constructional Station Dec. 1918’, by ‘Panara Ltd., Co. Doughty St. WC. No. 3153’, a panoramic image of workers and airmen outside a hangar, 113 x 18.5cm, in a period oak frame, together with another similar, titled ‘R.N.A.S. Talbot Works Training Depot 1916’, by the same photographic studio, No. 551, 18 x 139cm, in a period oak frame and glazed, plus a panoramic photograph of Officers from various regiments, in a modern frame and glazed Kingsnorth, Isle of Grain, Kent, was a Class G Airship Station for the construction and assembly of non-rigid airships RNAS 1914-20. (3) £100-150
59* WWI Ephemera. Original First World War aircraft identification poster, pub. HMSO, 1915, poster printed in red and black, with illustrations of German and British airships and aeroplanes, printed by Sir Joseph Causton & Sons Limited, creased where previously folded, some minor marks (generally in good condition), 86.5 x 57 cm (34 x 22.5 ins), together with five typescript copies of A.F.C. mission reports, entitled Tenth Brigade Communique, numbers 7-11, a handwritten delivery receipt for a Morane monoplane at Aeronautics GHQ, dated 26th December 1915, a calligraphic memorial citation for Captain Desmond George Butler, Leinster Regiment and Royal Flying Corps, a printed programme for the first exhibition of Royal Air Force photographs in colour, entitled War in the Air, a monograph on Sir John Lavery, in the British Artists at the Front series, published by Country Life, 1918, a printed note warning of possible zeppelin raids sent out by the Metropolitan Police to hostels, signed by the officer on duty, and dated 1st October 1916, several WWI period insurance documents, etc. (a folder)
£150-200
60 WWI Logbook. WWI RFC/RAF Logbook kept by Lieutenant C.E. Worthington, commencing 19.12.1916 (40 Squadron), 2.1.1917 ‘lost in clouds & rain made forced landing at Luggenhall Camp, returned safely & landings’,7.6.1917 ‘change of sqdn’ (49 Squadron), 2.10.1917 (56 Squadron), 22.1.1918 completed 100 hours solo, 12.2.1918, Elstree, Barnet, Hadley Wood ‘fired 125 rounds into reservoir then engine cut out completely at 600ft perfect landing’, 19.2.1918 (87 Squadron), 3.3.1918 posted to Ayr, flying Sopwith Dolphin, last entry 11.3.1918, total solo 110hrs 55mins, rear page inscribed in pencil with ‘Amazing Grace’ Lieutenant Charles Edward Worthington, C.B.E., born in Leicester 1897, educated at Wyggeston School, Leicester and Heidelberg, Germany, commissioned into the Royal Flying Corps 1916 served as a fighter pilot on the Western Front, credited for five aerial victories whilst serving with 87 Squadron (Sopwith Dolphin), after WW1 went on to become a successful businessman in the family business, in 1931 was a joint founder of the Odeon Cinema, elected to the Leicester City Council as an independent, at a Bye election furthering his political career by representing the Evington Ward as a Conservative. Created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the King’s birthday honours, June 1943. In July 1944 he organized the reception and billeting of over 30,000 evacuees from Leicester, and became Mayor of Leicester in 1946. (1) £200-300
61* WWI - RAF. An original copy of a mimeographed Armistice Day memorandum from Major-General Hugh Trenchard, Commanding-in-Chief, Independent Air Force, 11th November 1918, addressed to ‘Officers, Warrant Officers, N.C.Os. and Men of the Headquarters Staff, Independent Force, R.A.F.’, beginning, ‘On the Armsitice being signed I would like to congratulate and thank you all for the great help you have been in forming this Force and by your efforts which have enabled the organisation of this Force to be built up so that the pilots and observers have been able to efficiently carry out the bombing of Germany with such vigour which has materially assisted in bringing about the demoralisation that has produced this Armistice’, continuing to thank the collective efficiency of all ranks and all staff and hoping to thank them all personally in due course, and concluding with a warning that there is a large amount of necessary work to do if the terms of the Armistice are adhered to and that ‘it is necessary to keep our weapons bright and ready for instant use in case the enemy does not carry out the terms’, minor spotting, one page, folio, desk frame, glazed An interesting and rare piece of early RAF and WWI armistice ephemera. The Independent Air Force, also known as the Independent Force or the Independent Bombing Force and later known as the Inter-Allied Independent Air Force, was a World War One strategic bombing force which was part of the British Royal Air Force and used to strike against German railways, aerodromes and industrial centres without co-ordination with the Army or Navy, operating from 6 June to 14 November 1918. The Royal Air Force (RAF) had only itself been formed on 1 April 1918, with Trenchard often being described as the Father of the RAF. (1) £200-300
Lot 61 62* WWII Postcards. Six albums containing approximately 360 WWII period colour and black and white photographs and postcards of aircraft, including Valentines “Aircraft” recognition cards, mostly 1940s British and American types (6)
17
£300-500
64* WWII RAF. Flying Log Book and related memorabilia to W/o Philip Nicholson, for “Navigators, Air-Bombers and Air Gunners” 1943-1946, commencing entries on 28th November 1943 Training on Dominie and Ansons with Navigation Exercises, promoted Warrant Officer February 1944, Cine-cam Gun, Circuits & Landings, High-level bombing on Wellingtons, Cross-country Navigation etc., further training Dec 1944 Wireless Operator on Lancasters to February 1945, assessed “Above Average”, posted Operations on Lancasters with 115 Squadron with destinations Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen, Kamen, and continuing with similar ops to Salzbergen, Dessau, Dortmund, Hamm, Heligoland, Bremen, Kiel etc, further with Food & Supply drops and POW Refugee Airlifts May 1945, entries continue with ops to Bari, Toulouse, winding down activities after VJ Day August 1945 RAF “At Home” and “Little Flying” entries, some latter Cross-country and Formation flying exercises and Ferrying Duties Colerne and Wyton, concluding entry dated Jan 12th 1946, together with related ephemera and mementos including Service-release Book dated 6th February 1947-8th Sept 1948, France & Germany Star, 1939-45 War Medal, Winged “S” embroidered uniform brevet, RAF Squadron reunion mementos, scrapbook, autographed school photograph album dated 1939 and other photo snapshots etc. (-)
£150-200
Lot 63 63 WWII RAF. A group of three Pilot’s Flying Log Books, to Flt. Lieut W. D’A Preston RAF 1941-1945 with later additions 1951-1960, comprising two continuation log books and one duplicate whilst on overseas posting to Middle East and North Africa, representing an extensive career commencing as Sgt. Pilot during June 1941 training on Tiger Moth, showing first solo flight in July graduating to Harvard Trainer Sept-Dec 1941, thence variously flying Blenheim, Bombay, Gladiator & Wellingtons into 1942(August) and Hurricane Fighter Sept 1942, further training on Hurricane & Tomahawk with “Battle-Attacks”, and passed for Squadron Service as fighter pilot, transferred to Middle East with No. 7 Squadron flying Hurricanes Dec/Jan ‘42/’43 - Thence 1944 transferred to 80 Squadron with commission as Pilot-Officer flying Hurricanes on convoy patrols in the Mediterranean April 1943 flying Spitfire Mk Vc, transferring to Palestine Sept.’43 on Spitfire Mk IX “..with cannon, Testing & aerobatics - Forced landing - Engine a mess” annotations to sortie reports; transfer to Cairo Dec/Jan 1944, Spitfire converted to “bombing - with 500lb bomb”. Further move to Italy Jan ‘44 various combat missions with invasion-force listed, claimed “1 Flamer & 1 damaged”, and with attacks on shipping through March - April 1944, and inscribed “BACK to BLIGHTY” now promoted Flying-Officer with 80 Squadron and posted to 11 Group, ends with summary of Types flown and Link-Trainer etc., continuation recommences from May 1944 with 11 Group based at North Weald flying Spitfire Mk 1Xs, including June marked inscribed “D-Day - Report Le Havre - Nil Sightings” and further annotations June 10th-14th “Beach Patrols”, and June 15th “New Kite”, and further with Escort Duties Cherbourg Peninsular, Patrol, Target Cover Lancs St Omer, July 1944 continues with further Escort Duties for Bombers - August ‘44 “Ist Test on Tempest” - “2000 Heavies & 1000 Fighters on Dromes in Belgium” Sept” “quieter with formation sorties - uneventful”. Transfer to Flight-Instructor courses at Ibsley on Oxford types November 1944. Promoted Flt. Lieut and Flying Instruction Certificate issued 26/2/45, and records dual-training operations given on Oxfords until July 1945, when signed off. Minor later entries for Jan 31st 1951 “Air-Test on Prentice”, 1954 June 3, 4, 6 &8th “Meteor Tangmere 10th Anniversary of D-Day Landings Fly-Past over Beachy Head”. Concludes with Record of Service and Types Flown and Visit with Guest Flights 1955, ‘57 7 1960. One log book with tipped-in photo snapshots of types flown, personalities etc. from the Middle East Campaign period A comprehensive Record of a long-serving officer with the RAF during some of the most important strategic battles and events of the Second World War. (3) £280-350
18
AVIATION BOOKS 65 Berget (Alphonse). The Conquest of the Air. Aeronautics, Aviation - History, Theory, Practice, 2nd English ed., 1911, b&w plts. after photos, some spotting to prelims., orig. dark blue cloth gilt, sl. rubbed, together with Baring (Maurice), R.F.C. HQ 1914-1918, 1st ed., 1920, orig. cloth, rubbed and marked, plus Rawlinson (A.), The Defence of London 1915-1918, 2nd ed., 1923, b&w plts. after photos, orig. blue cloth, rubbed, and other World War One aviation interest, including Bruce Robertson, Sopwith - The Man and His Aircraft, pub. Harleyford, 1970, Wm. Lamberton, Fighter Aircraft of the 19141918 War, pub. Harleyford, 1960, Hans Schroder, An Airman Remembers, n.d., c. 1920, Walter Raleigh, The War in the Air, vol. 1 only, OUP, reprinted 1939, etc., all orig. cloth, some in d.j.s, mostly 8vo
67 L’Aeronaute. Bulletin Mensuel Illustre de la Navigation Aerienne..., Paris, 29me Année, nos. 1-11, Jan 1896-Nov 1896, 30me Année, nos. 1-11, Jan 1897-Nov 1897, and 32me Année, nos. 1-12, Jan 1899-Dec 1899, together 34 issues, b & w illusts., ads. at front and rear, some browning, orig. printed wrappers (spotted, slightly marked & toned), with wrappers to Sep 1896 issue detached, 8vo (34)
£100-150
66 Doe (Bob). “Fighter Pilot” - A Story of One of the Few, autobiography, 1st ed., having autographed signed 1991, dedication by the author “Bob Doe Wing Commander DSO, DFC - To John with Best Wishes - dated 30:8:’91” with dust-jacket, also with “Reach for the Sky “(Brickhill & Bader), 1955 edition, and “Fly for your Life” Stanford-Tuck DSO, DFC & 2 bars (Forrester) 1st ed., 1956, together with a quantity of aviation biographies and related titles, historical books and publications etc.
68 Nowarra (H.J. and Brown, Kimbrough S.). Von Richthofen and The Flying Circus, 4th ed., reprinted, pub. Harleyford Publications, 1976, together with Hegener (Henri), Fokker - The Man and The Aircraft, pub. Harleyford Publications, reprinted, 1976, plus Robertson (Bruce), Spitfire - The Story of a Famous Fighter, 3rd revised ed., pub. Harleyford Publications, 1973, colour and b&w illusts. to each, all orig. cloth in d.j.s, 4to, and other aviation history and reference, including C. H. Barnes, Bristol Aircraft since 1910, 2nd ed., pub. Putnam, 1970, Derek N. James, Schneider Trophy Aircraft 1913-1931, pub. Putnam, 1981, Aircraft of the Fighting Powers, 6 vols., pub. Harleyford Publications, 1941-1946, Brendan Gill, Lindbergh Alone, 1977, The Aeroplane Spotter, nos. 1-78, January 2nd 1941February 25th 1943, a quantity of reproduction printed copies of German blueprints for model aircraft, etc.
(a carton)
(6 shelves)
(72)
£200-300
£80-100
£250-350
69 Putnam Publications, 23 vols., 197894, including Owen Thetford, Aircraft of the Royal Air Force since 1918, A. J. Jackson, De Havilland Aircraft since 1909, Owen Thetford, British Naval Aircraft since 1912, Rene J. Francillon, McDonnell Douglas Aircraft since 1920, 2 vols., Derek N. James, Westland Aircraft since 1915 (signed), Hans G. Andersson, Saab Aircraft since 1937 (signed), Francis K. Mason, The British Fighter since 1912/The British Bomber since 1914, etc., numerous b&w illusts. after photos, all orig. cloth in d.j.s, 8vo (including three 4to), together with other similar aviation reference, including Ian Allan publications, etc., all orig. cloth in d.j.s, mainly 4to/8vo, generally VG (approx. 60)
£150-200
70 Whittle (Sir Frank). Jet. The Story of a Pioneer, 4th imp., April, 1956, port. frontis., b & w illusts. from photos, some minor spotting of prelims., orig. cloth in torn and frayed d.j. (with some loss), 8vo Author’s presentation copy, inscribed on flyleaf ‘To my secretary, Margaret Lawrence, as a small token of my deep appreciation of her invaluable assistance in the preparation of this book and of her cheerful patience with tedious revisions and retyping’. (1) £70-100
71 WWI - Aerial Photography. Notes on the Interpretation of Air Photographs, For Official Use Only, War Office, May 1924, 15pp, 143 plates, all except one of which are real photographs, some curling and creasing of text leaves, orig. cloth-backed boards with printed paper label to upper covers, rubbed and soiled, large 4to (36 x 32cm) Rare. The photographs cover the Western Front, Rhine, Italy, Palestine, Macedonia and Gallipoli fronts during the First World War and cover technical issues concerning convernional signs, types of photograph and how to examine a photograph. (1) £200-300
Lot 71 19
AVIATION PICTURES
72* Ashby (G.S.). “Vickers Supermarine Rolls-Royce S.6B., Winner Outright of the International Schneider Trophy, 1931”, coloured print showing the aircraft over Calshot, 47 x 34.5cm, framed and glazed, inscribed verso ‘This picture was given to Officer Commanding Colonel Stary Czech Air Force. He gave it to Flt. Lt. A. Vrana (then in Czech Air Force, and at Prostjov as pupil pilot) in 1939 just before Nazis occupied Czechoslovakia. He gave it to me 25 May 94’ Flight Lieutenant A. da Vrana was born in 1908, joined the French Air Force during WWII, commissioned in RAF. Flew Hurricanes with 312 (Czech) Squadron in Battle of Britain (biographical information verso). (1) £100-150
73* Ashford (Colin J.). “Navy’s First Carrier (Short 184 Sea Planes)”, watercolour, signed lower right, title verso, 35.5 x 50cm, together with Hooker (Howard, 1980), “Two’s Company”, oil on board, study of a Bristol Fighter F2B of No. 48 Squadron R.F.C. engaged by an Albatros DV over the Western Front, 1917, signed and dated lower right, 44 x 59cm, framed and glazed
75* Clarke (Barrie A.F.). "Croydon Airport 1935", colour print, 66 x 49 cm, together with various colour prints including Taylor (Robert), "Duel of Eagles", signed by Douglas Bader and Adolf Galland, 39 x 49 cm, plus two enlarged cockpit colour photographs, all framed and glazed
(2)
76* Bernadice (Gerard). “In Memory of the Few”, RAF Battle of Britain Large signed print, a scarce edition print specially commissioned for the RAF Benevolent Fund depicting Spitfire MkIX No. AC-S MH434, which came into service with 222 Squadron in 1943, depicted in its 1944 DDay livery, the aircraft surviving the war with various pilots and credited with 9 1/2 Victories, autographed by ten of the leading surviving Ace pilots including Johnnie Johnson, Al Deere, Douglas Bader, Christopher Foxlee-Norris, Bob StanfordTuck, Geoffrey Page, John Cunningham, Brian Kingcombe, Paddy Barthrop and Spitfire Test-pilot Jeffrey Quill, mounted in glazed frame, 16 x 28 ins (41 x 71cm)
£100-150
(-)
(1)
74* Verdier (Christophe). "1ere Guerre Mondiale", colour print, limited edition no. 65/1000, 60 x 40 cm, together with various b & w and colour prints of historic aircraft plus modern aviation and motoring posters (-)
£100-150
Lot 73
20
£100-120
£1000-1200
Lot 76
77* Block (Herbert). “Businessmen See Dark Clouds Ahead”, original artwork political cartoon illustration copyright for NEA Press Association, USA dated 1936, depicting munitions factory owners during the arms race prior to WWII, indian ink, charcoal & pastel with white highlights, signed by the artist “Herblock” with manuscript dedication inscribed “To Charles Steele with best regards from your friend Herb”, mounted in glazed frame, 18 x 15 ins (46 x 38cm) (1)
78* “The Blue Max”, original poster for the screen-film, starring George Peppard and Ursula Andress, c. 1960s, large doublequad issued for Belgian Cinema release “Crepuscule des Aigles” (Twilight of Eagles), polychrome lithograph dramatic action artwork, original fold-marks, unused condition (1)
£180-250
£280-350
21
79* Chadwick (Michael). “At the end of the day”, watercolour, Boulton Paul ‘Overstrands’ of 101 Squadron, titled verso, signed lower right, 36 x 53cm, framed and glazed, together with de la Nougerede (Cedric), “Britain’s Pride”, oil on board, study of Supermarine Spitfire MX IX of 222 Natal Squadron, R.A.F., 39 x 48cm, framed, plus another by the same hand, “Lindbergh 1927”, watercolour, titled verso, signed lower left, 35 x 50cm, framed and glazed (3)
£100-150
80* Coulson (Gerald). “Birth of a Legend” and “Solitude”, a pair of fine and large prints after the original artworks by the artist, depicting Supermarine Spitfire Prototype K5054 on its maiden flight piloted by Geoffrey Quill, and MkVIb No. Q-VL on solo flight respectively, the former signed by testpilot Geoffrey Quill, both signed in pencil to the margin by the artist, well-mounted & framed, largest 24 x 30 ins (46 x 61cm) (2)
£150-200
81* “The Dambusters”, original poster for the screen-film re-release c. 1971, large quad format with dramatic colour lithograph artwork starring Richard Todd as Guy Gibson, four-folds with minor discoloration, otherwise good bright condition, 30 x 40 ins (76 x 102cm) (1)
£380-450
83* “The Empires Airways”. A rare original poster by London Underground for Exhibition at the Science Museum South two-tone Kensington dated 1935, decorative artwork depicting the Flyingboat “Atlanta” G-ABTH, matted for display prior to framing, 40 x 30 ins (102 x 76cm) (1)
£280-350
82* De Havilland DH42. A large original factory blueprint original drawing dated 1923, indian ink on drafting paper, scale 1 1/2 to 1ft, full side-profile with inset two smaller-scale frontal and overhead perspectives, signed by the author P.L. Taylor, Drawing No. GA 170, DH42, dated 21.8.23, and further initialled and dated 24.8.23, mounted in light oak glazed framed, 28 x 47 ins (70 x 120cm) (1)
84* Endsleigh-Castle (Peter). Junkers Ju87, an original artwork illustration, possibly for Profile Publications or other published work, indian ink & gouache, showing General Arrangement from five aspects, with artist’s original label tipped in, mounted & framed, 18 x 12 ins (46 x 31cm), together with a quantity of early 20th-c. Junkers sales brochures and publicity material, c. 1930s, with technical support pamphlets, leaflets & press photographs etc., also with a quantity of pre-and post-war photographs and related material, including two original artworks by Peter Endsleigh Castle depicting profile studies of Junkers Tri-motor airliner in British Airways livery (a folder)
£200-300
Lot 81
Lot 82
22
£100-150
Lot 85
Lot 86
Lot 87 85* Forrest (Hal). “Tailspin Tommy”. A rare original artwork Comic-Strip story-board for “Air Adventure” comic, c. 1928-1942, indian ink on art board, signed by the artist and variously captioned with print-instructions and title-header in blue crayon “Too Late” to upper margin, further manuscripted No 3232, and dated 9/13, having applied printed label verso inscribed Blue Bell Syndicate Inc. 247 W.43rd Street New York, over-stamped in red “Must by 9.00am”, 9 x 29 ins (23 x 74cm)
86* Forrest (Hal). “Tailspin Tommy”. A rare original artwork Comic-Strip story-board for “Air Adventure” comic, c. 1928-1942, indian ink on art board, signed by the artist and variously captioned with print instructions and title-header in blue crayon “Will The Chute Stand the Strain” to upper margin, further manuscripted No 3218, and dated 8/27, having applied printed label verso inscribed Blue Bell Syndicate Inc. 247 W.43rd Street New York, 9 x 29 ins (23 x 74cm)
(1)
(1)
£300-350
£300-350
87* Forrest (Hal). “Tailspin Tommy”. Two rare original artwork Comic-Strip storyboards for “Air Adventure” comic, c. 1937, indian ink on art board, signed by the artist and variously captioned with print instructions and title-headers “Tommy Bluffs it Out” and “Bently Plays it Safe” captions respectively to upper margins, further manuscripted Nos 2843 & 2939, and dated 6/18 & 10/8 respectively, copyright label frontis dated 1937, and applied printed label verso inscribed Blue Bell Syndicate Inc. 247 W.43rd Street New York, over-stamped in red “Must by 9.00am”, 9 x 29 ins (23 x 74cm) (2)
23
£500-600
91* Imperial Airways Empire Services. A rare original poster timetable for EnglandAustralia and England South Africa routes December 1936-April 1937, two-tone lithograph on paper printed schedules for return flights, listing all re-fuelling and stopover destinations en-route, printed by McCorquedale and Co. for Imperial Airways Ltd, mounted in glazed frame, 40 x 25 in (102 x 63cm) (1)
£200-250
88* Hardy (Wilf). “Friendly Fire”, watercolour, 42 x 39.5cm, signed and framed The painting shows a tragic “friendly fire” incident over Texas when an early side-winder self-launched from a National guard F-100 SuperSabre during a training mission and took down a B-52, and sadly with all its crew. The painting was commissioned by the current owner [on behalf of IPC/Reed] for publication in the weekly Speed & Power magazine, the vendor was given the painting in 1975 when the magazine was closed. (1) £150-200
90* Houston (Russell). A pair of mid 20thc. caricatures of Aviators, c. 1930s, original artwork pastel & charcoal, depicting DH Gipsy Moth biplane G-ABLH and with caption simply inscribed “Di” (possibly Diana Barnato), together with companion picture portrait inscribed “Philip the Pratt” with Miles-type monoplane G-AFAB, one signed by the artist, both glazed with adhesive leather-cloth binding, 14 x 11 ins (36 x 28cm) (2)
£120-160
92* Imperial Airways “The Empire Airmail Scheme”. A large printed map of the World showing Intercontinental Commonwealth Air-Routes to the Eastern hemisphere dated 1937, matted for display prior to framing, together with an original artwork topographical map by G.H. Davis dated 1952, showing the River Nile air-route from Cairo to Lake Victoria, indian ink, watercolour & gouache with white body colour, hand-captioned locations and indicating proposed developments along the route, variously captioned verso with printer’s labels and instructions, largest 40 x 30 ins (102 x 76cm)
89* Hayes (Nick, after). BOAC Comet Maiden Flight 1952, original artist’s proofprint, published by Thackwell & Co, Monte Carlo, c. 1960s, signed by the artist and captioned in pencil to lower margin, with embossed blindstamp to lower right corner, together with Amiot 370 French WWII period framed lithograph print, also with “Fete Aerienne” framed poster print after the original by Marcel Jeanjean 1927, and with a further advertising item for Austrian Airlines and related framed pictures and prints (8)
(2)
£180-250
93* Mann (Richard J., 20th c.). ‘B-25 Mitchells’ Bomber over Target. watercolour, signed and titled, approx. 335 x 490 mm (13 x 19.25ins), framed and glazed (1)
£100-150
Lot 91
24
£100-150
94* Phillips (William S.). “Welcome Home Yank”, a fine and large limited edition colour print dated 1982, a dramatic study depicting ailing USAF bomber being escorted across the White Cliffs coastline by RAF Spitfires, signed by the artist in pencil to margin and numbered 781/1000, in deep canvas mount with specially commissioned close-fitting acrylic frame cover, 20 x 26 ins (51 x 66cm) (1)
£500-600
95* Piani. “Fleet co-operation”, a Savoia S.59 dropping a marker flare close to an Italian navy warship, a fleet of S.55’s behind, watercolour and gouache, heightened with white, signed, 12.4 x 8.9 in (31.5cm x 22.5cm), framed and glazed (1)
£100-150
Lot 94
96* Portsmouth, Southsea and Isle of Wight Aviation. Two original handbill posters dated 1933 & 1934 respectively, promoting Air-Ferry Services to & from newly-opened Ryde Airport, in co-operation with Southern Aircraft Ltd (matted & mounted for display), together with a Solomon & Whitehead limited edition print by Gerald Coulson entitled “Croydon Departure - The Golden Years” 1920s airliner imagery, signed by the artist to margin and numbered 42/850, contained in original publisher’s folder (3)
97* Postlethwaite (Mark). ‘Last Light’, colour print, limited edition 5/400, signed by the artist and seven distinguished servicemen, 33 x 61cm, together with Taylor (Robert), ‘Eagle Squadron Scramble’, colour print, signed by twentyone distinguished pilots and crew, from 121 and 133 Squadron, 39 x 55cm, plus Postlethwaite (Mark), ‘Messerschmitt 262 flown by Johannes Steinhoff 1944’, colour print, signed by the artist and General Johannes Steinhoff, limited edition 115/1000, 40 x 29cm, plus other aviation prints, all framed and glazed (5)
£100-150
£120-160
25
98* Rayson (John). Gloster Meteor, a framed original artwork painting depicting two-seat jet fighter in flight, watercolour & gouache, signed by the artist, together with two framed prints after originals by the same artist depicting Spitfire downed on a rocky coast, and Avro Lancaster over a dawn landscape, also with a further framed print of USAF B-52 Crewing-up in wintry landscape, largest 16 x 22 ins (41 x 56cm) (4)
£100-120
99* Regniers (Andre). A collection of approximately 60 original watercolour and gouache aircraft portraits, civil & military, mostly WWII period, including RAF, USAF, Luftwaffe, including P.51-B “Mustang”, signed lower right, 21 x 24cm, Douglas D.C.2, Bristol “Super Blenheim”, signed and dated ‘1942’, Heinkel 112, signed and dated ‘1940’, some painted as a series of 2/4 and captioned accordingly (probably designs for postcards) (approx. 60) See also lot 52.
£1500-2000
26
Lot 100
100* Selway (Donald ). “Gloster Gladiator”, a fine original study depicting the last Biplane Fighter in service with the RAF, depicted in low cloud over countryside landscape, oil on canvas, signed by the artist, mounted in gilt moulded frame, 18 x 24 ins (46 x 81cm) (1)
£140-160
101* Shepherd (David). “At Readiness Summer of 1940” and “Somewhere in England 1943”, a pair of limited-edition large framed prints after the original artworks by the artist, two fine detailed large prints depicting Hawker Hurricanes at readiness during the Battle of Britain, and Avro Lancasters bombing-up as for the Dams Raid of 1943, both signed in pencil to the margins with edition numbers 774/850 & 818/850 respectively, both in matching colour-co-ordinated frames, approx. 24 x 30 ins (61 x 76cm) (2)
Lot 101
102* Taylor (Robert). “The Swordfish attack at Taranto”, colour print, signed by the artist and Vice Admiral Sir Richard Janvrin KCB, DSC and Commander Charles Lamb DSO, DSC, RN, 33 x 49cm, with certificate of authenticity, together with various signed aviation prints including Beecham (Gordon), ‘Preparations for another long night ahead’, colour print, signed by the artist and four distinguished pilots and crew, limited edition 681/850, 34 x 54cm, plus Trugian (Nicholas), ‘Maximum Effort’, b & w print, signed by the artist and eighteen distinguished pilots and crew, limited edition 105/113, 32 x 66cm (14)
£100-150
104* Truby (W.E.). Short F2A Flying Boat over water, watercolour, signed and dated 1918 lower right, together with another by the same artist of a Short 184 Seaplane over water, signed and dated 1918 lower right , both 18 x 26cm on Head’s Russell Board and unframed, together three further watercolours of WWI Bi-planes, unsigned and unframed (5)
£150-200
£150-250
Lot 102
103* Taylor (Robert). “Memorial Flight”, a good large framed print after the original artwork, signed to margin by former pilots Johnnie Johnson and Peter Townsend and Norman Jackson, together with other framed prints including Coulson Spitfires Vb QJ-P and QJ-A, and with limited edition print by Michael Rondot signed to margin, numbered 135/200, dated 1982 (3)
£100-120
105* Vowles (Les). Imperial Airways. A pair of original artworks depicting pioneer Air Travel by biplane airliners in the 1920s, represented by Vickers Vulcan G-EBB & DH50 G-EBFP machines, watercolour & gouache, signed by the artist and dated ‘94, matted in double mounts for display prior to framing, 10 x 14 ins (26 x 36cm) (1)
27
£180-250
Lot 107
Lot 108 108* WWII Air Ministry - "Stuka" and Me-110. Two large framed instructional posters, reprints from the original Ministry of Supply Identification charts, c. 1940s, depicting Junkers Ju-87 and Messerschmitt 110 types, polychrome part cutaway illustrations, mounted in black matching frames, 30 x 40 ins (76 x 102 cm)
106* Waller. Study of a Hawker Fighter, inter war period, c. 1930s, 61 x 76.5cm, unframed, together with two coloured photographs of Hawker fighters, each inscribed ‘Flight photograph’ lower right, 48.5 x 38cm, framed and glazed, plus Alton (Martin), ‘Without Equal’, limited edition colour print, No. 22/250, signed by the artist for British Aerospace, 35 x 55cm, and eight side profile diagrams of aircraft including 1909 Bleriot XI, 32 x 47cm (18)
£100-150
109* “Zeppelin”. Original poster for the screen-film, starring Michael York and Elke Sommer, c. 1960s, large double-quad format issued for Belgian Cinema distribution, polychrome lithograph with dramatic illustrative artwork, original foldmarks otherwise unused condition
£100-150
107* English Electric Canberra B2 1968. An original artwork study of RAF aircraft no. TA/T371, watercolour & gouache on artboard, signed by the artist and dated ‘68, depicting the aircraft against a calm sea backdrop - original design for a book-cover illustration, together with another specially commissioned work by ex-Canberra pilot of aircraft no. W.J. 752, in distinctive livery of 115 Squadron based at RAF Marham in 1952, unsigned, together with correspondence from the artist, largest 18 x 24 ins (46 x 61cm) (2)
(2)
(1)
Lot 109
£150-250
110* Zeppelin LZ-130. A large panoramic illustration depicting the proposed airship dated 1938, colour artwork and cutaway illustration with full text description 4-page fold-out poster format, depicting the proposed design for an Intercontinental Passenger Lighter-than-Air craft, a challenger for the aerial Blue-riband in the late 1930, shows old fold marks and some rubbing and wear to edges, unframed (1)
Lot 110 28
£180-250
£70-100
AVIATION MODELS
Lot 111
Lot 112
111* Albatross D.V. A fine flying scale model of this much respected First World War single seat scout, the wooden airframe with monocoque fuselage and fine-fabric covered wings and flying control surfaces, with dummy twin fixed synchronised Spandau machine guns mounted above the engine cowling with dummy 175 hp Mercedes motor concealing a modern 4stroke petrol engine driving a 16 in (40.6cm) diameter propeller, the aircraft finished in camouflage and markings of the period with pilot’s personal floral emblem, the strut braced main undercarriage with rubber-tyred wheels and tail skid, bungeesprung, 59 in (150cm) wingspan This model incorporates V-strut bracing to counteract wing flutter as used on the original. (1) £500-800
Lot 113 113* British Airways “Concorde”. A good 114* British Overseas Airways and large display desk-piece by Bravo Delta “Concorde”. A good display desk-piece by Models Ltd., c. 1970s, finely crafted of Bravo Delta Models, c. 1970s, representing resin/wood representing aircraft No. Gaircraft No. G-BOAC, in full airline livery and BOAA, fully refinished in authentic British with undercarriage-lowered detail, together Airways livery, complete with original with a similar model of British Airways display stand and packing box, slight chip to liveried aircraft No. G-BOAF, both with nose-tip, length 48 ins display stands, length 23 ins (58.5cm) (1)
£200-300
(2)
112* Bristol S2-A “Sociable” - 7836. A former free-flight scale model of the sideby-side two-seater trainer aircraft variant of the Bristol “Scout” type of 1916, doped and painted tissue over balsa-wood frame construction, refinished in khaki-drab livery of the Central Flying School at Upavon, and with RFC livery markings, well-detailed with dummy radial-engine, propeller and cockpit instrumentation, seats etc., wingspan 47 ins (120cm) (1)
£450-550
Lot 114 29
£150-250
Lot 115 115* De Havilland Mosquito. A fine precision scale model by Peter Cooke, supremely crafted and detailed depicting aircraft A-GB No. DZ360, of moulded resin painted in authentic camouflage livery supremely crafted with internal cockpit detailing etc., the definitive representation of the aircraft type, mounted in Perspex display-case, wingspan 26.5 ins (67cm) This model has accompanying correspondence from the Model maker Peter Cooke to the recipient of this model & others in the vendorfamily collection. (1) £800-1200
Lot 117
117* Hawker “Tomtit”. A good former flying scale-model of the biplane two-seat trainer and civil aviation Aero-club stalwart G-AFTA, well-constructed of doped fabric over wooden frame, with excellent detail including dummy five-cylinder radial engine concealing large petrol single-cylinder model aero-engine, refinished in blue and silver livery with distinctive winged motif to tail-fin inscribed “Veyron”, further authentic detail with instrument board to cockpit complete this excellent model, wingspan 52 ins (135cm) (1)
116* Fokker D.R.1. A well-constructed skeletal static model of this historic triplane, of wooden and metal construction, dummy a-cylinder rotary engine with XIAL two-blade propeller, twin spandau machine guns, pilot’s seat, instruments and controls, rubber tyres (1)
£150-200
Lot 117
30
£400-500
118* Imperial Airways “Corinthian”. A good Airline Office Display Model, c. 1930s, professionally-built scaled cutaway model of the flagship of the Overseas Airline of the inter-war period, of mainly painted wood construction showing cockpit and passenger accommodation layout with attendant stowage and service compartments etc, fully painted inside & out with exceptional attention to detail, shows some age wear and minor parts detached (c/w model), length 14.5 ins (37cm) (1)
£300-400
Lot 118
119* Miniature Model Aircraft. A group of nine 1/72nd scale models representing combat aircraft of WWII & others, professionally built from model kits, finely detailed and painted in authentic livery and squadron markings etc., including Spitfire prototype and subsequent variants, Hawker Typhoon, and others, with Perspex display cover, lacking base (9)
£150-180
120* Morane-Saulnier L-3253 - Zeppelin destroyer. A good former free-flight scale model of the machine as flown by Lieutenant R.A.J. Warneford in 1915, doped-tissue covered balsa-wood frame in natural-linen finish with RFC National markings No. N-274, well-executed with dummy engine and wooden propeller, instrument-board detail etc., wingspan 56 ins (142cm) An exploit for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross, on 7th June 1915 Lieut. Warneford attacked the German Zeppelin L327 over Ghent in Belgium, in a hail of defensive machine-gun bullets, he succeeded in attaining height above the airship and dropped his bombs onto it, causing it to catch fire with an explosive force which overturned the Morane stopping the motor, forcing him to land behind enemy lines: over half an hour spent in repairs he managed to restart the engine and returned safely to base. (1) £500-600
Lot 120
31
121* Sopwith Camel F1. A good former free-flight scale-model of the aircraft of 1917-19, of doped and painted tissue over balsa wood frame, refinished in the early RAF livery of No. 28 Squadron and numbered R-8239D with chequer-board decoration to forward fuselage, superbly detailed with dummy rotary engine and propeller, machine guns and cockpit instrumentation etc., wingspan 42 ins (108cm) (1)
£500-600
122* Sopwith Schneider. A good free-flight scale model of the land-plane version racing aeroplane of c. 1913, doped tissue covering on balsa-wood frame and with traditional pale yellow finish inscribed with large lettering “Sopwith” to fuselage and racing number ‘21’ in white on rudder and under-wing surfaces, well-detailed with machine-turned aluminium forwards fuselage cowling, dummy rotary engine, propeller and instrument board to cockpit, wingspan 42 ins (108cm) (1)
£450-550
32
Lot 123
Lot 125
123* Supermarine Spitfire LF IXe. A fine precision scale model by Peter Cooke, supremely crafted and detailed down to the last rivet, depicting aircraft JE-J No. MK 392 as flown by leading British Ace Johnnie Johnson during 1944 & 1945, of moulded resin painted in authentic camouflage colour scheme with comprehensive surface detailing, the definitive representation of the type, contained in perspex diorama display-case with grass-effect base having applied makers label, wingspan 16 ins (40cm) This model is accompanied by a copy of a typescript signed letter from Air Vice-Marshall J. E. Johnson (his initials on his aircraft) referring to combat operations in which his “aircraft MK 392 took part in 123 offensive patrols, including the Normandy invasion, and shot down many aeroplanes and was hit only twice, once by cannon-shell from an FW-190 and once by flak on the same day 23rd August 1944”; the letter to the maker of this model Peter Cooke dated 18th May 1982. (1) £500-700
124* Supermarine Walrus. A good “Built-to-fly” scale model of the famous RAF & Royal Navy Amphibian of WWII, well-constructed of doped tissue over wooden frame, with good attention to detail including large air-cooled dummy radial engine and propeller, clear Perspex cockpit with pilot, wheeled undercarriage etc., refinished in authentic camouflage livery with squadron markings etc., wingspan 56 ins (143cm) (1)
£300-400
125* Vickers DC8. A good aluminium desktop model of this famous aircraft, c. 1950s, wingspan 86 x 92cm nose to tail, lacking stand and one engine (1)
£200-300
Lot 124 33
Lot 124
PROPELLERS
Lot 126
126* A WWI period laminated mahogany four-blade generator propeller, together with a mahogany two-blade propeller, with yellow tips stamped ‘NP 1285’ and ‘20 R 24 62 36’, 158cm long (1)
£150-200
127* Propeller. A Royal Aircraft Establishment WWI period twin-blade propeller, variously numbered and stamped AB8631 R.A.E., RH ABC 2 WASP, D 2360, P 1870, Prop No. 30007, of laminated hardwoods, with remnant traces of original varnish and applied transfer chart for engine testing, indistinctly inscribed ‘Calibrations, Revs, HP, Engine & Airscrew’, with some numerated information and further inscribed ‘Tested 29.8.18’, 98 in The AB8631 drawing number confirms that this propeller was intended for the ABC Wasp sevencylinder radial engine as fitted to the BAT Bantam single-seat fighter biplane. Only one of these aircraft survives (registered K-123) and is on display at the Aviodome, Netherlands. (1) £1000-1500
Lot 126 Lot 127 34
Lot 127
Lot 128
130* WWI RFC - Propeller De Havilland DH-5 Le Rhone. A good two-bladed airscrew by Darracq Ltd., c. 1916/17, of laminated mahogany and other hardwoods, variously stamped, numbered & inscribed No. 5683, T1078 “Darracq Motor Eng. Co. Ltd - DE H5 110HP - Le Rhone English Type Boss” and with several AM stamp markings, similar in style to those used on the Sopwith “Pup” Fighter and Avro 504 Trainer aircraft, c. 1916-17
Lot 129
128* RAF Generator Propeller. An early 20th-c. small generator propeller, c. 1920s-1930s, of closegrained solid hardwood with varnished finish and turned aluminium central boss with tapered fitting stamped T29023 and inscribed “wood”, 21 ins (53cm) (1)
By the time the prototypes of the DH.5 underwent service trials in December 1916 in France, superior types such as the Sopwith Camel and the Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 were not far behind. The provision of a single machine gun at a time when most fighters carried two meant the aircraft was somewhat under-armed for operations in 1917. Nonetheless, the DH.5 was ordered in quantity from four manufacturers: Airco (200), British Caudron (50), Darracq (200) and March, Jones & Cribb (100) - this being a rare survivor from one of these limited number of aeroplanes built. (1) £800-1200
£100-150
129* RAF - Propeller Blade. A single propellerblade possibly by Dowty-Rotol, c. 1940s, cast alloy matt black paint finish with reinforced leading edges and yellow-painted propeller tip, variously stamped and inscribed DHL 73 No2, TF NIL, DD, RI.508, BC 565, NA PR, 1512762, complete with bearinghousing and bevel-gear quadrant for variable pitch action, good ex-service condition, 54 ins (137cm) (1)
£140-160
Lot 130 35
131* WWI RNAS Propeller - Royal Aircraft Factory BE-2C. A fine and rare four-bladed propeller by Lang Propeller Co., Weybridge, c. 1917, of eight laminated mahogany and hardwood layers in original unmolested condition bearing maker’s transfer to original varnished surface, and full stampings and marks inscribed “R.A.F. 4 - BE 2C. Single-seater L, P 2422, T 6298, 12-cylinder RAF 4, and A.I.D. 500 & [561] stamps, bearing further hand-inscripted gold-painted complement of sixty-three names of squadron ground-crew and personnel listed in alphabetical order to two blades, giving rank, name and status (some inscribed “killed”), age-wear and some minor splits to tips and slight loss to one trailing-edge. 118” 300cm diam. Discovered in the early 1950s by racing & motorcycling journalist the late Denis Jenkinson in a nissen-hut on an airfield in Hampshire, and given to the late William “Bill” Boddy for his personal museum collection of aviation and motoring memorabilia. (1) £3000-4000
36
THE BODDINGTON AVIATION ARCHIVE The following lots come from the estate of the late David Boddington Esq. (1932-2010) pre-eminent Aero-modeller & designer, RAF-pilot, later Air-Circus flying-manager, model aviator & constructor, Film & Television consultant, journalist & author. A popular figure in Aviation both with life-size and scale model aeroplanes; having a fascination for flying from childhood David Boddington joined the RAF as a pilot doing National Service in the early fifties, but followed an initial career as an architect until the mid-1960s, when his love of aero-modelling persuaded him to change tack. He started to produce model-kits, whilst at the same time managing to find time to manage the much-acclaimed “Barnstormer’s Flying Circus”, in which his brother Charles was a stunt-pilot. By the mid-1970s he was very much involved with producing flying scalemodels, as well as large-scale or full-size static display models for film and TV Companies, and was actively involved with flying sequences and background sets for BBC “Wings” and ITV “Flambards” series productions. During the 1980s and into retirement he was full-time model magazine editor, as well as author of books & articles, and continuing designs for model-makers, creating more than some 500 different models in a career spanning half a century. 133* Aeromodelling. Four “Boddo” aeromodel Diesel engines, comprising types CS Boddo 0.5cc, 0.75cc, Mills Replica 1.35cc and CS Boddo Twin 2x0.75cc, unused in original boxes with instruction leaflets, together with six various hardwood “Drone” propellers, and with three large section aerofoil wooden wing-frame spars (13)
£200-250
132* Aero-Models. Two good ready-built flying-models by Doug McHard, comprising Electric Ducted-fan Jet aircraft as featured in “Aeromodeller” magazine May 1994, doped tissue over balsa-wood frame and refinished in Russian Military livery & markings, together with a Miles M-35 “Libellula” Canard-type flying model of the original featured in “Aeromodeller” magazine February 1955, a redesigned version built by McHard c. 1990s of doped tissue over balsa-wood frame, fitted with Z-Model compressed air system power (2)
£100-200
134* Aviation modelling. Journals, Posters and TV-related memorabilia, a quantity of loose copies of “Air Pictorial” and “Flying Review” journals c. 1950s-1960s, together with a further quantity of “Large Model Association” and “British Waterplane Association” club magazines 1992-2010 7 1993-2005 respectively, also with a group of Air display programmes and ephemera including BBC Television “Wings” series Production Scripts, book and press cuttings etc., and with “Flambards” a large cinematograph reel of 18mm colour film of rushes c1977 and Production Script and related ephemera etc., and a quantity of airdisplay posters c.1970s
Lot 133
(2 cartons)
37
£100-150
AVIATION MEMORABILIA
138* Air France. An Air France Reseau Aerien Mondial aluminium desktop model, the L749 Constellation Aircraft with four perspex engines supported on a curved stand with circular globe base finished in blue and black, wingspan 27cm, together with an aluminium desktop model of a twin engine airline aircraft, wingspan 36cm, on a curved stand and domed base, an aluminium model of a Spitfire, wingspan 14cm, plus a Dinky Supertoy diecast B.O.A.C. Comet, novelty pottery table lamp in form of a light aircraft, on adjustable stand, etc. (8)
£100-150
Lot 133 135* Die-Cast Models. A group of boxed Collectors Historic scale-models, including Corgi Heritage “Battle of Britain” set; together with others including “Berlin Airlift”, “Dambusters”, “100 Years of Flight” commemorative series issues, and others by Days Gone and Postage-Stamp Models etc., all unused in original boxes (11)
£70-100
136* Photographic Archive. “DB Series” Scale Packs Colour-Film Negatives and Photographs approx. 1988-2001, a large quantity estimated to be around 20,000 individual negatives in three series or part thereof; comprehensively archived and listed, complete with packed sets of individual aircraft colour-photographs of instock productions (some duplicated) including a mark-up sheet with each carton listing contents. Series 1 appears complete, Series 2 approx 97% complete, Series 3 incomplete; some contained in filing-drawer units
137* Photographic Archive. Colour-Film Negatives and Photographs approx. 1980s2001, a large quantity of negatives and photographs estimated to be around 8,000 individual images & prints of Aviation subjects including Aircraft of all types including Gliders etc., uncatalogued but with contents/events listed on individual print-packs, including UK, European and Overseas air-shows, Reno Air-Races, Museums and collections etc, many used for definitive historic record reference. Contained in 11 Banker-box cartons and two loose-leaf folio folders To be sold with Copyright to the purchaser. (11 cartons) £200-300
Lot 139
To be sold with Copyright to the purchaser. (8 cartons) £300-500
38
Lot 140 139* Aircraft Periscope, manufactured by Smiths, bearing manufacturer’s plate stamped ‘AIRCRAFT PERISCOPE, REF No 6B/2987, CODE No KPG. 0205, SERIAL No 192 KH/67’, 74cm overall in its wooden box, together with an inert shell case, green cylindrical body, domed cartridge, 168cm overall, plus one other, 120cm overall, plus a WWII private purchase plastic ‘Tommy’ helmet by G.A. Dunn & Co., London, a Commercial Airline Crew tunic, despatch rider’s coat, and other items (-)
141* Aviation Compass. An early 20th-c. aviation or balloonist’s instrument by Hughes & Son of London (Huson) No. 7997, small format cylindrical glass within silverplated frame on swing-mount adjustable pivot point balance (1)
£100-150
(1)
£100-150
140* Aircraft Recognition. A carved wood model of a Wellington Bomber, c. 1940s, finished in camouflage and aircraft no. BM A with RAF roundels, 38cm wingspan, together with a carved wood Spitfire, 31cm wingspan, plus novelty cigarette box carved in form of a WWII tank, finished in camouflage with articulated hinged lid, 23.5cm long, plus a Royal Flying Corps porcelain coffee can and saucer printed with RFC badge manufactured by ‘J. Edwards & Sons, Bridge St., Jersey’ (4)
£70-100
144* Aviation Biscuit Caddy. A large printed tinplate casket by King of Amsterdam Holland, c. 1920s, having decorative polychrome lithographed illustrative panels to four sides and top hinged cover, commemorating Dutch Aviation Record-breaking long-distance flight from Schipol Aerodrome Amsterdam to Batavia, and having further decorative border pattern and maker’s applied paper label inside cover, with carrying handle to top and clasp fixing to front, 10 x 7 x 8 ins (25 x 18 x 20cm) £200-250
142* Aviation Goggles. A pair of pre-war aviator’s goggles by D. Lewis of London, c. 1930s, together with three further pairs including RAF Mk VIII WWII issue crash-site recovery item, USAF WWII-issue pilot’s goggles, and a pair of WWI period aviator’s goggles with tinted lenses, various conditions (4)
£120-160
143* Aviation & Militaria. A collection of items including two pairs of RAF Army Air Corps sweat resistant gloves, flying helmet jacks, Navigation Plotter, plus various ephemera including charts, technical manuals, Chipmunk T Mk-10 Pilots Notes, Red Arrows colour print by Tomlin (Robert) “Red suits tomorrow” signed by eight pilots, 32 x 45cm, WWI trench art letter opener, military cloth badges, enamel badges, RAF buttons etc. (2 boxes)
£70-100
Lot 141
39
145* Aviation Car Badge. A rare early 20th-c. car or aeroplane badge, possibly for Imperial Airways, c. 1930s, chrome-plated bronze pierced format art-deco style depicting a biplane airliner heading to the stars above ocean backdrop, 4.5 ins (12cm) (1)
£280-350
146* Aviator’s Helmet. A rare early 20thc. aviator’s helmet, c. 1914-1918, of hard leather covered shellac reinforcedcomposition, black leather with all round padded rim, protective neck-flap, feltinsulated, having vented crown with leather cord-tie adjustable lining with buckle and chinstrap fastening, two inner flaps stencilled and inscribed No. c1068 and 57 1918 respectively, of European continentalpattern origin, minor rubbing to crown, otherwise good original condition (1)
£450-650
147* Battle of Britain. A 50th Anniversary dagger, the 27cm blade by Wilkinson Sword London, etched ‘DEDICATED TO THE ROYAL AIR FORCE VICTORS OF THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN 1940’, gilt metal crossguard, rosewood grip and brass pommel, 39.5cm overall, in its leather and brass scabbard, in a wooden case, the lid inset with RAF crest, the inner lid with plaque beraring the words of Sir Winston Churchill’s famous speech on The Few, dated August 8th-September 15th 1940 Provenance: Torbay Aircraft Museum. (1)
£70-100
Lot 148
Lot 149
148* Battle of Britain Commemorative Sword by Wilkinson Sword, London, the 90cm blade etched ‘DEDICATED TO ‘THE FEW’ AND TO MANY WHO HELPED MAKE VICTORY POSSIBLE’, etched with representations either side depicting a scramble of Hurricane pilots and different classifications of personnel who aided in the victory, with eagle cross-guard, rosewood grip and roundel inset with Sir Winston Churchill, the reverse with Battle of Britain dedication, 115.5cm overall (1)
£100-150
149* Battle of Britain Commemorative Sword. A fine 30th Anniversary Souvenir limited edition by Wilkinson of London Ltd., 1970, Certificated 18-carat gold-plated version numbered 085/300, having finely detailed cast hilt in the form of the RAF spread-eagle motif, and with inset Winston Churchill commemorative medal to pommel, inscribed “Dedicated to the Few - Their Finest Hour”, damascene-style decoration to double-edged blade depicting Air Crew and ground crew scenes during the Battle (1)
£200-300
40
150* BOAC and BEA - In-flight hospitality. A quantity of table-wares and souvenirs, c. 1940s-1960s, comprising china, glass-ware, metal & flat-ware including cups & saucers, plates, cutlery, tea service, cigarette-tins and decorative sundries, together with a group of timetable brochures, an album of matchlabels and related ephemera (2 cartons)
£100-150
151* Bristol-Siddeley “Hercules” AeroEngine. 14-cylinder two-row radial aircraft engine, bearing makers applied plate inscribed: No.210183, AM No.63659, Series 264, undated, also inscribed FB209306, and with further stamped markings to crank-case B/A 13864 AC 151 A and FB212851 Designed by Sir Roy Fedden for the Bristol Engine Company starting preliminary development in 1937, the first of their single sleeve valve Burt-McCollum or Argyll type designs powering many aircraft in WWII. Bristol developed 14-cylinder versions their “Perseus” engine, a more powerful version of which became the “Hercules” available in 1939 as the 1,290 hp Hercules I, subsequently followed by a series of up-rated and more powerful units throughout a long service period. It powered a number of aircraft including Bristol’s own Beaufighter, although it was more commonly used on bombers. The Hercules also saw use in civilian designs, culminating in the 735 and 737 engines for such as the Handley Page Hastings C1 and C3 and Bristol Freighter. The design was also licensed for production in France with 2000 hp-range versions available in the 1950s. It was considered to be one of the more reliable aircraft engines of the era. A total of over 57,400 Hercules engines were built. This example has been a museum exhibit for many years on outside-display; it is sold in as found condition, mounted upon a steel-frame cradle. (1) £1000-1500
Lot 151
41
152* Simmonds-Goudine Four-Vector Calculator, Type F. A rare surviving example of this four-vector instrument designed for the solution of all three and four vector navigation problems, originally proposed for Fleet Air Arm use under arduous service conditions, the design allowed calculations with an accuracy of 1 degree and 1 m.p.h., operation was described as ‘foolproof’ in original literature, the operator not needing previous experience or instruction, all scales are clearly visible including an ivorine note pad (a.f.), the mechanism contained in a fitted metal case, with some copy literature A beautifully made instrument, no expense seems to have been spared, but because of its rarity this instrument should be considered an important surviving example of a navigation calculator. (1) £800-1200
153* Cardiff Aeroplane Club. A rare early 20th-c. member’s club car badge, c. 1930s, enamel on chrome-plated bronze depicting DH “Gipsy Moth” aeroplane registration no. G-ABRO and Welsh Dragon motif to centre, some enamel wear and loss, stamped maker’s mark Cardiff verso (1)
£250-350
154* Commemorative Bronze Plaque. In celebrated memory of Herbert George Brackley CBE, DSO, DSC 1894-1948, Pioneer Aviator and founder of the Guild of Air Pilots & Air Navigators, cast bronze relief sculpted by Gilbert Ledward R.A., 7 ins (18cm) diameter (1)
Lot 152
42
£70-100
155* Dambusters. A collection of 617 Squadron items, including six whiskey tumblers engraved ‘Leonard Cheshire VC’ and ‘Guy Gibson VC’, each bearing 617 Squadron crest, a Coulson (Gerald) colour print ‘Lancaster’s over the Mohne Dam’ signed by Willie Tait, plus Cameron (Donald) colour print ‘The raid’, framed and glazed, commission certificate to Pilot Officer Thomas Bennett DFM, RAFVR dated 5.1.1943, various military books including Bennett (Tom) ‘617 Squadron The Dambusters at War’
157* De Havilland DH88 “Comet Racer”. A pre-war desk-piece model, c. 1934, artificer-made of cast polished bronze with detailed cockpit, ailerons and tail-plane, mounted upon black Bakelite plinth base, together with a De Havilland factory worker’s enamel lapel badge (2)
£100-150
159* Flying-Boat Deskpiece. A rare large decorative display representation of an early four-engined trans-ocean airliner, c. 1930s, heavy casting in sections of chromeplated bronze, similar to the types operated by Imperial Airways, having excellent detail including portholes and windows, pilots cabin, engine-nacelles with rotating propellers etc., wingspan 11.5 ins (29cm) (1)
160* Flying Helmets. A pilots C-Type leather flying helmet, c.1940s, complete with earphones, wiring-loom and jack-plug, together with three further flying helmets, plus two G-Type rubber oxygen masks together with Aviation and Military books including Johnson (Brian), The History of Maritime Aviation Fly Navy, published by Newton Abbott, London 1981, hbb, 383pp, Just numerous illustrations plus (Gunther), Stuka Pilot Hans Ulrich Rudel, Schiffer Publishing 1990, 277 pp., numerous illustrations, signed by the author
Provenance: Squadron Leader Thomas Bennett (1919-2013), who flew as Navigator in one of the specialist crew on No 617 (Dambusters) Squadron. (a carton) £100-150
(4 cartons)
156* De Havilland DH88 “Comet Racer”. A good pre-war car mascot mounted as a desk-piece, c.1934, created in celebration of the MacRobertson London to Australia airrace, of chromium-plated bronze with good marked detail including cockpit canopy, ailerons & tail-plane, vents to enginenacelles with twin rotation propellers, some minor plating wear and older repair to base mount, wingspan 8 ins (20cm) (1)
£280-350
158* De Havilland DH89A - “Dragon Rapide”. A fine pre-war model desk-piece, c. 1937, made by a former engineer employed at De Havilland works at Hatfield, this excellent representation of the early light airliner constructed from solid alloy made in sections, with satin-finish to flying surfaces & fuselage, and surmounting a highly polished piston-crown from a DH “Gipsy” aero-engine, together with an original De Havilland works enamelled cap badge with yoke & split-pin fastening (2)
£200-250
£250-280
Lot 157
Lot 159
43
£200-300
162* Helicopter Frame Cabinet. An unusual storage cabinet formed from a helicopter tail-fin, c. 1980s, of riveted aluminium the tubular structure and airframe components, vertical freestanding black painted panels variously bearing identity letters “G- and JL”, and inscribed “Levelling-surface” to frame and door panels, 40 ins (103cm) (1)
Lot 161 161* Heinkel He III. A tail panel believed to be from a Heinkel He III, bearing section of a swastika on a camouflage background, inscribed in pencil on the reverse ‘PART OF TAIL OF GERMAN HEINKEL BOMBER, SHOT DOWN AT WESTFIELD FARM STUDLAND’, shows some sign of overpainting, 59 x 47cm With label attached, ‘Tail panel from Heinkel He III bomber (GI + BH) which crashed at Westfield Farm, Studland, 25 September 1940 - after attacking the Bristol Aeroplane Company Works at Filton, Gloucestershire’. (1) £100-200
Lot 162
163* Junkers F-13. A rare desk-piece display box, c. 1930s, a Bakelite desk-box with lift-out pin tray surmounted by cold painted metal representation of the monoplane, with rotating propeller, together with a group of pre-war illustrative photographs and press cuttings relating to the pioneering Transatlantic Flight by Major James Fitzmaurice in his closed -cabin version of the aeroplane named “Bremen”, c. 1927 (1)
Lot 164 44
£100-200
£100-150
164* Squadron Leader J.H. (Ginger) Lacey DFM and Bar. A fascinating insight into the professional and personal life of a Battle of Britain Fighter Ace, including a vast collection of paperwork and effects including private and press photographs, invitations to theatre performances, dinners, Battle of Britain Balls, including an invitation with menu to No17 Fighter Squadron Fifteenth Annual Re-Union Dinner November 1960 with b/w photograph of Ginger in attendance; photographs of a silk scarf being presented to him, newspaper cuttings, photographs of service in Borneo, family Christmas card, typed copy of Gingers ‘curriculum vitae’; booklets for the 1965 / 66 Anniversary of the Battle of Britain Ball plus Jubilee Ball 1943 -1968; 45 b/w photographs of Ginger on the set of the 1969 film ‘Battle of Britain’, in which he was a technical adviser to the crew, many of them captioned including a group image captioned ‘Group Captain Douglas Bader, Wing Commander Ginger Lacey, CoProducer S. Benjamin Fisz and Director of Photography Freddie Young’, ‘Battle of Britain’ B25 Camera Plane, captioned with explanations of cameras installed on this aircraft for filming; photographs of Ginger meeting Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles at the Royal Gala performance of “Battle of Britain” at the Dominion Theatre, London on 20 October 1969, plus the invitation; photographs of Ginger in civilian life as a Light Aircraft instructor; a photograph album compiled detailing wartime and civil career; a booklet titled ‘a very short history of the life of Sqn Ldr J.H. Lacey DFM & Bar 1917-89’; 15 various Squadron ties; an original handwritten Post Office Telegram dated 20 November 1940 ‘congratulating on a later award may you have good hunting and happiness in the future’; medal riband bars; section of fuselage mounted on board inscribed ‘Sgt J. Lacey DFM’ “Hurricane” V7357 501 Sqn 17 Sept 1940’, with copied diagrams detailing the pieces in relation to the fuselage; Silk Escape maps for Burma, Siam, French Indo China (44/B), Siam, Malay, Sumatra (44/E), Burma, Siam, French Indo China (44/D); various paperwork and correspondence relating to the sale of Gingers medals at Sotheby’s on 15 September 1990 including paddle number, photographs and negatives of Gingers medals group courtesy of Sotheby’s and letters to and from Squadron Leader David Haller RAF (Retired) detailing a bid to raise funds to buy this medals group., contained in a suitcase inscribed ‘Lacey’ Squadron Leader J.H. (Ginger) Lacey (1917-89), educated at Kings College Knaresborough and Leeds Technical College, learned to fly in 1937 with Airwork Ltd Perth, RAFVR and flying instructor Yorkshire Aeroplane Club 1938, Sergeant pilot with 501 Squadron (Hurricanes) at outbreak of WWII, arrived in France early May 1940, destroyed 5 enemy aircraft by 27 May 1940, awarded the DFM, by December 1940 his personal score had risen to 23 enemy aircraft destroyed, shot down or forced to bale out 9 times, this included a bale out following a successful kill of a He 111 that bombed Buckingham Palace on 13 September 1940, awarded Bar to DFM December 194, commissioned January 1941, converted to Spitfires after a short operational tour resumed his pre-war role as an instructor at 57 OUT, 602 Squadron in 1942, promoted to Squadron Leader in the same year, Commanded 155 and 17 Squadrons in India, Ceylon, Burma, Malaya and Japan, total personal score of 28 enemy aircraft destroyed, retired from service in 1967 and was technical adviser on the “Battle of Britain” film. Provenance: Property of the late Squadron Leader David Haller, R.A.F. (a carton)
165* Pioneer Aviation - Aero Club de Belgique. A fine bronze plaque in celebration of an aerial event, c. 1909, by G. Devreese, inscribed “Aero Club de Belgique” with blank cartouche; together with another circular bronze medallion with raised relief imagery depicting a Taube monoplane, inscribed frontis “Viribus Unitis” and further inscribed verso “Fur die Osterreich Luftflotte” c. 1910; a “Navigation Aerienne”, a good large bronze commemorative plaque, c. 1910, inscribed verso “La Reve Concoit - La Science Realisee”, with blank central cartouche, plus a group of eight early 20th-c. AviationMeeting fob-badges, c. 1910-1920, some with original leather tag-straps, plus a group of four aviation mementos of the Great War, c. 1914-1916, comprising a pewter lapel badge inscribed “Weltkrieg 1914/1916 and other items (15)
£300-500
166* Pioneer Aviation - Bleriot Monoplane First Trans-Alpine Flight. A commemorative deskpiece souvenir, c. 1912, representing the Bleriot XI monoplane flown by Lieut. Edvard Nittner, cold-painted cast metal aeroplane surmounting a piece of alpine rock, bearing applied brass plaque inscribed “Der Erstekunen uber flieger ves Semmerings 3/5/12 - Feldpilot Oberleutnant Edvard Nittner” (1)
£150-200
£200-300
45
167* RAF Aircraft Cockpit ThrottleControl Quadrant, c. 1930s, of lightweight alloy and metal fabrication, variously numbered and stamped P14 5219, TII 1379 CH 28117, AW 1931, and CHA 448802 to main control-lever, having multi-functional levers & controls including Fuel Cut-Off & Normal, Propeller Over-ride (Economy, Formation & Maximum), Supercharger control levers, complete with red “kill” button to hand-grip, height 14 ins (36cm) (1)
£150-200
168* RAF Aviation. An unusual radialengine air pump, c. 1920s, a five-cylinder finned air-cooled model or small aviation pump, possibly for fuel tank pressurisation, of fabricated brass and copper with wooden propeller, painted RAF blue and mounted upon a small gantry or pylon of riveted alight alloy open-frame construction, in turn mounted on a mahogany base-plinth, height 10 ins (26cm) (1)
£150-200
169* RAF Roundel. A large fabric-section souvenir, c. 1920s, doped, over-painted silver with traditional red, white and blue target motif, partly stitched with reinforced edging and with clear incisions where previously stitched sewn to fuselage or airframe part, some loss and age wear, formerly an exhibit at the Torbay Aircraft Museum, 40 x 50 ins (102 x 127cm) (1)
170* RAF uniform. A WWII period Flying Officer tunic to a DFC recipient, with G.VI.R. brass button by Gaunt, London bearing cloth brevet badge and medal riband bar, together with a WWII Air Gunner’s tunic, a Group Captains tunic, bearing cloth brevet badge and riband bars, a Flight Lieutenants tunic with trousers, a Flight Lieutenants Battle blouse and trousers plus an Air Vice Marshals Mess Kit, all post WWII (6)
£150-200
171* RAF WWII & Later. A group of aircraft instruments, fitments and accessories, 1940s-1970s, including boxed unused Williamson Gun Camera type G45B MkIII Ref. No. 14/A, Serial No. 813, complete with film-cassette magazine, contained in original “Carton Storage Case” Ref. 14/A 3327, together with AM boxed instrumentboard gauges & instruments including small altimeter Mk18 - 6A/2703, Air-log Time of Trip clock, Kelvin-Hughes Differential Pressure gauge, three small oilpressure gauges, two boxed Direction-indicator Gyro-Compasses type MkIB Ref. No. 6a/1666, Serial No. 7527 dated 1945, Azimuth Vircle cased instrument, cased Astro-compass type PS 6a/0726, Artificial Horizon instrument marked BS 1:10:57, two Martin-Baker Ejection-seat control units one marked MBEU 25053 “1 1/4. second” unit and another MBEU 23502 “1/2.second” unit and related Ejection-seat handle (boxed), and with a small aluminium-cased vanetype pressure-pump AM type K6075 No 277 - BS VA6, also with a light-alloy cased oxygen-tank (unmarked) and a pair of boxed unused wing-mounted navigation lights Mk XA 5C1151, type 2331 (2 cartons)
£100-200
£100-150
172* RAF WWII & Later - 13 Squadron. Aircraft Panel Souvenir, c. 1940s-1950s, an unidentified section of fuselage panel, decorated with insignia of No.13 Squadron, of painted doped fabric over plywood laminated wooden section with part diagonal reinforcing ribbed wooden framework attached, giving slight curvature to section, variously marked and inscribed E6732 1551, YS-2/88 EP 162, and having emblems of sword and dragons head image in red roundel on matt green ground, approx. 24 x 31 ins (61 x 80cm) During this period from late WWII to early postArmistice No. 13 Squadron, which had been formed in 1913, flew a variety of aircraft types, some of which might have incorporated this type of construction including Lysander, Mosquito, Meteor and Canberra; this panel is thought most likely to have been recovered from a DH Meteor Jet Fighter. (1) £150-250
173* RAF WWII - Flying Helmet Ensemble. A good group of pilot’s headgear & apparel, c. 1941-45, including C-Type pattern leather helmet complete with headphones, wiring and jack-plug, Mk VIII goggles with tinted lenses, H-type oxygen mask with tube and intercom wiring, and a pair of soft tan-leather woollined gauntlets with AM-issue labels Type D size 9, and pilot’s name inked thereon Benson 1399574, all in excellent carefully used & preserved condition (-)
46
£400-600
Lot 177 176* RAF. Aeroplane decorated Desktop Cigarette Box, c. 1920s, of chrome-plated white metal with cedar lining and having embossed relief design depicting a vic of three biplanes to hinged cover, part cold-enamel infill decoration, and with raised art-deco border design to facing panels (1)
£80-120
177* RAF English Electric Canberra PR-3 - London-Christchurch (NZ) Air-Race 1953. The original door-hatch air-frame section from RAF aircraft no. WE-142, c. 1950s, of aluminium framed and panel construction, bearing inscription of race destination and time duration to side, shows age-damage and wear following long-term neglect in a scrapyard in Chippenham, whence it was rescued c. 1990s and where it had been sent intended for breaking during the 1970s, dim tba 174* RAF. A Royal Air Force gold Pilots Wings sweetheart brooch, enamelled in blue and red, stamped 9ct, 5cm wide, plus a yellow metal regimental bar brooch 3.5cm wide (2)
£100-150
This particular aircraft WE-142 was one of three prepared by the Royal Air Force to participate in the ultimate long-distance Air Race from London (Heathrow) to Christchurch New Zealand in 1953. It was piloted by Flt Lt. R.M. Furze with navigator Flt. Lt. T.E.M. Dunne who finished third over the 12,300 mile distance, which they covered in the time of 24 hours 34 minutes - the speed-section was in fact won by another RAF Canberra PR-3 flown by Flt. Lt. Roland Burton & navigator Flt. Lt. Don Gannon, who were 43 minutes ahead of their nearest rival - their winning time being 23h 51m, including 83 minutes on the ground - a record that has never been broken. The winning aircraft still survives intact in the Royal Air Force Museum in London. The race held in October 1953 was a celebration of the declaration opening of the New Zealand “International Airport” in Christchurch. (1) £150-200
178* RAF - Hawker Hunter MkI. An original cockpit-canopy front windscreen, c. 1950s, of heavy triple-laminated shatter-proof glass, marked serial number 504603, a good salvage souvenir of this early post-WWII RAF front-line fighter jet, together with a representative period press photograph of the aircraft-type in flight 175* RAF. A fine Royal Air Force gold Pilots Wings sweetheart brooch, set with diamonds and green and red enamel surmounted by a Queen’s crown, stamped ‘375’ (9ct), 5cm wingspan (1)
(2)
£100-200
£150-200
Lot 176
Lot 178
47
179* RAF - Aviation Clothing and Flying Apparel, c. 1970s, including lightweight cotton “Aertex” flying helmet, flying goggles, oxygen/intercom masks & equipment, headphones, cotton lightweight flying suits, emergency flotation vests etc. also including three manuals relating to service-issue flying helmets & headgear, c. 1970s (2 cartons)
(2)
Lot 182
Formerly in use during WWII at RAF Hullavington in Wiltshire, which opened in July 1937 as a flying-training school and subsequently ferry-base aerodrome. (1) £800-1000
£100-150
181* RAF - Cockpit Canopies. A pair of unidentified Perspex frame-canopies, c. 1940s-1950s, one similar pattern to Supermarine Spitfire, the other with metal frame sliding possibly from a Harvard trainer, a/f conditions (2)
£100-200
183* RAF & WWII. Air Ministry Issue Firebell dated 1937, of nickel-bronze bell-metal with king’s crown above “AM” cipher and incised date 1937, previously over-painted red (when acquired), now with polished bare-metal finish, complete with clapper and knotted rope pull, and hanger to crownshaped top stamped with broad arrow mark, minor hairline crack to rim, but clear tone when rung
£100-150
180* RAF - Parachutes and Equipment. A group of emergency equipment, c. 19701980s, including three parachute-canopies apparently complete with control cords or webbing cords, two parachute packs Type B Mk9 Ref. 15A/671 serial No. A46514, and Type LB Mk3 Ref. No. 15/D 1060622 by GQ Parachutes dated 1973 and 1988 respectively, together with related webbing harness straps etc. (-)
182* RAF - Cockpit Canopies. A pair of unidentified Perspex “bubble” canopies, c. 1950s-1960s, possibly Hawker Hunter or similar pattern
£100-200
Lot 183
48
184* RAF Mantel Clock. An Air Ministry official timepiece by T.W. Elliott dated 1937, as used in many RAF Mess Quarters etc., the brass frame fuse movement stamped no 2435, and with maker’s name inscribed, silvered dial with incised painted in-fill black Roman numerals and with RAF cipher above central spindle, complete with pendulum and key, convex lens in brass hinged bezel, the case having raised reeded decoration to front, with classical pediment and stepped base (1)
£400-600
Lot 186
185* RAF Battle of Britain 40th Anniversary. A pair of HM Silver framed commemorative plaques dated 1980, respectively depicting Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire aeroplanes in profile, with each plaque having facsimile signatures of surviving Battle of Britain pilots, who flew these fighters which formed the backbone of Britain’s defensive forces during the critical summer months of 1940, each contained in lined presentation case, with certificate listing each signatory variously listing leading aces and their comrades including Stanford Tuck, Johnnie Johnson, Douglas Bader, FoxleeNorris, Geoffrey Wellum, Bill Randle, Constable-Maxwell inter alia, giving rank and squadron etc., one as new unopened in original sealed packaging (2)
A former exhibit from the Torbay Aircraft Museum. (1) £180-250
£100-200
186* RFC. A fine Royal Flying Corps gold Pilots Wings sweetheart brooch, enamelled in blue and red, stamped ‘CP&Co 15ct’ with rose gold pin, 5cm wide, together with a 9ct gold Royal Fusiliers sweetheart brooch stamped ‘9ct’, plus seven RFC brass buttons (9)
187* RFC/RAF - Avro 504. An original outer-wing vertical strut from the aircraft type, c. 1914-1918, of aerofoil shaped hardwood (ash), as recovered, in original darkened varnished finish with applied maker’s winged “Avro” transfer logo motif to leading edge, and with horizontal white stripes, possibly for easy-identification of flight-leader or Squadron-commander’s aircraft, 65 in (166cm)
£150-200
Lot 188
188* RFC Uniform. A Royal Flying Corps Officer’s tunic, with four brown leather buttons formed as footballs, four smaller buttons to the pockets, two further to the shoulder straps, crown and Order of the Bath pip, RFC brass badges to the collars, cloth wings brevet badge and riband bars for DSO and 1914 star with rosette, with slouch hat with two brown buttons and RFC brass cap badge, with brown velvet sweat band (-)
49
£500-700
193* “Spirit of Flight”. A rare early 20thc. car mascot by Packard Motor Co., c. 1916, in the form of a winged goddess launching a monoplane, of art-deco cubist influence in nickel-plated cast bronze, mounted for desk display on a polished marble plinth base 189* Royal Air Forces Association. Members car badge, c. 1940s, decorative enamel on brass pierced-format with eagle and globe motif, complete with original badge-bar mounting clip, together with a pre-war King’s crown pattern RAF bullionthread blazer badge, and a similar embroidered blazer badge for the Ulster Flying Club (3)
Created following grant of licence to build Hispano-Suiza V-8 aero-engines by the Packard Company during the Great War, later modified after the armistice with the goddess-figure holding forth a wheel & tyre motif, which continued in varied stylised form for the next quarter-century as a radiator ornament on their motor cars. (1) £500-700
194* Spitfire. An aluminium desktop display model of the WWII fighter, with copper and brass mounts raised on a bracket supported by ‘V’ (for Victory) on a stepped oak plinth, 23cm high, together with a similar ashtray, 19.5cm high, plus Spitfire mounted on brass lightning bolt base, 13cm high (3)
£100-150
£80-120
195* USAF/RAF North American Sabre. An original Cockpit Canopy cover c. 1950, a large Perspex bubble-canopy cover believed from a Jet fighter aircraft of the type c. 1950s, lacking inscription or identification marks, length approx. 70 ins (178cm)
Lot 190
Lot 194
190* Royal Flying Corps - Car Mascot. An early 20th-c. radiator embellishment, c. 1918, nickel-plated bronze, well-detailed feathered pattern wings with central RFC cypher within laurel-wreath surmounted by king’s crown, screw-threaded single-pillar mount to base, shows some plating wear and patination, wingspan 8 ins (20cm) (1)
These aircraft types were adopted by the RAF in the early post-WWII era to reinforce their highspeed jet fighter force, until the Supermarine Swift and Hawker Hunters were introduced into service commission in the mid-1950s. (1) £100-150
£300-400
191* Schneider Trophy Film Reel. A reel of 16mm b & w film labelled ‘Schneider Trophy Baltimore 1925’, 300+ feet, in orig. canister (1)
£150-200
192* Sextant. A WWI period Royal Air Force R.A.E. Mk.V. bubble sextant by E.R. Watts & Son, London, with Air Ministry markings ‘Ref.No6B/73, Pat.No.26291/19, No.11’, in original leather lined wooden case with brass manufacturers plaque, plus a WWII R.A.F. period Bakelite bubble sextant, together with a WWII German Kriegsmarine sextant, with micrometer fine adjustment, telescope slides and mirror the index arm stamped with a swastika and number ‘11189’, the arc numbered ‘26865’, in period wooden carrying case, plus a WWII American A10 sextant by Fairchild Camera Co, New York, dated 1942, in its wooden case with accessories, and instructions for use, and a WWII American A12 sextant by Link Aviation Devices Inc, Binghampton, New York, in green case of issue with manufacturer’s plaque ‘Drawing No. 11734’ (5)
Lot 193
£100-150
50
196* WWI - Imperial German Air Force Halberstadt CL IV 2-seat Fighter Biplane. A rare & large fabric section souvenir fragment from an original surviving aeroplane, c. 1917, cut from the airframe during restoration during the 1980s, the doped fabric surface with its original distinctive multi-coloured ‘lozenge’ pattern camouflage livery, with reinforcing rib-tape strips to fabric where previously stitched to the air-frame (probably wing-section), shows age-wear, some fading and loss, together with two sections of aerofoilsection wing-frame ribs, one having partly inscribed number [Type 39], and with another skeleton-frame wooden pattern, together with a group of colour photographs taken at the time of the “barn discovery” of this and remains of two other aeroplanes which had lain dormant since before WWII in the Strahle family workshop, approx. 48 x 48 in (122 x 122cm) This very rare surviving panel originates from one of three Halberstadt CL- IV Types, discovered, partly-dismantled, in long-term storage in an old hangar in Schorndorf, the home of former WWI German “Ace” fighter-pilot Paul Strahler. He was credited with 15 victories during a service career from 1915-1918, when he was wounded in action and invalided out in September 1918. After the Armistice he purchased a war-surplus Halberstadt CL-IV which had been converted for his aerial photography business which he set up in 1919. He then acquired two further Halberstadt types one of which he converted for passenger-carrying under his “Luftverkehr Strahle” Air-Services operation. At some later stage the aircraft were partly dis-mantled and put into storage in a large barn and remained there long-forgotten during the next war, until they were finally unearthed again in the late 1970’s. After some further years, taken to raise funds for purchase and restoration costs, two were subsequently restored and now reside in Aviation Museums in USA and Germany. (1) £6000-8000
51
201* WWI Trench Art - Imperial German Air Force. A good bullet-model of a Rumpler-type Taube monoplane, c. 1914, having fuselage formed from a spent rifle bullet, and wings from shell case scrap, and with a very finely-detailed 6-cylinder rotary engine with four-bladed propeller, and pilot to cockpit features, with applied Balkan Cross motif in contrasting copper to upper wing surfaces, and striated marking to trailing edges, lacking u/c & prop-blade loss, wingspan 7.5 ins (19cm) (1)
197* WWI - Royal Flying Corps. Aeroengine propeller mascot, c. 1914, a trench art style souvenir of the Great War, comprising a V-Twin air-cooled motor, of machined and fabricated aluminium with rotating propeller, stamped inscribed “1914” to upper crankcase, mounted upon a wooden display base having applied manuscript dedication inscribed “Mascot of Jock Turner RFC, killed in action 1914-18 War - Given to E.T. Williams by Nr. Hewens [of] Skindles Garage” (1)
£150-180
198* WWI Models. A tinplate model of a WWI Bi-plane, c. 1920/30s, with Royal Air Force roundels, wingspan 40cm, together with an aluminium Model Tri-plane, wingspan 21cm, plus two scratch-built competition gliders and wooden Spitfire, some damage (4)
200* WWI RFC - Trench Art Diorama desk-piece display-box. of mahogany propeller-blade parts, glazed front and sides with oil-painted backdrop depicting two biplanes above river-valley, c. 1916, together with a further propeller-blade fragment bearing maker’s transfer badge by ??/, also with a bronze patinated speltre deskpiece inkwell having Morane-Saulnier monoplane surmounting and poilu helmet ink-well cover (some older repairs), and two wooden trench-art biplane models (distressed) (4)
£150-180
£100-150
202* WWI Trench Art. Three pieces of artificer-made trench-art souvenirs of the Great War 1914-18, comprising a bulletfuselage Rumpler Taube type monoplane, the upper wing surfaces with foliate decoration and inscribed “1er Artillerie 1914-16” (lacking u/c & prop), together with a bronze biplane-fighter (a/f) and also with a two-blade propeller applied-relief motifdecorated matchbox-case fabricated from duralloy (3)
Lot 201
199* WWI Propeller Clock. A laminated mahogany propeller clock, the boss encasing a Smiths, London timepiece, with Arabic numerals on silvered dial, 38.5cm wide overall (1)
£100-150
Lot 198
52
£250-350
£140-160
203* WWI Propeller Clock. A Great War clock made from the remains of a mahogany four-blade propeller stamped ‘RAF 4A 1918’ and ‘1644’, incorporating a circular brass clock with black Roman numerals applied with enamel RAF wings, single winding hole with key, glazed hinged door, surrounded by .303 Cartridge bases, approx. 55cm high x 62cm wide, 10cm diameter dial (1)
Lot 205
£200-300
204* WWI - RFC. A fine and unusual HM Silver winged circular photograph frame, by Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company, London dated 1917, delicate well-defined feather patterns to avian wings mounted each side of a circular wheel-design central mount, having inset photograph of a pilot of the Great War, hallmarked and stamped makers name to frame, wingspan 7.25 ins (9cm) (1)
£250-350
205* WWII RAF. An Air Ministry-issue wartime Warning or Fire-Bell dated 1942, of nickel-bronze bell-metal, clearly inscribed with Royal Crown cipher for HM George VI, large “A.M.” incised lettering surmounting date 1942, and with further mark “ST” stamped to hanging-crown, lacking clapper, together with related bronze-fitted doubleheaded fire-hydrant standpipe, and with three bronze fire-hose nozzles (5)
£700-900
206* WWII RAF. An Air Ministry-issue wartime Warning or “Scramble Bell”, dated 1941, of nickel-bronze bell-metal, clearly inscribed with Royal Crown cipher for HM George VI, large “A.M.” incised lettering surmounting date 1941, and with further “S” and broad-arrow insignia stamped to hanging-crown, lacking clapper and with manufacturer’s casting “scar” to bellskirt, otherwise good sound condition (1)
£700-1000
53
207* WWII RAF - Handley-Page Hampden. A car mascot desk-piece, c. 1940s, chrome-plated brass, twin-engined rotating propellers, mounted upon a Bakelite display base, wingspan 7 ins (18cm) (1)
£100-150
210* WWII RAF - Aircraft Instrumentboard clock. Type Mk IIIb No. 2191 by S. Smith & Sons dated 1939, Ref. No. 6A/639, as fitted to many aircraft types including Stirling, Hampden, Wellington & Lancaster bombers, chronometric movement by Jaeger for S. Smith, bearing A.M. crown cipher to back cover, black-faced eight-day movement, 24-hour chapter ring with inset”Time of Trip” dial and sweep stop-seconds timer, luminous numerals & hands, good working order, lacking lens, 3 ins (7.6cm) (1)
£350-450
208* WWII RAF/RNAS - Blackburn Skua-style Seaplane. An original car mascot, c. 1940s, chrome-plated brass sectional construction with maker’s mark of crown cypher with inset “W” monogram, rotating propeller and with incised cockpitcanopy detail (1)
£100-150
209* WWII RAF. An officer’s campaign/camp desk, c. 1940s, constructed of polished oak planked top, having folding open-frame legs with transverse stretchers and peg-located support struts and with two shallow drawers for papers, maps etc (one lacking), together with a carved relief hardwood easel-back Squadron Emblem plaque inscribed “Aircraft Depot India - Semper Aliquid Novi”, and with a smaller relief gilt polychrome decorated squadron-plaque inscribed “899 - Primus Video” (3)
£100-150
Lot 209
54
Lot 211
211* WWII RAF Spitfire/Hurricane. An original control-column spade grip Type AH 2040 as fitted to fighter aircraft, c. 1940s, cast alloy with vulcanised rubber handgrip, complete with “Safe-Fire” ring and firingbutton control, and part related linkage, crash-recovery souvenir, variously marked and stamped AH2040, S3, SCL9, ZAHO 433, CCG 4967 (1)
£400-600
212* WWII Instruments. A Military Clinometer, stamped ‘CLINOMETER FIELD MARK VI No 21540’ dated ‘1941’, in original oak case together with a Navigational Computer Mark III, in card box of issue stamped ‘STORES REFERENCE No 6B / 180 MARK III D R.(N.), dated ‘19.9.1942’, an Italian Goniometro theodolite, stamped ‘MOD BENNATI Ma 1157’, ‘LA FILOTECNICA MILANO’, on adjustable feet (parts missing), an Air Speed Indicator, black and luminous dial, stamped ‘MK IXA No21615/43 REF.No 6A/1615, with Air Ministry markings, a German Air Speed Indicator with black and luminous dial marked ‘Hohe km’, stamped ‘Statischer’, ‘Druckausgleich’, a commemorative bottle of white wine for ‘The Last Great Canberra Party!’, ‘R.A.F. Marham June 21-23. 1996’, together with a colour print ‘40th Anniversary of the Canberra, 1949-1989’ (unframed) plus a collection of badges including Royal Flying Corps brass cap badge, Officers badges, pilots wings and a D.F.M miniature medals group (a carton)
£150-200
213* Zeppelin. A WWI aluminium badge in the form of an airship stamped ‘L 15’, ‘14.16’, 5cm long, together with another similar stamped ‘L 48’, 5cm long (2)
£70-100
Lot 212
CONTENTS OF THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN PUBLIC HOUSE, GRAVESEND The following 10 Lots formerly part of the interior décor of the famous “Battle of Britain Pub” at Northfleet nr. Gravesend, Kent. The original Battle of Britain Pub was founded by former Air-crew in a disused wooden building formerly a Mess-hut part of the nearby airfield complement and re-erected in 1947. Continuing in this form until the pub and its accoutrements transferred to an adjacent larger more permanent premises in 1962, when the old building was demolished (see heading lot photograph). After subsequent various changes of ownership it still continues to thrive and trade under the original name.
214* Battle of Britain Pub. A framed halftone reproduction of a photograph of the original wooden building at Northfleet, c. 1960s, together with a group of former pub memorabilia including a pair of RAF MkVIII pattern pilot’s goggles, Battle of Britain Air Ministry Booklets, Aircraft of the RAF wartime issue cigarette card album, “Battle of Britain” (Edward Bishop) author’s signed proof copy dated September 1960, together with sundry inscribed tankards and glassware, two limited edition commemorative ceramic plates with decorative imagery of Spitfire and Lancaster after Michael Turner artwork, by Bradex Ltd. (11)
£80-120
55
215* Battle of Britain Pub. A quantity of framed prints, formerly part-décor of the establishment, mostly small-format comprising images and photographs and artwork prints of combat aircraft of WWII and related material (approx. 22 in a carton)
£100-150
218* WWI RFC - SE-5A. A good twobladed propeller from the aircraft type, c. 1917, of laminated mahogany and hardwoods, variously stamped and inscribed SE 5A, Hispano-Suiza, 150HP, No. 128080, 89 G 10N, and with Air inspection Dept. markings etc., varnished and polished for display, 96 ins (2.56 m) (1)
£800-1200
216* Battle of Britain Pub. A quantity of large framed prints, formerly part-décor of the establishment, mostly large-format comprising images and artwork prints of combat aircraft of WWII and related material (approx. 22)
£100-200
219* WWII Luftwaffe - Messerschmitt Bf-109. An original tail-plane from aircraft No. 10001, c. 1940, A rare and wellpreserved large souvenir of an aircraft believed shot down during the Battle of Britain - June to October 1940, and former long-term principal display feature of the former Battle of Britain Pub, of lightweight alloy and metal fabrication with aluminium panelled tail-fin and doped fabric covered rudder-frame, painted pale-blue with clearly marked swastika motif and No. 1001 to port-side, stamped marks 201 & 208 below identification-plate location (plate lacking), complete with part-rudder linkage and trimtab inscribed “Nicht Anfassan”, later inscribed with painted motto “Battle of Britain Pilots - Drinks on the House!”, of further interest, are previously patched bullet holes evidence of earlier actions, and a large number of signed autographs of former pilots, mostly somewhat faded and indistinct after many years on open display, the starboard side distinctly discoloured from fire and cigarette smoke, whilst the display side shows some fading and wear commensurate with age. Of the signatures more clearly defined are J. Anstee, Josef Cermak Sq.310, Samuel Lyle, Mike Haigh 264 Sqdn, and [A.N. Other] DFC & Bar 301 Sqdn, []Pickering 501 Squadron and many others, some dated 1940s
217* Supermarine Spitfire. A former flying scale model of the aircraft No. XT-F, PK-206, battery-powered, plastic and Styrofoam construction, detailed cockpit with pilot etc., wingspan 40 ins (102cm) (1)
£100-200
A rare and unique surviving memento of the Defence of Great Britain during the critical year of 1940. (1) £6000-8000
Lot 218
Lot 218
56
Lot 219
57
220* WWII RAF - Medals and Insignia. A group of five display cased mementos, c. 1940s, including cap badges for RAF & RNZAF, and individually cased medals including France & Germany 1939-45 Star with Battle of Britain clasp (reproduction), Aircrew Europe Star, War medal and Defence Medal (5)
£100-150
221 WWII RAF. A Pilot’s Flying Log-Book to Air-Observer/Navigator LAC F.T. Brockes, c. 1940-1942, previously in cased mounted display in the Battle of Britain Pub, commencing June 1940 (probably continuation-book previous experience on Anson and Fokker aircraft) shows qualification certificate in Gunnery & Bombing Courses described as “Above Average”, and with further training on Whitleys and Fairey Battle types with Camera-gun, Tracer Practice, Map-reading & Navigation courses and training on Wellingtons up to February 1941, then commencing full “Ops” in March 1941 with destinations Gelsingkirchen, Brest, Kiel, Berlin April 1941 as Air-Observer and AirGunner November 1941, with interval recommencing April 1942 to RAF Henlow training on Tiger Moths & Ansons July 1942 then gaps inscribed “No flying”, back on Wellingtons 1943, signed off and with further entry Martinet March 1944 and Wellington April 1944 “Air Tests”, flightentries end, though subject still in service, based at RAF Bruntingthorpe dated 11/9/45, the Logbook offered with glazed display frame and two mounted copy-page inserts (1)
£150-250
222* WWII or Later. An unidentified Tailfin or tail-plane section inscribed VI, a souvenir fragment of alloy & aluminium panel riveted aerofoil-section construction, having hinged cover-flap to trailing-edge with two air-flow flush fasteners, silverpainted livery variously stencil painted inscribed “V-I - Stoss” and “Versuoss - VI” respectively, and No. 42, 26 x 12 ins (66 x 32cm) (1)
Lot 221
58
£100-150
CONCORDE MEMORABILIA FROM THE DUXFORD AVIATION SOCIETY 223* Air Ministry Pump. A Merlin vacuum pump, bearing Air Ministy markings and stores reference numbers ‘S. No B.R. 21895’, 21cm long (1)
£80-120
224 Aircraft Brochures. A collection of mid 20th-c. airline brochures, ranging from 1959-1961, including Olympic Airways (1961), Air France (1959), KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (1959); Trans Australia Airlines (1959) and Air India (1959) (a carton)
£300-500
225* Aircraft Safety Equipment. A collection of safety equipment comprising baby’s floating survival cot by Beaufort (AirSea) Equipment Ltd., British Airways life jacket x 2, Air Capsule 5 Minute Escape Device x 2 by Robertshaw, California (5)
£150-200
226* BAC. Sud. Aviation Concorde. A pair of carbon fibre brake pads, 47.2cm diameter, in original wooden packing crate, with stores labels (1)
£100-150
Lot 224 227* BAC. Sud. Aviation Concorde. A Concorde main wheel brake unit, bearing label ‘Dunlop Main Wheel Assembly brake unit AH82848, Serial No H2575’, approx. 42cm diameter (1)
£200-300
228* BAC. Sud. Aviation Concorde. An Air Intake Flight Test Acquisition Units, manufactured by ‘Electric Systems, British Aircraft Corporation’, 34cm high x 45cm wide x 22cm deep (1)
229* BAC. Sud. Aviation Concorde. An Air Intake Flight Test Acquisition Units, manufactured by ‘Electric Systems, British Aircraft Corporation’, 34cm high x 45cm wide x 22cm deep (1) £100-150
230 BAC. Sud. Aviation Concorde. Nine Concorde Technical Manuals in French, numerous text and diagrams, bound in standard grey binders (9)
£300-500
231 BAC. Sud. Aviation Concorde. Sixteen British Airways Maintenance Manuals, each dated March 31 1999, on microfilm, each listed accordingly, 10 x 10cm
£100-150
(16)
Lot 227
Lot 229
59
£100-150
Lot 232 232* BAC. Sud. Aviation Concorde. British Aircraft Corporation, Weybridge Visor Jack, with manufacturer’s plate, 73cm long (1)
£150-200
235* BAC. Sud. Aviation Concorde. A Door Jettison Intermediate Escape Chute, Nitrogen Charged (Snap Jack), bearing manufacturer’s plaque for ‘Dunlop Part No. SK18202, BAC/SUD: Code No. 66-190-18021’ etc., 131cm long overall (1)
£200-300
Lot 235 237* BAC. Sud. Aviation Concorde. Various Concorde inflight souvenirs, including notebook, drinks coasters, brochures, etc. (a carton)
£50-80
238* BAC. Sud. Aviation Concorde. An unused roll of carpet for Concorde, manufactured by Axminster Carpets, Devon, new in packaging with stores reference labels, 52cm diameter (1)
£100-150
233* BAC. Sud. Aviation Concorde. Venn de Sensation Artificielle Direction by DBA, type 30473, with manufacturer’s plate, 37cm long
239* De Havilland Comet 4. Sixteen Maintenance Engineers’ Lecture Notes Manuals, c. 1960s, produced for The De Havilland Servicing School, Hatfield, Hertfordshire
(1)
(16)
£150-200
£100-150
240* English Electric Canberra. A large decorated undercarriage door panel from the chase aircraft used in the 1974 Concorde Ice Trials, riveted aluminium construction on curved ribs with horizontal reinforcement, copiously hand decorated with squadron and project sponsor logos, variously inscribed on panl, Danger, Ejection, Seat, and First Aid Panel, various sponsors, approx. 103cm high x 336cm
234* BAC. Sud. Aviation Concorde. An Anti-Collision Beacon by Grimes Manufacturing Company, with manufacturer’s label inscribed ‘No. 300850-5’, Serial No. 10, with modification and BAC code, 21.5cm high overall (1)
236* BAC. Sud. Aviation Concorde. A Concorde Direct Vision Window manufactured by Triplex, bearing manufacturer’s plaque, Serial No. 12444, D.28, 6315 000, overall length 100cm, in original wooden packing crate with stores labels (1)
£300-500
£300-500
Lot 240 60
In November 1974 Concorde G-AXDN went to Moses Lake on the West Coast of America to carry out icing trials to prove the efficiency of the De-icing equipment. If no natural ice was found the Canberra chase aircraft would spray water at the leading edge to make ice form to enable the tests to be carried out. The port wing and Nacelle were painted black so the ice build-up could be observed and how efficient the De-icing equipment was. The panel is from the undercarriage door of this chase aircraft that helped in these tests (information provided by the Duxford Aviation Society) (1) £400-600
Lot 245
Lot 247
241* Propeller Cigarette Box. A WWIIperiod mahogany cigarette box, square form, 13cm high, 10 x 10cm square
246* Concorde Weather Vane. Concorde 002 metal weather vane, [1972], painted white with blue and red stripes and drilled window holes, 30 x 127cm (12 x 50ins), set on top of a wrought iron support with mounting bracket, 152cm (60ins) tall, weather worn
Bearing label to reverse ‘Gifted by T.J. Wire to the D.A.S. in December 1992, made by a civilian carpenter at Helwan in 1942 from a Hurricane propeller’. (1) £80-120
242 Propeller Clock. An Inter War-period clock made from the hub of a four-bladed propeller, the circular dial surrounded by large silvered nuts, the case inlaid with lozenge decoration, 25cm high x 35cm wide Bearing label to reverse ‘Gifted by W.E.J. Morris to the D.A.S. in September 1989, made by his father-in-law who was an aircraft man at Duxford Airfield in 1926-1927’. (1) £100-150
244* Trident. Five Trident Aircraft electronic instruments, comprising Ecko Electronics indicator, stores ref. ‘M6303A’, 36cm long, Transmitter/Receiver, stores ref. ‘6251A’, 40cm long; Collins 51Y-4A ADF Receiver, stores ref. 1644, 37cm long; Internal Isolator manufactured by ‘Aircraft Radio Corporation, New Jersey’ Serial No. ‘815’, 26cm long; Level Switching Pack Right Hand No. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 Tanks, Series No. 006 MOD. STD, 34cm long (5)
£200-300
245* WWI Aircraft. A collection of Great War Aircraft canvas samples, comprising eleven packets each with multi samples, identified, in a card case inscribed ‘1916-18 Plus’, ‘V1500, DH10, T/Moth, Sea Gladiator, Vimy, Hind-Afghan, Scion, Vimy Replica’ (11)
£200-300
243 Sea Vixen FAW Mk.2. Five Ministry of Defence Aircraft Servicing manuals, dated between 1959-1966, including instrument, wireless and radar installation, General and Technical information (5)
£200-300
This unrestored aircraft model of Concorde 002 was forged by Bryan Bartlett, a blacksmith in Hatherop, Gloucestershire. It was commissioned as a wedding present for Brian Trubshaw and Yvonne in 1972, by his friend and Concorde co-Test pilot Roy Radford and his wife. For the remainder of Brian’s life, and until Yvonne’s recent house move from The Old School House, Crudwell, Wiltshire, this iconic weather vane has been mounted outside each of the Trubshaws’ family homes in the South Gloucestershire/North Wiltshire area. (1) £300-500
247* Concorde. Items formerly belonging to the late Ernest Brian Trubshaw CBE, MVO FRAes (1924-2001), including a large training manual of crew information, technical specifications, engine controls and pilots flight instructions, with fold out diagrams, bound in a hard grey cover inscribed ‘Technical Manual, British Aircraft Corporation’, spine printed ‘Crew Information Notes, Sud-Aviation Dev, E.B. Trubshaw’; a handwritten notebook titled ‘Flying Qualities 7 Feb / 8 Feb 1966’; sales brochures both in English and French including Profit of Speed and UK inflight passage brochure ‘The Concorde People’; Concorde Flight High Altitude Charts for London, New York, Washington, Toronto, Paris, Barbados and Antigua 29 Mar 99; Invitation to the Eightieth Consecutive Reunion Dinner of No46 Squadron RFC & RAF, multi signed by colleagues 7 June 1997; Order of Service for the funeral of Ernest Brian Trunshaw 30 March 2001, etc. (a carton)
61
£100-200
PIONEER AIRCRAFT An extraordinary collection of approximately 350 finely detailed scratch built 1/72 scale models of pioneer aircraft (pre. WWI). To be sold individually or in small groups (approx. 150 lots in all). The models are all the work of one man and are believed to have been constructed during the last 50-60 years. Every component,however small would appear to be hand crafted.
AUSTRIA
252* Lohner-Pfeilflieger 1 Delta Wing biplane, wingspan 19cm; Lohner-Simon 1 biplane, 1910, wingspan 16cm; Lohner-Bomhard Delta Wing biplane, 1912, wingspan 17cm
248* Etrich ‘Zanonia’, 1907, wingspan 14cm; Etrich-Wells ‘Zanonia’, No. 2, 1908, wingspan 15cm; Etrich-Wells ‘Zanonia’ No. 3, 1909, wingspan 15cm; Etrich-Wells ‘Zanonia’ No. 4, 1909, wingspan 15cm (4)
(3)
£200-250
253* Etrich ‘Swallow’ monoplane, 1911, wingspan 20cm; Etrich ‘Limousine’ monoplane, 1912, wingspan 18cm; Etrich Taube monoplane, 1913, wingspan 19.5cm
249* Etrich 1 monoplane, October/November 1909, wingspan 18cm; Etrich II ‘Taube’ monoplane, 1910, wingspan 19cm; Etrich III ‘Möwe’ monoplane, 1910, wingspan 21cm (3)
£150-200
(3)
£150-200
£150-200
250* Lohner-Nickel 1 ‘Bussard’ monoplane, 1910, wingspan 20cm; Etrich 1, c. 1909/1910, wingspan 18cm; Lohner-Etrich Taube monoplane, 1913, wingspan 21cm (3)
£150-200
254* Hipssich ‘Drachenflieger’ 1, 1909, wingspan 11.5cm (1)
£100-150
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
255* Kaspara monoplane, 1910, wingspan 14cm; Cermak ‘Libelle’ biplane, 1911, wingspan 12cm; Cermak ‘Racek’ monoplane, 1910, wingspan 11cm; Saric No. 1 monoplane (Serbia), 1910, wingspan 13cm
251* Ziegler biplane, 1912, wingspan 18cm (1)
£100-150
(4)
62
£200-250
Lot 256 EUROPE
256* Dufaux No. 4 biplane (Switzerland), 1910, wingspan 12cm; Fokker-von Daum monoplane (Holland), 1910, wingspan 18cm; Sohlmann-Rumpler Canard (Finland), 1912, wingspan 16cm; Fokker A ‘Spider’ monoplane (Netherlands), August 1911, wingspan 15.5cm; Ask-Nyrop ‘Grashoppan’ monoplane (Sweden), 1910, wingspan 14cm (5)
£200-300
FRANCE
260* Vuia No. 2 monoplane, 1907, wingspan 11.5cm; Santos Dumont No. 14 bis biplane, 1906, wingspan 9.5cm (2)
257* Ader Avion III (structural model), 1897, wingspan 20.5cm (1)
£100-150
261* Gastambide-Mengin monoplane, 1908, wingspan 15cm; Gastambide-Mengin II (Antoinette) monoplane, 1908, wingspan 15.5cm
£100-150
(2)
£100-150
258* Cornu helicopter, 1907, wingspan 8cm (1)
£100-150
262* Ferber No. 9 biplane, 1908, wingspan 15cm; Péan monoplane, 1908, wingspan 14cm (2)
263* Blériot No. VIII bis monoplane, 1908, wingspan 15.5cm; Blériot No. VII monoplane, 1907, wingspan 16.5cm
259* Farman No. 2 ‘Flying Fish’, 1908, wingspan 9cm (1)
£100-150
£100-150
(2)
63
£100-150
269* Goupy II biplane, wingspan 10.5cm; Lejeune biplane, 1909, wingspan 9cm; Penteado-Chauviere biplane, 1909, wingspan 9cm (3)
£150-200
264* Santos Dumont No. 19 monoplane, 1907, wingspan 7.5cm; De Pischoff biplane, 1907, wingspan 11cm (2)
£100-150
270* Piquerez biplane, 1909, wingspan 15.5cm; Lioré-W.L.D. monoplane, 1909, wingspan 13cm (2)
£100-150
265* R.E.P. No. 2 bis monoplane, 1908, wingspan 13.5cm; Zens biplane, 1908, wingspan 14.5cm (2)
£100-150
266* Henry Farman No. 1 biplane, wingspan 14cm; Goupy No. 1 triplane, 1908, wingspan 11cm (2)
£100-150
271* Bréguet-Richet No. 2 bis Gyroplane, 1909, wingspan 20cm (1)
£150-200
267* Vendome ‘Moustique’ monoplane, 1909, wingspan 6.5cm; Vendome No. 3 monoplane, 1909, wingspan 16.5cm; Vendome No. 2 monoplane, 1908, wingspan 12.5cm (3)
£150-200
272* Odier-Vendome biplane, 1910, wingspan 11cm (1)
268* Grègoire-Gyp monoplane, 1909, wingspan 16cm; Tellier monoplane, 1909, wingspan 17cm, Blériot XII monoplane, 1909, wingspan 13cm (3)
£150-200
64
£150-200
277* Odier-Vendome biplane, 1910, wingspan 11cm; Bothy, 1910, wingspan 11.5cm; Odier-Vendome biplane, 1910, wingspan 11.5cm (3)
£150-200
273* Sloan Bicurve biplane, 1910, wingspan 16cm (1)
£100-150
278* Caudron Type A No. 2 biplane, 1910, wingspan 11.5cm; Jordan monoplane, 1910, wingspan 20cm; Caudron Type A No. 1 biplane, 1910, wingspan 11cm (3)
£150-200
274* Koechlin monoplane, 1909, wingspan 11.5cm; Lange-Billard ‘la Fleche’ monoplane, 1910, wingspan 9cm (2)
£100-150
279* Ponche-Primard ‘Tubavion’ monoplane, 1911, wingspan 14cm; Gonnell Uniplane, 1911, wingspan 4.5cm; Nieuport monoplane, 1909, wingspan 11cm (3)
£150-200
275* Goliescu No. 2 monoplane, 1909, wingspan 15cm; Stoeckel monoplane, 1909, wingspan 9cm (2)
£100-150
280* Caudron Racer, 1910, wingspan 11.5cm; S.C.A.A. ‘Frégate’ monoplane, 1910, wingspan 16cm; Nieuport II monoplane, 1910, wingspan 12cm (3)
£150-200
276* Henry Farman monoplane, 1910, wingspan 10cm; Voisin biplane, 1909, wingspan 14cm; Clerget monoplane, 1909, wingspan 13cm (3)
£150-200
281* Nieuport II monoplane, c. 1910, wingspan 12cm; Obre No. 3 monoplane, 1910, wingspan 15cm; Hanriot monoplane, September 1910, wingspan 13cm (3)
65
£150-200
285* Clément-Bayard monoplane, 1911, wingspan 18cm; Sommer biplane, 1912, wingspan 17cm; Clement-Bayard biplane, 1911, wingspan 15.5cm (3)
286* Tatin-Paulhan ‘Aerotorpille’ monoplane, 1911, wingspan 12cm; Train monoplane, 1911, wingspan 15cm; Besson Canard monoplane, 1911, wingspan 16cm; Blériot XXV Canard monoplane, 1911, wingspan 13cm; Deperdussin Three-Seat monoplane, 1911, wingspan 17cm
282* Canton-Uné No. 2 monoplane, 1910, wingspan 14.5cm (1)
£150-200
£100-150
(5)
£200-300
287* Antoinette-Latham monoplane, 1911, wingspan 23cm (1)
£150-200
283* Schreck ‘Diapason 1’ monoplane, 1911, wingspan 17cm
288* Blériot XIII monoplane, 1910, wingspan 18cm; ClementBayard biplane, 1909, wingspan 15cm
(1)
(2)
£100-150
289* Vendome monoplane, 1911, wingspan 12.5cm; Hanriot monoplane, 1911, wingspan 18.5cm; Wroblewskiego-Berthaud III monoplane, 1911, wingspan 19cm; Vinnet Type D monoplane, 1911, wingspan 12cm
284* R.E.P. monoplane, 1911, wingspan 17cm; Coanda Turbine sesquiplane, 1910, wingspan 14cm; R.E.P. biplane, 1911, wingspan 16cm (3)
£150-200
£150-200
(4)
Lot 286
66
£200-250
290* Blériot XXIII Gordon Bennett Racing monoplane, 1911, wingspan 11cm; D’Artois biplane, 1912, wingspan 14cm; Astra triplane, 1911, wingspan 18cm; Lelievre monoplane, 1912, wingspan 13.5cm (4)
294* de Pischof ‘Autoplan’, January 1911, wingspan 17.5cm; Arnoux No. 2 ‘Stablavion’ tailless monoplane, 1912, wingspan 15.5cm; Blard Canard, 1912, wingspan 15cm
£200-250
(3)
£150-200
295* Borel monoplane, wingspan 11.5cm; Breguet U.1. ‘Cruiser’, 1912, wingspan 19cm; Bruneau-Parent monoplane, 1912, wingspan 13.5cm; Pons Canard monoplane, 1912, wingspan 11cm (4)
£200-250
291* Albessard Autostable, 1912, wingspan 15.5cm (1)
£100-150
296* Deperdussin Gordon Bennett Racer, 1913, wingspan 10cm; Blêriot XXXIX monoplane, 1913, wingspan 13cm; Borel ‘Torpille monoplane, 1912, wingspan 13cm; Blériot XLIII monoplane, 1913, wingspan 14.5cm; Ponnier Gordon Bennett Racer, 1913, wingspan 10cm (5)
£200-250
292* Coanda monoplane, 1912, wingspan 24cm (1)
£100-150
297* Henry Farman Type 24 biplane, 1913, wingspan 16cm; Borel Military monoplane, 1913, wingspan 16.5cm; Hanriot Gordon Bennett Racer, 1912, wingspan 12.5cm; Blériot XXXVI monoplane, 1913, wingspan 17cm (4)
293* de Marcay-Moonen monoplane with pivoting wings, 1911/12, wingspan 20cm
£200-250
298* Sanchez-Besa biplane, 1913, wingspan 17.5cm; Ponnier monoplane, 1913, wingspan 10.5cm; Blériot XXXVII monoplane, 1913, wingspan 18cm; Caudron G.3. biplane, 1914, wingspan 18cm
In 1911 the army expected that most aeroplanes would be ferried from place to place by road or rail; they were therefore especially interested in machines that could be disassembled and put back together quickly. Baron Edmond de Marcay and Moonen avoided the problem entirely by having the wings fold without unrigging them. A king post on each side of the fuselage slotted outwards towards the top, serving as anchor for the wing bracing and warping-wires, and as the vertical pivot around which the butt of the rear spar could swing. Each panel then swung around, back and down along the sides of the fuselage, which was triangular in section to accomodate them. (1) £100-150
(4)
67
£200-250
299* Caudron Type L seaplane, 1913, wingspan 21cm; DonnetLeveque Type B flyingboat, wingspan 14cm; Nieuport Hydroplane, 1913, wingspan 21.5cm (3)
304* Wiecziers monoplane, 1911, wingspan 16cm; Hübner IV monoplane, 1912, wingspan 17.5cm
£150-200
(2)
£100-150
300* Caudron-Fabre seaplane, 1912, wingspan 15cm; Voisin Canard biplane, 1911, wingspan 19.5cm; G.E.S.A. Hydroplane (Belgium), 1915, wingspan 12cm (3)
£150-200
305* Zeppelin V.G.O.1 biplane, 1915, wingspan 60cm (1)
£200-300
301* Borel Aeroyacht-Type Denhaut 1 Schneider Trophy seaplane, 1913, wingspan 21cm (1)
£150-200
GERMANY
302* Grade triplane, 1908, wingspan 13cm; Grade monoplane, 1909, wingspan 15cm; Pegelow-Rumler monoplane, 1910, wingspan 11cm (3)
£150-200
306* S.S.W. R.1-1/15 biplane, 1915, wingspan 41cm (1)
303* Fokker ‘Spin’ monoplane, 1913, wingspan 17.5cm; with another unidentified German monoplane, c. 1910, wingspan 14.5cm (2)
£100-150
68
£150-200
309* Dornier monoplane, 1911, wingspan 16cm; Krieger Racing Taube, 1913, wingspan 20cm; Plage-Court ‘Torpedo’ monoplane (Poland/Germany), 1911, wingspan 16.5cm (3)
£150-200
307* Lilienthal No. 11 glider, 1896, wingspan 9.5cm; Jatho Tailless biplane, 1903, wingspan 11cm
310* Haefelin-Rumpler monoplane, 1910, wingspan 16.5cm; Harlan Military monoplane, 1912, wingspan 19cm; Trinks monoplane, 1911, wingspan 16.5cm
(2)
(3)
£70-100
311* Stein-Rumpler monoplane, 1910, wingspan 16.5cm (with extensions 22cm); Otto monoplane, 1913, wingspan 16cm; D.F.W. Taube, 1912, wingspan 23cm
308* Albatross MZ-2 biplane, 1912, wingspan 21.5cm; von Gasser monoplane, 1911, wingspan 18cm (2)
£150-200
(3)
£150-200
£100-150
312* Rumpler-Taube Limousin, 1912, wingspan 20cm; Oertz Taube monoplane, wingspan 18.5cm; Roland Taube monoplane, 1913, wingspan 19.5cm (3)
£150-200
313* D.F.W. flyingboat, 1912, wingspan 23.5cm; Albatross Hydro monoplane, 1913, wingspan 18cm; A.E.G. flyingboat, 1914, wingspan 22cm; Lohner flyingboat (Belgium/Austria), 1913, wingspan 18.5cm (4)
Lot 309
Lot 313
69
£200-300
GREAT BRITAIN
314* Dornier Rs.1 flyingboat, 1915, wingspan 60cm The Rs.1 was the first flyingboat designed by Claude Dornier and was the largest aircraft of its time. Featuring a novel, nearly exclusive, all-metal structure, only the wing, Empennange and the hull were covered with fabric, the three Maybach engines were mounted on a joint stand and drove pusher propellers which were accessible for maintenance during the flight. The radiators were installed without panelling against the engine nacelles. The Rs.1 was destroyed before its first flight during a storm at its FriedrichshafenSeemoos buoy on 21st December 1915. (1) £200-300
315* Cody British Army biplane, 1908, wingspan 22cm (1)
£100-150
316* Dunne D5 delta wing tailless biplane, 1910; Dunne D6 delta wing tailless monoplane, March 1911; Dunne D8 delta wing tailless biplane, June 1912, wingspan 19cm and sl. smaller (3)
£150-200
317* Pilcher ‘Hawk’ glider, 1896, wingspan 10cm; Phillips multiplane, 1906, wingspan 8cm; Blackburn monoplane, c. 1910, wingspan 11cm; Moon Moonbeam 2, 1910, wingspan 10cm (4)
Lot 316
Lot 317
70
£200-250
Lot 322 320* Edwards Rhomboidal biplane, 1911, wingspan 17cm (1)
321* Bland ‘Mayfly’, November 1910 (Ireland), wingspan 12cm; Grahame White ‘New Baby’, February 1911, wingspan 11.5cm; George and Jobling biplane, 1910, wingspan 13cm
318* Howard Wright biplane, 1909, wingspan 17cm; De Havilland biplane No. 1 biplane, 1910, wingspan 15.5cm; Barnwell monoplane, 1910, wingspan 16cm; Macfie monoplane, 1909, wingspan 13.5cm (4)
(3)
£200-250
£100-150
322* Neale monoplane, 1910, wingspan 11.5cm; Avro No. 4 triplane, c. 1910, wingspan 14cm; Weiss No. 2 monoplane, June 1910, wingspan 14.5cm; Petre monoplane, 1910, wingspan 13.5cm; Bristol monoplane, 1911, wingspan 14.5cm (5)
£200-300
323* Lee-Richards Annular biplane, 1911, wingspan 7.5cm; Ferguson monoplane, 1910, wingspan 14cm; Friths monoplane, 1910, wingspan 14cm; Mulliner monoplane, 1910, wingspan 13.5cm; Star monoplane, 1911, wingspan 15cm
319* Short II biplane, 1909, wingspan 19cm; Barnwell biplane, 1909, wingspan 20.5cm; Howard Wright ‘Avis’ monoplane, 1910, wingspan 12cm; Humber-Le Blon monoplane, 1910, wingspan 12cm (4)
£100-150
(5)
£200-300
£200-250
324* Short ‘Triple Twin’ biplane, 1911, wingspan 14.5cm (1)
Lot 320
Lot 323
71
£100-150
329* Piggot Bros. No. 1 biplane, 1910-12, wingspan 25cm
325* R.A.F. S.E.1 biplane, 1911, wingspan 16.5cm (1)
(1)
£100-150
£150-200
326* A.S.L. ‘Valkrie’ monoplane, 1910, wingspan 14.5cm; MartinHandasyde monoplane, 1910, wingspan 13.5cm; A.S.L. ‘Viking’ biplane, 1911, wingspan 13cm (3)
£150-200
330* Cody IV monoplane, 1912, wingspan 18cm (1)
£100-150
327* Handley Page EPH 5, December 1911, wingspan 18cm; Handley Page Type ‘D’, 1911, wingspan 14cm; Avro ‘D’ biplane, April 1911, wingspan 13cm; B.E.1 biplane, December 1911, wingspan 16.5cm (4)
£200-250
331* Blackburn Type E monoplane, 1912, wingspan 16cm; Avro G biplane, 1912, wingspan 16cm; Flanders F4 monoplane, June 1912, wingspan 17cm; C.O.W. No. 10 biplane, June 1912, wingspan 17cm
328* Blackburn No. 2 monoplane, 1911, wingspan 13cm; Blackburn ‘Mercury 1’ monoplane, 1911, wingspan 16.5cm; Flanders F.2 monoplane, 1911, wingspan 15cm; Bristol Racing biplane, 1911, wingspan 11.5cm (4)
(4)
£200-250
Lot 328
72
£200-250
Lot 336 336* Blackburn Improved Type 1 monoplane, 1913, wingspan 16.5cm; E.A.C. monoplane, 1913, wingspan 12.5cm; R.A.F. FE3 biplane, 1913, wingspan 16.5cm; Martin-Handasyde Military monoplane, September 1913, wingspan 18cm; Grahame-White ‘Lizzie’ biplane, 1913, wingspan 12cm; Flanders B2 biplane, 1913, wingspan 17.5cm (6)
332* Vickers-R.E.P. No. 1 monoplane, 1911, wingspan 20cm; Vickers No. 5 monoplane, 1912, wingspan 16.5cm; Vickers No. 8 monoplane, 1912, wingspan 15cm (3)
£300-400
£150-200
333* Blackburn monoplane, c. 1910, wingspan 15cm; Mersey monoplane, 1912, wingspan 14.5cm, Short monoplane, 1912, wingspan 13cm (3)
£150-200
337* Cody VI Hydro biplane, 1913, wingspan 25.5cm (1)
£100-150
334* Bristol (Halberstadt) Taube (Great Britain/Germany), 1912, wingspan 20cm; Bristol-Coanda Type BR7 biplane, 1913, wingspan 16cm; Sopwith 3-Seat biplane, 1913, wingspan 17cm; GrahameWhite Type VII biplane, 1913, wingspan 12cm (4)
£200-250
335* Avro 504 biplane, 1913, wingspan 15.5cm; Gooden ‘Dragonfly’ monoplane, 1912, wingspan 13.5cm; R.A.F. BE2 biplane, c. 1913, wingspan 16cm; RAF FE2 biplane, 1913, wingspan 17.5cm (4)
£200-250
338* Lee-Richards Annular No. 1 monoplane, 1913, wingspan 10cm (1)
73
£100-150
Lot 339 339* R.A.F. BE3 biplane, 1913, wingspan 17cm; SE4a biplane (second prototype), 1916, wingspan 11.5cm; R.A.F. BE8 biplane, 1913, wingspan 16.5cm; R.A.F. BS1 biplane, 1913, wingspan 11cm; SE4a biplane (first prototype), 1915, wingspan 11.5cm; R.A.F. SE4 biplane, 1914, wingspan 11.5cm; SE2, March 1913, wingspan 11.5cm (7)
£300-400
340* Vickers E.F.B. 1 ‘Destroyer’ biplane, 1913, wingspan 17cm; Dyott monoplane, 1913, wingspan 12cm; Vickers E.F.B. 2 biplane, 1913, wingspan 16cm (3)
£150-200
341* Grahame-White Type 6 biplane, 1913, wingspan 18cm; Westlake monoplane, 1913, wingspan 14.5cm; Handley Page GHP 7, 1913, wingspan 17.5cm (3)
£150-200
342* Handley Page O/100 biplane, c. 1915, wingspan 44cm The Handley Page Type O was an early biplane bomber used by Britain during WWI and was at the time one of the largest aircraft in the world. (1) £200-300
343* Avro 508 biplane, 1914, wingspan 18.5cm; Bristol ‘Baby’ biplane, 1914, wingspan 9.5cm; Avro 511 ‘Arrowscout’, 1914, wingspan 11cm; Vickers Scout biplane, 1914, wingspan 11cm; Pemberton-Billing No. 9 biplane, 1914, wingspan 11cm (5)
Lot 342
£200-300
Lot 343 74
Lot 344
344* Sopwith Racing biplane, 1914, wingspan 15.5cm; Airco DH2 biplane (prototype), July 1915, wingspan 12cm; Sopwith Gordon Bennett Trophy Race biplane, 1914, wingspan 11cm (3)
£150-200
345* Grahame-White Type XIII biplane, 1914, wingspan 11.5cm; Grahame-White Type XI biplane, 1914, wingspan 16cm; Bristol SSA, 1914, wingspan 11.5cm (3)
£150-200
347* Humphrey biplane, 1909, wingspan 20cm (1)
£100-150
348* Avro 510, 1914, wingspan 26cm; Avro 501 biplane, 1913, wingspan 20cm (2)
£100-150
346* Bristol-Burney X-3 monoplane, 1914, wingspan 26cm The Bristol-Burney seaplanes were a pair of experimental seaplanes produced by a collaboration between Lt. Dennistoun Burney and the Bristol and Colonial Aeroplane Company during 1912-14. The aircraft, neither of which was successfuly flown, featured a novel hydroplane undercarriage known as ‘hydropeds’. Two hydropeds angled out from below the leading edge of the wing, each with a water propeller driven by a shaft contained within the leg, and a third hydroped supported the rear fuselage. Although Burney’s experiments were unsuccessful he was to exploit his experience with the X2 and X-3 in developing the paravane at HMS Vernon during 1915. (1) £100-150
349* British Deperdussin Hydro monoplane, 1913, wingspan 18cm; Pemberton-Billing 1 flyingboat, 1914, wingspan 13cm; B.A.T. flyingboat, c. 1912, wingspan 17.5cm (3)
75
£150-200
Lot 351
Lot 352 353* Tonini monoplane, 1911, wingspan 14cm; Caproni Ca. 1 biplane, 1910; wingspan 14.5cm; Ponzelli-Miller ‘Aerocurve’, 1909, wingspan 13.5cm; Caproni Ca.23 ‘Parasol’, 1914, wingspan 19cm
HUNGARY
(4)
£200-250
NEW ZEALAND
350* Horvath III monoplane, 1912, wingspan 16.5cm; Zsely monoplane, 1910, wingspan 11.5cm; Svachulay ‘Albatrosz’ II monoplane, wingspan 12.5cm (3)
£150-200
354* Pearce monoplane, 1904, wingspan 8.5cm; Fisher monoplane, 1912, wingspan 11cm; together with two unidentified early flying machines
ITALY
(4)
351* Faccoili triplane, 1909, wingspan 14cm ; Faccioli No. 4 biplane, 1910, wingspan 11cm; Chiribiri No. 5 monoplane, 1912, wingspan 13cm; Caproni Ca. 8 monoplane, 1910, wingspan 13cm (4)
POLAND & SLOVENIA
£200-250
352* Caproni No. 6 biplane, 1911, wingspan 17cm; Caproni Ca. 20 monoplane, wingspan 11cm; Asteria No. 1 biplane, 1910, wingspan 15cm; Caproni Ca. 22 ‘Parasol’ monoplane, 1913, wingspan 19.5cm (4)
£100-200
355* Rusjan E.D.A. V monoplane, 1910, wingspan 11cm; Rusjan E.D.A. VII monoplane, 1910, wingspan 15.5cm; Wrobla monoplane, 1910, wingspan 14cm; Schindler ‘Aquila’ monoplane, 1910, wingspan 14cm
£200-250
(4)
Lot 353
76
£200-250
POLAND
ROMANIA
360* Brumarescu Columbia biplane (Romania), 1911, wingspan 14cm; Vlaicu Canard monoplane, 1911 (Romania), wingspan 14cm (2)
£100-150
RUSSIA
356* Joachimczyka Tandem monoplane, 1911, wingspan 15.5cm (1)
£100-150
357* Webera biplane, 1910, wingspan 16.5cm; Libanskiego ‘Monobiplane’, 1911, wingspan 16cm (2)
£150-200
358* Zbieransky-Cywinski biplane, 1911, wingspan 14cm; Glowinskiego monoplane, 1910, wingspan 14cm; Kozlowski biplane, June 1910, wingspan 14cm (2)
£150-200
361* Sikorsky Russky Vityas biplane, July 1913, wingspan 39.5cm (1)
£200-300
359* Libanski ‘Jaskolka’ monoplane, 1911, wingspan 14.5cm; Rudlicki R-1 monoplane, 1914, wingspan 13cm; Drzewiecki Tandemwing monoplane, 1913, wingspan 13cm
362* Kudasher-3 monoplane, 1911, wingspan 13cm; Gakkel III biplane, 1910, wingspan 10cm; Porokhovshchikov No. 2, 1914, wingspan 14.5cm; Sikorsky S2 biplane, 1910, wingspan 11cm
(3)
(4)
£150-200
Lot 362
77
£250-250
Lot 363 363* Dybosvi ‘Delfin’ monoplane, 1913, wingspan 17cm; Möller I monoplane, 1913, wingspan 17.5cm; Gakkel IV monoplane, 1912, wingspan 16cm; Sikorsky S.9 monoplane, 1913, wingspan 17cm (4)
364* Mozhaiski monoplane, 1884, wingspan 32cm Aleksandr Fyodorovich Mozhaiski (1825-1890) was an Imperial Russian naval officer who spent a total of twenty-four years in the service of The Czar. He designed an extraordinary large steam-powered monoplane, having two engines of 20 h.p. and one of 10 h.p., three 4-bladed propellers, one mounted as a tractor driven by the smaller engine and two inset in slots in the surfaces of the wings as pusher propellers driven by the larger engines through chains and gears. The overall length of Mozhaiski’s machine was 75 feet 6 inches with a wingspan of 74 feet 9 inches. The first power-assisted take-off of a heavier-than-air craft carrying an operator is generally credited to Felix du Temple in 1874. In 1884, Mozhaiski’s machine apparently made the second such hop, covering between 65 and 100 feet after rolling down an incline under power at Krasnoye Selo, then just outside St. Petersburg, Russia. In later years the Soviet propaganda machine shamelessly proclaimed that Mozhaiski’s hop was the first true flight of a heavier-than-air machine. (1) £200-300
£200-250
USA
Lot 364
365* Whitehead No. 2 monoplane, 1901, wingspan 15cm (1)
78
£150-200
366* A.E.A. ‘White Wing’ biplane, 1908, wingspan 18.5cm; A.E.A. ‘June Bug’ No. 3 biplane, June 1908, wingspan 18.5cm
371* Sellers Quadruplane, 1909, wingspan 7.5cm; ChanuteHerring glider, 1896, wingspan 7cm, White Canard monoplane, 1912, wingspan 8cm
(2)
(3)
£150-200
£150-200
367* A.E.A. ‘Silver Dart’ No. 4 biplane, January 1909, wingspan 21cm; A.E.A. ‘Redwing’ biplane, 1908, wingspan 19cm (2)
£150-200
372* McCormick-Romme ‘Cycloplane-Umbrellaplane’, 1911, wingspan 14cm (1)
£100-150
368* Curtiss-Herring ‘Golden Flier’ biplane, 1909, wingspan 13cm; Curtiss ‘Reims’ biplane, 1909, wingspan 11.5cm (2)
£150-200
369* Curtiss ‘Racer D Type’ biplane, 1912, wingspan 8cm; Curtiss ‘D Type’ biplane, 1910, wingspan 11.5cm; Curtiss ‘Headless D Type’ biplane, 1911, wingspan 11.5cm (3)
£200-300
370* Wright ‘Baby’ Gordon Bennett Racing biplane, 1911, wingspan 9cm; Martin biplane, 1909, wingspan 18cm; Heinrich Model D monoplane, 1913, wingspan 12cm (3)
373* Kowalaskiego biplane, 1910, wingspan 21cm
£150-200
(1)
79
£150-200
379* Langley ‘Aerodrome’, 1914, wingspan 20cm (1)
374* Wright Bros. ‘Model B’ biplane, 1909, wingspan 17cm (1)
£150-200
£150-200
375* Martin ‘T.T.’ biplane, 1913, wingspan 16cm; Vought-Lillie biplane, 1913, wingspan 13.5cm
380* Curtiss Model H ‘America’ flying boat, wingspan 31cm
(2)
(1)
£150-200
376* Steco biplane, 1911, wingspan 18cm; Gandy-Vrang monoplane, 1912, wingspan 13cm; Thomas biplane, 1913, wingspan 14cm (3)
381* WALCO Tandem monoplane air boat, 1913, wingspan 14cm; Gallandet Flying Boat (structural model), 1913, wingspan 16cm (2)
£150-200
(5)
£150-200
378* Heinrich monoplane, 1910, wingspan 12cm; Boland Tailless biplane, 1912, wingspan 15.5 cm; Pfitzner monoplane, February 1910, wingspan 15.5cm (3)
£100-150
382* Wright Model G flyingboat, 1913, wingspan 16cm; Curtiss ‘Tadpole’, 1913, wingspan 16.5cm; Burgess ‘K’ flyingboat, 1913, wingspan 19cm; Benoist XIV flyingboat, 1913, wingspan 14.5cm; Curtiss Type ‘M’ flyingboat, 1914, wingspan 15cm
377* Gage biplane, 1912, wingspan 17cm; Herring-Burgess biplane, 1910, wingspan 11.5cm; Benoist XI biplane, 1912, wingspan 16cm (3)
£150-200
£200-300
383* Cooley monoplane, 1910, wingspan 17.5cm, overall length 36cm
£150-200
(1)
80
£150-200
MOTORING BOOKS & PICTURES 384 Conway (Hugh). Bugatti Magnum, numbered 1156 of the limited edition dated 1989 by Haynes Publishing for Foulis Motoring edited by Robin Read, royal blue cloth hard covers with embossed imprinted Bugatti badge frontis. and verso, contained in distinctive faux engine-turned aluminiumfinish hard-cover slipcase with applied facsimile chassis-plate replica stamped and inscribed No. 1156, excellent hardly-used condition (1)
£200-250
385 Fasal (John and Goodman, Bryan). The Edwardian Rolls-Royce, companion set in 2 vols., printed by Wace Burges and published by John Fasal, maroon cloth hard-covers with matching endpapers and hard-cover slipcase, minor rubbing to one spine and slipcase, otherwise excellent condition (2)
£180-250
386 Goodwood Motor Circuit - BARC Easter Monday 1950. An original race meeting programme for the event April 10th 1950, signed autographed by several leading drivers of the day including Stirling Moss, Reg Parnell, Baron “Tulo” de Graffenreid, Bob Gerard and Prince “Bira”, all signatures in blue ink, on single page for Race 3 the “Chichester Cup”, with annotated race-lap chart, won by Bira driving a Maserati entered by Enrico Plate (1)
£80-120
387 Moss (Stirling & Pomeroy, Laurence). Design & Behaviour of a Racing Car, numbered 32 of a Special Limited Edition of 250 copies, 1st ed., 1963, signed by both authors, published by William Kimber & Co., copiously illustrated with photographs by Louis Klementaski, darkblue cloth covers with gilt-tooled lettering to spine and with steering wheel motif to front cover, in matching hard-cover slipcase, excellent clean condition, slipcase rubbed to corners (1)
£100-150
Lot 386 388 Royal Commission on London Traffic. Report of the Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire into and Report upon the means of Locomotion and Transport in London, 8 vols. in 10, London: H.M.S.O., 1905-06, numerous plans, plts., and tables, ex-library with small oval ink library stamps to titles and verso of most plts. & plans etc., some folding plts. creased or dustsoiled to outer margins, some printed wrappers bound-in, near contemp. library buckram, some joints worn, extrems. frayed, folio Ford & Ford, ‘Breviate of Parliamentary Papers, 1900-1916’, pp.57-8; and Ottley 783. This series of volumes contains the complete report of the most comprehensive examination of the problem of traffic in London. The Commission investigated and documented the links between national and urban railways, the Underground system, trams, motor buses, taxis, privately owned vehicles, both horse-drawn and motor-driven, pedestrians and horsemen etc. Those who gave evidence included Charles Booth, author of Life and Labour of the People in London. The set comprises volumes 30, 40-46 of ‘Reports from Commissioners, Inspectors, and Others’ and numbered in gilt to spines. The first volume also contains several reports on education in Scotland. (10) £800-1200
389* Brands Hatch “Race of Champions”. An original poster for the event, c. 1970, a scarce example of advertising for this popular nonChampionship race for Formula 1 GP cars, decorative artwork design by David Jones & Mark Rogers, together with four other period posters variously for Castrol, Shell, Wiggins-Team Camaro etc., 30 x 20 ins (76 x 51cm) (5)
81
£100-150
394* Motoring Photographs. A large quantity of photographs and photographic prints, 1910-1950s, depicting motor cars, motor racing, motor-cycling and cycling subjects events and personalities, variously contained loose, and in several loose-leaf folders, former-dealer’s stock (a carton)
£100-150
390* Davies (Gordon C., -1994). ‘Roadside Repairs in Switzerland’, gouache and watercolour on card, depicting a Vauxhall motor car broken down on the road, with a backdrop of the Swiss mountains and lake,signed lower left, 18.5 x 25cm (7.25 x 9.8ins), framed and glazed The versatile artist and illustrator Gordon Davies was one of the main contributors to the Classic Cars in Profile series of booklets published in the 1960s. (1) £150-200
391* Davis (Lucien, 1860-1941). Young Lady Cyclists, original illustration in black, grey and white gouache on paper, signed lower right, 19 x 31.5cm (7.5 x 12.5ins), framed and glazed (1)
£100-150
393* Le Mans 1970 - Porsche 917. A rare original Factory Promotional Poster, c. 1970, special-issue in celebration of the first victory for the new 917 model, polychrome photo-lithograph, shows some wear and rubbing to edges, pinholes to corners (one fragment detached) unframed, 30 x 20 ins (76 x 51cm) The Debut of the new Porsche 917 saw victory achieved on its inaugural attempt on the 24-hours endurance event: driven by Richard Attwood & Hans Herrmann, securing the first of five wins for the type during the succeeding mid-1970s. It was also notorious as the venue for the Feature Film, starring Steve McQueen, who, as a wellrenowned racer, was also driving 917. (1) £500-700
395* Pneu Eureka. An early 20th-c. Advertising Poster for Tyres and products, c. 1910, polychrome lithograph after the original design by L. Charbonnier, published by C.H. Wall et Cie, rue Lafayette Paris, together with another framed French humorous cycling print after C. Amyot dated 1897, largest 24 x 16 ins (61 x 41cm) (2)
£100-150
392* Gamy (Montaut, Marguerite). “En Manouevres” Tracteur Chatillon-Panhard, original pochoir lithograph dated 1914, polychrome with hand overlay stencil colours, together with a reproduction print by Gamy entitled Targa Florio 1913, and further with “Monoplan Rouge” original pochoir lithograph by Leon Dufour, depicting monoplane over marsh landscape, c1912, all contained in matching glazed frames, 17 x 36 ins (43 x 92cm) (3)
£150-250
Lot 394
396* Wilson (Malcolm, attrib.). “Morgan MX-3” Matchless V-Twin, an original artwork painting portraying the famous Morgan Trike of c. 1928, watercolour & gouache on art-board, indistinctly signed in pencil by the artist, together with four further studies by the same hand depicting Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing Coupe, Jaguar MkII 3.8 Saloon, Rolls-Royce “Silver Ghost” tourer and Lotus Elan Coupe. 15 x 19.5 ins (38 x 48cm) (5)
82
£100-200
MOTORING MEMORABILIA 398* Bournville Cocoa “Made by Cadburys”. Enamel advertising sign, c. 1914, white on red ground, together with two others for Hudson’s Soap “ 1/4 lb Packets”, and Forestry Commission “FireDo not Start” alert enamel signs, largest 14 x 18 ins (36 x 46cm) (3)
£120-160
400* British Dominions “Empire Motor Policy - Service Agent”. A large early 20thc. enamel advertising sign, c. 1910, polychrome pictorial imagery of Napierstyle 2-seater, further inscribed “Instant Towing - Free Repairs”, fair condition showing old damage and loss, age-wear and some repainting, approx. 54 x 40 ins (140 x 102cm) (1)
£250-350
401* Bus & Tram Tickets. A collection of over 1,000 bus and tram tickets, c. mostly pre-decimal 1920s/1980s, denominations, largely arranged by company in packets and corner-mounted on album leaves in a ring binder, companies include Nottingham City Transport, Newcastle Corp. Trams, W. Norfolk & Sons, Osbornes Services, Wainfleet Motor Services, Wye Valley Motors, Stock Tickets, O.K. Motor Services, Northern General Transport Co. Ltd., etc. (approx. 1000)
399* British Bulldog. A fine early 20th-c. Car Mascot, c. 1920s, of exceptional quality nickel-plated bronze, supremely sculpted with remarkable detail, on rectangular base with domed captive threaded-nut central mounting, unknown maker, excellent original condition (1)
£200-300
397* BARC Goodwood Easter Monday. Race Entry Signing-on Sheet 1953, a rare original entry start-list for the International Meeting 6th April 1953, bearing autograph signatures of all drivers/entrants in event 6 “Third Easter Handicap”, 13 signatures of well-known International and club competitors of the day including James (Jimmy) Stewart (Ecurie Ecosse), A.G. Graeme Whitehead, Leslie Johnson, Michael Christie (later Hillclimb Champion), Gerry Dunham, Norman Hillwood (later Chairman of Arsenal FC), Horace Richards, AB Fraser, J.M. Sparrowe, Joe Goodhew, C.J. Hamilton and others, also including an original programme with full entry-listing for the meeting (2)
£150-200
402* Car Mascots & Miscellany. A group of mid 20th-c. radiator embellishments, c. 1930s-1950s etc., including Hispano-Suiza style Stork mascot (older repair) mounted on chromed base, Stylised Art-Deco Swan mascot, Maico (Maicoletta) Zeppelinshaped aluminium scooter mascot, Seated girl chrome-plated deskpiece, Michelin Centenary ashtray, and a bronze St. Christopher medallion (6)
£100-150
403* Carburine Motor Spirit. Enamel Garage sign, c. 1910, blue lettering on yellow ground, together with another, red lettering on white ground, also with RAC “Agent” early pattern double-sided diamond-format c. 1914, various conditions, largest 17 x 48 ins (44 x 120cm) (3)
£180-250
Lot 400
Lot 398
Lot 403 83
£150-180
Lot 404
407* Elliott Speed Indicator. A good cased calibration precision instrument by Elliott Bros London, no.23863, c. 1930s, nickel-plated casing, triple-drive chronometric movement with three chapter rings calibrated 0-4,000, contained in original maker’s silk & velvet-lined protective case (1)
Lot 405
408* Golden Arrow. A Schylling Collector Series scale model of Golden Arrow, the 1929 Land Speed Record Car, 50.5cm long as new in box, together with another lacking box, plus a collection of modern scale models including Burago Chevrolet Corvette (1957), Bowden Spacelander model bicycle, and a Motor City Classics 1/18 scale Air Stream caravan
404* Citroen - Radiator grilles. Two early 20th-c grill-surrounds possibly for “Rosalie” and B15 types, c. 1920s, together with a further large grille-surround for the Citroen “HF” type van, red painted with distinctive chevron logo badge to front, various conditions (3)
£100-120
405* “One Hundred Greatest Cars”. A commemorative cased set of silver ingots by John Pinches Ltd GB, c. 1975, created in celebration of a Centenary of the Motor Car 1875-1975, each tablet with embossed relief imagery of motor vehicles representing milestones in automobile creation and development, contained in velveteen-lined display case with matching complementary documented-history book for each vehicle, complete with inset magnifying glass (1)
£100-150
(7)
406* Daily Chronicle “More News Than Any Other Paper”. Enamel advertising sign, c. 1910, together with another for Batey’s Lemonade “One Quality - The Best”, largest 30 x 22 ins (76 x 56cm) (2)
£100-150
£100-150
84
£100-150
412* Motoring & Aviation Miscellany. A group of mid 20th-c. components, 1950s1960s, comprising a dashboard instrument panel by Jaeger calibrated 0-130kph, two pairs of racing goggles, three aircraft instruments including tachometer, ASI and another, a bulb type car horn and another, a large brass yachting/rowing megaphone and related sundries (a carton)
409* Indianapolis 500 Miles Race 1928 Fred Frame. A rare original signed photograph depicting the driver in car prior to the start, May 30th 1928, sepia tone Official Indianapolis Speedway Press image, with printed caption, depicting the subject in the State Auto Insurance (Miller) Special, signed in blue-black ink “Sincerely - Freddie Frame 5/30/28”, together with another smaller image depicting Clemonstype single-seater dirt-track racer, c. 1928, 8 x 10 ins (20 x 26cm)
411* Le Mans 1971. A group of twenty original press photographs depicting the start and action shots during the race event June 1971, black and white studies, each bearing agency wetstamp verso inscribed “Agence Dreux” with Paris address, and variously numbered, images principally highlighting the duel between Ford GT40s and the Porsche 917s teams, plus Matra and others etc., 7 x 9.5 ins (18 x 24cm) (20)
413 Plus Four. A rare Souvenir of the Eighth Grand Prix d’ Endurance 24 Hour International Road Race at Le Mans 21st and 22nd June, 1930, for Fully Equipped Standard Cars, published by BENTLEY MOTOR WORKS LIMITED, POLLEN HOUSE, CORK STREET, LONDON, 40pp, numerous illustrations, some spotting, 8vo (1)
£100-200
Having started his career on the Dirt-Tracks in the early 1920s, Fred Frame made his debut at “Indy” in 1927. In 1928 he qualified well, started from the 17th on the grid and finished in 8th place completing the 200 laps. He competed in successive years, winning the event once in 1932, during a long and successful career. (2) £80-120
410* Jaguar, Mercedes, SS and Others. A group of manufacturer’s car radiator badges & emblems, c. 1930s-1960s, including Jaguar, SS Jaguar, Mercedes Benz, MG, Morris 8, Singer, Triumph and others (10)
£80-120
Lot 413
85
£80-120
£500-800
Lot 416
414* Rallye Monte Carlo. A Souvenir Rally-Plate for the event 2006, printed pressed aluminium depicting Porsche GT Sports, together with Le Mans commemorative neckerchief, polychrome printed cotton depicting winning cars 19231973 (2)
£70-100
417* Sunlight Soap “£1,000 Reward Guarantee of Purity”. Enamel Advertising sign, c. 1910, polychrome illustrative design, shows some rusting to margins & damage to corners, 24 x 32 ins (60 x 82cm) (1)
£100-150
418* Tether Car. A scale model 1930s BB Korn Tether car, finished in red with chromium-plated radiator, exhaust etc., 52cm long These sophisticated race cars were tethered to a pole or to a chain track in a banked wooden race track reaching speeds in excess of 150 mph. (1) £100-150
415* Scottish Motor Racing Club and Others. A group of Members’ Sporting and Car Club badges, c. 1950s-1960s, including Scottish Motor Racing Club, BARC Goodwood early post-war pattern, Harker Racing, Veteran Car Club and another for North Sea Ferries (5)
419* Trophy Awards. Two large silver-plated Racing Trophies, 1930s & 1960s, a large silverplated salver, having applied enamelled badge decoration and inscribed “Norristown Motorboat Race (Outboard Regatta) dated 1931, together with BARC Cadwell Park the “Lincolnshire Bowl” Trophy to the Outright Winner of the Saloon Car Race dated 1969 (2)
420 Weguelin (David). The History or the English Racing Automobiles, ERA Limited, The Story of the Cars, 1933-1980, published by White Mouse Editions London, sole edition dated 1980, blue cloth and yellow binding hard covers with applied facsimile enamelled radiator badge frontis., contained in photo-illustrative hard cover slipcase, excellent almost unread condition (1)
£150-180
416* Simca “Ariane”. Two mid 20th-c. radiator grilles, c. 1950s, distinctive American styled full-width grilles with incorporated headlamp surrounds, satinchromed or stainless-steel pattern, together with a Rolls-Royce hubcap wheeltrim c. 1950s (distressed) (3)
£100-150
Lot 418 86
£80-120
£150-180
MARITIME MODELS & MEMORABILIA
Lot 421
421* Canot-Automobile. A fine early 20th-c. model steam racing motor-boat hull French, c. 1912, of steamed bentwood panel construction, having attractive tumble-home foredeck, raised moulded coaming to open engine-bay and cockpit, sloping curved aft deck with curved transom stern-plate, and brass raised full-length protective strakes to sides, together with a contemporary period steam-plant and copper boiler, with brass fittings including steamvalve, filler-cap and steam-pipe tap, each mounted on common-base, having single-cylinder flywheel balanced oscillating engine, on nickelplated base on hardwood plinth, and with prop-shaft and propeller, unconnected, lacking starboard side coaming, length 39 ins (100cm) (1)
422* Ferrari Racing Hydroplane. A fine and large display model by Bespoake Furniture Ltd., c. 1980s, representing the racing monoposto craft piloted by Nando Dellorto c. 1960s, a single-step hydroplane model with exceptional attention to detail with faux-deckplanking, aerodynamic superstructure with nacelle cover for the distinctive V-12 engine, full cockpit detail with instrumentation, leather padded seat, chromed exhausts etc., and dramatic finned stabiliser to tail, mounted on polished display base, complete with original protective packaging box, length 31 ins (79cm) (1)
ÂŁ700-900
Lot 422
87
ÂŁ200-300
425* Sailing Vessel. An Art-Deco style large table-top display model, c. 1930s, representing a three-masted clipper-ship in full sail, having dark hardwood hull with chrome-plated metal masts, sails, bowsprit and decorative strakes to hull sides, 26 ins (66cm) (1)
Lot 423 423* Mercantile Marine Scale Models. A good group of 1/36-Scale Waterline Models of Trans-Oceanic Liners and Merchant Ships of the period 1914-1964, manufactured by the by Van Ryper Inc. Vineyard Haven Mass. USA, of wooden construction with metal masts, derricks and some deck fittings, meticulously painted in individual liveries of leading shipping-lines, and with maker’s name stamped to base, variously including Berengaria, Mauretania, Campania, Arcadia, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, Augustus, Rotterdam, Reliance, Columbus, Bremen, and many others, and further including two larger scale models mounted on polished mahogany bases representing SS “Great Britain” and “African Enterprise” vessels Charles van Ryper (1891-1964) commenced his ship model business in 1933, making inexpensive souvenirs for transatlantic travellers. Rapidly expanding his range to include steamers & liners from 1930s-1950s, tailing off as his health deteriorated in the early 1960s. During the war he made models for the US Maritime Commission, reverting to civil navigation after 1945, and making some larger-scale bespoke commissions to order under his Scherbak Models banner. (approx. 32) £300-400
424* RAF Steam Launch. A fine early 20th-c. model steam Pinnace/Tender, c. 1920s, the hull of wooden layered “bread & butter” construction, painted light blue above a red waterline, and with initial RAF painted to bow sides, having brass fittings including port-holes, deck-furniture and ancillaries, striated incised “planked” decking with removable sections, cabin section amidships having celluloid glazed windows and two hinged opening vents to each side, brass stanchions for deck-rails (wire lacking), large raked funnel and ventilator forward in cream painted tinplated with helm and engine-room relay controls to upper deck, fitted with singlecylinder engineer-built balanced steam plant with ancillary water-pump fitment, lacking boiler, but complete with propellershaft, three-bladed propeller & rudder direction-control below removable aft-deck, some minor deck-fittings lacking, length 38 ins (96cm) (1)
£400-600
426* Ship Model Diorama. A mid 19th-c. sailor-work model of the three-masted trading vessel “Emley” c. 1850s, welldetailed, fully-rigged without sails, comprehensive deck-fittings including lifeboats, capstan etc., the stern embellished with the name “Emley”, pennants & flags to mast-heads, well presented on a painted sea base within a fine joiner-made glazed mahogany cabinet, length 22 ins (56cm) (1)
Lot 424 88
£80-120
£140-180
427* Waterline Ship Models. A large group of fine-scale models of Warships of WWII, representing the core of Britain’s finest Royal Navy ships 1930s-1940s, variously including Battleships, Cruisers, Aircraft-carriers, destroyers, corvettes, minesweepers and sundry escort vessels etc., capital ships include HMSs Hood, Repulse, Renown, Ramillies, Rodney, Barham, Warspite, Indomitable, Valiant, Nelson, Malaya, Tiger, Ark Royal, Eagle, etc, and with Cruisers Ajax, Achilles, Exeter, Suffolk, Sheffield, Manchester and others, mostly boxed (approx. 40)
Lot 427
£200-250
428* De Regan (M.). “Convoy Patrol” Royal Navy and RNAS, an original painting portraying a maritime scene during the Great War, c. 1916, depicting biplane amphibian over-flying a submarine-escort to merchant convoy, the dazzle-painted twin engine “Batboat” type aircraft and submarine No. 12, watercolour and gouache with bodycolour, signed by the artist [“M de R”] not deciphered, and with RNAS painted cipher inscribed “D & P” lower right, mounted in glazed moulded frame, approx. 16 x 22 ins (41 x 56cm) (1)
£250-350
429 Jane (Fred T.). Fighting Ships, 1914 (4th ed., corrected to date, except as regards the British Navy), numerous b & w illusts. from photos., ads. at front and rear (initial leaves frayed), tabulated index a little dust soiled, ownership to upper pastedown, hinges split, orig. cloth, joints and head & foot of spine frayed, slightly damp marked, together with Jane’s Fighting Ships 1944-45, Corrected to April, 1946, numerous b & w illusts. from photos., ads. at front, tabulated index, ownership to front free endpaper, orig. cloth, both oblong folio (2)
£100-150
Lot 431
430 Log Book. Log book of C.E. Cundall, Midshipman, R.N., 15 July 1895 to 15 July 1897, over 120 leaves, neatly written, recording events aboard H.M.S Endymion, H.M.S. Blake and H.M.S. Fox, in the Channel, South Africa and West Coast of Africa, with original drawings of the H.M.S. Endymion, Blake and Fox, other drawings of naval guns, maps etc., original half morocco, lacking spine, upper cover detached, rubbed and stained, folio (1)
£200-300
89
431* Payne (Charles Johnson, “Snaffles”). RNAS & Royal Navy on Manouvres c. 1918, a fine original painting study of a Dreadnought with Supermarine Amphibian aircraft N-4564 over-flying and with aircraft-carrier in attendance, watercolour and bodycolour, signed by the artist “Snaffles” and with inset watercolour remarque depicting the flying-boat at mooring in choppy waters, initialled “S”, in deep common mount, in glazed gilt frame, image sizes 18 x 24 ins (46 x 61cm) & 3.5 x 9 ins (9 x 23cm) respectively (1)
£600-800
432* Payne (Charles Johnson, “Snaffles”, after). “The Seahawk”, an original lithograph print after the original watercolour by the artist, depicting RNAS float-plane N-4567 on patrol over merchant shipping during the Great War, watercolour tinted by hand over monochrome lithograph, signed “Snaffles” in pencil to left lower margin, having printed caption with inset remarque in common-mount, in large glazed frame, matching above to lot, 18 x 24 ins (46 x 61cm) image only (1)
435* WWI Kriegsmarine. A postcard album, c. 1914-1918, comprising art and photographic postcards of warships of the Imperial German and British Navies during the Great War, some postally used, together with other related war souvenir postcards including German and Allied forces imagery of war on land and in the trenches etc., a total of ninety-six cornermounted postcards, contemp. cloth, rubbed, 8vo (1)
£150-200
£150-200
434* Titanic. A group of four real photo postcards by E. Beech, Imperial Studio, Cradley Heath, relating to the making of the Titanic’s great anchor by Noah Hingley and Sons Ltd in Netherton, c. 1911, three showing men at work on the anchor inside the forge and one of anchor ready for transport, all postally unused with photographer’s ink stamp to versos, together with two later Titanic photographic postcards shwoing the launch and construction, both postally used in the 1920s (6)
436* WWI Royal Navy Submarine RClass. An original White Ensign believed from R-10, c. 1917, of segmented stitched linen panels of red and blue on traditional white ground, with reinforced canvas strip sewn to jack-staff leading-edge, some moth holes and age wear, otherwise wellpreserved clean condition, together with an original period framed photograph of the craft at speed on the surface, 43 x 80 ins (110 x 204cm)
£180-250
433* Phillip (Rex, 1931-). ‘South Atlantic Dawn Type 22 Frigate screening HMS Hermes, Falklands War 1982’ oil on canvas, titled verso, signed and dated (19)85 lower right, 39cm x 49cm, framed (1)
Lot 434
Lot 436
£300-500
90
The R-Class Submarines were commissioned for active service with the Royal Navy in late 1917, although only 12 were built, they were the fastest lightest and best equipped and the ideal attack vessel. With a surface speed of 9 knots this was nearly doubled underwater to 14kph, a speed record which was not bettered until 1938. Powered by a single 8-cylinder motor of 480hp in a streamlined hull & conning-tower, they were the forerunners of a developed type that would be used for nearly 2 decades into WWII. R-10 was built by the Vickers-Armstrong yard at Elswick, and remained in service long after the Armistice and later used as a training vessel, until being sold off in 1929. This Flag having been previously sold at auction some years ago by H&H Auctions in Cheshire, the purchaser now deceased. (1) £300-500
437 WWII - Opthalmic Orders. An album of Admiralty Fleet Orders dealing with the opthalmics department, c. 1938-49, printed orders pasted as multiples to rectos and versos of seventy one numbered leaves with alphabetical manuscript thumb index at front, a few related printed and stapled Order booklets loosely inserted, many manuscript annotations and cancellation notices throughout the book, contemp. quarter roan over cloth, worn and covers near detached, 4to
SCIENTIFIC INSTUMENTS, RAILWAY EPHEMERA & MISCELLANEA
While some of the Orders do not concern sight, the vast majority do, and this album offers a comprehensive archive of technical opthalmic information in the British Navy during World War Two. (1) £100-150
438* WWII - HMS Renown. A group of three photograph albums seemingly compiled by Commander Stanley W. Collier, R.N.V.R., mostly photos of HMS Renown and personnel during wartime duties, one album with a large quantity of real-photo postcards and one album largely complete, mostly uncaptioned and cornermounted as multiples and back-to-back on album leaves throughout, contemp. cloth, oblong folio, together with a small quantity of related ephemera including mimeographed naval messages and Collier’s copy of a seven-page mimeographed history of HMS Renown in WWII (3)
440* Alfa Romeo Tipo 159. Scale model Tether/Control-line racing car, c. 1951, a good early post-war model of the Famous “Alfetta” 1 1/2 litre twin-supercharged Grand Prix car, as driven by Juan-Manuel Fangio and first Formula 1 Grand Prix Championship winner, cast aluminium chassis with glo-plug motor fitted amid-ships with direct geared drive to rear axle, complete with fuel tank, and fuel-control antenna etc., ball-race hubs to alloy wheels with rubber tyres, mesh-grille, and refinished in authentic red livery with racing number 4 and distinctive quadrifoglio motif to sides, together with contemporary model-racing car magazines, plans for building Maserati and sundry related pamphlets etc., length 12 ins (31cm) (1)
£1200-1400
£200-300
439* A small archive relating to Chaplain Charles Edward York M.A., Royal Navy, who served in various ships c.1870-1910, comprising letters to York, invitations to The Equerry in Waiting hosted by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, menu cards for H.M.S. Serapis, references of service, invitation to the Chapter of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India dated 1.1.1876, Confirmation Charge read for the Lord Bishop of Gibraltar 1st November 1910, plus three scrap albums containing newspaper cuttings many relating to service and religious articles Charles Edward York was appointed Chaplain in October 1872, he served in H.M.S. Serapis during the Prince of Wale’s visit to India 1875-76 and H.M.S. Temeraire August 1877, he was invalided in the United Kingdom April 1880, following on as Chaplain at Greenwich Hospital, York passed away in 1908 and two windows were erected in the Royal Hospital Chapel, Greenwich to commemorate his life. (-) £100-150
441* Buses & Coaches. A large group of Collectors Models, c. 1980s-2000s, made by Exclusive First Editions Ltd “De Luxe” and Standard Series issues, 1/76-Scale models representing double-deckers and coaches of National and Regional Bus companies of Great Britain, mostly new unused in original boxes & packaging, approx. 240 models in several cartons (approx. 240)
£300-500
91
Lot 442
Lot 443
442* Buses & Coaches. A large group of Collectors Models, c. 1980s-2000s, made by Corgi “Original Omnibus” Series, 1/76Scale models representing double-deckers and coaches of National and Regional Bus companies of Great Britain, mostly new unused in original boxes & packaging, some boxes opened or with minor storage wear to corners, approx. 100 models in several cartons (approx. 100)
£300-500
443* Dune Buggy. A good large scale radio-controlled model of a high-powered ice-racing quad, c. 1970s, of strong openframe chassis with independent suspension by wishbone and coil-spring, four-wheel drive by very large singlecylinder mid-engined petrol motor, alloy wheels fitted with soft rubber tyres with heavy studded rubber tyres with steelspiked treads, complete with internal relay-linkages but without manual controlbox, together with a small-scale dune-buggy type toy model by Cox “Thibledrome”, both formerly acquired from the dispersal sale of the Miguel de Rancougne Collection, largest 22 ins (58cm) (1)
£200-300
444* Locomotives and Accessories. A group of 00-Gauge Locomotives and trains etc., various makers including Hornby “Dublo”, Hornby Railways, Mainline Railways, Wrenn and GMR etc, representing model types from British Regions including Great Western, Midland Region, LNER and others, some unused in original boxes & packaging, other playworn or A/f conditions (a carton)
447 Clark (R.H.). An Historical Survey of Selected Great Western Stations, 4 vols., pub. OPC, 1976-85, numerous b&w illusts. after photos, orig. cloth in d.j.s, folio, together with Essery (Bob and Jenkinson, David), An Illustrated History of L.M.S. Locomotives, 5 vols., pub. OPC/Silver Link Publishing, 1981-89, numerous b&w illusts. after photos, all orig. cloth in d.j.s, 4to, first vol. a little frayed to extrems., plus other railway history reference, similar, including Ian Allen, OPC, David & Charles and PSL publications, mostly orig. cloth, many in d.j.s, 4to/8vo
£100-150
(approx. 250)
£300-400
448 Great Western Railway. Seventeen drawings of the Railway between Reading and Didcot, c.1880, detailed pen and ink drawings, each with the Great Western Railway ink stamp, modern half cloth with gilt calf label to upper board, oblong folio
445* Majorette Standee. A mid 20th-c. figure of a Drum-Majorette/Ringmistress, c. 1930s, the female figure of polychrome decorated papier-mache construction, in military-style uniform-dress, some minor paint loss and wear, height 32 ins (81cm), together with AaFactory Clock desk lamp, electromagnetic clocking-in timepiece having cast-iron skeleton frame with brass geared mechanism, converted to a decorative table lamp with rectangular shade
449* Hornby. A Hornby 3.5in gauge live steam model of Stephenson’s Rocket, with gas firing, and quantity of plastic track, lacking spanner and plastic funnel, together with 4pp. printed instructions, contained in orig. box, pull-off cardboard lid with some sl. damage to corners, plus additional box of track (Hornby catalogue number G102)
(1)
(2)
£100-120
446* Market Traders Umbrella. A Continental Market-stall Umbrella, c. 1980s, alloy & metal framed large rectangular format with waterproof canvas covering, complete with galvanised fourprong folding support base, and with overall covering transit-cover sheath (1)
£100-200
(1)
£100-150
450 London North Eastern Railway. An incomplete bound run of LNER Magazine 1930s-1940s, comprising 1928, 1933-1940 incl & 1943, blue cloth bindings, gilt-tooled spines, together with an LNER “Shut & Fasten Gate” penalty warning sign for unmanned level-crossing gates, also with Coronation Scot original photographic montage showing rolling stock & carriage interiors, and a reproduction framed poster print of “Silver Link” streamlined steam locomotive (12)
92
£100-150
£100-150
451* Railways. A group of twenty-two G.W.R. blueprints and plans, c. 1890/1900s, including designs for stock plate and turntable, passenger lift alterations, engines and pumps, standard tanks, pump house, some pen and ink plans with watercolour wash, mostly stamped ‘Drawing Office copy’, a little fraying on folds and some dust soiling, approx. 65 x 90cm and similar sizes (22)
£200-300
452* Railways - Early Patent. Letters Patent for an ‘Invention of Certain Improvements in the Construction of Tram or Railways and the Carriages to be Used Thereon... ‘, by Thomas Wilkinson, 1839, manuscript on vellum, 7 ff., written in a clear hand within red double-ruled borders, each sheet approx. 670 x 580 mm, together with seven plans, sections, overviews and diagrams in ink and pencil with colour wash, various sizes, approx. 570 x 530 mm, with seals and licence stamps, small puncture in the first sheet, just affecting a few letters, housed in a modern cloth dropback box
454 The Journal of the Stephenson Locomotive Society, a run, January 1938December 1999, b&w illusts., all bound in contemporary green cloth gilt, 8vo, together with 5 vols. covering 2001-2010 and a quantity of original issues from January 2011 to February 2013, together with The Railway Observer, published by the Railway Correspondence and Travel Society, a near-complete run, 1935-2010, b&w illusts. after photos, the first 500 issues in orig. printed wrappers, stapled as issued, later years bound in green binders, plus Modern Transport, The Times of the Transport World, approx. 500 issues, an almost unbroken run, November 21st 1942-December 1965, (including some duplicates), the earlier issues in broadsheet format, later issues in orig. wrappers, stapled as issued, and other similar journals (Modern Railways, 38 vols., a run, 1962-1999, all bound in contemp. blue cloth, and a quantity of Meccano Magazine) (12 cartons)
(1)
£100-150
(1)
£500-700
£200-400
An early set of letters patent addressed to Queen Victoria detailing various improvements to the laying of sleepers and rails, new designs for wheels, a track clearing attachment and adaptions for rolling stock to run on the common road. The Patent, numbered 7809, is summarised in Abridgement of Specifications Relating to Railways A.D. 1770-1863, HMSO, London 1868: ‘The invention consists in providing for the “locomotive engine” separate rails of a substance of such a nature and so disposed “as to cause the working wheels of the engine to have a firmer grasp than they can have upon the iron surface on which the” train runs’. (1) £800-1200
453 Railways. An album containing approx. 110 mostly autograph letters on railway matters, c. 1840s/1870s, many addressed to Charles A. Saunders, secretary to the Great Western Railway Company but also others including Daniel Gooch [1816-1889], mostly autograph letters signed but including some secretarial letters, one letter with embossed Buckingham Palace crest dated 1st March 1857 referencing ‘the train ordered for Her Majesty & HRH Prince Albert & suite at 20 minutes after 3 pm Monday 2nd March will not be required’, signed by an equerry, a four-page ALS from Daniel Gooch, New York, 16th July 1860, written in a difficult hand with much seethrough and a few small tears sl. affecting text, the majority arranged on thirty stiff card leaves with printed crests and other biographical information identifying the sender, including earls, lords and bishops, etc., mostly one to four page octavo letters tipped in as pairs to each page, evidence of some letters now absent, contemp. cloth, crude reback, some soiling and edge wear, oblong folio
455* Taylor (Fred). “St John’s College Cambridge”, a very rare original travel poster for LNER, c. 1920s, depicting punting on the River Cam beside College “Backs”, four colour lithograph on paper, backed on board and cropped-border mounted in original ebonised wooden frame, having applied ivorine plaque inscribed “Cambridge” and with applied label verso of “LNER” ovate logo for London North Eastern Railway (PreGrouping 1923), 20 x 30 ins (51 x 76cm)
456* Conchology. A pine 30 drawer collectors chest, early 20th c., containing an extensive collection of shell specimens, mostly captioned, including Ensis, Tellindae, Psammobiidae, Dosinia Exoleta, Veneruptis Rhomboides, plus deeper drawers containing loose shell specimens, 153cm high x 100cm wide x 46cm deep (1)
Lot 455
Lot 456 93
£500-800
457* A 20th-c. stained pine thirty-two drawer specimen cabinet, (the drawers arranged in two columns of sixteen), with metal drop handles (one missing), 113cm wide, 89cm tall, 56cm deep (1)
£150-200
458* Microscope & Slides. A Beck monocular laboratory microscope, early 20th c., Serial No. 21970, Model 47, in black and chrome, in its wooden case with lenses and instruction booklet, together with a late Victorian microscope slide cabinet, of pine construction, the hinged door enclosing twelve drawers with bone handles, enclosing approx. 120 slides, various captions and maker’s labels including Flatters & Garnett Ltd., ‘Wireworm’ etc., plus four further boxes of slides including a wooden box containing approx. thirty-six slides, some damaged, including Cambridge Botany School, H.W.H. Darlaston, Birmingham, various specimens including ‘T.S. Woody Root, Vicia’, ‘Aspidium leaf’ etc., many c. 1870s onwards, approx. 250 in total (-)
£300-500
459* A lacquered brass microscope by J. Swift & Son, London, 44.5cm fully extended (1)
£100-150
460* Telescope. An 18th century 4 inch brass reflecting telescope, signed on the back plate Wm. Watkins, St. James’s Street, London, 19 inch (48.2cm) long body tube (lacquer faded) with dust cap, screw rod focusing for the secondary mirror secured by the sprung back plate, on alt-azimuth mount tapering pillar support and folding cabriole legs, with two eye-pieces (one with screw-thread damage), additional secondary mirror in tin casing, all contained in the original matching case, 21 3/8 in (54.3cm) long with numbered clamp supports, original lock and two brass hooks and eyes (1)
94
£2000-3000
DAY TWO
STAMPS: WORLD & GREAT BRITAIN To commence at 11am 461* Worldwide Accumulation in Four Large Boxes. An interesting looking lot incl. Great Britain NUMISMATIC covers with coins to , plus a GOLD 1/10th oz.; CANADA 2000’s unmounted mint and on FDC’s; Jersey FDC’s to £5, plus 1994-95 Year Books; Royal Navy Mercury cover collection in an album; 1980 Olympics covers collection in an album; two Leaders of the World albums of unmounted mint Trains and Cars; various world junior type collections, various album pages, covers incl. 1924 EVEREST EXPEDITION card used with souvenir label; GB £1 Wedgwood album with good perfs to 1/2d, and much else (few 1000s)
£100-150
463* World in a Vintage Leather Suitcase, with worldwide stamps in old envelopes and tins, two interesting 1937 envelopes from England to CHINA with Postage Due stamps upon arrival and lots of different postal markings; British Commonwealth in two Simplex albums with QV to 1960’s issues with better, see also USA in an album (1000s)
£150-200
464* Interesting Accumulation in Eight Albums or Folders, with much British Commonwealth, incl. KGVI of note, a “Black Cat” vintage album with 1890’s1900’s stamps mainly on pieces collected for postmarks incl. GB, France and Germany; An early “Healeys” album incl. 1910 Brussels Exhibition series of ten different labels; New Zealand in a printed album; A stockbook incl. useful unmounted mint Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain of 19690’s-70’s; a Rumania 1906 “error of colour”, and much else (few 100s)
467* Large Plastic Tub of Worldwide, largely unsorted material, masses of loose and on paper, album pages note higher catalogued France 1920’s-30’s mint to 5f and Charities, a decent looking foreign mint collection on pages, various covers and much else
472* Foreign Countries Collections Valuation Lot in Two Boxes, with albums and stockbooks incl. Switzerland strong collection in a Godden album from classic imperfs, good charities etc; a good France album incl. 1849 Ceres to 1f (2, faults), Germany and related areas, Sweden, Belgian Congo in two albums, Austria good collection in a printed album with better 19th century and 1920’s etc; two SG Ideal albums with fairly sparse ranges; two large vintage stock albums incl. some GB and Commonwealth, and much else, careful checking required
(many 1000s)
(1000s)
(many 1000s)
£100-150
£150-200
468* Large Carton of World, another big messy accumulation with worldwide on pages, in packets, tine, envelopes, loads of loose, some covers, junior albums and so on (many 1000s)
£100-150
469* A similar lot (many 1000s)
£100-125
470* Foreign Countries - Interesting Old Collection in Five Large Binders, with mint and used 19th century to about 1970 ranges Abyssinia through to Yugoslavia, with many better sections, note Albania, Armenia overprints on Russia, strong Austria, Bavaria, China, Denmark, Holland, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Japan incl. Peace set mint, USA incl. 1892 Columbus 15c mint etc. (few 1000s)
473* Covers and Postal History. An interesting looking assortment in a box, largely GB with a World War One correspondence, some P.O.W. mail, Scottish pre-stamp mail incl. a lovely Aber/Deen circular cancel, GB pre-stamp, 1846 GB to Lady Napier in Malta with lengthy letter; 1866 envelope to B. Disraeli; various 1d reds on covers; 1859-60 envelopes to India bearing 6d stamps, redirected on arrival with Indian stamps An interesting looking lot. (few 100s)
£200-300
£400-500
471* Old Time Collections, housed in Stanley Gibbons Ideal albums Vol. I to 1914 and Vol. II to 1923, with better Great Britain from 1840 1d black with four margins, later issues of note, Foreign and Commonwealth ranges; Further collections in a 1900 Lincoln album incl. Great Britain with better Officials, Rhodesia postmark interest; A Strand album, again of early 1900’s origin incl. China small Dragon 3ca. used; An old exercise book with much 19th century incl. Great Britain incl. 1841 2d blue horizontal strip of three with four margins, France and other foreign ranges, plus sundry material in envelopes and packets etc. (1000s)
£300-350
474* Aden 1937 Dhow Set, complete SG 1/12, very fine mint (12 stamps)
£100-150
96
£200-225
475* Australia Collection in a Printed Album, from a range of each of the States, then issues starting 1913, various Roo types to 5s, postmark interest etc. (100s)
£250-350
465* Worldwide Box of Twenty Albums and Stockbooks, incl. GB from QV , modern mint sets, Switzerland, some Junior type world albums (1000s)
£400-500
£250-300
462* Interesting Worldwide Accumulation in Two Boxes, incl. an album of RAF Museum and similar covers with some signed; two printed albums of 1981 Wedding extensive issues unmounted mint; Channel Islands and IOM in three albums; the second box with a messy range of packets and covers etc note GB, Turkey mint sets, China FDC’s and much else (1000s)
466* World Messy Carton, crammed with all sorts of wordwide on album pages, various junior type albums, in packets and envelopes, assorted covers etc, plenty to sort through
£80-100
476* Bermuda 1865-1986 SPECIALISED COLLECTION. An exceptional collection in a small stockbook, with highlights including 1865-1903 1d and 3d IMPERFORATE PAIRS overprinted CANCELLED, 1d mint gutter pair, 6d dull mauve WATERMARK INVERTED PLATE BLOCK OF FOUR mint, upright watermark mint blocks of four (2), 1874-75 surcharges range of thirteen stamps (not guaranteed) incl. 1883-1904 1/2 mint showing diagonal pre-printing paper folds, 1d rose mint, GIBRALTAR overprints set mint, and used to 6d; various QV forgeries, some postmark interest incl. numerals, 1910-25 extensive SHIP TYPES incl. Specimen set, mint or unmounted mint multiples to 1s, 1d DOUBLE PRINT mint, 2 1/2 watermark INVERTED mint, watermark INVERTED AND REVERSED used, 1918-22 KEY PLATES with BROKEN CROWN AND SCROLL, 2s (2, one SPECIMEN), 4s (2), 5s and 10s mint, 1922-34 SHIP types with shades and papers, 1924-32 KEY PLATES with BROKEN CROWN AND SCROLL 2s, 2s 6d shades (7, one used), 10s, 12s 6d (3, one marginal) all mint or unmounted, a further 2s showing same variety REPAIRED, a used range to 12s 6d (9, one with breal through scroll) and some with questionable cancels; 1938-53 KEY PLATES strong range of 80+ stamps to shades of 10s (11), 12s 6d (13) and £1 (9, incl. ER joined in upper marginal positional pair with normal unmounted mint, another with “shading omitted from top right scroll” SG 121cb top marginal positional example unmounted mint) mint or used; 1962-68 2d LILAC OMITTED unmounted mint, 6d WATERMARK INVERTED unmounted mint, 2d and 10s WATERMARK INVERTED used; 1966-69 1s 6d watermark Crown to right unmounted mint, 10s double row of perfs, a range of impressive colour shifts, 1970 surcharges incl. 2c on 2d LILAC OMITTED unmounted mint, 6c on 6d watermark inverted used, 24c on 2s Crown to right, 1986 90c on $3 overprint DOUBLE unmounted mint and much else (few 100s)
£3000-3500
97
Lot 477
Lot 479 477* Bermuda 1865-1970s Valuable Semi-Specialised Collection. Displayed in a stockbook, with mint and used ranges, with highlights incl. 1880 4d “CC” watermark mint blocks of four (2), 1918-22 5s mint, 1922-24 Ship issues range incl. 1s strips of three unmounted mint (3), 1924-32 2s BREAK IN SCROLL upper right corner plate number example unmounted mint, further 2s and 2s 6d mint; 1938-53 high values (13) to 12s 6d mint and £1 (2 shades) fine used, incl. 2s 6d LINE PERF SG 117a unmounted mint lower marginal example; 7 1/2d plate blocks of four (3) mint; 1962-68 3d unmounted mint vertical strip of four, the lower stamp with large part MISSING PRINTING, further sets mint and used; 1965 Scouts INVERTED WATERMARK unmounted mint; 1970 surcharges incl. unmounted mint blocks, various varieties, 1c on 1d and 6c on 6d (2) with INVERTED WATERMARKS fine used, various other issues incl. watermark and other varieties incl. 1974 Flowers 12c inverted watermark unmounted mint, 1975 Gunpowder Plot 25c Crown to left unmounted mint, postmark interest incl. numeral cancels on QV issues and much else A very clean, and highly useful lot. (approx. 1000) £1000-1200
Lot 477
478* Cayman Islands 1900-1981. A valuable collection, incl. 1902-03 set mint, 1905 set mint, 1907 set “SPECIMEN”, 1907 1/2d on 1d mint, 1907-09 to 5s mint, 1907 1D on 5s mint (with BPA Certificate), 191220 set “SPECIMEN” and set mint, 1917 War Tax cover, 1921-26 MCA set “SPECIMEN”, and complete mint with additional shades, 1932 Centenary set mint, 1938-48 set with shades mint, 1946 Victory set perf. “SPECIMEN”, 1950 set unmounted mint, solid later incl. 1953 and 1962 sets mint or unmounted A very good lot. (100s)
479* Gambia 1869-1980. A very good collection, incl. 1869 4d unused, 6d used, 1874 4d mint showing marginal watermark mint, and used, 6d mint, 1886-93 good range of mint shades to 6d (3) and 1s (2), 1898-1902 set “SPECIMEN”, and set mint, 1902-05 set mint (2 1/2d with “slotted frame” variety), plus 1s 6d, 2s 6d and 3s mint pairs, 1904-06 set to 1s mint, 1906 surcharges mint (1/2d on 2s 6d “slotted frame” variety), 1909 set mint, plus 2s, 2s 6d and 3s corner plate blocks of four mint or unmounted, 1912-22 set mint with shades, 1922 4s upper right corner plate number pair with WATERMARK INVERTED (believed to be a unique piece) stamps unmounted mint, 1922-29 MCA 5 mint, Script to 5s mint, 1938-46 sets mint and used, and fairly solid later sets incl. good wildlife sets with much unmounted mint. Also a range of covers incl. postmark interest with 1949 Cape St Mary, TPO’s etc. (100s)
Lot 478
98
£500-600
£600-700
480* Gambia. 1886-1893. CAMEO ISSUE a valuable mint/unmounted mint study collection, largely in complete original sheetlets of fifteen with various perf types and varieties identified, comprising 1/2, 1d (4), 2d (7, incl. deep shade), 2 1/2 (5), 3d (3, incl. final printing pearl grey), 4d (2, each showing one stamp with “sloping label” at base), 6d (2) and 1s (2), plus a further range of 1/2 and 1d singles and blocks of four, some with identified varieties etc, the basic stamps cat in excess of £3500 (26 sheets and 29 stamps) (26 + 29)
Lot 480
£800-1000
Lot 484
Lot 482 481* Gold Coast 1876-1954. A pile of album pages from various collections, much of note incl. 1876-84 1/2d mint, 1883 1/2d olive yellow mint, 1884-91 to 1s mint, 1889-94 5s and 10s mint, 20s mauve and black on red used, 1898-1902 set to 2s mint and used, 1902 20s mint, 1935 Jubilee set mint, 193843 set mint, 1952-54 set mint and used etc; plus a few covers incl. 1937 On Board RMS Abosso, 1937 first flight Gold Coast to Nigeria sent to London, 1952 Giffard Camp etc. (100s)
(13 stamps)
£400-450
A very good lot for the specialist of this interesting country. (few 100s) £300-400
485* Northern Nigeria 1902-12, unmounted mint blocks of four collection, cat £300 (14 blocks)
£90-120
487* Vatican. A good collection in a printed album and loose, starting with a range of Roman States issues, then 1929 to 10 l. MINT, Express mint, 1933 Holy Year set mint, 1933 Pictorials to 25 l., 1935 Juridical Congress sets mint and used, 1936 Catholic Press set used, 1938 Archaeological Congress set mint, 1949 UPU set unmounted mint, 1952 Centenary sheetlet, and many other higher catalogued issues (approx. 700)
£700-800
483 Ireland 1937-2012 Extensive First Day and Souvenir Covers Collection in Eight Albums, a very clean and attractive lot, majority unaddressed (approx. 600 covers)
486* Sierra Leone 1933 Wilberforce Set, the complete set SG 168/180, very fine mint with the 5s, 10s and £1 UNMOUNTED MINT, these also signed in pencil by Bolaffi
£125-150
482* Ireland 1922-2012 Valuable SemiSpecialised Collection, in four albums and stockbooks, largely mint (later unmounted mint) commencing with 1922 OVERPRINTS incl. Dollard TRIAL PRINTINGS IN RED on 1/2d (2), low values set plus additional 9d block of four, 1/2d with shifted overprint, Seahorses sets (2), 1922 Thom set to 1s, 2s 6d, 1922-23 to 2s 6d and 10s, 1922 Harrison coil join pairs horizontal and vertical, 1923 Harrison pairs with one in each showing long “1”, 1922-34 set plus coil stamps, 1925-28 Seahorses set, 1935 Seahorse 2s 6d (2) and 5s (2), 1937 St Patrick high values set, 1940-68 1d coil strip, then extensive later sets with much of it fine unmounted, a lovely collection with many scarce stamps (few 100s)
484* Liberia 1860-1958 Specialised Collection, written up in an album and in a stock book, incl. classic first type ranges of genuine and forged, REPRINTED DIE PROOFS from the defaced plates in black, extensive later issues incl. errors and varieties, postal stationery, Registration stamps, PROOFS, covers etc.
Lot 486
£150-200
99
£250-300
Lot 488 488* British Commonwealth 1935-66 Omnibus Issues in Three Albums. A good collection of mint and used largely sets, with 1935 Silver Jubilee virtually complete mint and used incl. both Egypt 1pi; 1937 Coronation again looks complete mint and used, 1946 Victory virtually complete mint and used, 1948 Wedding complete mint (mixed mint and unmounted) and virtually complete used; 1949 UPU complete unmounted mint and used, then complete series of Coronation mostly unmounted mint, FFH unmounted mint, Red Cross mint, ITU and ICY mint, Churchill unmounted mint, Football unmounted mint, WHO unmounted mint, UNESCO unmounted mint etc. (few 100s)
£1800-2200
489* British Commonwealth Old Time Collection in Six Simplex Albums, mint and used issues with many stronger sections incl. GREAT BRITAIN from 1840 1d blacks (2, one with four margins and a very deep red Maltese cross cancel), other Line Engraved incl. good range of 1d plate numbers, Surface Printed to 5s, KE7 to 5s, and later through to 1969, plus back of the book material; followed by Aden incl. 1939 to 10r used, 1948 Wedding used, Australia, Canada 1903 to 50c used, 1908 Quebec to 20c used, 1928-19 50c and $1 used, good later issues; Ceylon incl. War Tax DOUBLE OVERPRINTS, 1936 set mint, Falkland Is, Hong Kong, India, Malaya, Malta, Sudan 1948 set mint, WESTERN AUSTRALIA valuable ranges incl. 1882-85 4d and 6d mint, 1888 1d to 4d mint, surcharges, 190212 to £1 mint (some values stuck down); also Egypt incl. 1933 Aviation set mint, Iraq, and much else; a few are damp effected, thought generally seem good (few 1000s)
£1500-2000
490* British Commonwealth Collections in a Box. A highly useful lot with printed albums of Canada (3) with issues from 1859, highly catalogued incl. higher values, Newfoundland 1919 Caribou set mint; West Indies album of QV-1960’s; New Zealand printed album of QV to 1960’s issues incl. 1920 Victory set mint; Ghana in an album; a binder of mainly mint issues incl. Aden 1939 to 10r, Christmas Is sets, Ceylon 1936 Pictorial set, KGVI to 2r, Cyprus incl. 1955 set, Fiji 1938 1st dies 2d and 6d, Gilbert and Ellice ranges, Hong Kong, India, Samoa, Solomon Is 1938 to 10s, Tonga 1942 set; Cameroon 1915 to 1s on 1m mint (thin), Sierra Leone balance from a specialised collection incl. study of 1963 overprints incl. £1 “1853*1859*1963 in pair with normal unmounted mint; Nigeria 1938-51 mint collection with apparently all perf. and shade changes mint; a stockbook of British Occ. of Italian Colonies M.E.F and other overprints heavily duplicated mint and used, also various covers etc. (1000s)
£650-750
491* British Commonwealth in Three Large Binders. A most useful A-Z collection of QV to early QE2 issues, mint and used incl. Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, British Guiana 1865 reprints, Canada, Cape of Good Hope, Cayman Islands 1905 set mint, 1962 to £1 mint, Ceylon, Falklands, Fiji incl. KE7 1s with Loose Ship Letter cancel, HONG KONG incl. 1938 $5 mint, India and States, Ireland, Jamaica, KUT, Malaya and States, Malta incl. 1863-81 Halfpenny perf. 12 used, Montserrat from overprinted 1d and 6d, Morocco Agencies, Newfoundland 1911 Coronation set mint, Prince Edward Island, St Lucia, St Vincent, South Africa, Tobago QV issues incl. 1891-92 surcharges on 4d pair mint, Trinidad incl. 1863-80 1s perf. 12 mint, Turks Is incl. 1881 1s slate green mint, and much else (approx. 5000)
£500-600
492* British Commonwealth KGVI Collection in a Crown Album, with highly useful mint and used ranges, incl. amongst much else Ascension 1938-53 to 10s mint, Basutoland 1938 to 10s, British Honduras 1938 to $5 used, Falkland Is 1938-50 set, Gambia 1938-46 set mint with 1 1/2d shades, Gold Coast, GB, Hong Kong 1938 to $10 green and purple used, Jamaica 1948 Wedding mint, Johore 1948 Wedding used, 1949-52 set used, Kedah 1937 set to $5 mint, 1950-52 set mint, Kelantan 193740 set to $1 mint, 1951-55 $1 to $5 mint, KUT to £1 used, Malacca 1948 Wedding mint, 1949-52 set mint, Malta, Perlis 195155 to $5 mint, Sierra Leone 1938-44 to £1 mint, Tristan Da Cunha 1952 set mint etc.
Lot 489
(approx. 1650)
100
£450-500
499* Great Britain, a carton, incl. 1981-99 unmounted mint in two albums with values to £10 Britannia (high face value), Royal Mail Yearbooks 1996-98; four albums of FDC’s incl. to £10 Britannia, Greetings panes, some coin covers; various booklets incl. Wedgwood £1 with good perfs to the 1/2d; four further stockbooks of QV to QE2 mostly used issues incl. KE7 to 5s etc. (few 100s)
£250-300
500* Great Britain First Day Covers 1960s-2000s, displayed in nine cover albums, and loose in a carton (many still in the Bureau envelopes), right through to the 2000’s issues, and incl. Prestige Booklet panes, Greetings panes, Regionals and so on, majority are Bureau typed addressed (approx. 600 covers)
£150-200
501* A similar lot (approx. 600 covers)
Lot 492 493* British Commonwealth in a Stanley Gibbons 1936 New Ideal Album, Sparse in places, but highlights incl. Gold Coast 1904-06 set mint, KUT 1935 to 10s used, Sierra Leone 1897 2 1/2d on 3d and on 6d mint, 1904-05 to 5s mint etc. (500+)
£100-125
494* British Commonwealth King George VI Collection in a S.G. Crown Album, with a sparse mint and used range incl. GB, India 1938 to 25r cds used, KUT to 10s cds used etc, album in good condition for continuation (500+)
£60-80
496* Great Britain, in various albums and stockbooks, note 1d red plate numbers through to 224, 1887-1900 Jubilee to 1s mint, KE7 to 1s mint, 1912 to 1s mint, 1948 Wedding unmounted mint, 1951 Festival high values mint, various pre decimal in mint sheets, decimal commemoratives run with high face value, three albums of FDC’s, various in packets etc. Also a book “The British Post Office” by Dendy Marshall 1926 (many 100s)
£300-350
497* Great Britain 1971-2000’s Decimal Unmounted Mint Accumulation, largely in PRESENTATION PACKS, plus Booklets incl. Prestige series, some blocks, miniature sheets and so on, high face value (1000s)
495* Great Britain 1840-1980 in Three Plymouth Albums. An attractive used collection, commencing with 1840 1d blacks (2, each with four margins with red or black Maltese cross), 1858-79 1d red plate numbers through to 224, 1870 1/2d plates (less pl. 9), 1847-54 Embossed trio to shape, Surface Printed issues with a good range of plate numbers, note 1876 4d vermilion, 4d sage (2), others to 9d and 1s, later 19th century, Kings incl. 1948 Wedding, some watermark variations, fairly solid QE2 incl. Castles, Graphite and Phosphor issues etc. (approx. 1250)
£150-200
£300-350
498* Great Britain Accumulation, in twenty albums or stockbooks, incl. unmounted mint 1976-81 collection in a printed album, subsequent issues to 1999 in a stockbook with Definitives to 0 Britannia (high face value), QV to 1950’s ranges of used to higher values, two SG Special Stamps albums with sparse issues; Regionals unmounted mint, Machins used in quantity; a Windsor album with a general used collection and much else (few 1000s)
502 RAF Museum, Aviation and Related Covers Collection with Many Signed, 1970s-90s large collection of covers in seven cover albums, and in two further boxes loose, incl. RED ARROWS with several different team signed, Terry Waite, some Concorde etc, light duplication for some (approx. 750 covers)
503* Great Britain 1902 Edward High Values Mint, the 2s 6d (chalky paper), 5s and £1 SG 261, 263 and 266 mint, the £1 probably re-gummed, the other two fine (3)
£300-350
£500-600
Lot 503 101
£250-300
£200-250
504* Great Britain 1929 £1 Black PUC, with London central cds, SG 438 (1)
£150-180
505* Great Britain 1840-1970 in a Windsor Album, commencing with a 1d black (3 margins), a good range of 1d plates, Surface Printed issues to 10s, KE7 to 5s, Seahorses to 10s (2), fairly solid later issues (few 100s)
£150-180
Lot 508
506* Great Britain 1939-49 High Values Unmounted Mint, set SG 476/478b, very fine
507* Great Britain 1860s-70s Envelope Clippings, bearing 6d and 1s values, all cancelled in Scotland, incl. 1855-56 6d (16), 1862-64 5d (3), 1867-80 1s (24) etc, catalogued a minimum of over £3000
509* Picture Postcards. A vintage lot in album with much Scottish and Cambridge interest, note Billesdon Hunt Meet 1908 real photo, Cambridge Races real photo, London Hospital real photo, Highland Regiment 1913 real photo, Orkney Islands and much else
(-)
(200+ cards)
(6)
£100-125
£125-150
£70-100
508* Great Britain Queen Victoria Line Engraved Collection. Displayed on pages, with a poor 1840 2d blue, various 1d and 2d Stars, 1d red plate numbers incl. partial reconstructions etc., mixed condition (approx. 850)
£80-120
102
510 Beale (P. O.). The Postal Service of Sierra Leone, Its History, Stamps and Stationery until 1961, pub. Royal Philatelic Society, 1988, b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt in d.j., folio, together with Duncan (Stewart P. and Andrew, Oliver), The Postal Markings of The Gambia, 1858 to 2000, pub. West African Study Circle, 2005, some colour and numerous b&w illusts., orig. blue cloth gilt, folio, plus Cockrill (Philip), Liberia, The Cromwell Correspondence (Anglo-Liberian Boundary Commission 1879), & Liberia, The Provisional Surcharged Issues 1920-1927, together 2 vols., n.d., c. 1960s, b&w illusts., contemporary dark green full morocco, with original printed wrappers bound in, 8vo, plus Irish Philately, The Journal of the Irish Philatelic Circle, a run, 1967-2004, b&w illusts., bound in four modern clothbacked binders, folio, and other similar runs of Cameo, The Journal of the West Africa Study Circle, The Revealer, International Encyclopaedia of Stamps, etc. (3 cartons)
£150-200
COINS A Private Collection of Coins of the Roman Empire
511* Augustus (27 BC-14 AD). Denarius, Lugdunum, 2-14 AD, Laureate head right. Reverse: Gaius and Lucius Caesars, approx. 3.7 g, very fine but slightly off centre £100-150
514* Augustus. Commemorative silver antoninianus issued under Trajan Decius, Milan, 250-1 AD, DIVO AVGVSTO, radiate head right, reverse: CONSECRATIO, altar with flames, 22 mm, approx. 4.2 g, very fine with attractive dark toning
512* Augustus. Plated silver tetradrachm, Ephesus in Ionia, c. 2420 BC, Head of Augustus right, IMP CAESAR below, reverse: garlanded altar decorated with two facing hinds, 25 mm, approx. 11.4 g, very fine, the reverse slightly off centre, the copper core beneath the plating only revealed by wear on the high points on the obverse and by an oblique surface flaw on the reverse
515* Tiberius (14-37 AD). Denarius, Lugdunum, Laureate head right, reverse: PONTIF MAXIM, Livia seated right on chair with decorated legs, approx. 3.9 g, good very fine
RPC 2215. (1)
RIC 30. This denarius is traditionally identified as the ‘Tribute Penny’ of the Bible. (1) £150-200
RIC 207. (1)
£200-400
513* Augustus. Tetradrachm, Antioch on the Orontes, Syria, 3-2 BC, Laureate bust right, reverse: Tyche of Antioch seated on a rock, the river god, Orontes, swimming below, dated ‘year 29’ (of the Actian era), 26 mm, approx. 15.0 g, very fine but slightly off centre RPC 4154. Prieur 53. (1)
RIC 78. Struck on a broader than usual flan and slightly above the normal weight. (1) £150-200
516* Nero (54-68 AD). Denarius, Rome, 60 AD, NERO CAESAR AVG IMP, bare head right, reverse: PONTIF MAXIM TR P VII COS IIII P P, Ceres standing left, flanked by EX SC, approx. 3.5 g, very fine, reverse better RIC 26. (1)
£200-400
103
£150-200
517* Nero. Denarius, Rome, 63-68 AD, NERO CAESAR AVGVSTVS, laureate bust right, reverse: SALVS, Salus seated left, holding patera, approx. 3.2 g, very fine/good fine RIC 52.1. (1)
£150-200
Lot 519
520* Vitellius. Denarius, Spain, A VITELLIVS IMP GERMAN, Laureate bust right, globe beneath, reverse: VICTORIA AVGVSTI, Victory advancing left holding shield, approx. 3.3 g, very fine, reverse slightly off centre RIC 14. Scarce. (1)
518* Galba (68-9 AD). Denarius, Gallic series, SER GALBA IMPERATOR around laureate bust right, reverse: CONCORDIA PROVINCIARVM, Concord standing left holding olive branch and cornucopia, approx. 3.5 g, good fine/fine but reverse off centre, (RIC 118), together with Otho (69), Denarius, Rome, reverse: SECVRITAS P R, Securitas standing left, holding wreath and sceptre, approx. 3.2 g, fine RIC 12. (2)
£150-200
£200-300
519* Vitellius (69 AD). Denarius, Rome, A VITELLIVS GERMANICVS, bust right, reverse: CONCORDIA P R, Concord seated, approx. 3.3 g, very fine, (RIC 2), together with another similar but the bust laureate, very fine/good fine RIC 2. (2)
£200-300
521* Vespasian (69-79 AD). Denarii (3) Rome, reverse types: Fortuna standing left (RIC 4), Pax seated (RIC 10) and Pax seated (RIC 90), together with Commemorative denarius struck under his son, Titus, reverse: two Capricorns supporting a shield inscribed S C. (RIC 63), mainly very fine The last, scarce. (4)
104
£150-200
522* Vespasian. Commemorative silver antoninianus issued under Trajan Decius, Milan 250-1 AD, DIVO VESPASIANO around radiate head right, reverse: CONSECRATIO around eagle, 21 mm, approx. 3.6 g, good very fine RIC 79. Rare. (1)
525* Domitian (81-96 AD). Denarii (2), Rome, reverse types: Minerva right holding spear and shield, good very fine, (RIC 45) and Minerva left holding thunderbolt and spear, very fine, (RIC 192), together with Domitian as Caesar under Titus, Denarius, Rome, 80 AD, reverse: PRINCEPS IVVENTVTIS, helmet on throne, extremely fine (RIC 51)
£150-200
(3)
523* Titus (79-81 AD). Commemorative silver antoninianus issued under Trajan Decius, Milan, 250-1 AD, DIVO TITO around radiate head right, reverse: CONSECRATIO around flaming altar, 23/21 mm, approx. 3.8 g, good very fine RIC 82b. Rare. (1)
526* Nerva (96-98). Denarius, Rome, 96 AD, reverse: CONCORDIA EXERCITVVM around clasped hands, very fine but reverse slightly off centre, (RIC 2), together with Trajan (98-117 AD). Denarii (3) with reverse types Victory standing, extremely fine, (RIC 58), Pax standing with kneeling Dacian at feet, extremely fine, (RIC 188), Genius standing, nearly extremely fine (RIC 347)
£150-200
524* Titus. Denarius, Rome, 84 AD, reverse: throne with round back on which are corn ears, nearly extremely fine, (RIC 24), together with Titus, as Caesar under Vespasian, denarius, Eastern mint, 76 AD, reverse: Eagle on cippus, very fine (RIC 379) The second, rare. (2)
£150-200
(4)
£100-150
Lot 524
105
£150-200
529* Sabina (died 137 AD). Denarius, Rome, Reverse: CONCORDIA AVG, Concord seated right, holding patera, very fine RIC 398. Sabina was the wife of Hadrian. (1)
£80-120
527* Hadrian (117-138 AD). Denarius, Rome, 118 AD, reverse: P M TR P COS II, in exergue: FORT RED, Fortuna seated left, very fine, (RIC 41), together with Denarius, Rome, 119-122 AD, reverse: P M TR P COS III, Roma helmeted, seated left, good very fine, (RIC 77) (2)
£100-150
530* Antoninus Pius (138-161). Denarii (2), Rome, Reverse types: COS IIII, Aequitas standing left, extremely fine, (RIC 127), together with SALVS AVG COS IIII, Salus standing, very fine, (RIC 287), and Commemorative denarius struck after his death by his successors, M. Aurelius and L. Verus, Reverse: CONSECRATIO, funeral pyre of four tiers, nearly extremely fine, (RIC 438) (3)
£150-200
531* Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius (as Caesar). Denarius, Rome, 140 AD, Laureate head of Antoninus Pius right, Reverse: head of Marcus Aurelius right, very fine RIC 417a. (1)
528* Hadrian. Denarii (2), Rome, 134-138 AD, reverse: MONETA AVG, Juno Moneta standing holding cornucopia and scales, good very fine, (RIC 256), and Reverse: AFRICA, Africa seated holding scorpion and cornucopia, hippopotamus at feet, good very fine, (RIC 299)
£150-200
532* Marcus Aurelius (161-180 AD). Denarii (3), Reverse types: Providence standing (RIC 48), Victory standing (RIC 163) and Captured weapons and armour (RIC 363), all very fine or better, together with Denarius of Marcus Aurelius as Caesar, Rome, 145147 AD, reverse: Honos standing, extremely fine, (RIC 429), plus Commemorative denarius struck after his death, Rome. 180 AD (?), reverse: CONSECRATIO, eagle standing right on globe, extremely fine (RIC 273). Third and fifth coins scarce.
The second coin is from an interesting and attractive series illustrating Roman provinces. (2) £80-120
(5)
106
£200-300
Lot 532
535* Commodus (177-192 AD). Denarii (2) as Caesar, 175-177 AD, Rome, Reverse types: PRINC IVVENT, Commodus standing left, trophy behind, good very fine, (RIC 601-3), together with SPES PVBLICA, Spes standing left holding flower, very fine, (RIC 622), Denarius as co-emperor with Marcus Aurelius, Rome, 178 AD, reverse: Salus seated holding branch, good very fine, (RIC 649), and Denarius as sole emperor, Rome, 180-192 AD, Reverse: Roma standing left holding Victory and shield, very fine (RIC 26) (4)
533* Faustina Senior (died 141 AD). Commemorative denarius struck after her death, Reverse: AETERNITAS, Aeternitas standing left holding phoenix and raising skirt, good very fine, (RIC 347), together with Faustina Junior (died 175 AD). Denarius struck under Antoninus Pius, Rome, before 161 AD, Reverse: VENVS, Venus standing left holding apple and rudder resting on dove, good very fine, (RIC 515), plus Denarius struck under M. Aurelius, Reverse: IVNONI REGINAE, Juno seated left, at her feet, a peacock, good very fine, (RIC 698), and Commemorative denarius struck after her death, Reverse: CONSECRATIO around large altar, very fine, (RIC 746)
536* Pertinax (193 AD). Denarius, Rome, Reverse: AEQVIT AVG TR P COS II, Aequitas standing left, approx. 2.8 g., very fine but short crack in flan and a small nick in the edge from striking, (RIC 1)
Faustina Senior, wife of Antoninus Pius. Faustina Junior, wife of Marcus Aurelius. (4) £150-200
Rare. (1)
534* Lucius Verus (161-9 AD). Denarius, Rome, 163-4 AD, Reverse: Mars standing right holding spear and shield, good very fine, (RIC 515), together with another Rome, 166 AD, Reverse: Pax standing left holding olive branch and cornucopia, very fine, (RIC 561), plus Lucilla (died c. 182 AD), Denarius, Rome, 164-169 AD, Reverse: VOTA PVBLICA within wreath, good very fine, (RIC 791) Lucilla, wife of Lucius Verus. Last coin scarce. (3)
£100-150
£150-200
537* Clodius Albinus (195-197 AD). Denarius, Rome, bare head right, reverse: MINER PACIF COS II, Minerva standing left holding olive branch, spear and shield, approx. 2.9 g, good very fine, and struck on a full flan, (RIC 7) Rare. (1)
£100-150
107
£150-200
541* Septimius Severus. Denarii (3), Rome, various dates, Reverse types: LEG XIIII GEM M V TR P P, military standards, good very fine, (RIC 14), VICT AVGG COS II P P, Victory advancing left, very fine but small flan, (RIC 120c), and Emperor on horseback spearing fallen enemy, very fine, (RIC 231), and Caracalla. Denarius. Reverse: P M TR P XX COS P P VIC PART, Victory seated, trophy and two captives to right, very fine, (RIC 297e)
538* Clodius Albinus. Denarius, Rome, Laureate bearded head right, Reverse: PROVIDENTIA AVG COS II, Providentia standing left, approx. 3.2 g., very fine, (RIC 316) Rare. (1)
£100-150
First, third and fourth scarce. (4)
539* Septimius Severus (193-211 AD). Denarii (5), Rome, various dates, Reverse types: Fortuna seated left holding rudder and cornucopia, (RIC 189b), HERCVLI DEFENS, Hercules standing, (RIC 97), INDVLGENTIA AVGG IN CARTH, Dea Caelestis seated on a springing lion, (RIC 266), Jupiter between two children, (RIC 240), and Neptune standing, (RIC 244), all very fine or better (5)
£100-150
542* Septimius Severus. Denarii, (3) Rome, various dates, Reverse types: LIBERO PATRI, Liber standing left, at his feet, panther, good very fine, (RIC 32), PACI AETERNAE, Pax seated left, good very fine but reverse off centre, (RIC 118), RESTITVTOR VRBIS, Severus standing sacrificing, good very fine, (RIC 167), and Denarius commemorating Severus struck under his son, Caracalla, Rome, c. 211 AD, Reverse: CONSECRATIO, Eagle on thunderbolt, good very fine
£150-200
First and fourth scarce. (4)
£100-150
540* Septimius Severus. Denarius, Rome, 210-211 AD, SEVERVS PIVS AVG BRIT, laureate bust right . Reverse: VICTORIAE BRIT, Victory advancing right, good very fine, (RIC 332) Scarce. (1)
£100-150
543* Julia Domna (died 217 AD). Denarii (3) struck under Septimius Severus at Rome, 193-211 AD, Reverse types: PVDICITIA, good very fine/extremely fine, (RIC 576), SAECVLI FELICITAS, good very fine, (RIC 577), VENVS GENETRIX, extremely fine, (RIC 388c), together with Denarii (2) struck at Laodicea or Emesa, Reverse types: VENER VICT, Venus standing left, good very fine, (RIC 630) and CONCORDIA, Concordia seated, extremely fine, (RIC 637) Fourth coin scarce. Julian Domna, wife of Septimius Severus. (5)
108
£150-200
544* Julia Domna. Silver antoninianus struck at Rome under Caracalla, 211-217 AD, Reverse: VENVS GENETRIX, Venus seated, 22 mm, approx. 5.1 g, very fine, (RIC 388a), and Denarii (4), reverse types: DIANA LVCIFERA, extremely fine, (RIC 373a), MATRI DEVM, Cybele standing, extremely fine, (RIC 570), MAT AVGG MAT SEN M PATR, Domna seated, good very fine, (RIC 381) and VENVS GENETRIX, extremely fine, (RIC 388c) Third and fourth coins scarce. (5)
546* Caracalla. Denarius as Caesar under Sept. Severus. 196 AD, Reverse: SPEI PERPETVAE, Spes advancing left, very fine/fine, (RIC 5), together with Denarii (5) as Augustus, Reverse types: FORT RED P M TR P XIIII COS III PP, Fortuna standing left, extremely fine, (RIC 189), FELICITAS AVG, Felicitas standing right, extremely fine, (RIC 34), FIDEI EXERCITVS, Fides standing, extremely fine, (RIC 213), Libertas standing left, very fine/fine, (RIC 209), LIBERALITAS AVG VI, Liberalitas standing left, extremely fine, (RIC 216)
£150-200
First and last coins scarce. (5)
£150-200
547* Caracalla. Denarii (6), Reverse types: MARTI PROPVGNATORI, Mars advancing left, extremely fine, (RIC 307), MINER VICTRIX, Minerva standing left, extremely fine, (RIC 25), Elephant walking right, very fine, (RIC 199), Salus seated feeding snake, extremely fine, (RIC 82), Concordia seated left, extremely fine, (RIC 111), Emperor on horseback trampling enemy, extremely fine, (RIC 113) First, second, third and last scarce. (6)
£150-200
545* Caracalla (198-217 AD). Antoniniani (2), Rome, 215 AD, Reverse: Serapis standing facing left, approx. 5.3 g, extremely fine, (RIC 262), together with another, approx. 5.1 g, nearly extremely fine (2)
£150-300
548* Caracalla. Denarii (5), Reverse types: SPES PVBLICA, Spes walking left, good very fine, but reverse off centre, (RIC 28), VICT PARTHICA, Victory seated inscribing shield, extremely fine, (RIC 314a), VICTORIAE AVGG, Victory in fast biga right, extremely fine, (RIC 170), VICT PART MAX, Victory advancing left, extremely fine, (RIC 144b), VOTA SVSCEPTA X, Commodus standing sacrificing over tripod altar, good very fine/good fine, (RIC 179) All scarce. (5)
109
£150-200
549* Plautilla (died 211 AD). Denarii (3), Rome, Reverse types: CONCORDIA AETERNAE, Caracalla and Plautilla standing clasping hands, extremely fine, (RIC 361), CONCORDIA AVGG, Concord standing left, extremely fine, (RIC 363b), VENVS VICTRIX, Venus standing left, Cupid at feet, good very fine, (RIC 369), and Denarius, Laodicea, reverse: CONCORDIAE, Concord seated left All coins scarce. Plautilla, wife of Caracalla. (4)
£150-200
Lot 551
550* Geta (209-212 AD). Denarii (5) of Geta as Caesar (198 - 209), Reverse types: CASTOR, Castor standing by horse, very fine, (RIC 6), NOBILITAS, Nobilitas standing right, good very fine, (RIC 13), PONTIF COS, Minerva standing left, extremely fine, (RIC 36b), PONTIF COS II, Geta veiled standing left sacrificing over tripod, good very fine, (RIC 62), SECVRIT IMPERII, Securitas seated, extremely fine, (RIC 20b) Provenance: First ex Parthenon Gallery. First, second and fourth scarce. (5) £200-300
Lot 552
551* Geta. Denarius, Rome, 210-212 AD, Reverse: VICTORIAE BRIT, Victory standing left, extremely fine/very fine, (RIC 92), together with Denarius, Rome, 211, reverse: TR P III P P, Janus standing holding spear and thunderbolt, extremely fine, (RIC 79) Both scarce. (2)
£100-150
552* Macrinus (217-8 AD). Denarius, Rome, Reverse: PONTIF MAX TR P COS P P, Jupiter standing left holding thunderbolt and sceptre, good very fine, (RIC 15) Scarce. (1)
£150-200
553* Macrinus. Denarius, Rome, reverse: FELICITAS TEMPORVM, Felicitas standing left, good very fine/extremely fine, (RIC 60) (1)
110
£150-250
556* Elagabalus (218-222 AD). Antoninianus, Rome, Reverse: SALVS ANTONINI AVG, Salus standing left holding snake, approx. 4.8 g, very fine/fine, (RIC 138) and another plated silver antoninianus of the same type, nearly very fine but a small bang on the obverse shows the copper core, (RIC 138)
554* Macrinus. Denarii (2), Rome, Reverse types: IOVI CONSERVATORI, Jupiter standing left holding thunderbolt and sceptre, small figure before him, very fine, (RIC 76), and FELICITAS TEMPORVM, Felicitas standing left, very fine, (RIC 59) (2)
£150-300
(2)
555* Diadumenian (218 AD). Denarius as Caesar under Macrinus, 217-8 AD, Rome, Reverse: PRINC IVVENTVTIS, Diadumenian standing left holding sceptre and standard, to right, two other standards surmounted by an eagle, approx. 2.9 g, extremely fine, (RIC 102) Scarce. (1)
£150-250
557* Elagabalus. Denarii (3). Rome, Reverse types: INVICTVS SACERDOS AVG, Elagabalus sacrificing over altar, (RIC 191), Roma seated holding Victory and spear, (RIC 16), PAX AVGVSTI, Pax advancing left, (RIC 125), all extremely fine (3) £150-200
£200-300
111
558* Elagabalus. Denarii (4), Rome, Reverse types: SALVS ANTONINI AVG, Salus standing right, extremely fine, (RIC 129), VICTOR ANTONINI, Victory advancing right, extremely fine/very fine, (RIC 156), Victory flying between two shields, extremely fine, (RIC 45), INVICTVS SACERDOS AVG, Caracalla standing right, very fine, (RIC 191) (4)
560* Julia Soaemias (died 222 AD). Denarius, Rome, 218-222 AD, Reverse: IVNO REGINA, Juno standing right holding sceptre and palladium, nearly extremely fine, (RIC 237), and Julia Maesa (died c. 225 AD), Denarii (2), Rome, Reverse types: PIETAS AVG, Pietas standing left, altar at feet, extremely fine/very fine, (RIC 263), and PUDICITIA, Pudicitia seated left, holding sceptre, very fine, (RIC 268).
£200-300
Julia Soaemias was the mother of Elagabalus and Julia Maesa his grandmother. (3) £200-300
561* Severus Alexander (222-235 AD). Denarius as Caesar under Elagabalus. Rome, 221-222 AD, IMP AVR ALEXANDER CAES, bare headed and draped bust right, Reverse: INDVLGENTIA AVG, Spes advancing left holing flower, extremely fine, (RIC 2) Rare. (1)
£200-300
559* Julia Paula (divorced 220 AD). Denarius, Rome, 219-220 AD, Reverse: CONCORDIA, Concordia seated left, good very fine, (RIC 211), Aquilia Severa (divorced 221 AD), Denarius, Rome, 220-221 AD, Reverse: CONCORDIA, Concordia standing holding patera and double cornucopia, very fine, (RIC 225) Julia Paula, first wife of Elagabalus; Aquilia Severa, second wife. Both coins scarce. (2) £200-300
562* Severus Alexander. Denarii (4), Rome, Reverse types: Jupiter standing holding thunderbolt and spear, (RIC 19), Pax standing holding olive branch and sceptre. (RIC 40). Sol walking left, (RIC 120), PROVIDENTIA AVG, Annona standing, modius at feet, (RIC 250), all extremely fine (4)
112
£200-300
566* Maximinus (235-8 AD). Denarius, Rome, MAXIMINVS PIVS AVG GERM, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, Reverse: Maximinus holding spear between two standards, extremely fine/nearly very fine, (RIC 3), together with Denarii (2), Rome, IMP MAXIMINVS PIVS AVG, Reverse: VICTORIA AVG, Victory advancing right, both extremely fine, (RIC 16)
563* Severus Alexander. Denarii (3), Rome, Reverse types: Mars standing right holding olive branch and spear reversed, extremely fine, (RIC 7), FIDES MILITVM, Fides seating between two standards, extremely fine, (RIC 139), VICTORIA AVGVSTI, Victory standing left, extremely fine, (RIC 219) Last scarce. (3)
£200-300
(3)
£200-300
564* Orbiana. Denarius, Rome, approx. 225 AD, SALL BARBIA ORBIANA AVG, diademed and draped bust right, Reverse: CONCORDIA AVGG, Concord seated left holding patera and double cornucopia, very fine, reverse better, (RIC 319)
567* Maximus (Caesar, 235-8 AD). Denarius, Rome, MAXIMVS CAES GERM, bare headed and draped bust right, Reverse: PRINC IVVENTVTIS, Maximus standing left holding rod and spear, to right, two standards, good very fine/good fine
Scarce. Orbiana married Severus Alexander in about 225 but was banished shortly after. (1) £300-500
Scarce. (1)
£200-300
568* Balbinus (238 AD). Antoninianus, Rome, IMP CAES D CAEL BALBINVS AVG, radiate and draped bust right, Reverse: PIETAS MVTVA AVGG, clasped hands, approx. 5.4 g, very fine, (RIC 12)
565* Julia Mamaea (died 225 AD). Denarii (3), Rome, c. 222-235 AD, Reverse types: FELICITAS PVBLICA, Felicitas standing, head right, extremely fine, (RIC 335), IVNO CONSERVATRIX, Juno standing left, peacock at feet, extremely fine, (RIC 343), and another, extremely fine/very fine
Scarce. (1)
Provenance: last bought Den of Antiquity (£48). Julia Mamaea was the mother of Severus Alexander. (3) £150-200
113
£300-500
572* Gordian III. Antoniniani (2), Rome, 240 AD, Reverse: CONCORDIA AVG, Concord seated, extremely fine, (RIC 52), together with another, 243-4 AD, Reverse: PROVID AVG, Providentia seated, extremely fine, (RIC 148), and Antioch, 242-4 AD, Reverse: SAECVLI FELICITAS, Gordian standing right holding spear and globe, good very fine, (RIC 216)
569* Balbinus. Denarius, Rome, IMP C D CAEL BALBINVS AVG, laureate and draped bust right, Reverse: PROVIDENTIA DEORVM, Providence standing left, globe at feet, approx. 2.8 g., extremely fine, a few small corrosion deposits on the reverse, (RIC 7) Scarce, particularly in this condition. (1)
£300-500
(3)
570* Pupienus (238 AD). Antoninianus, Rome, IMP CAES PVPIEN MAXIMVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right . Reverse: CARITAS MVTVA AVGG, clasped hands, approx. 4.7 g, extremely fine/nearly extremely fine, (RIC 10) Scarce. (1)
573* Gordian III as Caesar. Denarius, Rome, 238 AD, M ANT GORDIANVS CAES, bare headed and draped bust right, Reverse: PIETAS AVG, sacrificial implements, good very fine, (RIC 1) Scarce. (1)
£20`0-300
£200-300
574* Gordian III. Denarii (3), Rome, 241 AD, Reverse types: DIANA LVCIFERA, Diana standing right holding lighted torch, extremely fine, (RIC 127), VENVS VICTRIX, Venus standing left leaning on shield, extremely fine, (RIC 131), PIETAS AVGVSTI, Piety standing left, good very fine but some corrosion deposits on each side, (RIC 129), together with Denarius, Rome, 241-3 AD, Reverse: Apollo seated, good very fine, (RIC 114)All classed as ‘rare’ in RIC. The first three were issued to commemorate the marriage of Gordian to Tranquillina.
571* Gordian III (238-244 AD). Antoniniani (4), Rome, Reverse types: VICTORIA AVG, Victory advancing left, 238-9 AD, extremely fine, (RIC 5), ROMAE ETERNAE, Roma seated l, 240 AD, good very fine, (RIC 38), LAETITIA AVG N, Laetitia standing left, 241-3 AD, extremely fine, (RIC 86), VIRTVTI AVGVSTI, Hercules standing right, 241-3 AD, good very fine/very fine, (RIC 95) (4)
£200-300
£200-300
(4)
114
£300-500
577* Philip I. Antoniniani (3), Rome, 244-9 AD, Reverse types: AEQVITAS AVGG, Aequitas standing left, good very fine, (RIC 27b), Felicitas standing left, extremely fine, (RIC 4), SECVRIT ORBIS, Securitas seated left holding sceptre, good very fine, (RIC 48b) (3)
575* Philip I (244-9). Antoninianus, undated, Rome, IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right, Reverse: AEQVITAS AVG (sic.), Aequitas standing right holding scales in right hand and cornucopia in left, approx. 3.7 g, good very fine, (not in RIC) together with another, the same, but the portrait is radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right, approx. 3.9 g, good very fine but some corrosion flecks, (Not in RIC)
578* Philip I. Antoniniani (3), Antioch, undated, first issue, Reverse types: PAX FVNDATA CVM PERSIS, Pax standing left, nearly extremely fine, (RIC 69), together with another, very fine, and VIRTVS EXERCITVS, Virtus seated holding spear, extremely Fine, (RIC 7)
The two coins are perhaps to be seen as variants of RIC 27b which reads Aequitas Augg on the reverse. RIC p. 71 note 27 states that the record in Cohen of the type reading Aequitas Aug is an error. (2) £300-500
All scarce. (3)
576* Philip I. Antoniniani (4), Rome, 244-9 AD, Reverse types: AEQVITAS AVGG, Aequitas standing left, good very fine/extremely fine, (RIC 27b), FIDES EXERCIT, four military standards, good very fine, (RIC 62), LIBERALITAS AVGG II, Liberalitas standing left, extremely fine, (RIC 38b), VIRTVS AVG, Virtus seated left holding branch and spear, very fine/good fine, (RIC 53) (4)
£200-300
£200-300
579* Otacilia Severa. Antoniniani (4), Rome, approx. 246-8 AD, Reverse types: CONCORDIA AVGG, Concord seated holding patera and cornucopia, extremely fine, (RIC 126), together with another, very fine/good very fine, PVDICITIA AVG, Pudicitia seated left holding sceptre, very fine/extremely fine, (RIC 123c), PIETAS AVGVSTAE, Pietas standing left, very fine/extremely fine, (RIC 180)
£200-300
(4)
115
£300-500
582* Trajan Decius (249-251 AD). Antoninianus, Rome, 249 AD, First Issue with obverse inscription IMP TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG, Reverse: DACIA, Dacia standing holding standard, extremely fine, (RIC Ib), . together with Antoniniani (3), later series, Rome, 249-241 AD, reverse types: ABVNDANTIA AVG, Abundantia standing right, extremely fine, (RIC 10), DACIA, Dacia standing right with standard, extremely fine, (RIC 12), ADVENTVS AVG, Decius on horseback, very fine, (RIC 11) Second and third coins scarce. (4)
£150-200
580* Philip II as Caesar. Antoniniani, Rome, 244-246 AD, reverse types: PRINCIPI IVVENT, Philip standing left holding globe and standard, extremely fine, (RIC 218) with reverse: PRINCIPI IVVENT, Philip standing left holding globe and spear, captive at feet, very fine/extremely fine, (RIC 219) (2)
£100-150
583* Trajan Decius. Antoniniani (5), Rome, 249-251 AD, Reverse types; DACIA, Dacia standing holding standard, extremely fine, (RIC 12), together with another, very fine/fine, VICTORIA AVG, Victory advancing left, extremely fine, (RIC 29), PANNONIAE, the two Pannoniae standing, nearly very fine, (RIC21b), PANNONIAE, the two Pannoniae standing, hands clasped, extremely fine, (RIC 26) The last, scarce. (5)
£200-300
581* Philip II (247-249 AD). Antoniniani (2), Rome, Reverse types: LIBERALITAS AVG III, Philip I and Philip II seated side by side facing left, good very fine but some surface discolouration, (RIC 230), together with SAECVLARES AVG III, goat walking left, good very fine/extremely fine, (RIC 224), and Antoniniani (2), Antioch . reverse types: Felicitas standing left holding long caduceus and cornucopia, extremely fine, (RIC 233), SAECVLVM NOVVM, Roma standing facing in temple with six columns, good very fine, (RIC 244) Second coin scarce; third, rare. (4)
£200-300
584* Trajan Decius. Antoniniani (3), Milan, 250-1 AD, Reverse types: DACIA FELIX, Dacia standing left holding standard, extremely fine, (RIC 37), GEN ILLVRICI, genius standing right, very fine, (RIC 38), PANNONIAE, the two Pannoniae standing with clasped hands, before altar, very fine, (RIC 41) All scarce. (3)
116
£150-250
Lot 587
585* Herrenia Etruscilla. Antoninianus, Rome, Reverse: PVDICITIA AVG, Pudicitia seated left holding sceptre, good very fine/extremely fine but some corrosion deposits on the obverse, (RIC 59b), together with another, very fine Herrenia Etruscilla was the wife of Trajan Decius. (2)
588* Trebonianus Gallus (251-3 AD). Antoninianus, Rome, Reverse: AETERNITAS AVGG, Aeternitas standing left, good very fine, (RIC 30), Antoninianus, Milan, Reverse: PIETAS AVGG, Pietas standing left, very fine/fine, (RIC 72), Antoninianus, Antioch, Reverse: ROMAE AETERNAE, Roma seated holding Victory and spear, very fine, (RIC 89)
£100-200
First coin rare; last coin scarce. (3)
£200-300
586* Herennius Etruscus as Caesar (250-251 AD). Antoniniani (2), Rome, 251 AD, Reverse types: PIETAS AVGVSTORVM, sacrificial vessels, very fine/extremely fine, (RIC 143), PRINCIPI IVVENTVTIS, Herrenius standing right (RIC 147c), and Antoninianus, Antioch, 251 AD, Reverse: ADVENTVS AVG, Emperor on horseback raising right hand, good very fine/extremely fine, (RIC 156) First coin scarce; third, rare. (3)
£150-200
587* Hostilian as Caesar (251). Antoninianus, Rome, 251 AD, Reverse: MARTI PROPVGNATORI, Mars advancing right, very fine/good fine, (RIC 177b.) Scarce. (1)
£150-250
589* Volusian (251-3 AD). Antoninianus, Rome, Reverse: CONCORDIA AVGG, Concord seated left, very fine, (RIC 169), Antoninianus, Milan, Reverse: FELICITAS PVBL, Felicitas standing left, good very fine/fine, (RIC 205) First coin scarce. (2)
117
£150-250
593* Gallienus (253-268 AD). Silver antoninianus, Rome, Reverse: CONCORDIA EXERCIT, Concord standing right holding patera and cornucopia, approx. 4.2 g, very fine with dark toning, (RIC 70), Silver antoninianus, Moesia, Reverse: VIRTVS AVGG, Soldier standing left holding spear and shield, approx. 4.5 g, very fine, (RIC 301), and Lugdunum, Reverse: GERMANICVS MAX V, two bound captives at foot of military trophy, very fine/fine, (RIC 18)
590* Aemilian (252-3 AD). Antoninianus, Rome, 253 AD, Reverse: VICTORIA AVG, Victory advancing left, good very fine/fine, (RIC 11) Rare. (1)
£200-300
First coin rare. (3)
591* Valerian I (253-260). Base silver antoniniani (3), Rome, 256-7 AD, Reverse: RESTITVTOR ORBIS, Valerian raising kneeling female figure, good very fine/fine, (RIC 117 var. with irregular obverse legend), Antioch, 257 AD, Reverse: P M TR P V COS IIII P P, Valerian and Gallienus standing face to face between two spears and two shields, good very fine with nice dark toning but edge chip behind head, (not in RIC but cf. 277), Lugdunum, 258-9 AD, Reverse: VIRTVS AVG, soldier standing left, good very fine, (RIC 23) Second coin rare; third scarce. (3)
594* Gallienus. Silver washed antoniniani (4), Rome, Reverse types: FIDES MILITVM, LAETITIA AVG, MINERVA AVG and PAX AVG, good very fine, with Salonina, base silver antoninianus, Asian mint, Reverse: VENVS AVG, Venus standing holding spear and helmet, very fine, (RIC 86)
£200-300
Salonina was the wife of Gallienus. (5)
592* Mariniana (died before 253 AD). Base silver antoninianus, Rome, DIVAE MARINIANAE, veiled bust right on crescent, Reverse: CONSECRATIO, Mariniana on peacock flying right, approx. 2.7 g, fine, (RIC 6) Rare. Mariniana was the wife of Valerian I. (1)
£100-150
£150-250
595* Valerian II as Caesar (253-5 AD). Silver antoninianus, Rome, VALERIANVS CAES, radiate and draped bust right, reverse: IOVI CRESCENTI, infant Jupiter seated on the Amalthean goat walking right, very fine/good fine, (RIC 3), together with Saloninus as Caesar (255-9 AD), Antoninianus, Lugdunum, SAL VALERIANVS C S, radiate and draped bust right, Reverse: PRINC IVVENT, Saloninus standing left holding baton and spear, to left trophy and captive, very fine/fine, (RIC 11), and Antoninianus, Antioch, SALON VALERIANVS NOB CAES, Reverse: SPES PVBLICA, Spes presenting flower to Saloninus, good very fine, (RIC 36)
£100-200
(3)
118
£200-300
596* Macrianus (160-161 AD). Silver washed antoninianus, Antioch, IMP C FVL MACRIANVS P F AVG, radiate, cuirassed and draped bust right, Reverse: ROMAE AETERNAE, Roma seated left on shield holding Victory and spear, star in field, good fine, (RIC 11) Very Rare. (1)
599* Florian (276 AD). Silver washed antoninianus, Ticinum, Cuirassed bust right, Reverse: PROVIDE AVG, Providence standing holding globe and sceptre, good very fine, (RIC 82), together with Tacitus (275-6 AD), Silver washed antoninianus, Reverse: TEMPORVM FELICITAS, Felicitas standing left, very fine but corrosion deposits on reverse
£200-300
First coin scarce. (2)
£100-150
597* Quietus (260-261). Silver washed antoninianus, Antioch, IMP C FVL QVIETVS AVG, laureate, cuirassed and draped bust right, Reverse: IOVI CONSERVATORI, Jupiter seated left holding patera and sceptre, eagle at feet, star in field, very fine, (RIC 6) (1)
£150-200
600* Probus (276-282). Silver washed antoniniani (9), different mints and reverse types, mainly good very fine with intact or largely intact silvering (9)
£200-300
598* Vabalathus with Aurelian (270-271 AD). Silver washed antoninianus, Antioch, VABALATHUS V C R IM D R, radiate bust right, Reverse: IMP AVRELIANVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right, B below, nearly very fine but legends weak in places, together with Aurelian (27O-275 AD). Silver washed antoninianus, Rome, Reverse: ORIENS AVG, Sol advancing right, foot on captive, extremely fine/good very fine, (RIC 64), and Severina, silver washed antoninianus, Rome, Reverse: CONCORDIAE MILITVM, Concord holding two standards, very fine/extremely fine, (RIC 4) Vabalathus was joint ruler (with his mother, Zenobia), of the Palmyrene empire in the East and Egypt. In 271 he was proclaimed ‘Augustus’ and Aurelian marched against him and defeated him. He and Zenobia were taken as captives to Rome. (3) £200-300
601* Probus. Silver washed antoniniani (9), different mints and reverse types, mainly good very fine with intact or largely intact silvering (9)
119
£200-300
Lot 604 602* Probus. Silver washed antoniniani (9), different mints and reverse types, mainly good very fine with intact or largely intact silvering (9)
£200-300
Lot 605
603* Probus. Silver washed antoniniani (9), different mints and reverse types, mainly good very fine with intact or largely intact silvering (9)
£200-300
604* Probus. Silver washed antoniniani (8), different mints and reverse types, mainly good very fine with intact or largely intact silvering (8)
£150-200
605* Probus. Silver washed antoniniani (8), different mints and reverse types, mainly good very fine with intact or largely intact silvering (8)
606* Carus (282-3 AD). Silver washed antoninianus, Cyzicus, Reverse: CLEMENTIA AVG, very fine, (RIC 118), together with Numerian (283-4), Silver washed antoniniani (2), Lugdunum, Reverse: PIETAS AVG, very fine, (RIC 396), and Ticinum, reverse: PROVIDENT AVG, extremely fine, (RIC 447), Numerian as Caesar, silver washed antoninianus, Antioch, 202-203 AD, Reverse: VIRTVS AVG, very fine, (RIC 376) and Carinus (283-5 AD), Silver washed antoninianus, Ticinum, Reverse: FELICIT PVBLICA, very fine, (RIC 295), Numerian as Caesar, silver washed antoninianus, Ticinum, 2823 AD, Reverse: PRINCIPI IVVENTVT, good very fine, (RIC 181)
£150-200
(6)
120
£150-200
607* Maximinus II as Caesar (305-8 AD). Follis, Nicomedia, Reverse: GENIO CAESARIS, very fine, (RIC 55), with base silver and silver washed antoniniani (12) of Victorinus, Tetricus II, Postumus, Claudius II, Quintillus, Maximian and Diocletian, mainly in very fine condition (13)
610* Julian II. Siliquae (2), Arles, Reverse: VOTIS V MVLTIS X within laurel wreath, below, SCON, approx. 1.9 g, very fine but fine flan crack, and Lugdunum, reverse: VOTIS V MVLTIS X within laurel wreath, below, SLVG, approx. 1.9 g, good very fine (2)
£100-200
611* Julian II. Siliqua, Arles. D N FL CL IVLIANVS P F AVG, bearded, diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right, Reverse: VOT X MVLT XX in laurel wreath, below, P CONST., approx. 1.9 g, extremely fine
608* Constantius II (337-361 AD). Siliqua, Lugdunum, Reverse: VICTORIA DD NN AVG, Victory advancing left holding wreath and branch, in ex. LVG, approx. 1.8 g., good very fine/very fine but fine scratch on the reverse (1)
(1)
£150-250
£80-150
612* Greek. The Seleucid Kingdom., Antiochus VIII “Grypus” (120196 BC), Head of Antiochus right wearing fillet. Reverse: Zeus Ouranis standing draped, crescent on head, holding staff in left hand, right arm outstretched holding star, date letter obscured, approx. 16.0 g, very fine but with surface damage to some parts of the reverse, with Macedon, Phillip III, Arrhidaeus (323-317), Drachm struck at Colophon in Ionia, good fine, (Price, Alexander, 1769), and another Greek copper coin
609* Julian II (360-363 AD). Siliqua, Triers, Reverse: VOTIS V MVLTIS X within laurel wreath, below, T R (branch), extremely fine, reverse slightly off centre (1)
£100-200
£80-150
(3)
121
£70-100
COINS FROM OTHER PROPERTIES 615* England. HRH Prince Albert (d. 1861). Great Exhibitors’ medal, by Wyon, edge engraved G Russell, Copper, 1851, 47 mm, extremely fine but some rubbing on the hair, (BHM 2465. Eimer 1461), together with two other medalets and a collection of mainly low denomination silver coins (50) from George III to Edward VII, mainly fine but several better, and Crowns (2) of Victoria, 1889 and George V (1935), with an Elizabeth II boxed proof coin, 2009 Portraits of Prince Albert on medals are uncommon and this is arguably the finest. G. Russell is perhaps the Scottish artist, G. Russel. (56) £50-80
616* George V to Elizabeth II. Large collection of predecimalisation coins in copper, cupro-nickel and silver, mainly from circulation, approx. 27 lbs weight (a lot)
617* Rome. Hadrian (117-138 AD). Denarius Rome, 123 AD, IMP CAESAR (TRAIAN) HADRIANVS AVG, laureate bust right, Reverse: P M TR P COS III, Victory flying right holding trophy, very fine/good fine, (RIC 101), with Egypt, Ptolomy III (246-221 BC), AE 17 very fine/fine, and two other Roman coins, Ceylon, George III (17601820), half stuiver, 1816, extremely fine/nearly extremely fine, and other world coins (approx. 200), mainly 19th and 20th century
613* Coins & Medals. The Dambusters Raid Gold Coin Presentation Cover, limited edition 342/450, encompassing an E.II.R., 22 ct gold £25 Dambusters Raid Guernsey coin, 2008, FDC with original packaging and documentation, together with various proof sets including 2008 United Kingdom Coinage Royal Shield of Arms, from the Royal Mint, in original packaging with documentation, 8 WWII Americal Medals plus three silver coloured metal Farming medals and two bronze, c. 1900, each in case of issue (a carton)
£50-80
(a lot)
£70-100
618* Russia. Catherine II ‘The Great’ (1762-96). 5 kopecks, copper, 1778, good fine, 2 kopecks, copper, 1786, fine, one kopeck, copper, 1779, good fine, with Alexander I (1801-25), 5 kopecks, copper, 1806, good fine but some corrosion and Peter the Great (1689-1725), replica half rouble in silver, with Commemorative New Standard One roubles (5) dated 1967, 1970, 1975 and 1987, Cupro nickel, from circulation, and Lithuania, silver 10 litai, 1936, very fine/fine, 10 litai, 11938, good very fine/good fine, and a boxed proof 10 litai, 1995, uncirculated
£150-200
(13)
£50-80
619* General Collection comprising George VI (1937-95), Festival of Britain crown, boxed, 1951, uncirculated, with Elizabeth II crowns (17) dated 1953, 1965 (3), 1972 (3 including a boxed proof), 1977 (4), 1980 (2), 1981 (4), all uncirculated, and Gibraltar, crown, 1977, with Canada, dollar, 1958, together with a collection in plastic folders of English (69), Commonwealth (19) and Foreign (40) coins, mainly 20th century in variable condition including an American dollar, 1923 and quarter dollar, 1876, both fine, and an interesting collection of 20th century banknotes (32), mainly from European and Far Eastern countries, including a Berlin, one mark note dated 12 August 1914, some almost uncirculated, others well worn (170)
614* Polish Political & Military Medals. A huge collection of modern cast medals in bronze, silver and pewter, mostly c. 1980s, depicting prominent leaders both military and civil, including General Jozef Dwernicki (1779-1857), bronze, 60 mm diameter; Pulkownik Stanislav Dabek (1892-1939), bronze, 70 mm diameter; also same medal in pewter; General Broni Iozef Dowbor Musnicki (1867-1937), bronze, 70 mm diameter; Wincenty Witoz (1874-1974), bronze, 63 mm diameter; Joachim Lelewel (1786-1861), pewter, 70 mm diameter; plus a silver medal ‘Human and Human’, reverse ‘IN THE YEAR 1940 SOVIET INVADERS - INTENT ON ENSLAVING THE NATION - MURDERED 14,500 WAR PRISONERS POLAND’S CULTURAL POLITICAL AND MILITARY LEADERS’, dated 1977, rim stamped ‘MEDALLIC ART Co, DANBURY, GT. 999 FINE SILVER’, 60 mm diameter; plus a white metal medal ‘BLOGOSLAWIONY MAKSYMILIAN MARIA KOLBE’ (1927-1977), 45 mm square (approx. 198)
£50-80
620* Rome. The Republic, L. Sulla and L. Manlius Torquatus, Denarius, 82 BC, Travelling mint operating under Sulla, approx. 3.8 g, very fine but reverse off centre (Crawford 367/4 or 5), with L. Calpurnius Piso L f Frugi, Denarius, Rome, 90 BC, control marks: obverse - A V (lig.) behind head, F in front, reverse - symbol above horseman, A below, approx. 3.1 g, very fine but struck off centre (Crawford 340/1) and L. Aemilius Lepidus, Denarius, Rome, 62 BC, fine (Crawford 415/1) (3)
£300-500
122
£100-200
626* Tacitus (275-276 AD). Antoniniani (5), Gaulish mint, reverse types: MARS VICTOR C (star), Mars walking right holding spear and trophy, (RIC 30), PAX AETERNA (star) III in exergue, Pax standing left, (RIC 33), PAX PVBLICA, Pax standing left, (RIC 45), TEMPORVM FELICITAS A (star), Felicitas standing left holding caduceus and cornucopia, (RIC 63), VIRTVS AVG, soldier standing left holding spear and shield (RIC 57), all very fine or better, most showing some silver wash
621* Nero (54-68 AD). Silver tetradechm, Antioch, 62-3 AD, Laureate bust right, reverse: Eagle standing on thunderbolt, to right, palm branch, dated ‘year 111’ (of the Caesarian era), approx. 14.5 g, fine (cf Sear 618), with Claudius (41-54 AD), base silver tetradachm, Alexandria, dated ‘year 6’ for 49-50 AD, reverse: Messalina standing left holding 2 small figures in right hand, approx. 11.1 g, nearly fine, (Milne 104-11) and other Greek and Greek Imperial copper coins (8) in Fair to Fine condition including Augustus AE 30 of Castulo, Spain (Heiss 284, 3. Sear 15), fine (11)
First with an attractive green patina. (5)
£100-200
£100-200
622* Julia Domna (died 217 AD). Bronze sestertius, Rome, 193211 AD, reverse: VENVS FELIX, Venus standing left holding apple, fine, (RIC 866), rare, together with Marcus Aurelius (161-180 AD), Sestertius, revers: CONCOR AVGVSTOR TR P XVI COS III S C. M Aurelius and L Verus standing holding right hands, fine/nearly fine, (RIC 823-7), and Faustina II (died 175 AD), As, Rome, Reverse: IVNONI REGINAE S C. Juno standing left, fine but with some corrosion, (RIC 1652), and other Roman coins in copper (6) and silver (2) of Augustus, Claudius, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, fair to fine condition (11)
£70-100
623* Gordian III (238-244 AD). Silver antoninianus, Rome, Reverse: IOVI STATORI, Jupiter standing right holding thunderbolt, very fine (RIC 84), with Copper antoniniani of Probus (6), Allectus and Aurelian (5) and quinarius of Allectus, fine to very fine, and various Roman copper coins (36), 3rd to 5th century, mainly fair, and miscellaneous items (7) including a coin weight and a mis-struck farthing of George VI (65)
627* Tacitus. Antoninianus, Rome, reverse: PROVIDENTIA AVG. XXIA in ex. Providentia standing, globe at feet (RIC 92), with Antoniniani (4), Gaulish mint, reverse types: MARS VICTOR, C (star), Mars walking right, (RIC 30), PAX AETERNA, B (star), Pax standing left, (RIC 55), PAX PVBLICA, Pax standing left, (RIC 45), TEMPORVM FELICITAS, D (star), Felicitas standing left holding caduceus and cornucopia, (RIC 63), first nearly very fine, others very fine, first four show traces of silvering, some with small corrosion spots
£100-200
(5)
624* Marius (268 AD). Copper antoninianus, Cologne, IMP C MARIVS P F AVG, radiate and draped bust right, reverse: SAEC FELCITAS, Felicitas standing left holding caduceus and cornucopia, approx. 2.6 g, good very fine with green patina (RIC 9)
628* Florian (276 AD). Silver washed antoninianus, Lugdunum, IMP C M AN FLORIANVS P F AVG, radiate and draped bust right, reverse: VIRTVS AVG, I I in ex. Mars walking right holding spear and trophy, very fine (not in RIC, but cf RIC 14 which reads on the reverse, VIRTVS AVGVSTI)
Rare. Marius seized power in Germany in 268 but was murdered by his soldiers a short time - probably only one or two months - later. (1) £150-200
625* Severina. Billon tetradrachm, Alexandria, ‘year 6’ = 274-5 AD, reverse: Eagle, very fine, with other Alexandrian billon tetradrachms (14) of Probus, Aurelian, Maximian and other emperors, fine, some better (15)
£100-200
Extremely rare. (1)
£50-80
123
£100-300
Lot 629 629* An extensive collection in a handmade cabinet and plastic tray, of base silver (10) and copper or silver washed antoniniani (689) of Valerian I (5), Gallienus (160), Salonina (19), Valerian II (3), Postumus (24), Victorinus (137), Tetricus I (118), Tetricus II (176), Claudius II (134), Quintillus (22) and uncertain )(1), including contemporary copies, mainly fine to very fine, a large number have been cleaned professionally at some time, many with corrosion
631* Ireland, Dublin. Turner Camac halfpenny token, INCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT 1792, Hibernia (?) seated holding 8 string harp, reverse: TURNER CAMAC CHAIRMAN around HMCo. Edge: grained vertically with incised lines, faint traces of lettering beneath, approx. 10 g, nearly fine/fine but with large piercing, (not in D & H with this edge), with English 18th and 19th century tokens in copper and brass (12) including Bath, Somerset (D & H 39) very fine, Brimscombe, Gloucs. (D & H 60), very fine, Beverley, Yorkshire (D & H 15a), good fine
Provenance: Purchased from an unspecified London dealer. The coins range in date from about 253 to 273 AD. Many appear to have originated from the same hoard or possibly hoards, certainly one which was found well before The Treasure Act. (699) £700-1000
(13)
632* America. Colonial Issues. “Pitt token” halfpenny, c. 1766, RESTORE OF COMMERCE 1766 NO STAMPS, bust of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham left, reverse: THANKS TO THE FRIENDS OF LIBERTY AND TRADE, three masted ship, to right AMERICA, 28 mm, approx. 5.1 g, fair but a short snick in the edge (Yeoman, p. 48)
630* Diocletian (284-305 AD). Follis, Rome, Reverse: GENIO POPVLI ROMANI. In ex., P (star), very fine, with other folles (6) of Galerius, Maximianus and Constantine I from Cyzicus, Alexandria, Carthage and Antioch, mainly very fine, one with a corrosion spot (6)
£70-100
Scarce. The farthing and halfpenny “Pitt tokens” were probably originally medalets commemorating the opposition of the Elder Pitt to the Stamp Act. Some however are worn (as this example), suggesting that they circulated also as coins. (1) £70-100
£80-120
124
633* Coin Cabinet. Mahogany cabinet for 32 drawers, each holding up to 12 coins, 19th century, 34 x 16 x 27.5cms, one drawer, door lock and brass knob missing, damage to base and the left door, with a plastic ‘Lembit’ coin cabinet with seven drawers, each housing 64 coins and one drawer housing 49 coins, 25.5 x 25.5 x 12cm (2)
£50-80
638* George I (1714-27). Gold quarter guinea, 1718, approx. 2.1 g, fine/very fine (S 3638). (1)
£80-120
634* Rome. The Republic, Marcus Plaetorius Cestianus, Denarius, Rome, 67 BC, Helmeted head of Vacuna right, Reverse: Eagle on thunderbolt, approx. 3.2 g, nearly very fine/very fine but remains of mount on the reverse, (Crawford 409/1), together with eight other Roman copper coins, fair to fine The blundering of the issuer’s name on the reverse and the light weight suggest that the first coin may be a contemporary copy. (9) £80-120
639* George III (1760-1820). Gold guinea, Fourth laureate head, 1776, approx 8.4 g, good very fine with some lustre (S 3728). (1)
£200-400
635* Henry VI (1422-61). “Annulet issue” groat, London, 1422-30, obverse with pellet to right of head, saltire stops and no fleur on breast, reverse: annulet and saltire stops, annulets in two quarters, approx. 3.7 g, good fine (North 1423. S1835). (1)
£80-120
640* George III. Last or New Coinage, Crown, 1818, with edge reading LVIII, extremely fine with a dark surface, small rub on the king’s wreath
636* Elizabeth I (1558-1603). Second Issue threepence, 1569, Initial mark: coronet, fine (North 1998), together with Shilling, 15847, i.m. scallop, fair and pierced, and a Second Issue sixpence, 1570, i.m. coronet, nearly fine/fine (North 1997), Charles I (1625-49), Fourth Bust sixpence, 1634-5, i.m. bell, nearly fine, (North 2241)
(S 3787). (1)
£150-200
637* William and Mary (1688-94). First Bust fourpence, 1689, very fine (S3439), together with George II (1727-60), Old Head sixpence, 1757, nearly very fine, with some lustre, (S 3711) and another, 1758, very fine but pierced, and William III (1694-1702), Third bust, crown, 1696, fair-fine
641* George III. Cartwheel twopence, 1797, very fine but one small rubbed spot (S 3776), together with another, nearly fine, plus a George I halfpenny, 1718, fine, and a ‘South Sea Company’ shilling, fair but pierced, and George III, Half-crown, 1817, fine, Victoria, One third farthing, 1866, nearly extremely fine, George V half-crown, 1914, extremely fine but a ‘bang’ on the edge, and a Marlborough Town token, 1668, fine
(4)
(8)
(4)
£70-100
£70-100
125
£50-80
648* Edward VII (1901-10). Coronation Medal in box of issue, 1902, Bronze, 56 mm, extremely fine, together with silver coins (10), comprising half-crown, 1906, fine, Florins (3), all 1910, nearly extremely fine, shillings (4), all 1910, extremely fine, Sixpence, 1910, almost extremely fine,and threepence, 1902, extremely fine/very fine, all with some surface discoloration (11)
£70-100
649* George II to George V. 72 silver coins of mixed denominations, including 6 crowns, fair to fine, some better, a number pierced, approx. 550 g. (72)
642* William IV (1830-37), Gold sovereign, approx. 7.9 g, fine (S 3829B). (1)
650* George V (1910-36). Gold sovereign, 1913, approx. 8.1g, extremely fine
£150-200
(S 3996). (1)
643* Victoria (1837-1901). Old Head gold half-sovereign, 1898, approx. 3.9 g, very fine (S 3874). (1)
£70-100
£100-200
645* Victoria. Jubilee coinage, 1887-93, Half-crowns (2), 1887, both extremely fine (S 3924), together with sixpence, 1887, extremely fine, (S 3929), and Young Head, sixpence, 1874, fine/very fine (4)
(145)
652* South Africa. Z A R. President Paul Kruger (1883-1902), Gold one pond, 1898, single shaft to wagon, approx 8.0 g, good very fine with slight wear to the hair, together with another dated 1896, Single shaft to wagon, approx 8.1 g, good fine
£100-200
647* Victoria. Diamond Jubilee medal in box of issue, 1897, bronze, 56 mm diam., extremely fine, together with Diamond Jubilee medals (3), 1897, silver, 24 mm, one in its original envelope, two extremely fine, one very fine, plus James II, Archbishop Sancroft and the Seven Bishops, electrotype copy in silvered copper of the cast silver medal by Bower, 1688. 49 mm, very fine but the heads of the bishops on the reverse are rubbed, (original: Eimer 288. M I p. 622 no. 37), and Pope Clement XIV, White metal medallion, 1771, very fine but several corrosion spots (6)
£70-100
£70-100
646* Victoria. Set of Maundy Money (1d to 4d), 1850, extremely fine but slight rubbing on the queen’s head on the 1d and 2d (S 3916). (4)
£120-150
651* British Empire. George IV (1820 - 30). British Colonial “Anchor” Money”, One sixteenth of a dollar, Silver, 1822, good very fine, together with India, William IV, Quarter rupee, 1835, fine, and Victoria, One rupee, 1901, extremely fine, Silver two annas (6), fine to very fine, and copper coins (3), fine or better, Indian Native Issues, Copper “dump” rectangular coins (4), plus Kashmir, Srinagar, copper paisa with J H S in legend, and an “Arcot” type silver half rupee, dated A H 1210, and Mauritius. Elizabeth II 10 rupees, 1972, extremely fine and English and foreign coins, tokens and jetons (127) mainly in base metals
644* Victoria. Jubilee coinage, 1887-93, Crowns (16), dated 1887, 1889 (7), 1890 (3), 1891 (4), and 1892, and Old Head coinage, 18931901 (2), dated 1895 and 1900, mainly fine, some better (18)
£80-100
(2)
£50-80
126
£250-350
653* South Africa. Z A R. Pretoria “Een Pond” banknote, number 11856, dated 28 May 1900, Three folds otherwise in good condition, together with another, number 14439, also dated 28 May 1900, several folds, otherwise in nearly good condition, plus Paul Kruger, Florin, 1897, very fine but gilded, threepences (2) both dated 1897, one extremely fine but with slight scratch to obverse; the other very fine, and pennies (2) 1892 and 1894, very fine, and Germany, Berlin, 100,000 mark banknote of the Reichsbank, dated 1 February 1923. and Greek Banknotes (2) dated 1941 (10)
£30-50
656* Germany. Prussia, Wilhelm I (1861-88), Gold five marks, 1877, approx. 2.0 g, extremely fine Scarce. (1)
£100-200
654* France. Second Republic, Gold 20 francs with “Angel” design, 1848, approx 6.5 g, fine/very fine (1)
£100-150
657* Italy. Naples and Sicily, Ferdinand IV and Queen Maria Caroline, “Soli Reduci” piastra of 120 grani, 1791, FERDINANDVS IV ET M CAROLINA UNDIQ FELICES, conjoined busts right, Reverse: SOLI REDVCI 1791, Sun shining onto the earth with southern Italy in the centre, above, Zodiac encircling the sun and earth, Silver, 40 mm, approx 27.2 g, good fine, nearly very fine (Gig. 59) Rare. Struck to commemorate a trip to Austria made by Ferdinand and Maria Caroline with their daughters. (1) £100-200
658* Ferdinand IV (1759-1816). First period (1759-99), Ducat of 100 grani, 1785, FERDINAN IV D G SICILIAR ET HIE REX, bust right, BP below, reverse: HISPANIAR INFANS 1785 around crowned arms within oval shield, Silver, 38 mm, approx. 22.6 g, (Davenport 1404), together with Spain, Isabella II (1833 - 68), New Style coinage, 1850-5, 10 reales, silver, 1852, very fine, Charles IV (1788-1808), 2 reales, silver 1799., fine, Italy, Umberto I (1878-1900), 2 lire, Silver, 1884, fine, Germany, Munster, “Cathedral Coinage”, 6 pfennig, copper, 1762, fine, and Liege, Bishop John Theodore of Bavaria, One liard, 1750, copper, fine
655* France. Second Empire, Napoleon III (1852-70), Gold 20 francs, Paris, 1854, approx. 6.5 g, fine, together with Gold 10 francs, Paris, 1867, approx. 3.2 g, fine (2)
£100-200
The first, rare. (6)
127
£100-200
659* America. Gold “Liberty Head” (Type l) dollar, 1853, approx. 1.7 g, extremely fine with a single scuff mark on the obverse (Yeoman p. 235). (1)
£80-120
662* Straits Settlements. Edward VII (1901-10), One dollar, silver, 1904, very fine, reverse better, together with Mexico, Republic (1823-64), “Cap and Rays” silver 8 reales, Mexico City mint, 1888, very fine (1)
£50-80
660* Victorian Coin Cabinet. The satinwood and burr walnut cabinet, with hinged drawers enclosing 13 drawers, each segmented to hold approx. 115 coins, 37cm high x 32cm wide x 25cm deep (1)
£100-200
661* America. “Morgan” dollars (3), Silver, dated 1896, 1898 and 1921, first very fine, others better but the last showing fine scratches on the obverse, together with “Peace” dollars (4), Silver, dated 1922 (Denver mint), 1923 (2, one San Francisco) and 1926 (San Francisco)
663* Anne (1702-14). Fourth Bust, Shilling, 1711, (S 3618), nearly very fine, together with William III (1694-1702), Shilling, Norwich, 1696, (S 3501), fair, George II (1742-60), Old Head shilling, 1758, very fine, (S3704), plus another, fine, Old Head sixpence, 1757, fine (S 3711), George III, Shilling, 1787 (without hearts), very fine, (S 3743)
(7)
(6)
£80-120
£150-200
664* Queen Caroline. Brass medalet commemorating her death in 1821, 15 mm, good very fine, but corrosion spots on the head, (BHM 1154), together with Late Georgian coins (9) including a George III crown 1818, three shillings Bank Token, 1812, half-crowns (2), both 1817, Sixpence, 1918 and George IV farthing, 1825, mainly fine, last very fine, and a 1 half d public house token of the Coach and Horses, Exeter, very fine/fine (11)
128
£30-50
665* Victoria (1837-1901). Young Head coinage (1838-1887), Halfcrown, 1848, fine (S 3888), together with another, 1850, fine (2)
£100-200
666* Victoria. Double florin, 1888 (with Arabic 1), good very fine, (S 3618), together with other coins including a crown, 1894, halfcrowns (2), 1887 and 1898, florin, 1856, shillings (4), 1844, 1856, 1868 and 1884, mainly fine, florin and two of the shillings, fair (10)
£50-80
667* Australia. George V florin, 1927, extremely fine with a George VI florin, 1947, good fine and Elizabeth II florin, 1961, very fine, and 16 various 20th century silver and base metal coins, with a Royal Bank of Scotland note, 1962, and a National Commercial Bank of Scotland £1 note, 1962, both excellent but with a single central fold, and a Nederlandische Bank, 25 Gulden note, good condition (22)
£30-50
668* British and World Coins. Elizabeth II decimal coins: 10 p (7), 5 p (18), half p (175), Elizabeth II and earlier, pre-decimal coins: crowns (2), shillings (23), pennies (18), half-pence (12), farthings (182) and other English coins (26), American coins (12) including an 1897 dollar, very fine and a half-dollar commemorating Christopher Columbus, 1892, very fine, and other world coins (25) (487)
£30-50
Lot 665
MILITARY EPHEMERA
Lot 669
Lot 670
669* Battle of Waterloo. An original copper plate for an engraving entitled The Battle of Waterloo, The Contest of the British and Allied Troops, commanded by the Duke of Wellington, Marshal Blucher, &c., against the French Army, commanded by Buonaparte, between La Haye, and la Belle Alliance, pub. by Richard Holmes Laurie, May 1, 1819, copper printing plate, 29 x 45cm (11.5 x 17.75ins) (1)
670* Boer War. South Africa War Through the Steroscope, Part 1, Volume II, containing 33 black and white stereoscopic view cards, Yorkshire Battalion, Inniskilling Dragoons, 1st Royal Irish Regiment, Worcestershire Regiment, published by Underwood & Underwood, in original box, some wear (1)
£70-100
129
£80-120
672* Edis (Olive, 1876-1955). Verdun [and] Ypres, 1919, vintage bromide prints, approx. 29 x 40 (11.5 x 15.75ins) & 29 x 37cm (11.5 x 14.5ins), signed by the photographer to mounts lower right and titled in block capitals lower left, framed and glazed (2)
671* Crimean War. Autograph letter signed from Clement [Heneage], Balaclava, 31st August [1855], to his wife Mimsy, thanking her for the mosquito curtain, but noting that the flies are fast disappearing now the weather is cooling, ‘The Russians on the Tchernaya have melted away, I fancy rather astonished at the warm reception the French and those jolly brave sardines gave them on the 16th, their going is a great blessing, as a cavalry division was out on the plain of Balaclava every morning an hour before daybreak for about a fortnight, but now we are only saddled and kept in readiness in the lines, til about an hour after sunrise, at which time all danger is supposed to be over, as they always make a point of attacking about day break, whenever they have come at us. Their great bridge over the harbour is now finished, some people think it is for the purpose of getting all their stores and heavy articles over to the North side preparatory to giving up the whole of the South side - but it seems more likely to have been done to facilite the transport of provisions and ammunition for the use of the garrison Glyn is on the move to-morrow, to join the first batallion of the Rifles, who are with the Fourth Division - I don’t fancy he will like the trenches very much, though he gets his company by leaving the 8th - Chetwode is still at Sutari ...’, 4 pp. on blue paper with orig. envelope (British Army Post Office 1st September 1855), plus fours covers of Crimean war interest, including one addressed to Francis Marx (brother in law of Fanny Duberly) and three each with three cancelled 1d red stamps, all neatly corner-mounted on separate album leaves with detailed manuscript information, plus a copy of E.E.P. Tisdall’s book, Mrs Duberly’s Campaign, 1963, original cloth in d.j., 8vo (6)
£800-1200
673* Military and Transport. A group of assorted aviation, military and motoring photographs, etc., c. 1880s-1940s, including photographs of early aviators, Captain John Cunningham, Air Vice Marshall Tedder, two training log books handwritten by Loftraf, twelve miscellaneous vintage motoring photographs, and a 1928 presentation album of Bertrum Mills, containing seventeen whole plate photographs of coaching interest, plus Victorian albumen print (and one cyanotype) photos of military groups, eleven large press photos of VE Day parade, London, 1946, approx. 14 x 11 ins and sl. smaller (approx. 70)
£150-200
130
£150-200
674 Peninsular War - Battle of Bussaco. Narrative of a Subaltern Officer, manuscript account of the Battle of Bussaco (27th September 1818), mid 19th century, approx. 100 pp. written in a single unidentified hand, occasional deletions and additions, several blank leaves at rear, the narrative proper beginning on page 5, ‘The Battle of Busaco was fought on the 27th September 1810, the Duke cared very much indeed that did not warn Isant, Wilson, Miller, and Silvesa to take possession of the pass of Casmunca on his left flank, had that been done, Massina could never have turned the Duke’s left wing as he did and compelled him to retreat, had the pass been reached in time, the Prince of Essling had only two movements, the first was to move across the Rioes Mundego, which was a most dangerous aim for the Enemy, as the British could cross before them, and his left would be dreadfully harrassed by the Malitia and Ordinance from the mountains, Massina’s second movement would have been to bring his whole force to bear upon the Allies at Busaco and I have no doubt he would have forced Wellington to retreat after a severe defeat, the Portuguese would have been disheartened, the chance would have been that the British would make for their Shipping. Massina ought to have driven the British to their line when he found Casemala open by turning their flank as he did, without a Battle ...’, with further evidence that this is a first-hand eye witness account, ‘On our march over Inartes Montes and old American warrior fell into a ditch up to his chin, when an Officer ran and gave his hand to old Hector of Troy who pulled him in as deep as himself, the only sympathy was a roar of laughter from the whole Regt in which our commanding officer joined, McFarlane the Quartermaster was the most stubborn mule of a man that ever was born, that night Mc.. passing Major Grant [? Colquhoun Grant, 1780-1829] ...’, and later, ‘The British entered Spain on 6th April. This after 32 days starvation and privations and combatant fighting that no British Army ever suffered so much. I never saw the men look so ill after that retreat, they never recovered it. On one occasion I think on the 14th we found a field of potatoes, being in the ground the whole year and our stomachs so weak and empty they had a very bad effect. That gallant solider Picton with the third division was four days without food in the Hills flanking. Our Brigade was two days until 4 o’clock next day without a morsel, but I believe the light division was better off being in advance, the nearer the Enemy the better. We had no tents, and very seldom under cover, the Enemy burnt everything. The French soliders are the dirtiest fellows that ever was in quarters, we had to be very careful in getting into their old cantonments having halted for a day near the Austrelta Mountains, accompanied by an other officer, we ascended one the mountains, then we got a sheep and some vegetables, we carried the sheep to our quarters, and a number got a share, we were very nearly murdered by the Portuguese on this expedition, life was thought so little off at this village I saw a poor old woman that was murdered by the French she was 70 years of age after using her, in their usual way, one of the monsters put his bayonet through her body, I saw her interred they don’t cofen them as we do, they carry them in an open cofen and throw them into their graves and a fellow pounds them with his feet, or a malet, and covers them with earth, this fellow made the old women’s ribs crack like an old bushel. I saw plenty children wandering in [?] glens and woods without father or mother and in a dying state, they all replies that their parents were murdered by the French ...’, contemp. qtr. roan over patterned boards, rubbed, 8vo, a slightly earlier unrelated manuscript bifolium loosely inserted The Battle of Bussaco (27 September 1810) resulted in the defeat of French forces by Lord Wellington’s Anglo-Portuguese Army, in Portugal during the Peninsular War. Having occupied the heights of the ten-mile long ridge of Bussaco with 25,000 British and the same number of Portuguese, Wellington was attacked five times successively by 65,000 French under Marshal Andre Massena. Massena was uncertain as to the disposition and strength of the opposing forces because Wellington deployed them on the reverse slope of the ridge, where they could neither be easily seen nor easily softened up with artillery. The actual assaults were delivered by the corps of Marshal Michel Ney and General of Division Jean Reynier, but after much fierce fighting they failed to dislodge the allied forces and were driven off after having lost 4,500 men against 1,250 Anglo-Portuguese casualties. (1) £300-400
675* Photograph albums - Travelogues. A group of Pre-war photograph albums, c. 1920s-1930s & 1945, having travel and military interest in the Middle East, India and Northern France following the armistice of 1918 in France, Belgium & Western Front, the Inter-war years, and India 1945 at cessation of hostilities, including Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, definitively Cairo, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Damascus and the Nile and Valley of the Kings etc., highquality snapshots some professional studies in the Indian Album compiled by P.S. Banga and dated Kohat 1945, variously annotated and inscribed with some places and dates, together with two German Luger/Walther-pattern leather pistol holsters (9)
£150-200
676 POW Log. A WWII Prisoner of War Log kept by Pilot Officer Oakley who was held at Stalag Luft III camp, 20 illustrations including ‘Block 121, Room 12’, ‘Air Raid!’, the camp, ‘Lancaster 0’OBOE’’, illustrations of Oakley’s crew brevet badges, signed ‘self,Sagan 44’, an image of a graveyard captioned ‘memorial placed in Safan Cemetery to the 50 officers that were shot by the Gestapo and which contain the urns and ashes of same - March 1945?’, last pages contain a list of dates for mail received and fellow prisoners addresses
Lot 676
On the night of 2 March 1944 Pilot Officer C. Oakley was shot down with six crew whilst serving with 44 Squadron in a Lancaster III Operation: Stuttgart, T/o 2317 Dunholme Lodge. Shot down from astern by a night-fighter which came upon the Lancaster at 22,000 feet and just moments before releasing its bomb load. Sgt Campbell left the stricken aircraft, which crashed 0318 between Reutlingen and Metzingen, but did not survive. (1) £100-150
131
Lot 677
Lot 679
677 WWII - Third Reich. A group of sixteen German Army photo albums, all containing views of military and off-duty life, portraits of comrades, family, friends and scenic views, etc., largely post-card size and smaller, b&w photos mounted as multiples to rectos and versos throughout, many uncaptioned, contemp. cloth/boards, oblong folio (16)
£300-500
Lot 681
678 WWII - Third Reich. A similar lot, oblong folio/4to
681 WWII - Third Reich. A group of sixteen photograph albums, including some albums with Luftwaffe and other aviation interest, plus scenes of military and civilian life, mostly second world war period, many albums uncaptioned, contemp. cloth/boards, oblong folio/small oblong folio
(16)
(16)
£300-500
679 WWII - Third Reich. A similar lot, mostly oblong small folio (20)
£300-500
680 WWII - Third Reich. A group of twelve photograph albums, c. 1930s/1940s, mostly with printed preliminary matter, plus small format photos of military and civilian life, plus three related books and three unused German photo diaries with printed preliminary matter, contemp. cloth/boards, oblong folio/4to (18)
£300-400
132
£300-500
682 WWII - Third Reich. A group of ten photograph albums, many with Kriegsmarine interest, plus other military and civilian interest from second world war period, largely uncaptioned, plus one British naval photograph album with small format images from the first world war, plus a related wallet of maps with ownership name of Lt. R. S. Bird R.N.V.R., H.M.M.L. 210, all contemp. cloth/boards, mostly oblong folio (12)
£300-500
Lot 682 684 Seaforth Highlanders. A photograph album of the Seaforth Highlanders at Bazar Valley, Seaforth Hill, Shabkadr Fort, Jamrud Camp & Nakakkai village Camp, North-West Frontier, c.1900-10, containing ninety-six b & w photographs (many captioned to verso), including an image of Field Marshal Sir Arthur Arnold Barrett & General Sir James Willcocks, each window mounted and captioned, image size 10.5 x 7.5cm, orig. cloth, oblong 4to With indistinct inscription “... Colonel Howe in India with the Seaforths 1902, from his younger brother Heddick”. (1) £150-200
683 WWII - Japan. A group of five Japanese military albums from world war two, including single and group portraits, camp scenes, some artillery and naval interest, plus some off-duty and some earlier photos, mostly smaller format and mounted as multiples, a total of approx. 400 photos in all, largely uncaptioned, contemp. cloth/boards, oblong folio/4to (5)
£300-500
Lot 683
133
685* Talbot Kelly (Richard Barrett ). Colour print published by the Fine Arts Society, depicting the Battle of Loos, 25 September 1915, signed in pencil by the artist lower right, and annotated in the margin and mount explaining this action, 30 x 45cm (49.5 x 63cm overall) framed and glazed The print depicts the 5th Camerons in the Hohenzollen Redoubt, based on a similar painting which is in the National Army Museum. (1) £100-150
688* World War One - German Stereo Glass Slides. A group of approx. eighty German diapositive glass stereo slides, including some of German soldiers in trenches, marching, training, etc., plus mountains and family holidays, etc., each 5 x 11cm, contained in contemp. stereo slide boxes, unidentified and uncaptioned
686* Third Reich. German propaganda leaflets, including ‘ES FALLY DAS VOM HIMMEL NICHT ES WILL EROBERT SEIN’ (it falls from the sky is not the cure it will be captured) Eichendorff, Munchen 1943, 35 x24cm, together with three further leaflets including ‘Jede schaffende hand hilt’ (creative hands helps)Siegen, Munchen 1942 (4)
Included with the lot are forty modern mono photographic prints taken from the negatives. (a small carton) £100-150
£80-120
687* War of 1812 - Battle of Bladensburg, Autograph letter signed from George Robert Gleig, Bylands, Winchfield, 24 April 1884, to an unidentified recipient, thanking him for the pamphlet which is yet to arrive and continuing, ‘You asked me for anecdotes connected with the Battle of Bladensburg and the capture of Washington. I could give you many were we face to face. On paper I must try to confine myself to such as ones least likely to over tax your patience. 1) Nothing could exceed the kindess of the inhabitants of Bladensburg to our wounded, ... in the same room with Colonel Thornton lay your gallant Commander Barney, both previously hurt. A friendship was once struck up between them which lasted through their lives. The Commander told Thornton the following story. “I commanded the battery of artillery and saw one of your men [?] pile up some stones, then lie down behind them and take aim. Oh I said to myself you are crack shot I suppose but I’ll baulk you and I did for I pointed one of our guns at him myself and when the smoke cleared away, his parapet was in ruins and himself nowhere. I hope he ran away” ...’, and later on entering Washington on horseback, ‘Two adventures befound me there. I was limping past a house in a street near the capital when a window was opened and a negro woman invited me to enter. The family had quitted the town and the servants offered me all manner of good things. I was amused and told them I wanted nothing except a clean shirt having only one which I had worn since the 19th ...’, and finally concerning a hurricane on the 25th, ‘which unroofed houses and upset our three pounders guns. It upset me also, it fairly lifted me out of the saddle and the horse which I had been riding I never saw again’, sending regards to General Wilson, 8 pp., some soiling and old album guard to inner margin of first page, 8vo
689* WW1 cartoons. A collection of 37 original humourous sketches by Cyril Swanne, 1916-18, pen, pencil and ink drawings on postcards and paper, most captioned and signed in initials, the largest 18 x 11.5cm (7 x 4.75ins), some loose, mounted in and pasted to original cloth album, vertical split to upper joints, some stains, oblong 8vo 752 Corporal Cyril Swanne, Royal Warwickshire Regiment was born in Birmingham in 1891 and served on the Western Front from 21 November 1915. In 1921 he embarked on the ‘Wiltshire’ departing Liverpool for Wellington, New Zealand, occupation artist. He died in West Bromwich in 1928. (1) £300-500
George Robert Gleig (1796-1888) was a Scottish soldier, military writer and priest. (1) £150-200
134
690* WWI - “Birmingham Pals”: 1/8th Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment. A good series of forty-two autograph letters and fifteen autograph postcards from Private Fred B. Key to his fiancee Miss Zen Hall, Clifton-on-Teme, Worcester, 7th November 1914 to 7th June 1916, nine of the letters and six postcards written whilst training, largely from Coggeshall, Essex, giving details of drill, bayonet, firing and trenching exercises, the remaining thirty-three letters and nine postcards written whilst on active service “Somewhere in France”, (3rd April 1915 to 7th June 1916), the majority in their original envelopes with Field Post Office and censor marks, in all 193 pages, 8vo and 4to, and fifteen autograph postcards, plus a number of Field Service postcards, two photographs and a pencil sketch of a young woman, presumably Zen, also her small notebook containing details of meetings with Fred, including an unexpected short leave at the end of December 1915 The 1/8th Battalion had Companies that were sponsored by the Dunlop Rubber Company, the Birmingham Corporation Gas Department, Ansels Brewery and other trades. Key was a Dunlop volunteer, enlisting on 4th September 1914. On 22nd March 1915 Key travelled with the Battalion by train to Southampton where they embarked for Le Havre. At first Key's letters are relatively light-hearted, although with a regular sprinkling of the abbreviation DV (Deo Volente: God Willing). Throughout his letters one realises that he is well aware of his own mortality. 21st April 1915: '... at 3 o'clock the Germans started to shell us, and hit the trench that I was in about 15 times, so you bet that when they were doing that I began to fancy that I should never write it at all. However when they finished at 3.30 I started to write while there was a chance, when they started again so I had to chuck it, but it was all over at 4.10, no one was hurt but we were all more or less shaken, and one part of our trench blown in so we had to set to and build it up again; but the Germans could see us doing that so they opened fire on us, so I and another fellow, had 3 others loading for us while we blazed away at them like mad... The trenches around here are on ground that is full of dead, and when there is any digging on it stinks something dreadfully, and we have to boil all our water before we can drink it... you are not to worry about anything, it is sure to turn out well in the end and then D.V. we must have some good times together. Well, so long now; those sentiments in your letter are the same as mine. Yours ever as now, with heaps of love & kisses, Freddy'. His letters paint a vivid picture of the horror of the trenches but are also affectionate and full of talk of the future, his aspirations for their life together after the war, though the later letters display a growing despondency, e.g. 6th February 1916: 'When next time you are awake in the small hours of the morning think of me running about in No Man's Land cursing my fate'. The following extracts give a small flavour of the series as a whole: From his letters of 29th April 1915: 'The other day a German aeroplane flew over the trenches, hotly pursued by one of ours, and as he flew he dropped some tinsel which as it fell glittered in the sun, and gave the range to the German gunners who soon afterwards dropped several shells in that particular direction. At 4.30 last Sunday I was in a mild state of nervous expectation awaiting our usual Sunday shell fire and about 2 hours later, 3 came over and burst right by our trench, you can bet that as soon as I heard the gun fire I was under cover... '. From his letter of 2nd June 1915: '... Oh! dash it, they have just given the order to fall in for Serg. Major's Drill, they will not let us settle down. It is beastly hot and dusty and I feel hot and sticky, I can't find a comfortable position and I am in a state that I don't know what to do with myself. I shall be glad when we get into the trenches again as then I shall be able to relieve the monotony by having a shot... I wonder what you are doing at this moment, 12.20 Monday morning. I have propped your sweet photo up against a piece of wood opposite to me and it seems to be smiling, but still I expect that it is only fancy. Still wait until I do see you, I will love you. I'll squeeze you and kiss you until you cry stop, how will you like that eh! I will pick you up and carry you into the house and shall not let you down until you have paid toll, and a little will not satisfy me! You just wait and see D.V.'. From his letter of 17th September 1915: '... I do feel dirty, I have not washed for 3 days nor shaved for two, so you can guess what I look like. When we are in the trenches we are not allowed to take anything off at all, it is terrible keeping our equipment, boots, socks, shirts and puttees on for perhaps 3 weeks at a time, it will be quite another week before we are allowed to take them off. I feel as if I could scratch, scratch, scratch all day long... I am off in my dugout, they have started shelling. I will continue this later. I am in the dug out now having a biscuit with some jam on it for lunch... this dugout I am in is full of rats, mice, snails and creepy crawlies, we sleep on wire netting beds, which are a foot too short and have to wear our overcoats over our heads... '. From his letter of 20 January 1916: '... I am sure that if I do get out of this business safely, it will be mainly due to your and others applications to providence for my safety, 'cause although I do say my prayers as a rule regularly, I am sorry to say that it is only when I am near or in the trenches, 'cause spiritually and physically I am a coward, I shirk from bodily pain and many a time I have to clench myself to keep from running away into shelter...'. Fred Key was killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1st July 1916 when the 1/8th Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire at 7.30 am, 600 in all ranks, went over the top only to be mown down by the enemy's fire from every direction. The Battalion was virtually wiped out and has the dubious honour of being 8th in the list of battalions that lost more than 500 men on that morning; the bodies of 170 men of the Battalion were never found. Loosely inserted in his fiancee's notebook is a telegram, dated 7th July, from Fred's parents at Lichfield informing her that he had been wounded. She has written retrospectively 'July 1st 1916. My darling was mortally wounded by machine gun bullet in 3rd German Line & I didn't know until the 8th'; on the 10th she writes 'Letter came saying my darling killed... went to Lichfield'. To her entry for his last day of leave (December 1915) Zen wrote 'Said goodbye on step of train - nurses got in way'. She has retrospectively added 'And that is the last time I shall see him on this earth'. (a bundle) £700-1000
135
691 WWI - Coldstream Guards. Extracts from the Diary of Lieutenant Richard Charles Graves-Sawle, 2nd Batallion Coldstream Guards, August 12th to November 2nd 1914 [as printed title], mounted photographic portrait frontis., seventy numbered typed pages including two pen and ink maps, all typed and drawn to rectos only, plus four further mounted photo plates and two pen and ink plans, and approx. 65 leaves addenda at rear, including related WWI and Coldstream Guards cuttings, a few manuscript annotations at front and rear, a.e.g., orig. striped full morocco gilt by Bumpus, minor rubbing, 4to, preserved in modern purposemade clamshell book box Lieutenant R. C. Graves-Sawle, was the only son of Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Graves-Sawle, Bart. of Penrice, Cornwall and his wife Constance. He married Muriel, eldest daughter of Col. Heaton L. S., of Wyddiall Hall, on 6th August 1914, leaving five days later for the Front. His last entry was written on the day he died, 2nd November 1914: ‘Men worked very well last night, and had a very peaceful night, too. This morning I had to sign up the small books of six men in the company who had been killed during the last three days; a very melancholy duty. I am quite sure that things have been very serious on our right, but I believe the line is alright now, and ought at any rate to be heavily reinforced by the French by now’. At about 3 pm that afternoon Graves-Sawle was killed in action near a village called Reutel, five miles east of Ypres. The two-page telegram sent on behalf of the King and Queen on 10 November 1914 is pasted in and included in the addenda. A typed note at the front of the volume notes that deciphering parts of the original was difficult due to the original manuscript diary being affected by rain. The whereabouts of the original is now known and this is a lively and well-presented diary of life at the Front during the first three months of the war. (1) £300-500
692* WWI - Goff Family. A large and complex archive, mostly relating to Miss (Elizabeth) Moyra Goff (1897-1990) and family of the Courts, Holt, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, including numerous First World War period letters, largely to Moyra, including seventeen letters from political hostess Ava Bodley (later Wigram; later Ava Anderson, Viscountess Waverley), c. 1918/19, four autograph letters (one in pencil and one incomplete) from Victor Tait Perowne (1897-1951, KCMG, KStJ, FSA), one on Craiglockhart War Hospital, Slateford, Midlothian letterhead, 5 pp., another on Private Convalescent Home for Officers, Lennel, Coldstream, Scotland letterhead, 6 pp., both c. 1917, this second letter with mention of Siegfried Sassoon, ‘Our new arrival caused a great fluttering, Siegfried Sassoon (I think he is a little gushing), the war poet, who is nice looking in a Greek way - rather light hair, small eyes - talks a lot about himself in a bashful modest way and lives for hunting (help! help!) and is v. ashamed of his first book of poems!! I am so disappointed in him: he is so much the bashful flower type - women will consider him “too charming my dear, so good looking”. So to his fate let us leave him. I have tried everything, knitting, crocheting, embroidery, even down to making myself yellow satin dressing gown with satin bought in the village (3/3 a yard what quality)... ‘, plus an initialled manuscript sonnet by Perowne ‘In memorian A C-E’, plus six letters from her brother Tom (four from France/Germany, November to December 1918), two letters from Evelyn Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby [Moyra’s aunt], both 1916, concerning the death of her son Peter (1885-1914, killed in the sinking of HMS Monmouth at the Battle of Coronel, 1st November 1914), a seven-page typed appreciation of Evelyn by her daughter, 24th November 1917, approx. nine further First World War period letters from various parties, two sl. later letters to Moyra written from Palestine and Darfur, c. 1920, a quantity of other miscellaneous letters including some Second World War interest, plus printed items including a thirty-six-page typescript titled ‘Ceylon & India, November 1898 - March 1899’, a twentyfive-page typescript of a First World War diary (February to May 1915, by ?Tom Goff), a thirty-six-page foolscap folio typescript by Kathleen, wife of Sir Arthur Grant Duff, while he was High Commissioner in Cape Town, South Africa, 1947, a quantity of printed and written ephemera relating to Moyra Goff as municipal reform candidate, plus passports, a few photos, plus letters home from France, c. 1919, all contained in a worn small leather suitcase, plus glass plate negatives of the Courts and related photos, the Court Roll book of the Manor of Holt, mid 19th c., plus a christening gown with label identifying it as first used at the congregational church in 1887 An extraordinary and wide-ranging archive centred around Moyra Goff and family. In 1921 Moyra’s parents, Major Thomas Clarence Edward Goff (1867-1949) and Lady Cecilie Goff. The latter was a keen gardener, strongly influenced by Gertrude Jekyll. The Courts came into the ownership of the National Trust in 1943, Moyra remaining the life tenant until her death in 1990. (an archive) £700-1000
136
693* WWI - Northern France. A group of approx. eighty vintage b&w photos, c. 1916-18, including aerial views, aircraft, military group and scenes in and around Thiepval, near Amiens, France, some with pencil annotations to verso, 21 x 17cm and smaller
698* WWI. A Great War handkerchief printed ‘TIPPERARY’ with verses by ‘B. Fieldman & Co’, 51 x 60cm, framed and glazed, together with various ephemera including WWI recruitment posters, pencil sketch by ‘BACCY’ titled ‘Italian and Libyan prisoners outside Fort Capuzzo after its Surrender Brigadier Caunter can be seen interrogating the Italian C.O., 14.6.40’, 19 x 30cm, framed and glazed, WWII German maps including Great Britain, Spain/Portugal, Belgium, military prints, etc.
Provenance: Harry Osborne Bishop R.F.C. (photographer), II Corps. (approx. 80) £150-200
Lot 696
694 WWI - Photo Albums. A group of seven small photograph albums, c. 1918 and following years, containing a total of approx. 300 small format (4 x 6cm, 1.5 x 2.5ins) b&w amateur photos, seemingly all taken by the same photographer, a mixture of aviation, maritime, plus cars, motorbikes, town and country views, largely captioned on mounts throughout, those identified include cargo submarine ‘Deutschland’, old torpedo boats, battle ships and destroyers, Hawker’s Sopwith Moth race, Rochford Aerodrome, Avro and Camel aircraft, German liner Cap. Pollonio, Canadian Regiment, airship flying over procession (both 3rd May 1919), anti-aircraft gun, etc., all contemp. cloth, mostly small 8vo/oblong 8vo (7)
£150-200
695* WWI. A carbon copy Field Message book kept by 2nd Lieutenant A Eustace, giving account of statements of events surrounding injuries of Labour parties during undertaking orders, extracts include No 100880 Pte W. Way states “I had accidently struck No 100857 Pte T. Bailey on the elbow when he was working on my right” 2nd Lieutenant A.V. Eustace, commissioned 28.4.1917. (1) £120-150
696* WWI. Recruiting posters, comprising “Daddy, What did You do in the Great War?”, poster no. 79, 75 x 50cm, “WHICH? HAVE YOU A REASON OR ONLY AN EXCUSE FOR NOT ENLISTING NOW!”, poster no. 128, 74 x 47cm, “22nd Battn. The London Regiment” designed by Captain E.L. Ford, 1920, 74.5 x 49cm (3)
(2 cartons)
697* WWI. A period Remembrance Day poster, “Wear a Flanders Poppy” designed by Maurice Kirth, produced for F.M. Earl Haig’s Appeal, British Legion Department, Waterlow & Sons Ltd., London, Dunstable & Watford, ‘R.9.’, 73 x 49cm, recently framed under perspex (1)
£70-100
£100-150
699 WWI - Captain Sydney Ernest Alford, OBE, MC. A photograph album compiled by Alford who served as Subaltern, Battery Commander, and Adjutant in 14th Army Brigade, RFA in France and Belgium from March 1915 to April 1919, being thrice mentioned in Despatches, a total of approx. 140 pasted-in photos on twenty-four stiff card leaves, including over 100 small-format (5.5 x 4cm) images showing family, fellow soldiers at home and in France, two postcard-size photos signed and dated 6th August 1914 by P. Gazeres, the latter half of the album containing twenty-eight aerial photographs of northern France taken in April to June 1917, each 15.5 x 20.5cm, the entire album uncaptioned, a typed copy letter from the compiler to his old school, Dean Close School, Cheltenham, tipped in at front and including biographical corrections to his own notice, contemp. cloth, lettered and dated in white china ink, a little rubbed, oblong 8vo (1)
137
£100-150
£150-200
Lot 702 700* WWII Press Photos. A group of sixty-seven vintage b & w official and press photos of army, navy and RAF interest, mostly with printed captions pasted to versos and occasional wetstamp credits, occasional marks, creases and marginal nicks, etc., all 20 x 25cm (10 x 8ins), contained in poly sleeves in a modern ring binder (1)
£80-120
701* WWII. Bomber Aircrew Profile Collection, pub. Military Gallery, Bath, 1984, an album containing twenty-six profiles of famous bomber crew of World War II, each profile with orig. pencil signature, with certificate of authenticity, orig. blue padded mock morocco gilt-decorated album, 4to (31 x 29.5cm) Limited edition of 2000. The signatures comprise Warrant Officer Norman Jackson; Air Vice Marshal Don Bennett; Flight Lieutenant Bill Reid; Group Captain T.G. ‘Hamish’ Mahaddie; Air Commodore John Searby; Marshal of the R.A.F. Sir Michael Beetham; Warrant Officer Dereck Tulloch; Air Marshal Sir Harold Martin; Flying Officer W.S. Parker; Air Marshal Sir Ivor Broom; Wing Commander Roderick Learoyd; Flying Officer Roland Hammersley; Flight Lieutenant Victor Azzaro; Group Captain J.B. (Willie) Tait; Wing Commander Roy Ralston; Flight Lieutenant John H. Benison; Flying Officer Danny Daniel; Squadron Leader D.J. Shannon; Group Captain Leonard Cheshire; Flight Lieutenant Douglas Cameron; Air Chief Marshal Sir Wallace ‘Digger’ Kyle; Squadron Leader John Costello; Air Chief Marshal Sir Lewis Hodges; Group Captain Leonard Trent; Air Chief Marshal Sir Augustus Walker, Group Captain Ken Batchelor. (1) £150-200
Lot 701 Lot 702 138
702 WWII- Berlin Sketchbook. An interesting late WWII sketchbook/autograph album, 1944-45, the first eight leaves devoted to quotes and poems addressed to ‘Eve’ and wishing her luck from fellow colleagues at ‘Old Timbers’, the remaining part containing a series of twenty-nine well-executed pen and ink and charcoal and pencil drawings of the ruins of Berlin in 1945, including the Brandenburg Gate, Foreign Office, Chancellery, Wilhelm Strasse, Chancellery Court Yard, Propaganda Ministry, Reichstag, Hitler’s bunker and funeral pyre, etc., plus cafe, nude and brothel scenes, the final six depicting inmates of Sachsenhausen concentration camp, all drawn to rectos only, faint pencil captions in English, two Star of David linen badges pasted on to following leaves and a pencil sketch map of Berlin at rear, a few leaves detached, contemp. padded cloth, some wear, 8vo (20 x 13cm), together with some personal photographs of a Wren [the above-mentioned Eve?], dated Chatham April 1944 to verso, plus a menu from HMS Flowerdown, Christmas 1944, containing various signatures and good luck messages HMS Flowerdown, near Winchester, Hampshire, was an Admiralty ‘Y’ Station and mainly tasked with interception of Italian and Japanese Naval Communications, but also intercepted German, French and Russian Naval high frequency morse communications. It would seem that Eve was conscripted into the Wrens on 14 April 1944, left HMS Flowerdown at the end of the year and went to Berlin following the end of the war in June 1945. The very skilful drawings that follow on in the album appear to be the work of an unidentified male artist, rather than that of the equally mysterious Eve. (1) £700-1000
139
703* Zulu War - The Henry Curling Letters. An exceptional archive of approx. ninety-seven autograph letters home from Lieutenant Henry Curling, Royal Artillery, 1869/80, giving a detailed account of life in the Victorian British Army with notable and unique accounts of the Zululand invasion and Battle of Isandlwana, mostly addressed to Mama, sometimes Papa, and occasionally to his brother Willy, stitched roughly chronologically as three groups into contemporary home-made cloth/card folders, the first volume of thirty-six letters covering his journey with the 15th Brigade to Gibraltar, c. March 1869 to November 1870, five letters seemingly incomplete, a total of 164pp, the second group of thirty-two letters covering his journey to South Africa with N Battery of the 5th Brigade, the 9th Frontier War and preparations for the Anglo-Zulu War, January-December 1878, one letter incomplete, a total of 191pp, the final group of twenty-nine letters covering the Battle of Isandlwana and its aftermath, Court of Enquiry and repercussions, 18 January 1879 (Col. Glyn’s Column, Rorke’s Drift) to 25 January 1880 (written from Pinetown and expecting to set sail for India and the Afghan War on 4th February), , one letter incomplete, a total of 127pp., all letters written in a good clear hand with occasional cross-writing, occasional minor spotting, but ink and paper generally fresh and fine, in all 482pp, 8vo and small 8vo Henry Thomas Curling was born at Ramsgate on 27 June 1847 and died there on 1 January 1910. He was educated at Marlborough and the Royal Military Academy Woolwich, and was commissioned into the Royal Artillery as a Lieutenant on 15 July 1868. He served in Gibraltar with the 15th Brigade and later at Devonport with the battery that later became N/5 Battery. He went with it to South Africa in January 1878 and stayed with it until posted to India in February 1880. His Army List entry reads: South African War 1878-79. Kaffir Campaign - Action at Burns Hill. Zulu Campaign - Battle of Isandlwana. Despatches, London Gazette 15 March 1879. Medal with clasp. Afghan War 1880 - medal. The Battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 was the first major encounter in the Anglo-Zulu War. Eleven days after the British commenced their invasion of Zululand in South Africa, a Zulu force of some 20,000 warriors attacked a portion of the British main column. The numerically superior Zulus ultimately overwhelmed the poorly led and badly deployed British, killing some 1,300 troops and leaving a mere sixty or so survivors. For the Zulus, who suffered around a thousand killed, it was a decisive victory over the first British attempt at an invasion of Zululand. The British Army had suffered its worst defeat against a technologically inferior indigenous force, and Isandlwana resulted in the British taking a much more aggressive approach in the Anglo-Zulu War with a heavily reinforced second invasion and the destruction of King Cetshwayo's hopes of a negotiated peace. Curling was the only surviving officer from the front line at Isandlwana and his letters depict what he saw and his dramatic hair-raising escape on horseback. Of the total of some 1,400 men lost that day a mere sixty or so survived. The Curling letters give the most descriptive account by an actual eyewitness to the British defeat that fateful day, and are believed to be the most important set of letters from an Isandlwana survivor to be offered up for auction. The two quoted extracts below can only give a taste of the full range and content of the letters. For a fuller account of the letters with selected transcriptions and a background narrative see 'The Curling Letters of the Zulu War', edited by Adrian Greaves and Brian Best, first published Leo Cooper/Pen & Sword 2001. A paperback (2009) of the book is included with the lot, as are a pair of field glasses, (believed to be Curling's own), framed reproductions of photographs of Curling, as a young man at the time of the Zulu War and, later, as Major. Also included are copies of 'The Journal of the Anglo Zulu War Historical Society', June 1998 & December 1999 issues, containing the first notice of these letters in the public domain, when loaned to Adrian Greaves by the previous owner, Curling's great nephew Wing Commander Jack Karran OBE. In full, undated letter, c. 23 January 1879: ‘My Dear Mama, Just a line to say I am alive after a most wonderful escape. In the absence of the General our camp in Zulu-land was attacked by overwhelming numbers of Zulus. The Camp was taken and out of a force of 700 white men only about 30 escaped. All my men except me were killed and the gun was taken. Major Smith who was with me was killed. The whole Column has retreated into Natal again and we are expecting hourly to be attacked. Of course everything has been lost, not a tent or blanket left’. Extract from one of Curling's accounts of Isandlwana, from a letter to his mother, Helpmakar, Natal, 2nd February 1879: ‘... On the morning of the fight the main body left at 3.30 in the morning a little before daylight leaving me with the guns and about 70 men. About 7.30 we were turned out as about 1000 Zulus were seen in some hills about 2 miles from the camp. We did not think anything of it and I was congratulating myself on having an independent command. I had out with my guns only 20 men the remainder 50 in number stayed in the camp. We remained formed up in front of the camp (it was about ½ mile long) until 11 o’clock when the enemy disappearing behind some hills on our left we returned to camp. We none of us had the least idea that the Zulus contemplated attacking the camp at having in the last war often seen equally large bodies of the enemy never drained they would come on. Besides we had about 600 troops (regulars), two guns, about 100 other white men and at least 1000 armed natives. About 12 as the men were getting their dinner the alarm was again given and we turned out at once. Maj. Smith came back from the General’s force at this time and took command. This of course relieved me from all responsibility as to the movements of the guns. We being mounted moved off before the infantry and took up a position to the left front of the camp where we were able to throw shells into a huge mass of the enemy that remained almost stationary. The 24th Regt. came up and formed in skirmishing order on both our flanks. The Zulus soon split up into a large mass of skirmishers that extended as far round the camp as one could see. One could form no idea of numbers but the hills were black with them. They advanced steadily in the face of the infantry and our guns but I believe the whole of the natives who defended the rear of the camp soon bolted and left only our side of the camp defended. Very soon bullets began to whistle about our heads and the men to fall. The Zulus still continued to advance and we began to fire case but an order was given to retire after firing a round or two. At this time out of my small detachment one man had been killed shot through the head, another wounded shot through the side and another through the wrist. Maj. Smith was also shot through the arm but was able to do his duty. Of course no wounded man was attended to, there was no time or men to spare. When we got the order to retire we limbered up at once but were hardly in time as the Zulus were on us at once and one man was killed (stabbed) as he was mounting a seat on the gun carriage. Most of the gunners were on foot so there was not time to mount them on the guns. We trotted off to the camp thinking to take up another position there but found it in possession of the enemy who were killing the men as they ran out of their tents. We went right through them and out the other side losing nearly all our gunners in doing so and one of the two Sergeants. The road to Rorke’s Drift that we hoped to retreat by was full of the enemy so no way being open we followed a crowd of natives and camp followers who were running down a ravine. The Zulus were all among them stabbing men as they ran. The ravine got steeper and steeper and finally the guns stuck and could get no farther. In a moment the Zulus closed in and the drivers who now alone remained were pulled off their horses and killed. I did not see Maj. Smith at this moment but was with him a minute before. The guns could not be spiked, there was no time to think of anything and we hoped to save the guns up to the last moment. As soon as the guns were taken I galloped off and made off with the crowd. How any of us escaped I don’t know. The Zulus were all among us and I saw men falling all round. We rode for about 5 miles hotly pursued by the Zulus when we came to a cliff overhanging the river. We had to climb down the face of this cliff and not more than half those who started from the top got to the bottom. Many fell right down, among others Major Smith, and the Zulus caught us up here and shot us as we climbed down. I got down safely and came to the river which was very deep and swift. Numbers were being swept away as they tried to cross and others shot from above. My horse fortunately swam straight across although I had three or four men hanging onto his tail, stirrup, leathers &c. After crossing the river we were in comparative safety though many were killed afterwards who were on foot and unable to keep up. It seems to me like a dream, I cannot realise it at all. The whole affair did not last one hour from beginning to end. Many got away from the camp but were killed in the retreat. No officers or men of the 24th Regt could escape: they were all on foot and on the other side of the camp. I saw two of them who were not with their men near the river but their bodies were found afterwards on our side of the river. Of the 50 men we left in camp 8 managed to escape on spare horses we had left in camp. One sergeant only of my detachment got away. Altogether we lost 62 men and 24 horses, just half the battery. Those who have escaped have not a rag left as they came away in their shirt sleeves. We always sleep at night in the fort or laager as it is called and in the open air. It is very unpleasant as it rains heavily every night and is very cold…’ (an archive) £7000-10000 140
David Cartwright, Incident at Isandlwana, c. 2005. This vibrant oil painting (not included) depicting the escaping Lieutenant Curling with raised gun was reproduced on the dust jacket of Adrian Greaves, 'Crossing the Buffalo: The Zulu War of 1879' (2005); a fine and signed first edition copy is included with the lot. 141
MILITARY BOOKS & PICTURES
704 Alken, (Henry, and Sala, George Augustus). The Funeral Procession of Arthur Duke of Wellington, Ackermann, [cover-title], 1853, hand. col. aquatint panorama composed of fifty-six sections mounted on linen, incl. one folding section, with mourners and regiments identified in lower margin, some foxing and dust-soiling, two folds split and one fold splitting, one section with neatly repaired closed tear, final section detached from cover, overall size approx. 13.5 x 2072cm (5.25 x 815ins) folded into orig. red cloth portfolio (rebacked and strengthened on verso), upper cover with Wellington’s arms and title in gilt, ties renewed, together with the Official Programme of the Funeral Procession of the Late Field Marshall The Duke of Wellington, to Saint Paul’s Cathedral, on Thursday, 18th November, 1852, 4pp., one fold, sl. frayed to extrems., 46 x 17cm (18 x 6.75ins)
708 Cannon (Richard). Historical Records of the British Army. The First, Second & Third Regiments of Foot, 3 vols. in one, 1837, Historical Record of the Thirty-First, or, The Huntingdonshire Regiment of Foot, The Thirty-Fourth or Cumberland Regiment of Foot, & The Thirty-Sixth Regiment of Foot, together 3 vols. bound in one, 1884-1850, The Thirty-Ninth, Forty-Second, Fifty-Third, and FiftySixth Regiments, together 4 vols. bound in one, 1837-47 & The Sixty-First, Sixty-Seventh, Seventy-Second and Seventy-Fourth Regiments of Foot, 4 vols. bound in one, 1837-47, together 4 vols., t.e.g., contemp. uniform red half calf gilt, rubbed and some marks, spines and edges darkened, together with eight other regimental histories by Richard Cannon, mostly bound in contemporary half morocco or similar, rubbed and marked, 4to The other Regimental Histories in this lot are: The Fourteenth, or The Buckingham Regiment of Foot, 1845, The First, or The Royal Regiment of Foot, 1837, The Seventy-Fourth Regiment (Highlanders), 1850, The Forty-Sixth, or The South Devonshire Regiment of Foot, 1850, The Seventeenth, or The Leicestershire Regiment of Foot, 1848 (the two latter vols. with some soiling and one or two ink stamps), The Twenty-First Regiment, or The Royal NorthBritish Fusiliers, 1849, The Fifteenth, or the Yorkshire East Riding Regiment of Foot, 1848 & The Seventieth, or The Surrey Regiment of Foot, 1849. (12) £250-350
Abbey, Life, 597. A remarkable sixty-seven feet in length, this panorama is one of the longest ever made. (2) £400-600
705 Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, Massachusetts. The Two Hundred and Fiftieth Annual Record of the Ancient Honorable Artillery Co., Massachusetts, 1887-1888, Sermon by Rev. Philips Brooks, D.D. of Boston, Mass., Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, Printers, 1888, front blank inscribed “Lady Bolsover with compliments of Henry Walker commanding the A. & H. A. Company 1887-1888, Boston, Mass. U.S.A., Aug. 15th 1889”, maroon water silk endpapers, a.e.g, publisher’s morocco, gilt title and armorial to upper board, 8vo (1)
709 Cannon (Richard). Historical Regiments of The British Army. The Fourth, or The King’s Own, Regiment of Foot, 1839, The Fifth Regiment of Foot, or Northumberland Fusilliers, 1838, The Sixth, or Royal First Warwickshire Regiment of Foot, 1837, The Seventh Regiment, or The Royal Fusilliers, 1837, and The Eight, or The King’s Regiment of Foot, 1844, hand coloured plates to each, all in orig. red cloth, rubbed and some soiling, some wear to extrems., together with other regimental histories, similar, mainly foot regiments, including the 11th, 12th, 13th, 16th, 20th, 23rd, 36th, 61st, 71st, 73rd, 83rd and 92nd Regiments of Foot, all bound in orig. pubs. cloth, rubbed, and some wear to extrems., one or two vols. chipped to spines, all 8vo
£100-150
706 Artillery manuscript. A handwritten manuscript copy of Extracts on Artillery from Benjamin Robins’ Mathematical Tracts (published 1761), mid-18th century neat handwritten text in brown ink bearing the title ‘Practical maxims relating to the effects and management of artillery, and the flight of shells and shot’, 70 pp., together with an additional five pages of handwritten accounts for an artillery company under the command of Corporal Andrew Johnston, dated 1757, and detailing subsistence and other expenses, contemporary plain vellum, small 4to (1)
(19)
710 Cannon (Richard). Historical Record of the Fourth, or, The Queen’s Own Regiment of Light Dragoons, John W. Parker, 1843, hand coloured lithographic frontispiece, some light spotting, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, rubbed and marked, together with Historical Record of the Seventh, or The Queen’s Own Regiment of Hussars, 1st ed., John W. Parker, 1842, single hand-coloured wood engraved plate, orig. blindstamped red cloth gilt, rubbed and some wear to joints, plus other Regimental Histories by Richard Cannon, including the 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, & 15th Hussars, the 12th, 16th and 17th Lancers, all bound in orig. pubs. cloth, rubbed and some wear to extrems., 8vo
£100-150
707 Barrett (C.R.B.). The 7th (Queen’s Own) Hussars, 2 vols., 1st ed., Royal United Service Institution, 1914, some colour and numerous b&w plts., etc., orig. dark blue half morocco gilt, very sl. rubbed, large 8vo, together with Wylly (Colonel H. C.), XVth (The King’s) Hussars 1759-1913, 1st ed., pub. Caxton Publishing Company, 1914, numerous b&w plts., etc., t.e.g., orig. black full morocco gilt, a little rubbed and scuffed to joints and extrems., thick 4to, limited edition of 250, this copy unnumbered, plus Graham (Colonel Henry), History of the Sixteenth, The Queen’s Light Dragoons (Lancers), 1759-1912, 1st ed., privately printed, 1912, colour and b&w plts. and illusts., t.e.g., later maroon half morocco gilt incorporating cloth boards, 4to, and four others related (Colonel Henry Blackburne Hamilton, Historical Record of the 14th (King’s) Hussars from AD1717 to AD1900, 1st ed., 1901, Captain Godfrey Trevelyan Williams, The Historical Records of the Eleventh Hussars (Prince Albert’s Own), 1st ed., 1908, Colonel R. S. Liddell, The Memoirs of the Tenth Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales’ Own) Historical and Social, 1st ed., Longmans, Green & Co., 1891, & Major E. W. Sheppard, The Ninth Queen’s Royal Lancers 1715-1936, 1st ed., Gale & Polden, 1939), all bound in orig. cloth gilt, the first and third titles with some fraying and wear to joints, 4to/8vo (8)
£250-350
(10)
£200-300
142
£200-300
711 Cannon (Richard). Historical Record of the First, or The Royal Regiment of Dragoons, 1840, additional engraved title page, three hand-coloured lithographed plates, some light spotting, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, rubbed and some marks, titled in manuscript to spine, together with eleven other regimental histories by Richard Cannon: Historical Record of the First, or King's Regiment of Dragoon Guards, 1837, The Second, or Queen's Regiment of Dragoon Guards, 1837, The Third, or Prince of Wales's Regiment of Dragoon Guards, 1838, The Fourth, or Royal Irish Regiment of Dragoon Guards, 1839, The Sixth Regiment of Dragoon Guards, or The Carabineers, 1839, The Fifth, or Princess Charlotte of Wales's Regiment of Dragoon Guards, 1839, The Royal Regiment of Scots Dragoons ... commonly called the Scot's Greys, 1840, The Sixth, or the Inniskilling Regiment of Dragoons, 1843, The Seventh, or Princess Royal's Regiment of Dragoon Guards, 1839, The Third or The King's Own Regiment of Light Dragoons, 1847, & The Fourteenth, or The King's, Regiment of Light Dragoons, 1847, hand-coloured plates to each vol., mostly bound in pubs. orig. cloth, with some marks and minor wear, a few vols. rebound, all 8vo (12)
716 Gough (G. L.). Historical Records of the 91st Argyllshire Highlanders, now the 1st Battalion Princess Louise's Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 1st ed., Richard Bentley & Son, 1891, colour frontis., b&w plts., orig. cloth, rubbed and some discolouration, spine recased retaining orig. spine, 8vo, together with Delaboye (Alex. M.), Records of the 90th Regiment, (Perthshire Light Infantry) with Roll of Officers from 1795 to 1880, 1st ed., 1880, engraved portrait frontispiece, b&w illusts., some marks, orig. red cloth, rubbed and some light soiling, a little fraying to joints and extrems., large 8vo, plus Brinckman (Rowland), Historical Record of the Eighty-Ninth Princess Victoria's Regiment, 1st ed., Gale & Polden, 1888, colour litho. frontispiece, and four colour lithograph plates, orig. red cloth gilt, a little rubbed and some light discolouration, 8vo, and other regimental histories, including George Noakes, Historical Account of the Services of the 34th & 55th Regiments, Carlisle, 1875, Edmund Packe, An Historical Record of the Royal Regiment of Horseguards, or Oxford Blues, pub. William Clowse, 1834, Henry Stooks Smith, An Alphabetical List of the Officers of the Ninety-Fourth Regiment, 'Scotch Brigade', from 1800 to 1869, 1st ed., 1869, W. F. Butler, A Narrative of the Historical Events Connected with the Sixty-Ninth Regiment, pub. W. Mitchell & Co., 1870, Brevet-Major Jarvis, Historical Record of theEighty-Second Regiment, or Prince of Wales's Volunteers, pub. W. O. Mitchell, 1866, W. Wheater, A Record of the Services of the Fifty-First (The Second West York) The 'King's Own Light Infantry' Regiment, 1870, Captain R. H. Raymond Smythies, A Short Record of the Services of the 1st Battalion The Prince of Wales's Volunteers, South Lancashire Regt., c. 1891, Captain Harold Esdaile Malet, Historical Records of the Eighteenth Hussars, pub. William Clowse & Sons, 1889, & Colonel P. H. Dalbiac, History of the 45th: 1st Nottinghamshire Regiment (Sherwood Foresters), 1902, mostly bound in orig. pubs. cloth, rubbed and some marks, 8vo
£200-300
712 Corbett (Sir Julian S. and Newbolt, Henry). History of the Great War Based on Official Documents, by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence, Naval Operations, 5 vols. bound in 9, 1920-1931, incl. text and maps, numerous. folding maps, some in rear pockets, orig. blue cloth gilt, a few spines faded, rubbed, 8vo (9)
£100-150
713 Dunn-Pattison (R.P.). The History of the 91st Argyllshire Highlanders, 1st ed., 1910, b&w plts., orig. cloth gilt, rebacked with orig. spine relaid, 4to, together with Gardyne (Lt.-Col. C. Greenhill & Others), The Life of A Regiment, The History of the Gordon Highlanders, 6 vols., mixed eds., 1929-74, b&w plts. and illusts., orig. cloth, vols. 3, 5 & 6 in d.j.s, plus Bright (Joan, ed.), The Ninth Queen’s Royal Lancers 1936-1945, 1st ed., Aldershot, 1951, b&w plts. and illusts., including some folding, orig. cloth gilt, plus Maude (Alan H. ed.), The 47th (London) Division 1914-1919, by some who served with it in the Great War, 1st ed., 1922, b&w plts., t.e.g., orig. half morocco gilt, rubbed, plus others of regimental interest including 13th/18th Royal Hussars, 6th Guards Tank Brigade, Grenadier Guards, and 60th Division, all orig. cloth, some in d.j.s, 8vo (21)
(12)
717 Harvey (Colonel J. R.). The History of the 5th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Dragoons from 1689 to 1799, afterwards the 5th Royal Irish Lancers from 1858 to 1921, 1st ed., Gale & Polden, 1923, num. folding maps, colour and b&w plts., etc., orig. green cloth gilt, a little rubbed and some minor marks, 4to, together with Laurie (Lt.-Col. George Brenton), History of the Royal Irish Rifles, 1st ed., Gale & Polden, 1914, num. folding maps, colour and b&w plts., occ. light scattered spotting, orig. green cloth gilt, rubbed and covers somewhat partially damp marked, 4to, plus The Regimental Records of the First Batallion The Royal Dublin Fusilliers, formerly The Madras Europeans, The Madras European Regiment, The First Madras Fusilliers, The 102nd Royal Madras Fusilliers 1644-1842, 1st ed., Hugh Rees, 1910, colour frontis., folding maps, b&w plts., orig. blue cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo
£200-300
714 Fortescue (Hon. J. W.). A History of the British Army, 13 vols. bound in 20, incl. map vols., mixed eds., 1910-1930, numerous folding maps with library stamps, light spotting, orig. red cloth gilt, faded spines, sl. wear, 8vo (20)
(3)
£150-200
£150-200
718 Levinge (Sir Richard George Augustus). Historical Records of the Forty-Third Regiment, Monmouthshire Light Infantry, 1st ed., W. Clowes & Sons, 1868, colour lithograph frontispiece, b&w illusts., together with Moorson (W. S.), Historical Record of the FiftySecond Regiment (Oxfordshire Light Infantry) from the year 1755 to the year 1858, 1st ed., Richard Bentley, 1860, b&w plts., etc., both vols. extra-illustrated with various related prints and engravings, both t.e.g., bound in near-matching maroon half morocco gilt, a little rubbed, large 8vo, plus Kauntze (George E. F.), Historical Record of the Third, or King’s Own Regiment of Light Dragoons, 1st ed., B. D. Cousins, c. 1857, five hand coloured aquatint plates, a.e.g., contemp. half calf, rubbed and scuffed with some wear to extrems., modern reback, 8vo, and Historical Records of the 24th Regiment, from its formation in 1689, 1st ed., 1892, b&w plts., t.e.g., modern qtr. morocco, rubbed, 8vo
715 [Gleig, George Robert]. A Narrative of the Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans, under General Ross, Pakenham, and Lambert, in the years 1814 and 1815, by An Officer, who served in the Expedition, 1st ed., John Murray, 1821, title-page browned and foxed, without errata leaf, hinges split, untrimmed, armorial bookplate on front pastedown, orig. blue boards, edgerubbed and sl. dusty, new paper spine, early ms. ownership signature on upper cover, 8vo, together with The Subaltern, 1st ed., William Blackwood, 1825, half-title discarded, 4pp. pubs. cat. at rear, marbled endpapers and edges, armorial bookplate of Benjamin Brecknell Turner, contemp. blue half calf, gilt dec. spine, extrems. rubbed and sl. worn in places, large 12mo Sabin 27568; Wolff 2578. (2)
£200-300
£100-150
(4)
143
£150-200
Lot 722 719 Murray (Robert H.). The History of the VIII King’s Royal Irish Hussars 1693-1927, 2 vols., Cambridge, 1928, colour and b&w illustrations, folding maps, one colour illustration facing page 299 loose, original green cloth in d.j.s (worn with some loss to spines, repaired), 4to Limited edition, 52/250. (2)
£200-300
Lot 723 724* Miniature. Portrait of an officer of the Peninsular War period, c.1808, watercolour on ivory, oval head and shoulders portrait, of an officer of the 52nd (Oxfordshire Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot, with crossbelt plate bearing the regimental insignia, 6.5 x 5cm (2.5 x 2ins), ebonised frame, glazed (1)
£150-200
720 Nuremburg Trials. The Trial of German Major War Criminals; Proceedings of the International Military Tribunal sitting at Nuremberg Germany, 23 parts in 12 vols., pub. H.M.S.O., 1946-1951, together with a volume containing Opening Speeches, Speeches of the Chief Prosecutors, Speeches of the Prosecutors and Judgement, ownership stamp to pastdown of each vol., all bound in uniform blue cloth gilt with red leather spine labels, slightly rubbed and marked, 8vo (13)
Lot 724 725* Pitt (Anthony, 20th c.). The 42nd Royal Highland Regiment of Foot (The Black Watch) at the Battle of Quatre Bras, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 76 x 61cm (30 x 24ins), framed, together with an uncol. mezzotint by F. Bromley of the Duke of Wellington, several closed tears affecting image, with sl. loss, 57 x 40cm (22.5 x 15.75ins), and an uncol. litho. port. of General La Fayette, 35.5 x 30cm (14 x 12ins), both framed and glazed (3)
£80-120
721 Peninsular War. The Gentleman’s Magazine, 15 vols., 1808-1815, eng. plts., some folding., eng. illusts., occn. foxing and staining, various bindings and condition, 8vo (15)
£100-150
722* Miniature. Portrait of Edgar Gibson, c.1813, pencil and watercolour on card, oval head and shoulders portrait in profile, 7.5 x 6cm (3 x 2.5ins), ebonised frame, glazed Believed to be a portrait of Major Edgar Gibson who was born in London in 1794. He served with the King’s German Legion and 4th Light Dragoons, was wounded during the Peninsular War, 1813, served in the Waterloo Campaign, and died in 1869. (1) £150-200
723* Miniature. Portrait of Captain John Cusine, c.1813, watercolour on ivory, oval head and shoulders portrait, 7 x 5.5cm (2.75 x 2.25ins), ebonised recessed frame, glazed Lieutenant John Cuisine (1785-1864) was born in Fife. He enlisted in 1803, was promoted to Sergeant 45th Regiment, served in the Peninsula War with the regiment, advanced to Lieutenant in 1813, and served in the 95th Foot in Malta and 96th Regiment. He was entitled to a Military General Service Medal with clasps for Roleia and Vimiera. (1) £200-300
Lot 725 144
£200-300
GENERAL SIR JOHN HART DUNNE, K.C.B. (1835-1924)
726* Chinese Dragon Robe. A 19th-c. embroidered silk Dragon Robe, formerly in the possession of General Sir John Hart Dunne, blue silk, embroidered with metal threads and coloured silk threads in shades of red, blue, white, and yellow, depicting nine five-clawed dragons in gold thread (one concealed on the inner flap), cloud scrolls, a triple-peaked mountain, red bats holding swastikas, Li Shui (‘deep water’) wide border at hem, and other symbolic motifs representing the wearer’s place at the centre of the cosmos, some fraying and holes, length 141cm (55.5ins), together with associated accessories, incl. a Chinese mandarin hat with orange tassel and pigtail attached, a blue silk stiff collar with six (of 7) metal symbolic figures attached, a pair of gold embroidered green velvet slippers with red leather soles, a tasselled and embroidered multi-faceted silk collar, and a tasselled over-skirt composed of long strips of embroidered silk, plus eighteen fans, mostly folding, incl. several of coloured silk (one hand-painted with flowers and birds), a pink feather and lace fan, and a fan sewn with gold sequins, some with damage, plus a photograph of Dunne and his wife in Chinese dress Provenance: By direct descent from the Dunne family. In the period covered by his now rare book “From Calcutta to Pekin”, published in 1861 (see following lot) Dunne was serving in the 99th (Lanarkshire) Regiment in China. He describes the plundering of the Royal Palace at Peking by English and French troops, including his own exploits, ‘Every officer in our army who had managed to procure leave was doing business, and the more enterprising had brought carts with them. Some confined their attention to jade-stone ornaments and vases; others were in the enamel bronze line. A few took to embroidered silk and fur coats; whilst a large proportion went in exclusively for rolls of silk... People don’t plunder palaces every day, so I will try to give a notion of the scene. Imagine Christie’s, Hunt and Roskell’s, Howell and James’s, half-a-dozen watch and clockmakers, two or three upholsterers, and that fine fan-shop in Regent Street, all being under the same roof; then imagine, if you can, what would be your sensations when told that, without breaking the eighth commandment, you might have your run of the place for just ten minutes, and no more. I think that even the ladies would be somewhat confused... As for myself, after having made a fair collection, I incautiously entrusted a Chinaman to carry the greater part of it, and the villain took advantage of my stopping for a moment to look at the throne, and disappeared; so, except my purchases from the French, I had nothing but two or three coats of the Sun’s brother... ‘. The following day Sir Hope Grant declared that everything taken from the Palace should be given up and sold by auction for the benefit of the army. The sale took place on October 11th and 12th [1860] and together with all the gold and silver, Dunne calculates that the proceeds amounted to about £30,000 sterling, two thirds of which went to the men and one third to the officers. (1) £2000-3000
145
727 Dunne (J.H.). From Calcutta to Pekin; being Notes Taken from the Journal of an Officer Between Those Places, 1st ed., Sampson Low, 1861, eng. port. frontis. preceded by pubs. ad. leaf, folding eng. map, 16 pp. pubs. cat. at rear, front free endpaper inscribed in pencil ‘The Author’s Property - To be returned direct to him’, orig. blindstamped red cloth, damp-stained and soiled, slim 8vo General Sir John Hart Dunne K.C.B. (1835-1924) served in the Crimea with the Royal Scots Fusiliers, seeing action at the Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and the Siege of Sevastopol. He served in the 99th Lanarkshire Regiment in China and was with the advance guard at the actions at Chang-kin-Wan and Paliatchow and surrender of Peking. Dunne was much decorated; in 1865 he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, he reached the rank of Major General in 1881 and in 1885 was in command of the 2nd Infantry Brigade at Aldershot. Dunne’s next post was the command of the troops in the Thames District from 1889 to 1890, becoming General in 1893, and Lieutenant of the Tower of London the following year. In 1896 he was awarded the K.C.B., and in 1898 he became Colonel of the Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment). Dunne was granted a reward for distinguished and meritorious service in 1899, and retired in 1902. (1) £200-300
Lot 728
728* Dunne (General J.H.). A collection of uniforms and accessories from the estate of General Sir John Hart Dunne (1835-1924), including a Victorian scarlet tunic of the 99th (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot, with white and yellow facings gilt lace trim, collar badges, brass buttons and campaign ribands to left breast; another scarlet tunic with white facings and black collar with gilt lace and braid trim, bearing General Officer’s buttons, and one other scarlet jacket, plus a full-length coat bearing General Officer’s buttons, scarlet lining, trousers, pair of black leather boots with trees, bi-corn hat by ‘J. Stohwasser & Co’, crimson sash, shoulder cords, pill box hat with gold braiding by ‘Cater & Co, London’, side cap of the 99th Foot with General Officer’s badge, various belts and sashes, etc. Entitled to a Crimea 1854-56 with the maximum clasps, Order of the Medjidie, 5th Class and Turkish Crimea Medal, China 1857-60 Medal with two clasps and received The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (K.C.B.) in 1906. (-) £700-1000
729* A late Victorian mahogany folding Campaign desk, hinged to reveal dark green leather fitted compartments including inkwell, raised on x-frame supports united by reeded stretcher, 97cm high x 61cm wide (affected by wood worm) Formerly in the possession of General Sir John Hart Dunne. (1)
£150-200
Lot 729
146
DUGDALE FAMILY MILITARY ARCHIVE The items offered here relate mostly to the Second Anglo-Boer War and World War I, and all come by family descent from the Dugdale Family in Gloucestershire. Colonel James Tertius Dugdale, (d. 1915), of Ivy Bank, Burnley, Lancashire and Sezincote, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, married Alice Brooks (1845-1922) in 1866. Alice was daughter of John Brooks, 1st Baron Cranshaw (1819-1864) and brother of John, of Portal, Tarporley, Cheshire. James and Alice had three sons and two daughters: Arthur, Alice Maud (b. 1870), James Gordon (1874-1955), Evelyn Mary (1876-1937) and Frederic Brooks (1877-1902). The younger son Frederic, 5th Royal Irish Lancers was awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry during the second Anglo-Boer war (3 March 1901), but sadly died in a hunting accident in the Cotswolds three weeks after receiving his award in late 1902. His Victoria Cross is displayed at The Queen's Royal Lancers Regimental Museum, Thorseby Park, Nottinghamshire. Frederic's older brother, James Gordon Dugdale, 18th Hussars, married Ellen Mabel Turner (daughter of Major General Samuel Compton Turner and sister of Herbert Guy and Harold Lake Compton Turner) in 1903. Their daughter Pamela M. Dugdale OBE (1911-2001) served with the British Red Cross Society at the end of World War II and it is her letters which are of most recent vintage. While this line of the Dugdale family has its origins in Burnley, Lancashire, much of the correspondence home is to Gloucestershire addresses, the elder James Dugdale having purchased the Sezincote estate in 1885, retained by the family until 1944. 730* Boer War - Frederic Brooks Dugdale, VC. A group of fourteen autograph letters to his sister (Alice) Maud, c. March 2000 to December 2001, two letters undated including one onboard RMS Carisbrook Castle, the first dated letter Spearman's Camp, 2nd February [1900], ' ...I found a notebook for Gordon among my letters so redirected it Ladysmith and hope he may get it alright. Collis is leaving us and going to be brigade major to Barn Murdoch. He tried very hard to get me a job there as boot boy but failed as of course I know nothing. I hope he doesn't get potted as he is an excellent chap and should some day be Colonel as he is Senior Captain now. We got up here this afternoon and hope to have a fight tomorrow but I'm afraid we shall go back to Frere to load. I am getting a little tired of that road owing to some letters I can't find out what regiment Clem is in. Please tell Artie if he is with you that I have given up writing to him as I expect him to be out here directly with his [?]yeomanry... The general opinion here is that directly Ladysmith is retrieved the regiments there will go on the line of communications which looks as if I should not get any more fighting that I get already. I have been very lucky in seeing fights as I had quite a close view of the Rifles storming Spion Kop [23-24 January 1900] and I see Buller calls it one of the finest sights he has ever seen. The side of a house is this compared to the slope of that hill. You can't realise this country without seeing it. The hill outside the Warren towards White's house is comparatively flat... ', the next letter after the relief of Ladysmith dated 13 March 1900, '... This notebook is coming in most useful as I have clean run out of paper today and I only got it three days ago when the Ladysmith bags were opened. 7 tonnes of letters came up one day and 35 tonnes the next. Of course many of these were newspapers etc... nearly all the Ladysmith garrison has gone on leave for a month... I wonder what sort of a job the yeomanry will make in SA... I wish old Artie was coming out. They needn't have been frightened at home as the cavalry don't get much knocked about... ', many letters with family news and thanks for Maudie's news, talk of hunting, horse racing, etc. but with further details of patrols and so forth, one letter dated 16th September 1900 on 5th Royal Irish letterhead at Maritzburg, Natal, '... As there is very little chance of our getting home before Christmas... the present idea seems to be to sit on the railway line while the Boers sit on the Zoutpansberg and unless the folk at home grumble at keeping at the troops out here on the ground of expense, it looks as if we should all stop out here as there is three or four thousand miles of line to hold. I can imagine you saying when you get this why can't the fellows talk about something else beside that old war. I'm tired of it. We made a great reconnaissance the other day and fired off guns at imaginary Boers: net result owing to amateur bursting of shrapnel and bad shooting on the part of the gunners they burst a shell just over a 19th Hussar patrol and made them bolt. We still bivouack out in the open without tents or anything but I suppose they will send us up some tin huts if they are going to make a permanent place of this. I was disgusted when I saw old Roberts despatch about the Bergendal farm fight [21-27 August] on the way to Machadodorp. It talks as if it had been a small skirmish and finishes up by saying he saw several Boers killed by a lyddite shell. It is nothing more nor less than an infernal piece of jealousy because he was too late to ruin it himself and can't spare any praise for poor old Buller. To talk of one lyddite shell when the whole ground was torn up by them and then covered over by shrapnel cases is beneath contempt and I should have thought the old man would know better... ', a letter on the 8th October from Lydenburg, 'I wish to apologise to the "misguided idiot" mentioned in father's letter as he wasn't looking for gold, they tell me but for stone to build his house and I dare say it is very good for the job. You see so much tin here that you quite forget that civilised mortals make houses out of stone sometimes. I saw two villainous looking Boers just now advancing for my outposts so I made a great scheme of surrounding them and potting them without letting them have a show at all, same as they always do for us but I saw they were unarmed so I decided to catch them instead. When they came close I saw they were two men I know well in the Dublin Mounted Infantry looking for my outposts so as to know where to put them tomorrow. A good thing I didn't shoot them, as they are very decent chaps and might have considered it rather an insult... the chocolate you sent me was very good and is still [empty chocolate tin included with lot!]', a letter of 31st January 1901 from Norderfontein with good detail of action with the loss of four men and seven horses, 'It was one of the hottest things I've seen', in all a total of 54 pp., plus seven envelopes, all addressed to Miss Dugdale, Sezincot, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, 8vo/small 8vo (15)
147
ÂŁ500-800
731* Boer War - Siege of Ladysmith. A contemporary family fair copy of Frederic Brooks Dugdale's letter from the Siege to the Relief of Ladysmith, beginning Ladysmith camp, Saturday 11 November 1899, 'My dear mother, you will know by the papers that we are practically cut off from communications with the outside world. We have been besieged now since Tues Oct 31st though our communication with Maritzburg was not cut until Thurs. Since then Hooper – an officer of the 5th Lancers has been through with despatches, arriving here on Mon morning. It is very uninteresting. We go out on patrolling duties - see a few of the enemy and get shot at, sometimes from close ranges but generally from long ones. No one has been killed but we had one man wounded the other day. My letter of Oct 28 just caught the mail I think and I wrote on Nov 1st and I think that letter would just get through before the line was cut. I expect you see all sorts of reports in the papers about the siege of Ladysmith... Ladysmith surrounded by 25,000 Boers plucky garrison holds out!!! It seems jolly amazing for 10,000 British soldiers to be shut up by these Boers. They have put up some big siege guns and our guns can't reach them. We have got some big naval guns up but they don't seem to be up to the Boer form. The latter's guns are beautifully trained, they get the range to a nicety every time but the shells are rotten and they don't seem to do much harm. We have been camping out in Happy Valley for the last two nights. The night before last (the Prince's birthday) was beautifully fine and warm and it was very jolly. The Regt. had a lot of rum all round to drink the Prince's health... ', 'We stayed the night of the 20 at the top end of H Valley just round a corner from where the shells were coming and the Boers nearly caught us that night with a shrapnel which burst just missing the Regt. and two burst over us the next day without doing any harm. The Boers have wrecked the Royal Hotel. It is now closed as they seem to make a waste of it... ', 'Last Fri while about 400 head of our cattle were out grazing two Kaffirs in charge must have gone to sleep and the cattle went a little bit further than they should have done and the Boers put a shell or two at the Kaffirs who bolted and then started pitching them behind the cattle which had the effect of driving into the Boer lines and we only managed to save about 70 so lost about 300 odd... The Boers can't apparently distinguish cattle from horses unless they intentionally shell the horses as they seem to have done yesterday and today', continuing in similar vein with much detail of day-to-day life during the siege, the occasional good dinner and concert, plus patrols and shellings, news of his brother being in the country, and then finally ending with the Relief of Ladysmith, 'This afternoon we heard a thunderous cheer and found out that the news was that Buller had defeated the Boers yesterday and they were in full retreat. Grand matter for cheering and there was a noise. But nothing to what there was when we heard that some cavalry heading the relief column was coming in, this was about 6 o/c. Then the cheers were deafening and they have arrived. I don't quite realise yet what it will be like being free again. Grand!!! Hurrah!!!!! A siege is not a pleasant thing and four months is a long time to be shut up anywhere, especially in a horrid place like Ladysmith. I am looking forward tremendously to seeing Frederic again and hearing all his news and in a v. short time now I ought to get all my mail letters, what a budget it will be!!! I wonder if Arthur is out with the I. yeomanry... ', a total of 88 pp. written on 'Portal, Tarporley' letterhead in a neat hand, 8vo, together with the orig. registered post envelope addressed to J.M. Brooks Esq., Portal, Tarporley, Cheshire, postmarks dated Moreton-in-Marsh, 14 April 1900, two small red wax seals to verso (AD and 'Not words but deeds') It seems likely that this fair copy was made by Frederic's mother Alice and sent to her brother John Brooks of Portal, i.e. Frederic's uncle. The whereabouts of any original is unknown making this contemporary family copy a valuable first-hand account of the Siege. (15) £500-800
148
732* Boer War – Frederick Brooks Dugdale, VC. Brooks’ original manuscript diary extracts from 3rd-5th March [1901], giving his first-hand account of the actions which led to him being awarded the Victoria Cross, ‘Went out in the morning with fifty men under Adams, two companies of infantry and a couple of guns (a haul under Col. King) to fetch mealies [corn] from a farm a longish way out in some very difficult country where a small force had got into trouble the day before. I was sent up with about ten men to hold the front while the wagons collected staff from the mill. As soon as I began to return the Boers opened fire on us at about 100 yards. Out of the ten men I had with me, four were wounded. One twice before we could get to cover to shoot back. The remainder of the men regardless of anything galloped right away leaving me with two wounded men on the ground and one horse. I had remained behind firing my Mauser pistol to check the Boer fire if possible for the men to get out and when I retired and found these two chaps (one badly wounded in the ankle and the other in the shoulder and hand) left alone with only one horse under a most cursed fire I thought we were in for a very bad time. But luckily the man with the battered ankle was a real good plucked chap so I put him onto the khaki pony and sent him off. The other fellow was unable to climb up on to the horse after me so I had to lift him up and then climb up afterwards. Rather a circus trick and not to be recommended except it is absolutely necessary. We still had about a mile and a half to go with a chance of being cut off any time. When we had gone about a mile we took a royal toss in a sprint the horse being unable to carry two of us on the present absence of food. The saddle slipped round so I sent the man on with the horse and took his carbine in case any horse came on but we were close to our own chaps by that time and in comparative safety …’, 4 pp. bifolium with extract start from previous sheet tipped to upper margin of first page, 8vo, together with a small monochrome watercolour head and shoulders portrait of Dugdale by an unidentified hand, pasted on card and crudely cut, 13.5 x 11.5 cm, plus a letter addressed to F. B. Dugdale VC., 5th Lancers, 18 October 1902, inviting him to his investiture of the Victoria Cross (3)
£200-300
Lot 732 733* Boer War - Siege of Ladysmith. Autograph letter signed from Guy Reynolds to Mrs [Ellen] Turner, Ladysmith, Christmas Eve 1899, wishing the Turner family a happy and prosperous new year before talking of the siege, 'We have been besieged here now for exactly eight weeks - eight years it seems like. I rejoined the Regt from home and arrived just in time - in fact the very morning of the battle of Eland's Laagte [26 October 1899] - where we got a charge into the Boers - a week after the garrison failed to drive back a very large force - probably 15 to 20,000 Boers and since then we have been in a state of siege. We have received no papers, or letters and of course no provisions or ammunition since then and we are now very short indeed - prices for food of any sort (except rations) are ruinous - potatoes about 1/- each, eggs 1/6 each - cigarettes sold for five pounds per hundred some time ago - and everything on that scale - nothing can be had to drink for love or money. However, we are fairly happy and fit - but it's a dreadful life. I was just going to appear before a medical board when the war broke out - and as I wouldn't miss it I didn't turn up for the Board - I should not have gone back to India. I fancy I shall leave the army when the war is over - my heart wouldn't stand the strain... ', sending regards to Miss Turner regiment has lost very few men but noting that 'I don't know exactly what the casualties in garrison are but they are pretty heavy - a great many have been killed in the last few days - we don't know what they will do with us after we are relieved - but I don't think we shall go on through Natal as the country's practically impassable for cavalry', asking for news of India, wishing the Colonel was here and saying that he is in command of the maxim gun and hoping to get some action with it, written in blue pencil, 4 pp., 8vo Major Philip Guy Reynolds (born 1871) was gazetted to 17th Lancers 1893 and transferred to 5th Dragoon Guards later that year. He served in the South African War, 1899-1902, being mentioned in despatches twice. Mrs Turner was the wife of Colonel Samuel Compton Turner, RE, mother of Herbert Guy Turner and Ellen Mabel (married James Gordon Dugdale, 1903). (1) £150-200
149
Lot 733
734* Boer War – James Gordon Dugdale, DSO, NVO, MC. A group of twenty-two autograph letters to his sister Maud, 31 December [1899] to 1st May 1902, letters written from Ladysmith, Meerzicht, Lydenburg, Middelburg, Belfast, Durban, Utrecht, Pretoria, Bethal, Val, etc., mostly in pen and some in pencil, mostly signed Jim, a total of 71 pp., 8vo/4to, together with fourteen orig. postally used envelopes, plus his certificate for NVO 4th class (14th July 1917), a certificate for an OBE for his sister Mrs Alice Maud Prichard (3rd June 1918), signed ‘Edward P.’ at foot, plus a third certificate being a warrant of appointment for his son Colonel Nigel Dugdale, CBE, to be appointed OBE (1st January 1948) James Gordon Dugdale (1874-1955) was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant, 18th Hussars, 1st December 1897. From a letter dated Ladysmith, 8th March 1900: ‘… No one seems to know what is now going to become of the cavalry – we have only got 150 horses in the regiment including 25 remounts that are on their way. When they knew we should be short of horses, I don’t know why they didn’t get us some more’. From an incomplete letter beginning on page 3, [Lydenburg, October 1900]: ‘About 4 o’clock I got up to have a cup of tea and were just sitting down to it when we saw a puff of smoke of a kind we knew too well, having seen a good many similar puffs from Bulwana during the Siege – and then we heard “it” coming – a scrinch shell went over our heads and passed over the hill to our right behind us – and we knew that the Boers had a long tom on a ridge about four and a half miles to the west of us. He didn’t rest long and bang came another, this time not far from our camp and we knew it was “us” that he was shooting at. Luckily our horses were out at water but the 5th Lancers were not so lucky and had to clear out double quick time but not before another shell pitching between their conductor and his house, a close shave. We cleared out of our camp with the men who were left, got in a deep water course close by. It was very well we did so as presently a shrapnel [?] our lines, which being empty, did no more damage than to rip up one of our saddles. The Boers also opened with a 4.7 howitzer, a very significant gun with splendid ammunition which can burst shrapnel at a very great range. It burst some too beautifully and we suffered – towards dusks the blowers stopped shelling – our 5 inch guns had fired a couple of rounds but the range was a bit too far I fancy. The Boers had very cunningly waited until Buller’s force was nicely in camp before they opened. A lull in the shelling was not a long duration – as soon as it was dark and we were all back at our bivouac we started making the mens teas and our dinners but the Boers trained their howitzer gun on the fires and put in some extraordinary shooting, bursting shrapnel in the air with terrible and terrifying effect. I believe two officers in the Devons were killed and one shell caught 11 S.A.L.A.H. Durham I believe one was killed and two have since died. The fires were immediately put out and the shelling stopped – one or two came perilously near us and it was most alarming to hear the shell coming gradually nearer and then to see it burst, a great ball of fire above you lighting up the country around for some hundreds of yards and the shower of bullets striking the ground. Early in the afternoon my chestnut pony had a near shave, a piece of shell just grazing his ribs, another half inch and it would have killed him. The horse next to him had his hind legs carried away, but all the same one laughs pretty considerably at amusing incidents – we found a lot of shrapnel bullets and scattered them pretty freely round the Colonel’s bed … the surprise of the Colonel’s servant … who arrived first on the scene was most amusing. The Colonel also believed it and was telling us all what a narrow shave he had had – he found out after dinner what we had done and we chaffed him a good bit …’. (25) £400-600
150
Lot 735
735* Boer War – XVIII Hussars. A commemorative silk handkerchief listing the engagements of 18 Hussars, South Africa, c. 1901, listing dates from march to Dundee (25 September 1899) to engagement at Botha’s Farm (6 October 1901) within a decorative border on white silk with stitched royal blue border, 57 x 57cm (22.5 x 22.5ins) (1)
£100-150
736 Boer War. Siege of Ladysmith, 1899-1900. A price list showing the highest prices realised at public auction sales held by Joe Dyson, auctioneer, during the Siege, Ladysmith, 21st February 1900, a bifolium sheet with printed details and small decoration to first page and itemised list of twenty-seven items and prices to page 3, minor spotting, light creasing where previously folded, slim 8vo A rare survival, clearly showing some extraordinary prices paid for fancy articles not included in the military rations. Among the items and prices listed are: One suckling pig £1 17s 0d, eggs per dozen £2 8s 0d, 4 small cucumbers 15s 6d, small plate grapes £1 5s 0d, one plate tomatoes 18s 0d, one vegetable marrow £1 8s 0d, one plate potatoes 19s 0d, one lb bottle jam £1 11s 0d, one dozen matches 13s 6d, one packet cigarettes £1 5s 0d, 50 cigars £9 5s 0d, half-lb. cake “Fair Maid” tobacco £3 5s 0d and quarter-lb. tin “Capstan” Navy cut tobacco £3 0s 0d. (1) £200-300
Lot 736 151
737* Boer War - Herbert Guy Turner. A group of thirty-one autograph letters, c. 1890-1913, mostly addressed to his mother [Ellen Turner] and some to his sister (Ellen) Mabel, a few undated juvenile letters before joining the 2nd Battalion Cheshire Regiment, with letters from August 1899 to April 1900 at Aldershot, etc., followed by seven letters written in South Africa (17 May 1900 to 18 September 1902, one incomplete), mostly in ink but some in pencil and many fairly lengthy with much detail, e.g. 24 June 1901, 'I had an awful time last week that train accident was too ghastly for words. It was nothing more or less than absolute murder, there were 250 Boers and after derailing the engine they fairly hailed bullets on it killing the engine driver, stoker, a kaffir and four of the train guards besides wounding nine other men, five very seriously. The accident took place just about three miles from here and over a rise so it was out of sight. The firing which we could hear distinctly lasted only a couple of minutes or so and then we say a dense smoke rise they having set the train on fire. This all happened about 3.30 pm. I then heard nothing as the telegraph wire was swinging until about 5.40 when a corporal and a wounded man came down, and told me that the four wounded chaps were in a truck still intact and could I send a party to bring them in, so I sent up about twenty natives and had the truck brought in here, it was something awful to hear the poor chap groaning as we lifted them up and made me feel awfully sick. I have had a room got ready and some hot Bovril for them and we bedded them down for the night as well as we could. There was a Captain Richards with them of the AFC who was untouched so I put him up for the night, poor chap he was very down in his luck in the whole matter, though it was absolutely no fault of his. Next morning the doctor arrived and attended and dressed all the wounded. They were all wounded in three or four places and some the most terrible wounds. I then had to go round with him to certify that the men were dead, and I never hope have to do such a thing again. Never in all my life have I seen faces with such terror and agony stamped on them they quite haunted me that day... ', the letters from 1903-13 written while stationed in India at Jubbulpore and some while at a depot in Chester, mostly signed 'H. Guy Turner', a total of 117 pp., 8vo/4to, some on 22 Cheshire Regiment letterhead, plus two letters from his mother and (?)brother, a signed regimental Christmas card for 1905, two snapshots and printed ephemera including a military commission appointing Turner 2nd Lieutenant (3rd May 1898), signed 'Victoria R I' at head, two further commissions for his father Samuel Compton Turner, the first as Lieutenant with temporary rank (5 April 1866) signed by Queen Victoria upper left, the second appointing him Lieutenant (8 October 1868), etc. (approx. 35)
ÂŁ500-800
152
738* WWI – Herbert Guy Turner. A group of approx. thirty letters from and relating to Herbert Guy Turner, 2nd Battalion, Cheshire Regiment, including fifteen letters from Turner, August 1914 to February 1915, mostly addressed to Mollie, the first four written while stationed at Jubbelpore, two from January 1915 from Winchester, the remaining six while with the British Expeditionary Force in France (all in pencil), a total of 36 pp., 8vo/4to, together with six letters to Mrs Gordon Dugdale, The Abbey, Cirencester, from Major Claud Hughes (friend of Guy), January to August 1915, a total of 23 pp., plus three letters to Mrs Dugdale from Private W. H. Grant, 28th/5th Division, 84th Brigade, concerning the disappearance of Guy, a total of 8 pp., 8vo, plus further letters, copy letters, typed official correspondence, etc., concerning the disappearance/death of Guy Turner, March-June 1915, including two letters from Brabazon Stone, one from Colonel de Pearse, one from Lieutenant W. A. Ward, Red Cross typed letters in English and German, etc., various sizes Major A. B. Stone’s statement on British Red Cross Society letterhead, 26th May 1915 explains: ‘As we were advancing on Saturday, 8th May, I stopped for a minute or two to bandage up two of our fellows who had been wounded. I then went on to rejoin my company and got into a trench where there were about twenty of my battalion and about twenty Cheshire men with Major Stone. I knew him before. The Germans got on our flank and enfiladed us. It was then I got wounded in the thigh. Knowing I was useless, I began to crawl away. As the Germans surrounded and got into the trenches they must have been all killed or taken prisoners. The last I heard was Major Stone saying “come boys let us make a fight of it”. This was on Zonnebeck and Menin Road’. Another typed copy statement from 20th April 1915 gives Captain Schlaguit’s account: ‘On March 3rd, 1915, 10.30 pm, Captain Turner of the 2nd Cheshire Regiment who had command of a patrol, was shot by our soldiers. We have buried with all military honours. Please inform his Regiment. One of Captain Turner’s soldiers fell at the same time, Private Norman Wainwright, Company E, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Cheshire Regiment. His father will be very upset …’. The letter from W. A. Ward, 8th May 1915 to Guy’s sister [Ellen Mabel Gordon, nee Turner, wife of James Gordon Dugdale]: ‘I hope you will excuse the liberty I am taking in writing to you, but I do so in fulfilment of a promise I made to your brother (Capt. Turner). I will explain. I am a Subaltern in his Coy. You no doubt have heard him speak of me … he asked me if I would write to you in the event of anything happening to him. I will try to explain the circumstances under which he became “missing”. I was in command of a forward trench about 90 yards from the German trenches, and Captain Turner being in command of the Coy was sent forward with two picked men at dusk (or dark) to examine a Sap (or working) about 12 or 15 yards in front of the German trench. The night was very dark when he started and he shook hands with me by wishing him luck and I myself and three good men were posted on the corner of the trench to observe as far as possible his passage. We would not see more than about 20 yards. The Captain and his men crawled forward on their stomachs. From this point no more was seen of the Captain or his party. The German trench did not bring any fire to bear on this place so it can safely be assumed that he got into the German trench in the dark and was taken prisoner …’. The C.W.G.C. records his death as between 2nd and 3rd March 1915 with his memorial at Ploegsteert. (approx. 30) £300-500
153
739* WWII - Pamela M. Dugdale, OBE. A group of fifty-four often lengthy letters home, written as a British Red Cross Society Officer, British Liberation Army, December 1944 to September 1945, all to her parents, the letters chatty with her own news and work plus family gossip, etc., from a letter of 6th December 1944; 'We were most interested today, as there is a French officer in the hospital who was in the French Resistance movement and was in the prison that the RAF bombed to let out the men condemned to death by the Gestapo - he was amongst 200 who escaped and must have had a thrilling time. Talking to him was like reading the most exciting story - he was a rough and rather tough little man and had a fearful time with the Huns - including being tortured - he told us about the bridges he had blown up, the trains he had derailed and the plans and documents he had stolen... ', from a letter dated 10th December 1944, '... The work is so varied and I think there is really a lot we can do in the hospital. I have been so lucky coming to such a nice unit and also being so comfortable - central heating, hot baths etc. and above all having [?] as a welfare officer', many of the later letters with family gossip and chit-chat, a total of 230 pp., 8vo/4to/folio Pamela Dugdale (1911-2001) was the daughter of Major James Gordon Dugdale and his wife Ellen Mabel, nee Turner. (1)
ÂŁ300-500
154
740* Family Group. A collection of Orders and Medals bestowed uponthe Dugdale Family comprising a CBE group attributable to Lieutenant-Colonel Nigel Dugdale, The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Military Division, Commander’s (C.B.E.) neck Badge, enamel damage to bottom point, in DS&S case of issue with invitation to the Investiture dated 17.2.1948, Africa Star, War Medal, 1953 Coronation Medal in original card box, dress miniature awards, together with an aluminium Souvenir Ticket made from one of the gliders which carried the British 1st Airborne Division into Arnhem on September 17th 1944 plus a 17 / 21st Lancers shooting bronze medal; an OBE group of five to Miss Pamela M. Dugdale, The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Civil Division, Officer’s (O.B.E.) ribbon bow, in Royal Mint case of issue, with bestowal document dated 15.6.1974, France & Germany Star, Defence, War Medal & Voluntary Medical Service Medal (Miss Pamela M. Dugdale), mounted for wearing with four 5 year award bars these loose, related badges and enclosure named to the recipient dated 14.4.1960. (a carton)
£200-300
741* WWI. Pair: Major H.L.C. Turner, 9th Gurkha Rifles died 14 June 1918, British War and Victory Medals (Major H.L.C. Turner.), extremely fine displayed in a period oak case Major Harold Lake Compton Turner (1872-1918), was the elder son of the late Major General S. Compton Turner (R.E., Inspector General of Military Works), he served during the Great War with the 2nd Battalion 9th Gurkha Rifles in Mesopotamia and died 14.6.1918, Turner is buried in Nowshera Military Cemetery, Delhi, India. (1) £100-150
Lot 740 742* Victorian Officer’s sword, the 80cm blade by ‘Gurney & Co, St James’s St London’, etched ‘Burnley Rifles’, ‘A.G. Dugdale’ with strung bugle amongst scrolls, reverse with VR cypher, gilt metal guards pierced with strung bugle, wire-bound fish-skin grip, domed pommel, 95cm overall, in its brass scabbard with sword knot (1)
743* Lieutenant F.B. Dugdale VC. A silver twin handled cup inset with twelve South African coins, silver and copper including 5 Shillings 1892, 2 1/2 Shillings 1892 and smaller denominations, the base engraved ‘COINS COLLECTED IN S. AFRICA, BY F.B.D. 1900’, Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co Ltd, London 1903, 13cm high, overall weight approx. 19oz
Lot 741
(1)
Lot 742
Lot 742
£200-300
Lot 743 155
£150-200
ORDERS, MEDALS & DECORATIONS
744* Long Service. Army Long Service & G.C., V.R. (1759. Cr Serjt Z, W, Stammers, 2nd By Coldm Gds), with ‘Hunt & Roskell’ silver riband buckle, nearly extremely fine (1)
£150-200
745* Boer War. A ‘POW’ Pair to Private W. Dix, Gloucestershire Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein (1985 Pte W. Dix 2nd Glosters), King’s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (1985 Pte W. Dix 2nd Glosters.), both renamed in engraved serif capitals, together with Queen’s South Africa, 18991902, six clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (5138. Pte H.C. Davis. 2nd Devons: Regt), renamed in engraved serif capitals, very fine, plus Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (6505 Pte C.H. Dines, Wilts: Regt), good fine
Lot 745 746* Boer War. A ‘Magersfontein’ Casualty QSA to Private H. Hunt, Gordon Highlanders Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Cape Colony (1624 Pte H. Hunt, Gordon Highrs:), extremely fine 1624 Private H. Hunt was killed in action whilst serving with 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders at Magersfontein 11.12.1899. (1) £150-200
747* Boer War. Queen’s South Africa 18991902, six clasps, Cape Colony, Talana, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (3388 Pte J. O’Brien, Rl. Dublin Fus:) contact marks, very fine (1)
£150-200
1985 Private W. Dix was taken prisoner of war whilst serving with the 2nd battalion Gloucestershire Regiment at Dewetsdorp 23.11.1900, released 5.12.1900. (4) £150-200
748* Boer War. Queen’s South Africa 18991902, two clasps, Rhodesia, Relief of Mafeking (257 Tpr T. Lewis. S: Rhod:Vols:), good very fine (1)
Lot 747
Lot 746 156
£200-300
753* Boer War & WWI. A group of four to Corporal M. Jackson, Royal Lancashire Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (6954 Pte M. Jackson. L.N. Lancs.), 1914 Star and Bar (8105 Pte M. Jackson. R. Lanc. R.), British War and Victory Medals (8015 Cpl. M. Jackson. R.Lanc.R.), generally good very fine, mounted court style for wearing (4)
749* Boer War. Queen’s South Africa 18991902, two clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (33283 Pte T.F. Mills. 61st Coy. Imp: Yeo), edge bruising, very fine 61st Company, Imperial Yeomanry (South Irish Horse (Dublin)). (1) £180-220
750* Boer War. Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902 (2), five clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (3589. Pte. C.W. Connell. S. Lanc: Regt.), rank and name engraved in large serif capitals, good fine / four clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (6526 Pte J. Jones. Cheshire Regt), very fine (2)
£100-150
£200-300
751* Boer War. Queen’s South Africa 18991902 (2), five clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (8449 Pte W.H. Kingswood, Rl: Sussex Regt), edge bruise therefore good very fine/three clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (1986 Pte E. Middleton. North’d Fus:), good very fine (2)
£150-200
752* Boer War & WWI. A group of four to Second Lieutenant R.H. Nicholls, Royal Air Force Late Imperial Light Horse Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, five clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek, Orange Free State (528 Serjt. R.F. Nichols [sic], Impl: Lt Infy), King’s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (2699 Serjt: R.F. Nicholls. Imp: Lt Horse), British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. R.H. Nicholls.), very fine and better Second Lieutenant R.H. Nicholls, commissioned in the Royal Air Force 3.5.1918 (appears on the Army List as Nichols). (4) £200-300
Lot 752
754* South Africa. Cape of Good Hope 1900, one clasp, Transkei (Pte. G. Foulkes. Beaufort West Vol. Rifles), extremely fine (1)
£250-300
Lot 753
157
Lot 752 755* China & WWI. A group of four to Private P. Marshall, Lincolnshire Regiment Late Shanghai Volunteers China 1900, no clasp (Pte P. Marshall. Shanghai Vols.), 1914-15 Star (2082 Pte. P. Marshall. Linc. R.), British War and Victory Medals (2082 Pte. P. Marshall. Linc. R.), good very fine and better, mounted for wearing, with dress miniature awards
Lot 756 758* Coronation. A 1902 Coronation bronze, in Elkington case of issue, together with an Imperial Service Medal (2) G.VI.R. (Charles George Smith), E.II.R. (Charles Dunn), both in case of issue, Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., with ‘Territorial’ riband buckle in Royal Mint case of issue
2082 Private Phillipson Marshall served during the Great War with the Lincolnshire Regiment and RAMC (424167) from 1.3.1915. (4) £300-400
759* GSM. A General Service 1962-2007, two clasp, Borneo, South Arabia (23907055 Pte. L.G. Wallace. 1 R. Leicesters.), good very fine
(2)
(1)
756* China 1857-60. A pair to Private W. Eastman, Queen’s Royal Regiment (West Sussex) China 1857-60, two clasps, Taku Forts 1860, Pekin 1860 (Wm Eastman, 1st Bn 2nd Regt), Army Long Service & G.C., V.R. (21 Pte W. Eastman, 1-2nd Foot), edge bruising therefore very fine and better (2)
£100-150
£70-100
£200-300
757* Civilian Award. A silver award to E.J. Quinlan, the obverse engraved ‘For Valour Sept 25th 1917’, reverse ‘Rewarded to E.J. Quinlan from H.M.W.O., In Recognition of his Bravery in Extinguishing Incendiary Shell Dropped from Enemy Aircraft at Great Personal Risk’, with scroll suspension loop, 35mm, in Charles Usher, Birmingham presentation case 25th September 1917 - German 3rd Air Squad raided London (19th raid) and Kent, 9 killed and 23 injured. (1) £100-150
Lot 757
158
760* GSM. A General Service Medal 19622007, one clasp, Radfan (1930946 Jnr.Tech. J.E. Henderson R.A.F.), extremely fine (1)
£70-100
761* Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Albert Dunster) good very fine, sold with copied paperwork 45099 Sergeant Albert Dunster born in High Halden, Kent, served during the Great War with the East Yorkshire Regiment (5971) and transferred to the 39th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps 27.7.1916, awarded the Military Medal for “Bravery in the Field” 14.1.1918, died of wounds 13.4.1918, Dunster is buried in Pernes British Cemetery, Calais, France. (1) £100-150
762* A Great War Casualty Group to Sergeant G.L. Cannock, North Somerset Yeomanry Later 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons, Killed in Action 8.8.1918 1914-15 Star (924. Pte. G.L. Cannock, N.Som.Yeo.), British War and Victory Medals (924 Sjt. G.L. Cannock. N.Som.Yeo.), Bronze Memorial Plaque (George Lumbard [sic] Cannock), extremely fine, sold with copied research including photographs of the Cannock family grave stones 165298 Sergeant George Lombard Cannock, a native of Prestbury Road Cheltenham, enlisted in Bath, served during the Great War with the North Somerset Yeomanry (924) from 28.3.1915, transferred to the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons, Cannock was killed in action 8.8.1918 on the first day of the Battle of Amiens (the so called “Black Day for the German Army”), marking the first of the 100 days during which the Germans were retreating back across the Western Front, extending in the armistice on 11th November, Sacker (Graham) “Leaving All That Was Dear” (refers), Cannock is commemorated at Le Quesnel Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France. (4) £700-800
Lot 761
763* Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (2), (Richard Davey/John Henry Lee), extremely fine Richard Davey, two possibilities 177789 Private R. Davey, MGC, died Salonika 23.10.1918 or 21341 Private R.C. Davey, Norfolk Regiment / Border Regiment, KIA on the Western Front 5.7.1916 John Henry Lee, two possibilities 50698 Private J.H. Lee, MGC, drowned on the Western Front 24.7.1918 or 8685 Lance Corporal J.H. Lee, Cheshire Regiment, KIA on the Western Front 3.10.1915. (2) £100-150
Lot 762
159
764* Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (2) (Fred Hewitt / James Robert Bramhall), first extremely fine, second polished therefore good fine
770* Great War Pairs (2), British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. G.J. Grant / 102774 Pte. J. Parnell. M.G.C.), first good very fine, second edge bruising to BWM therefore good fine and better
1818 Private James Robert Bramhall, a native of Glossop, Manchester, served during the Great War with the Grenadier Guards (25098), transferred to the 4th Battalion, Guards Machine Gun Regiment, killed in action on the Western Front 30.3.1918, Bramhall is commemorated in the Bucquoy Road Cemetery, Ficheux, France. (2) £100-150
2nd Lieutenant G.J. Grant, two possibilities, George James Grant, Machine Gun Corps or George John Grant, Royal Engineers 102774 Private James Parnell, born in Whitstone, Cornwall, served during the Great War with the 3rd Battalion, Machine Gun Corps, died of wounds on the Western Front 30.10.1918, Parnell is buried Awoingt British Cemetery, Nord, France. (4) £80-120
765* Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (2), (Frederick Haines / George Frederick Davies), good very fine Frederick Haines, two possibilities, 9181 Private F. Haines, Welsh Regiment or 9345 Lance Corporal F. Haines, Royal Berkshire Regiment. 133624 Private George Frederick Davies, born in St Helens, Lancashire, served during the Great War with the Manchester Regiment (60153), transferred to the 33rd Battalion, Machine Gun Corps, died of wounds on the Western Front 11.4.1918, Davies is buried in the Lapugnoy Military Cemetery, Calais, France. (2) £100-150
766* Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (2), (Alfred Allsopp/John Knox), very fine (2)
£100-150
767* A Great War Group of Four to Seaman D. Wares, Royal Naval Reserves 1914-15 Star (A.4000, D. Wares, Smn., R.N.R.), British War and Victory Medals (4000A D. Wares. Smn. R.N.R.), Royal Naval Reserve Long Service & G.C., G.V.R. (46050 D. Wares. Smn. R.N.R.), generally good very fine (4)
£100-150
771* Great War Silver War Badge (5), (217263 / R.N.10643 / 438775 / B122320 / 219417) 768* A Great War MM to Lance Corporal C. Powell, Machine Gun Corps, Killed in Action 28.3.1918, Military Medal, G.V.R. (29085 Pte C. Powell. 121/Coy M.G.C.), extremely fine, sold with copied paperwork MM London Gazette 6.1. 1917 23085 Pte. C. Powell, M.G. Corps 29085 Lance Corporal Christopher Powell MM, served during the Great War with the Royal Munster Fusiliers, transferred to Machine Gun Corps, killed in action on the Western Front 26.3.1918, Powell is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, Calais, France. (1) £600-700
769* Great War Casualty Pair (2), British War and Victory Medals (7506 Pte. H. Rowley. M.G.C. / 122472 Pte. L.H. Hewlett. M.G.C.), extremely fine 7506 Private Harry Rowley, born in Warrington, Lancashire, served during the Great War with the Cameron Highlanders (16980), transferred to the 187 Company, Machine Gun Corps, died of wounds in Mesopotamia 4.12.1917, Rowley is buried in Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, Iraq 122472 Private Laurence Henry Hewlett, served during the Great War with the London Regiment (534838), transferred to the 61st Battalion, Machine Gun Corps, killed in action on the Western Front 24.3.1918, Hewlett is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France. (4) £80-120
Lot 767
217263 (14872 C.P Wood Leicestershire Regiment) / RN10643 (Petty Officer W.J. Geary, Royal Fleet Reserve / 438775 (25926 Private A.W. Gardner, Machine Gun Corps / B122320 (2217 Private W. Chopping, Essex Regiment / 219417 (83564 Private W. Ellis, Machine Gun Corps. (5) £100-150
772* Great War Silver War Badge (5), (487640 / 449079 / 410675 / B311369 / B259118), sold with copied paperwork 487640 (49955 Private A. Webb, Lincolnshire Regiment / 449079 (32907 Sapper S.L. Skelding, Royal Engineers / 410675 (224307 Gunner H. Fullerton, 66th Brigade, Royal Artillery / B311369 (305226 Sergeant H. Lester, Royal Warwickshire Regiment / B259118 (J. Hodgekinson King’s Liverpool Regiment). (5) £100-150
773* Great War Silver War Badge (5) (201784 / B108109 / B332860 / B343849 / 26556), sold with copied paperwork 201784 (36434 Private J. Bolder, Middlesex Regiment / B108109 (25/873 Private J. Simpson Cable, Northumberland Fusiliers / B332860 (543723 Private F. Bailey, Labour Corps / B343849 (446075 Lance Corporal C. O’Halloran, Royal Engineers / 26556 (11209 Private G. Bolton, Lancashire Fusiliers). (5) £100-150
Lot 771
160
774* India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (860035 A-Sgt. E.C. Hickman, R.A.), very fine, Army Long Service & G.C., G.V.R. (4235 L.Sjt: A.E. Parker. S. Lanc: Regt), very fine, sold with copied paperwork 860035 Sergeant Eustace Cecil Hickman, a native of Springbourne, Bournemouth, served in Afghanistan, entitled to a Territorial Force War Medal and British War Medal. 4235 Lance Sergeant Albert Edward Parker, born in Weymouth, Dorset, enlisted as boy musician in 1st Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment in 1893 served with the regiment until 1913 attaining rank Band Sergeant, discharged from service 1919 and resided in Barrow-in-Furness. (2) £100-150
775* India. A group of three to Private Peter Brown, Royal Bombay Fusiliers, Punjab 1848-49, two clasps, Mooltan, Goojerat (Peter Brown, 1st Eur.Fus.), Indian Mutiny 1857-58, no clasp (Peter Brown, 1st Bombay Eurn Fusrs), Army Long Service & G.C., V.R. (1380 Peter Brown 103rd Foot), second with suspension re-affixed, very fine, sold with copied service papers
Lot 775
1380 Private Peter Brown, born in Boyle, County Roscommon 1823, served with the 1st Bombay Fusiliers from 1846, discharged 1865 after 21 years 250 days with the Colours. (3) £500-600
777* Lifesaving. Royal Humane Society, bronze (successful) (Charles. T. Scott. 19. Aug. 1898), with riband Buckle, suspension requires reaffixing but good very fine
776* GSM. General Service 1918-62, G.V.R., one clasp, Southern Desert, Iraq (354007. L.A.C. J.E. Saunders. R.A.F.), good very fine and scarce (1)
Scott, Charles T. Student case 29727 ‘On the 19th August 1898, several persons were bathing in the sea at Blakeney, on the Norfolk coast, when one of them seized with cramp. There was a strong ebb tide and a choppy sea. Scott went to his aid and, at great risk, succeeded in taking him to shore’. (1) £100-150
£400-500
778* Masonic Medal. A fine American Society medal, late 19th century, in silver and gold coloured metal, finely decorated with symbols from the Brotherhood, with suspended ‘246’, and three riband bars, reverse engraved ‘Presented to William h Stirling Past Master BY Shekinah Lodge No.246 F&:A.M. Jany 19th 1885’, 13cm long overall, silver colour section approx.45g, riband bars approx. 17g, in original case by ‘I. BEDICHIMER 816 CHESTNUT ST PHILIDELPHIA’ (1)
161
£150-200
Lot 780
Lot 779 779* Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (20508 Sjt: W.J. Benton. M.G.C.), extremely fine, sold with copied paperwork MID London Gazette 25.5.1917 Benton, No. 20508 Serjt. W.J. MSM London Gazette 1.1.1918 20508 Sgt. W.J. Benton. M.G. Corps (Ilford). 20508 Sergeant William Joseph Benton, served during the Great War with the 5th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders from 1.5.1915 (832), transferred to the Machine Gun Corps. (1) £150-200
781* Military Cross G.V.R., unnamed as issued, extremely fine, in case of issue (1)
£400-500
782* Natal 1906, one clasp, 1906 (Cpl B.L. Stead, Natal Carbineers.), good very fine (1)
£150-200
780* Metropolitan Police. A group of three to Police Constable F. Groves, J Division, Metropolitan Police 1897 Jubilee, Metropolitan Police (P.C. F. Groves. J. Divn.), 1902 Coronation, Metropolitan Police, bronze (P.C. F. Groves. J. Div.), 1911 Coronation, Metropolitan Police (P.C.. F. Groves), very fine and better, mounted for wearing J Division (Bethnal Green). (3)
Lot 782 783* NGS. Naval General Service, 17931840, one clasp, Basque Roads 1809 (Francis Morgan, Lieut R.N.) with original riband and silver riband buckle and spare riband, extremely fine Although this medal is officially named and entirely “as issued” it would appear that the rank of Lieutenant has been erroneously impressed upon it as the result of a most unusual mistake at the Royal Mint. Although a recipient named Francis Morgan, H.M.S. Theseus, appears on the claimants’ roll for the clasp Basque Roads 1809, the rank has clearly been crossed though (see copied research from the Public Record Office sold with the lot) making this medal intriguing and well worthy of further research. (1) £1500-2000
£100-150
784* Police. King’s Police Medal, G.V.R. 1st type on 1st type riband (John Clamp. Supt. Derby Boro. Police.), extremely fine, in case of issue KPM: London Gazette 1.1.1916. (1)
Lot 783 Lot 781 162
£300-500
785* RAF. General Service Medal 1918-62, G.VI.R., one clasp, Malaya (4004819 Cpl T.J. McEvoy. R.A.F.), nearly extremely fine, together with General Service Medal, 191862, G.VI.R., one clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (14952021 Spr. J.M. Muller. R.E.), extremely fine (2)
790* Sarawak Police. Pair to Sergeant R. Bin Salleh General Service Medal, 1918-62, E.II.R., one clasp, Brunei (750 Sgt. Razali Bin Salleh. Sarawak Police.), General Service Medal, 1962-2007, one clasp, Borneo (750 Sgt. Razali Bin Sallem. Sarawak Police.), extremely fine
£80-100
(2)
789* Sarawak Police. General Service Medal 1918-62, E.II.R., one clasp, Brunei (1013 Sgt/Mjr. Morchan Bin Brahim. Sarawak Police.), name partly officially reimpressed, good very fine, together with General Service Medal, 1962-2007, one clasp, Borneo (67 PC. Matnor Bin Hj Su’ut. Sarawak Police.), extremely fine (2)
(4)
(12)
Lot 790
Wireless Operator Robert Williams, born 1901, served in various ships including S.S. Yarrow and Carlisle. (5) £100-150
£70-100
788* Sarawak Police. General Service Medal 1918-62, E.II.R., one clasp, Brunei (218 P/C. Abot Bin Bojeng. Sarawak Police.), name partly officially re-impressed, good very fine, together with General Service Medal 1918-62, E.II.R., one clasp, Brunei (301 P/C. Hassan Bin Onget. Sarawak Police.), extremely fine (2)
£100-150
792* Three: Engineman J. Smith, Royal Navy Reserve 1914-15 Star (2033 E.S. J. Smith, Engn., R.N.R.), British War and Victory Medals (2033E.S. J. Smith. Engn. R.N.R.), good very fine with related badge, Pair: Wireless Operator R. Williams, Merchant Navy British War and Mercantile Marine Medal (Robert Williams), first lacquered, good very fine, sold with copied paperwork including image of the recipient
£100-150
787* Royal Navy. Royal Naval Reserve Long Service & G.C., E.VII (E.443 J. Goldring, Sean 1Cl, R.N.R.), Volunteer Reserve Long Service & G.C., V.R., unnamed, United States of America, Purple Heart, in case of issue, India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (731131 Gnr. C.C.V. Osman. R.A.), good very fine and better
791* Soviet Union. A collection of Russian Soviet medals, including, Order of the Red Star, reverse engraved ‘3357540’, Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class (3) reverse engraved ‘5863645’ , ‘5890710’, ‘193887’, Order of the Banner of Labour reverse engraved ‘274760’, Order of the Badge of Honour reverse engraved ‘1074900’
£100-150
786* Royal Marines. Pair to Corporal D. Gleeson, Royal Marines General Service 1918-62, G.VI.R., one clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (14099707 Pte. D. Gleeson. R.S.), General Service 1962-2007, one clasp, Borneo (R.M. 8414 D. Gleeson. Cpl. R.M.), good very fine and better (2)
£150-200
£100-150
Lot 791
163
793* A group of three to Engine Room Artificer J.T. Youngs, Royal Navy Egypt 1882-89, dated, three clasps, Alexandria 11th July, Suakin 1884, Suakin 1885 (J.T. Youngs. E.R.A. Artfr. H.M.S. “Penelope”.), Naval Long Service & G.C. (J.T. Youngs, E.R.A., H.M.S. Basilisk,), Khedive’s Star 1882, light pitting marks, very fine and better Engine Room Artificer J.T. Youngs also served in HMS Sphinx. Sold with copied paperwork. (3) £300-400
Lot 793
794* Volunteer Officers’ Decoration, V.R. cypher, reverse engraved ‘Surgeon Colonel E. Williams. V.D.’ ‘Mold 15th Sept 1906’, London 1902 with silver riband Bar, good very fine, in R.S. Garrard & Co case of issue (1)
£100-150
795* Antiquities and Medal relating to the Wilson Family, comprising Constabulary Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., two clasps, The Great War 1914-18, Long Service 1929 (Edwin W. Wilson.), extremely fine together with three small Babylonian cuneiform tablets from the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II, King of Babylon (604562BC), approx 4cm long and smaller, with supporting handwritten letter of provenance from Edgar (Wilson) 4th Rajputs Regiment to his mother (Mesopotamia 26.11.1918), detailing his trip to Hillah in Babylon and finding a brick, also Stone Age tools with a handwritten label attached ‘Beads of stone age found in Biddenham Gravel Pits, Implement found in Burial mound. Pine Island, Lake Apopka, Florida U.S.A.’ Edwin Wilson was father to Edgar. (6)
£200-300
Lot 795 164
Lot 796 796* World Medals. Italian medals including War Merit Cross Vitt Emm Merito di Guerra, Spanish Cross Commemorative of the Spanish Campaign, ‘Lorioli’ type 1936-39, Soviet Medals including Medal for Courage reverse impressed ‘685927’, American medals including Purple Heart, reverse engraved ‘Nicholas J’, Korean Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, plus a Jubilee Medal 1897, Metropolitan Police (P.C. E.W. Harris. P. Divn), plus Coronation Medal 1911, Metropolitan Police(P.C.. S. Plaw) (27)
£100-150
797* WWI Family Group. A Great War Casualty Group to Captain H.F. Rycroft, York and Lancaster Regiment, K.I.A. 7.8.1915, 1914-15 Star (Capt. H.F. Rycroft. York & Lanc. R.), British War and Victory Medals (Capt. H.F. Rycroft.), Bronze Memorial Plaque (Henry Frederick Rycroft), extremely fine, in a fitted frame with Queen’s South Africa miniature dress award, with three clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Orange Free State, together with a green leather writing box the lid with initials RH; a pair of identity tags ‘Captain A.H. Rycroft West Kent Yeomany’, ‘Major A.H. Rycroft. W.K.Y.’, a pocket knife engraved ‘A.H. Rycroft’, A b&w photograph of an Officer on horseback; A Great War Pair, British War and Victory Medals (Capt. H. Armstrong.), plus a hand tinted photograph of a young officer believed to be Hugh Vincent wearing Military Cross riband bar 44 x 31cm in a period frame and glazed plus a miniature silver Miniature Cross on gold coloured metal with finely enamelled bar suspension, and a copper plate engraving for business card use ‘Mr Hugh Vincent RAF’, from the same estate, extensive mildew throughout Captain Henry Frederick Rycroft (1879-1915), born in Belgravia, London, served during Great War with the 3rd Battalion, and attested to the 2nd Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment, killed in action 7.8.1915, Rycroft is buried in Sanctuary Wood Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. (a carton) £300-500
Lot 797 798* WWI. A Great War group of three to Corporal G.W. Pearson, 1st Dragoon Guards 1914 Star, copy Bar (1253 S. Sth: G.W. Pearson. 1/D. Gds.), British War and Victory Medals (D-1235 Cpl. G.W. Pearson. 1-D.Gds.), good very fine, mounted court style (3)
£100-150
165
Lot 800
Lot 801 801* WWI. A Great War group of four to Sergeant D. Dorward, Army Service Corps, 1914 Star and Bar (S-17944 L.Cpl D. Dorward. A.S.C.), British War and Victory Medals (S-17944 Sjt. D. Dorward. A.S.C.), Imperial Service Medal, G.VI.R. (David Dorward), good very fine and better, lacquered, together with 1914 Star (L-7338 Pte A. Darcy. 1/R.Fus.), plus a British War Medal (P.F.O. D.E. Huck. R.N.A.S.), good very fine (6)
799* WWI. A Great War MM pair to Driver H. Tuffley, Royal Army Service Corps, Military Medal, G.V.R. (T-34988 Dvr: H. Tuffley. R.A.S.C.), British War Medal (T34988 Dvr. Juffley [sic]. A.S.C.), light contact marks therefore good very fine, mounted court style M.M. London Gazette 13.3.1919 T/34988 Dvr. Tuffley, H., 62nd Divl. Train (Witham). (1) £100-150
800* WWI. A Great War Group of four to Warrant Officer J.J. Barry, Royal Army Medical Corps 1914-15 Star (87. Q.M. Sjt. J.J. Barry, R.A.M.C.), British War and Victory Medals (89431 W.O.Cl.2 J.J. Barry. R.A.M.C.), Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (89431 Q.M.Sjt: J.J. Barry. R.A.M.C.), very fine and better, last three mounted for wearing (4)
£100-150
803* WWI. A Great War group of four to Sergeant J.E. Newton, Liverpool Regiment, 1914-15 Star (11080 Pte. J.E. Newton. L’pool R.), British War and Victory Medals (11080 Cpl. J.E. Newton. L’Pool R.,), India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (11080 Sgt. J.E. Newton, L.Pool.R.), good fine and better, together with General Service 1962-2007, one clasp, Northern Ireland (24477144 Spr JJ Daly RE), United Nations Medal for Korea plus Imperial Service Medal, E.II.R (George Wall) (7)
802* WWI. A Great War group of four to Able Seaman J Mabey, Royal Navy, 1914-15 Star (217475, J. Mabey, A.B.,R.N.), British War and Victory Medals(217475 J. Mabey. Act. L.S. R.N.), Royal Fleet Reserve Long Service & G.C., G.V.R. (217475 Dev. B. 5590 J. Mabey. A.B. R.F.R.), extremely fine, together with a British War and Mercantile Marine Medal (John G. Shepherd), first officially renamed; 1914-15 Star (2417, Pte. A.J. Harvie, 7-Lond.R.), extremely fine; British War Medal (2) (7087. S.H. Short. 14Lond.R. / J.50627 W.J. Brading R.N.), rating erased; Victory Medal (121736 Gnr. W.H. Cook. R.A.), extremely fine 2417 Private A.J. Harvie, served during the Great War with 7th Battalion, London Regiment, died 16.5.1915, Harvie is commemorated in the Bethune Town Cemetery, France. (10) £80-120
£100-150
Lot 803 166
£100-150
804* WWI. Prussia, Iron Cross 1914, 1st Class convex type with pin fitting stamped ‘800’; Iron Cross 1914, 2nd Class, together with Third Reich medals including Iron Cross 1939, War Merit Cross, 2nd Class, West Wall Medal; Army Four Years Long Service Medal; Luftschutz Medal, 2nd Class; Customs Official bronze Medal (20)
£100-150
Lot 804
Lot 805
Lot 806
805* WWI. Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (240819 Cpl W. Lewis. 1/4 Leics:R.), good very fine D.C.M. London Gazette 11.3.1920 240819 Cple. W. Lewis, 1/4 Bn., Leic. R., T.F. (Barwell) ‘For conspicuous gallantry on 27th September, 1918, near Le Verguier. Whilst a counter-attack was being made on a newly taken trench he conducted a bombing party down a communication trench and got ahead of his party, and brought back 12 enemy who were preparing to join the enemy counter-attacking party’. (1) £500-600
806* WWI. A scarce Great War Light Railway Company Operations MM, MSM group of three to Colour Sergeant Major A. Alexander, Royal Engineers Military Medal, G.V.R. (138576 Sjt: A.C.S.Mjr:-A. Alexander.2/L.R.O.Coy R.E.), Victory Medal (138576 C.Q.M.Sjt. A. Alexander. R.E.), Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (138576 Sjt:-A.C.S. Mjr:-A. Alexander. 2/L.R.O.Coy R.E.), good very fine and better, in a small glazed display case MM London Gazette 16.7.1918 138576 Sjt. (A.Coy.S./M.) A. Alexander, R.E. (Norfolk) ‘For Bravery in the Field’. MSM London Gazette 17.6.1918 138576 Sjt. (A./Coy. S./M.) A. Alexander, Rr.E. (King’s Lynn) ‘In recognition of valuable services rendered with the Armies in the Field during the present war’. The Light Railway Company, The Company consisted of approximately 200 men, many of whom were Drivers, Brakesman, Guards, Wagon Repairers, Traffic controllers etc. Their role was to run the trains with the tracks being laid by the RE Railway Construction Companies. (3) £350-400
807* WWI. A pair to Private G. Johnson, Somerset Light Infantry, India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (203464 Pte. G. Johnson, 2 Bn. Som. L.I.), British War Medal (203616 Pte. G.R. Johnson. Som.L.I.), good very fine (2
£70-100
808* WWI. A Great War Gallantry group to Lieutenant-Colonel W.E. Peel, DSO, Camel Transport Corps Later R.A.S.C., twice Mentioned in Despatches Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver gilt and enamel with integral top riband Bar, 191415 Star (Capt. W.E. Peel. Camel T.C.), British War and Victory Medals with M.I.D. oakleaves (Lt.Col. W.E. Peel.), extremely fine, mounted for wearing, with original ribands and fitted case, plus dress miniature awards in Elkington case, with copied service papers D.S.O. London Gazette 1.1.1918, M.I.D. London Gazette 1.12.1916, M.I.D. London Gazette 12.1.1918. Lieutenant-Colonel Willoughby Ewart Peel, born in 1882, a native of Halte Gianaclis, San Stephano, Alexandria, served in the Egypt Theatre of War from 14.12.1915, Captain 14.12.1915, Major 9.11.19.16, Lieutenant Colonel 21.3.1918. (4) £1500-2000
167
809* WWI. A Great War Casualty group to Sergeant A.F. Giles, Canadian Infantry, died 9.9.1919 Victory Medal (443471 Sjt. A.T. Giles. 54-Can.Inf.), Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R., reverse engraved ‘443471 Sgt. A.T. Giles.), Bronze Memorial Plaque (Alfred Giles Thomas) in card packaging, extremely fine, with two enamel 54th Battalion sweetheart badges and riband bar plus a gelatin photograph titled ‘Inspection of the 4th Canadian Division by his Majesty the King, Dominion Day, 1916’, 11.5 x 29cm 443471 Sergeant Alfred Thomas Giles, enlisted with the 54th Battalion (Kootenay) Canadian Infantry in Vernon, British Columbia 12.10.1915, served on the Western Front with the regiment, died of pneumonia 9.2.1919, Giles is buried in Burstwick (All Saints) Churchyard, Yorkshire, the town in which his wife was the landlady of the Hare and Hounds Inn. (6) £100-150
811* WWII. Campaign Medals comprising, 1939-1945 Star with genuine Battle of Britain clasp, Atlantic Star, Africa Star with 8th Army clasp, Pacific Star, Burma Star, Italy Star, France and Germany Star, War Medal, generally extremely fine (8)
810* WWI. A Great War Casualty group to Private W.A. Calow, North Staffordshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (27030 Pte. W.A. Calow. N. Staff. R.), Bronze Memorial Plaque (Walter Archibald Calow), extremely fine with scroll and original card scroll holder addressed to ‘Mrs F.E. Calow, 179 Belgrave Gate, Leicester’
£600-800
812* WWII & Korea. A group of eight to Stoker Mechanic J.O. Henderson, MID, Royal Navy, 1939-1945 Star, Africa Star with North Africa 1942-43 clasp, Burma Star, Italy Star, War Medal with M.I.D. oakleaf, Naval General Service 1915-62, G.VI.R., one clasp, Malaya (C/KX834546 J.O. Henderson Sto Mech. R.N.), Korea 1950-53, 1st Britt Omn type (C/KX.834546. J.O. Henderson. S.M. R.N.), United Nations for Korea, very fine and better, mounted for wearing
27030 Private Walter Archibald Calow, born in Desford, Leicestershire 1886, served during the Great War with the 7th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment, killed in action South of Baghdad, Mesopotamia 28.2.1917, Calow is commemorated in the Basra Memorial, Iraq. (3) £150-200
(8)
168
£200-300
Lot 814 813* WWII. A pair to Guardsman P. McDonald, Scots Guards, War Medal, General Service 1918-62, G.VI.R., one clasp, Palestine (2693384 Gdsmn. P. Mc Donald: S.Gds.), good very fine, mounted for wearing (2)
£70-100
814* WWII. A ‘1944’ DFC group of six attributable to Warrant Officer D. Clarke, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Distinguished Flying Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated 1944, in Royal Mint case of issue, 1939-1945 Star, Air Crew Europe Star with France and Germany clasp, Italy Star, Defence and War Medals, extremely fine Sold with a typed document referring to Clarke. DFC London Gazette 27.3.1945 Douglas Clarke (927547. R.A.F.V.R., 218 Sqn. (6) £1400-1600
815* Zulu. South Africa 1877-79, one clasp, 1879 (1770. Pte T.F. Cooper. A.S.C.), nearly extremely fine (1)
£300-400
Lot 814 169
EDGED WEAPONS 817* Axe head. An iron double axe head, engraved throughout, shows signs of age, 25.5cm long (1)
£100-150
818* Bayonets. A German bayonet, c. 1860, the 54.5cm steel yataghan blade stamped ‘E.B.R. WEYERSBERG SOLINGEN’, the cross-guard with downswept quillon stamped ‘3036’, diced rubber grip, 67cm overall, in its scabbard, together with a French Gras bayonet; a Whitetail cutlery bowie knife plus a American ‘EGM’ sheath knife and sheath (4)
£70-100
819* Bayonets. Italian ‘Terni’ bayonet, the 30cm steel blade with cross-guard stamped ‘Terni’, reverse stamped ‘ORA 861’, wooden grips, 41.5cm overall, metal scabbard, together with an Italian model 1887/1916 bayonet (1887 type), the 23cm blade stamped ‘BRESCIA’, wood and resin grips, hooked quillon removed, 36cm overall, in its leather scabbard with brass mounts, together with three other bayonets each with scabbard (5)
816* Austrian Sidearm. An Austrian 1862 Pioneer sidearm with 46cm blade, steel cross-guard stamped ‘1433’, wooden grips with steel rivets, 63cm overall, in its leather and steel scabbard Issued to technical troops and designed for the purpose of clearing woodlands and fascines. (1) £100-150
£100-150
820* Bayonets. WWI U.S. Remington 1917 pattern bayonet, the 43cm blade stamped ‘1917 REMINGTON’, reverse stamped ‘U.S. 14’, wooden grips, 55cm long, in its green composite scabbard with leather frog, together with four other bayonets including a Japanese Arisaka; Enfield 1907 pattern; Remington 1913 pattern (all with scabbards) (5)
821* Bayonets. A Swedish model 1896 Mauser bayonet, the 21cm blade stamped ‘E.A.B.’ reverse stamped with a crown ‘847’, steel tubular grip, 33cm overall, in its steel scabbard with various stamps ‘No47 / No 54’, together with a French Gras bayonet with scabbard; a French Chassepot bayonet lacking scabbard; a Victorian Officer’s sword plus a socket bayonet etc. (7)
£100-150
£100-150
Lot 819
Lot 820
170
822* Bow. Indian steel bow, the two piece construction with Damascus and koftgari decoration, 85cm long (1)
£100-150
824* Commando Knife. A WWII ‘Tom Beasley’ Wilkinson F-S fighting knife, the 17cm blade etched ‘HAND FORGED BY TOM BEASLEY THE FAMOUS SWORD SMITH OF STALINGRAD SWORD FAME’, the reverse etched with Wilkinson manufacturers mark and ‘COMMANDO FIGHTING KNIFE WORLD WAR 19391945’, with gilded cross-guard, ivorine grip and gilt top nut, 29cm overall It is reported that after the war a few hundred of these “Tom Beasley” knives were made for showroom displays. The “Stalingrad Sword” was presented by King George VI to Joseph Stalin in honour of the Russian troops’ defence of the city of Stalingrad. Although the British were not that keen on the Russians, they knew that Hitler would have a hard time invading England as long as the fighting in Russia was draining resources, Burerlein (Robert A.), Allied Military Fighting Knives, 2001 refer. (1) £300-400
823* Knife. A huge bowie knife, the 30.5cm blade with Damascus twist decoration, plated cross-guard and horn grips inset with arrow devices, 46.5cm overall (1)
826 Commando Knife. Thompson (Leroy), Commando Dagger, The Complete Illustrated History of Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife, 1985, hbb, orig. blue cloth, d.j., numerous b/w illusts, 4to, together with a pb publication, plus Flook (Ron), British and Commonwealth Military Knives, 1999, hbb, numerous b/w illusts and other Fighting Knife and Commando reference books plus three modern Wilkinson F-S knife scabbards (13)
827* Commando Knife. WWII period third pattern ‘B2’ fighting knife, the 17cm blackened steel blade with oval cross-guard stamped ‘B2’ with War Department Arrow, ribbed grip and top nut, 29cm overall, in its brown leather scabbard, together with a U.S. M8AI Army bayonet, with 17cm blade, cross-guard stamped ‘U.S. M5A1 MILPAR COL’, diced plastic grip, 28.5cm overall, in its green metal sheath stamped ‘U.S. M8A1’, with webbing frog plus a kukri in its brown leather scabbard
£100-150
(3)
Lot 825 825* Commando Knife. A WWII second pattern F-S fighting knife, the 16.5cm blued steel blade with ‘B2’ stamp and broad arrow of the cross-guard, chequered steel grip and top nut, 29cm overall, in its brown leather scabbard Lot 824
£100-150
(1)
£200-300
171
£100-150
Lot 828
Lot 829
832* Dagger. Indian dagger, the 21cm curved blade with iron twist decoration, koftgari grip, 34cm overall in its conforming scabbard
828* Commando Knife. A fighting knife, with 18.5cm blade, cross-guard stamped ‘SHEFFIELD ENGLAND’ with broad arrow, ribbed swollen grip and top nut, blackened steel throughout, 30cm overall, in its brown leather scabbard (1)
(1)
£100-150
£70-100
829* German Bayonets. A WWII German K98 bayonet, the 25cm steel blade etched ‘Deutsches Afrika Korps’, stamped ‘6051 S’, reverse etched ‘Luftwaffe Stukageschwader 7’, stamped ‘43 fnj’, bakelite grip etched with palm tree and swastika, scabbard stamped ‘S/173 G’, ‘3915 d’, 38.5cm long, together with a Parade bayonet, the 19.5cm blade by ‘E. Pack & Sohne, Solingen’, stag antler grips, with Wermacht eagle, 32cm overall, in its steel scabbard with leather frog, plus two K98 bayonets each with leather frog (4)
£200-300
830* Hungarian Sword. A Hungarian sabre, circa 1700, the 73cm curved blade with cruciform cross-guard, leather grip inset with white metal rosettes, flat steel pommel, 87cm overall (1)
£400-600
831* Hunting Knife. A Japanese hunting knife, the 21cm wide steel blade stamped ‘VALOR 571 JAPAN’, carved antler grips with three rivets and nickel plated pommel, 32.5cm overall (1)
£70-100
Lot 830
172
Lot 833
833* Infantry Sword. A Victorian Infantry Officer’s sword by Henry Wilkinson, serial no ‘23749’, the 84cm blade etched with ‘V.R.’ cypher , ‘Henry Wilkinson Pall London’, steel honeysuckle hilt pierced with ‘V.R.’ cypher, wire-bound fish-skin grip, diced back and domed pommel, 100cm overall (39.25ins), in its steel scabbard (1)
£100-150
Lot 838
834* Infantry Sword. An 1897 pattern Infantry Officer’s sword by Flights Ltd London, the 83cm straight steel blade etched with ‘G.V.R.’ cypher and ‘Flights Ltd London Camberley Aldershot and Woolwich’, plated honeysuckle hilt pierced with ‘G.V.R.’ cypher, fish-skin wire-bound grip, domed pommel and brown leather sword knot, 99cm overall (39ins), in its brown leather scabbard (1)
£100-150
835* Dagger. An Indian Jambiya, the 14cm curved steel blade inset with red and green dots, the grip inlaid with mother of pearl, bone and rosewood with engraved brass terminal, 26cm overall, in its cloth bound scabbard with steel mounts, together with an Indian Kukri, Malayan spear and bronze model of a cannon, 16.5cm barrel on brass carriage (4)
£100-150
836* Japanese Sword. A WWII Japanese Officer’s sword, the 77.5cm plated blade with pierced gilt metal guard, wire-bound wooden grip, gilt metal back strap decorated with chrysanthemum, 90.5cm (1)
Lot 826 837* Khyber Knife. An Indo-Persian Khyber knife, the 17.5cm blade with brass, copper and bone grip with steel rivets, 27.5cm overall, in its leather and wooden scabbard, together with a photographic reproduction Snaffles print ‘Gunners’, 37.5 x 60.5cm, framed and glazed, plus an African fishing spear (3)
£70-100
838* Swords. A copy of a 1796 light Cavalry Sabre, the 83cm curved steel blade with stirrup hilt and leather-bound grip, 94cm overall in its steel scabbard, together with a crude cutlass, probably Chinese, the 57cm curved blade with iron knuckle bow and down-swept quillon, wooden grip, 68cm overall (2)
£100-150
£100-150
839* Masonic Sword. An American Society sword, the 77cm plated blade etched ‘Malthias Schamine’, reverse engraved ‘Knights of St. John’ within scrolls, brass cruciform cross-guard with eagle design, swollen wooden grip and knights head pommel, 94cm overall, in its plated scabbard with brass mounts and red enamel cross (1)
173
£100-150
842* Naval Dirk. A good George III Midshipmans Naval dirk, c.1805, the 24cm blade finely blued and gilded with urn amongst foliage, reverse similarly decorated with military trophies, lacking grip, 31cm overall, in its gilt metal scabbard engraved with acanthus and festoons (1)
£100-150
841* Native American. A tomahawk, the axe head hollowed for a pipe, on a hollowed wooden shaft, 48cm long (1)
£80-120
843* Naval Sword. An 1805 pattern Naval Officer’s sword, the 71cm blade by J.J. Runkel, Solingen, etched with G.R. cypher, with gilt metal langets engraved with fouled anchor, stirrup hilt, wire-bound invory grip and lions head pommel, 83.5cm overall, lacking scabbard and quillon
840* Masonic Sword. An American Masonic sword, plated throughout, the 81cm wavy edge blade with skull and crossbones cross-guard, plastic swollen grip, skull pommel, 98cm overall, lacking scabbard (1)
£200-300
Lot 842
174
(1)
£150-200
844* A massive pruning knife, mid-19th century, probably made as an Exhibition or Trade sample by W. Blore, Nottingham, the 26cm wide folding blade with stag antler grips, brass collar engraved in running script ‘W. Blore MAKER Notts’, with flatted butt and ball pommel, 59cm overall (1)
£300-500
845* Prussian Train Battalion Sword. A WWI Officer’s sword, the 87cm slightly curved blade by Alexander Coppel, etched ‘Westfarisches Train-Bat no.7’ amongst military trophies and rose scrolls, reverse engraved with riders, horses and a waggon, nickel plated guard with downswept quillon, fish-skin grip and domed pommel, 100cm overall, in its metal scabbard (1)
£100-150
846* Scottish Sword. A basket hilt broadsword, early to mid-20th Century, the 83cm blade etched ‘F.E. & J.R. Hopkinson Ltd, Cutlers Est A.D. 1700, Sheffield England’, with crossed keys and ‘D’ beneath asterisk, extensively etched with thistles and scrolls, brass basket pierced with heart shaped devices, lined with red felt, leather covered grip and domed pommel with pierced ball finial, 102cm overall, in its black leather scabbard (1)
Lot 845
£150-200
Lot 845
175
Lot 846
Lot 847
Lot 848
847* Sidearm. A Highland Light Infantry 1856 pattern Pioneer sawback sword, the 57cm blade by WILKINSON LONDON, reverse with War Department stamps, regulation brass stirrup hilt, 70cm overall, in its black leather scabbard with brass mounts stamped MOLE, the top plate of scabbard stamped 6.96 V.3.H.L.I.10. (1)
£150-200
Lot 849
848* Swords and Bayonets. A Victorian Royal Navy Officer’s sword, the 80cm blade by Polk? & Sons, Devonport, etched with fouled anchor and Royal Coat of Arms amongst scrolls, regulation ‘gothic’ gilt metal hilt with fouled anchor and folding side-guard, wire-bound fish-skin grip and lions head pommel, 94cm overall, lacking scabbard, together with a collection of bayonets and daggers including a Martini Henri 1879 pattern sword bayonet, the 65cm sawback blade with various War Department stamps, curved guard stamped ‘3 I.D.A.C, R.A. 6’, diced rubber grips, 79.5cm overall, lacking scabbard, two Volunteer pattern sword bayonets circa 1860 (one lacking scabbard), a triangular socket bayonet, an 1876 pattern triangular socket bayonet stamped ‘WD’ ‘E 73’, with scabbard, a German Parade bayonet with stag antler grips, in its scabbard, plus a kukri and bayonets (18)
£200-300
176
849* Third Reich. A German Kriegsmarine dirk, the 25.5cm plated blade, lacking cutlers markings, with brass cross-guard and cream celluloid grip, eagle pommel, 38.5cm overall, in its brass scabbard, together with a U-boat flag, stamped ‘R. Dienstflg-50x85’ (damaged) (2)
£250-350
850* Third Reich. A good early German Kriegsmarine dirk, the 24.5cm blade by ‘F.W. Holler, Solingen’, etched with sailing ship amongst scrolls, gilt metal crossguard, celluloid wire-bound grip, eagle pommel, 38cm overall, with silver bullion knot, in its brass scabbard with belt (1)
£400-600
851* Tribal Weapons. A collection of African spears, including a spear with 22cm spear head leading to geometric carved wooden haft bound in metal and cane, 150cm overall, a Masai spear head, carved wooden paddle, 159cm overall, plus another carved in the form of a crocodile, 123cm overall (7)
854* U.S. Sword. An American Civil War sword, the 88.5cm slightly curved blade stamped towards the forte ‘U.S. 1864 A.G.M.’, the reverse stamped ‘C. ROBY, W. CHELMSFORD MASS’, wire-bound brown leather grip, brass three-bar guard and domed pommel, 103.5cm overall (1)
£100-150
£100-150
855* Victorian Lance. A 12th Regiment lance, the 32cm steel point mounted on a bamboo haft, with red and white pennant, steel base and white strap, 276cm long (1)
Lot 850
£100-150
852* Tsuba. A collection of four Japanese bronze tsuba, 17th/18th century, including a bronze tsuba signed Otsuryuken Miboku, probably Hamano School, late Edo, decorated with an owl perched on a branch, reverse similarly decorated with a stream, 6 x 5cm, plus an iron tsuba decorated in gold silver and bronze with an elder and companion, 7 x 6cm (4)
£400-600
853* U.S. Sword. An American Civil War sword, the 88.5cm slightly curved blade stamped towards the forte ‘U.S. 1864 A.G.M.’, the reverse stamped ‘C. ROBY, W. CHELMSFORD MASS’, wire-bound brown leather grip, brass three-bar guard and domed pommel, 103.5cm overall (1)
£100-150
Lot 853
Lot 851 Lot 855 177
Lot 854
856* WWI Bayonets. A Simson & Suhl bayonet, the 30cm blade stamped with manufacturers markings, hooked quillon stamped ‘919’, wooden grips, 43cm overall, in its leather scabbard with brass mounts, together with two American 1917 pattern Remington bayonets each with scabbard, a Turkish Ersatz bayonet with shortened blade, in its scabbard plus a Canadian Ross Rifle Co bayonet, lacking scabbard (5)
£100-150
Lot 856 858* WWI Sword. A WWI Officer’s sword, the 84cm blade etched with G.V.R. cypher and strung bugle, the triple barguard pierced with strung bugle wire-bound fishskin grip, diced back and domed pommel, 97cm overall in a plated scabbard, together with a Franco-Prussian War French chassepot bayonet, serial numbers ‘B 85151’, plus an Indian kukri (3)
857* WWI Sword. A WWI Officer’s sword, the 83cm blade by ‘Fenton Brothers Ltd. Sheffield, Sword Cutlers to the War Office’, etched with G.V.R. cypher amongst scrolls, honeysuckle hilt pierced with G.V.R. cypher, wire-bound fish skin grip, diced back and domed pommel, 98cm overall, in its Sam Browne scabbard with frog and belt (1)
£100-150
£100-150
859* WWI. A Great War period trench knife, with 15cm double edge blade, aluminium knuckleduster grip, 27cm overall, in its leather scabbard with fastening strap (1)
£100-150
860* WWI. A German sawback bayonet, the 47.5cm blade by ‘S.J. GREUHAUSEN’, straight steel cross-guard stamped ‘15041’, diced grip, 59cm overall, in its leather scabbard with steel mounts stamped ‘44’ (1)
£100-150
178
Lot 860
862* WWII. A German Parade bayonet, the 24.5cm blade by Alexander Coppel and Sons, plated quillon and pommel with stag antler grips, 37.5cm overall, in its metal scabbard with leather frog together with a German dagger, the 25cm blade by Carl Eickhorn, wavy cross-guard, black diced bakelite grips, 37cm overall, in its black scabbard
864* Bullet Mould. An American steel multi shot mould stamped ‘IDEAL, MIDDLEFIELD, USA’, ‘360344S OX’, with wooden grips, 36cm long, plus a Winchester reloading tool, stamped ‘MANUFACTURED BY THE WINCHESTER REP ARMS CO, NEW HAVEN CONN. U.S.A.’, ‘32. W.C.F. PAT OCT 201874. NOV.7.82.’, 21cm long
(2)
(2)
£150-200
FIREARMS 863* Brunswick Rifle. A British Brunswick percussion rifle, the 76cm circular barrel with plain side lock, fully walnut stocked with brass furniture and cap compartment and sling straps, with ramrod 117.5cm overall with Brunswick bayonet, the 56cm steel blade with brass grip and shield langet, 67.5cm overall (2)
861* WWII. A Russian Soviet Military Shasqua, the 80.5cm blade stamped ‘1942’, brass and wooden grip, 94cm overall, in its leather covered scabbard with brass mounts (1)
£400-600
865* Cannon. A 9-pdr naval cannon, c.1790-1800, with plain cascabel and ring mount and integral trunnions, pitted and painted in black, 295cm (116ins) (1)
Lot 864
£300-500
Lot 863
Lot 866
Lot 865 179
£500-800
866* Firearms. A three-band flintlock musket, the 95.5cm barrel with flintlock action and side-plate, fully stocked with brass furniture, 138.5cm overall, with ramrod, together with a carbine, the 83.5cm barrel with percussion action and side-plate, fully stocked stamped ‘651’, brass furniture with sling strap, 125cm overall, lacking ramrod, plus an African sword, the 50cm blade snake-skin grip and domed metal pommel, 70.5cm overall, in its conforming scabbard (3)
Lot 862
£100-150
£100-150
Lot 868
Lot 869
868* Flintlock Pistol. A New Land service pistol, c.1800, the 23cm circular barrel with proof marks, side-plate engraved ‘Cutler’, brass furniture, walnut stocked with brass buttcap, with swivel ramrod, 39.5cm overall (1)
£500-800
869* Flintlock Pistol. A similar lot (1)
867* Flintlock Pistol. A travelling pistol by C. Parker, Bury St Edmunds c.1800, the 9.8cm octagonal barrel engraved ‘Bury’ with Damascus twist decoration, the sideplate engraved ‘C-Parker’, push on-safety, engraved trigger guard and pineapple finial, fully walnut stocked with vacant silver escutcheon and chequered bag-shape grip, with ramrod, 21cm overall (1)
871* Musket. A British flintlock military musket, the 100cm circular steel barrel with proof marks, sidelock engraved ‘GR’ beneath crown ‘TOWER’, fully walnut stocked with brass thimbles, trigger guard and butt cap, with sling straps and ramrod, 139cm overall (1)
£1400-1600
£500-800
870* Lantaka. A Malaysian swivel cannon (Lantaka), 19th century, the bronze barrel cast with foliate geometric scrolls, flared sighted muzzle, fixed trunnions fitted with a swivel bracket with a tubular cascabel at the rear, 66cm (26ins) long overall, on a later wooden stand (1)
£300-500
£300-500
Lot 870
872* Naval Cannon Shell. A large shell, the brass cartridge with various serial numbers, the projectile painted in green and yellow marked ‘GD 0791 1324’, 125cm high, inert! (1)
Lot 871
180
£100-150
875* Pistol. A plated Remington .41 Over and Under Derringer, serial No.453, the 7.5cm barrel stamped ‘REMINGTON ARMS CO. ILION NY’, diced wooden grips, 13cm overall, in mahogany box inset with brass cartouche (1)
873* Percussion Cap Dispensers. A James Dixon & Sons, Sheffield plated percussion cap dispenser, 7cm long together with two brass dispensers (3)
£600-800
876* Pistol. A Sharps four barrel pistol, Serial No.12771, the 7.5cm barrels with forward sliding action, casing stamped ‘C. SHARPS PATENT JAN 25 1859’, wooden grips, 14cm overall (1)
£300-400
£150-200
879* Powder horn. A flask made of horn and brass, probably 18th century, engraved with roundels, the brass straps engraved with repeating geometric designs, twin rings and long nozzle and iron mount, 20cm long (1)
£80-120
880* Revolver. A Hopkins & Allen rimfire five-shot revolver, the 2.5cm barrel with plated casing stamped ‘HOPKINS & ALLEN M’F’G’ Co, DICTATOR. PAT MAY 27 79’, moulded bakelite grips, 15.5cm overall (1)
874* Pistol. A Remington .41 Over and Under Derringer, serial No.100, the 7.5cm barrel stamped ‘REMINGTON ARMS CO. ILION NY’, brown wooden grips, 13cm overall (1)
£80-120
877* Pistol. A percussion single shot pistol probably American, the 5cm twostage barrel with rounded steel casing, crude trigger guard and wooded grips, 14cm overall (1)
£200-300
£400-600
Lot 875
878* Pistol. An American Military percussion pistol, the 15cm barrel stamped ‘1845 RC P’, the side-plate stamped ‘MP AMES, SPRINGFIELD, MASS’, ‘USN 1845’, brass band, trigger guard and butt cap, and swivel ramrod, 30cm overall (1)
£200-300
181
881* Revolver. An American Prescot sixshot rimfire revolver, Serial No.215, the 8.8cm octagonal barrel stamped ‘E.A. PRESTCOTT WORCESTER. MASS PAT’D OCT 2 1860’, brass casing, rosewood grips, 23cm overall (1)
£200-300
882* Revolver. A Reynolds Plant’s & Hotchkiss five-shot rimfire revolver, Serial No.617, the 7.5cm barrel stamped ‘REYNOLDS PLANT’S & HOTCHKISS NEWHAVEN CONN’, ‘MERWIN & BRAY NEW YORK’, cylinder stamped ‘PATENTED JULY 12 185? & JULY 21 1863’, plated casing and wooden grips, 20cm overall, worn (1)
£200-300
Lot 883
883* Revolver. A plated Lee Arms & Co five-shot revolver, the 8.8cm barrel stamped ‘RED JACKET No?’, ‘THE LEE ARMS CO, WILKES BARRE PA’, moulded bakelite grips, 21cm overall, in mahogany box with Winchester Repeating Arms Co cartridge box (1)
887* Revolver. A Remington Army sixshot revolver, Serial No.2555, the 14cm octagonal barrel stamped ‘PATENTED SEPT 14 1858, E. REMINGTON & SONS. ILION. NEW YORK. U.S.A. NEW MODEL’, brass trigger guard, wooden grips, 35cm overall
£500-800
(1)
886* Revolver. A Colt 6-shot percussion revolver, Serial No. 34893, the 20cm barrel stamped ‘ADDRESS COL. SAML COLT U.S. ARMY’, brass trigger-guard and wooden grips, 36.5cm overall 884* Revolver. A Colt five-shot rimfire revolver, Serial No.7529, the 4.5cm barrel stamped ‘COLT’S PT F.A. MFG. CO. HARTFORD. CT. U.S.A.’, wooden grips, 15cm overall (1)
(1)
£1000-1500
888* Rifle. A Victorian .577 / 450 Martini Henry rifle, the 83cm barrel stamped with ordinance and proof marks, adjustable sight, the frame stamped with crown above ‘V.R.’ ‘Enfield 1879 III. 1.’ with two sling straps, fully stocked with butt stamped ‘R.M. Enfield III 1.’, with ramrod, 126.5cm overall (1)
£200-300
Lot 887
885* Revolver. A plated Lion No.3 rimfire .38 six-shot revolver, Serial No. 824, the 6.5cm barrel with plated casing stamped ‘38 CAL’, rosewood gips, 20cm overall (1)
£200-300
Lot 888
182
£500-800
£400-600
Lot 889
Lot 890 889* Rifle. An American Kentucky flintlock rifle, late 19th Century, the 100.5cm octagonal barrel stamped ‘W. HENRY BOULTON PENN’, engraved side-lock, fully stocked inset with silvered fish shape devices the cheek piece inset with brass star and other shapes, brass cap compartment and furniture, fish-tail butt, with ram-rod, 139cm overall (1)
891* Target Rifle. An American percussion sporting rifle by Whitmore & Wolf, Pittsburgh, the 81.5cm octagonal steel barrel with engraved side-lock, sighted back, double trigger and scroll trigger guard, 3/4 striped stock with fishtail butt, brass furniture probably later, with ramrod, 118cm overall (1)
892* Rifle. A Winchester 38-56 repeating rifle, the 52.5cm octagonal barrel stamped ‘MANUFACTURED BY THE WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. NEW HAVEN. CONN. U.S.A.’, various proof and model marks, steel casing, 3/4 stocked with pivotal adjustable sight, 102.5cm overall (1)
£300-500
£800-1200
890* Signal Gun. A decorative cast iron signal gun, the barrel heavily cast with lions-head and floral sprigs, four stage and tapering integral trunnions, 46cm overall on a four wheel stepped wooden carriage (1)
£200-300
Lot 891
Lot 892 183
£1400-1600
MILITARIA 893* Arrow Heads. A Japanese bronze arrow head lacquered in gold, 25cm long, together with another with steel head, 26cm long (2)
£70-100
894* Fascism. A WWII Italian pennant, embroidered in gold ‘F. ROCCA’, with Fascist badge, reverse embroidered ‘me ne frego’, 55cm long together with related badges including Youth Badges (3)
£100-150
895* Guillemin (Emile, 1841-1907). Eclaireur à cheval, fine bronze with brown patina, signed, mounted on 30cm (11.75ins) high, 34cm (13.5ins) wide, mounted on polished marble socle (1)
£500-800
Lot 895
896* HMS Victory. A desk piece made from oak and copper sheathing taken from HMS Victory, with roller blotter carved with decking bearing copper presentation plaque engraved ‘Lieutenant Command C.P. Addis M.B.E. Royal Navy Commanding Officer HMS VICTORY 6 January 1982 to 7 January 1986’ on an oak stand with four circular weights each stamped ‘COPPER CLENCH H.M.S. VICTORY 1759’, 35cm wide (1)
£100-150
Lot 897
184
900* Native American. A pair of moccasins, each of leather with beaded decoration, approx. 27cm long (1)
£100-150
901* Officer’s Belt. A Victorian cross belt of the Royal Army Medical Corps, with foliate brass mounts on leather belt with gold bullion, together with another plus a conversation ear trumpet with black plastic end pieces (3)
Lot 898 897* Lancers. A British Lance cap, with brass mounts and red and black plumes, bearing brass helmet plate for the Royal Lancers, with kings crown and battle honours, with chin scales and original lining (1)
£700-1000
898* Lobster Pot helmet. An English lobster pot helmet, the scull with raised comb, turned peak and sliding nasal-bar retained by a wing-headed screw, the rear with plume holder, with articulated neck guard, and broad pendant cheek-pieces, 41cm long, 31cm high, together with a breast plate, with raised medial ridge and shallow flared skirt (2)
899* Militaria and Miscellaneous. A box cased Astro-Compass Type 02-A, Ref. No. 6A/890, good original condition, together with a group of military & RAF insignia, uniform tabs, buttons and badges, further with two pre-war London Underground train header-boards, one inscribed “To and From Windsor - for the Racecourse”, and sundry miscellaneous items and ephemera including cased brass balance scales and weights and photographic glass-plate negatives and sundries (-)
£100-150
902* Regimental badges. A large collection of military cap badges, including Royal Naval Division Drake Section, Royal Tank Corps by Gaunt, Machine Gun Corps, Artists Rifles, Devonshire Regiment, Paratroopers, together with a cloth badges etc. (a carton)
903* Royal Navy. A comprehensive collection of naval cloth badges in Stoker P.O., Signalman, Gunners Mate etc., mounted on a board for display (80)
£80-120
£70-100
£700-1000
Lot 901
Lot 903
185
£100-150
904* Scrimshaw. A pair of cow horns scrimshawed with portraits including William Shakespeare and classical images amongst foliate decoration, centrally bound in leather, 53cm wide, mounted on a wooden shield (1)
£200-300
Lot 904
905* Sextant. A Marine sextant by Henry Hughes & Son Ltd, London, Serial No 51944, finished in black with brass mounts, in mahogany box with certificate and matching serial number, dated 29/8/46 (1)
£100-150
906* Shields. A matched pair of Indian brass shields, each shaped four bosses with foliate engraving throughout, the reverse with pads and four rings, 39cm high x 27cm wide (2)
£80-120
907* Joseph Stalin. A bronze plaque signed Albin Navotny, c.1940s, cast in relief depicting Stalin titled ‘J.V. STALIN GENERALISSIMUS SSSR’, 25.5 x 19.5cm
908* Swagger sticks. A collection of regimental swagger sticks including a Malacca stick with silver ball pommel to The Border Regiment, Birmingham hallmarks, date letter rubbed, 71cm long plus a silver top Malacca cane, WWII and later German felt hats and kit, plus a cast iron plaque depicting soldiers marching, polychrome decorated on a gold ground 30.5 x 45.5cm, and WWI & WWII paperwork (a carton)
£70-100
909* Third Reich. A collection of Third Reich badges (predominantly copies) including a pennant with swastika on a white and red ground, a Workers armband (a carton)
£150-200
910* Third Reich. A WWII U-boat clock, the 16cm circular silvered dial with black Arabic numeral, single winding hole, with Wehrmacht eagle above ‘M’, serial no. ‘18220 N’, the brass movement stamped ‘15106’, in a period oak display case, 17 x 25cm
Displayed in schools and Government buildings. (1) £100-150
(1)
Lot 906
Lot 909 186
£300-500
915* WWI Binoculars. A fine pair of Kriegsmarine binoculars by Hensoldt, 10 x 50, No. 70380, with fully adjustable eyepieces and lens hood, leather covered body tubes, stamped ‘DF.10 Hensoldt Wetzlar D.R.P. 70380’, additionally stamped ‘HENSOLDT DIAL YT 10x’, good clear optics, 25cm tall, in leather case
911* Third Reich. A WWII relic of a Waffen SS helmet bearing decal with Toten Kopt cap badge, mounted on a pine block inscribed ‘Waffen SS Helmet and Totenkopt Cap Badge, found on the outskirts of Kurland Peninsular Latvia Valley of Death. 1970 and a shrapnel piece is embedded in the helmet above right of decal’, base 47 x 31cm (1)
(1)
£100-150
913* Tribal Art. A Samoan wooden club, of lozenge form carved with geometric repeating decoration, 38cm long (1)
£100-150
914* Tribal Art. A wooden shield probably Cameroon, with traces of paint pigment and carved with lines, piereced with holes bound in leather, with leather bound handle, 45cm high x 21.5cm wide, plus an Aboriginal eucalyptus wood boomerang, 48cm wide (2)
916* WWI Binoculars. A fine pair of Kriegsmarine binoculars by Carl Zeiss, 10 x 50, No.627810, with fully adjustable eyepieces and lens hood retaining original spring, leather covered body tubes , stamped ‘CARL ZEISS JENA’, ‘D.F.10x, 627810’, with ray shades, 26cm tall, in leather case (1)
£100-150
912* Tipstaff. A Tipstaff, the cylindrical pewter body engraved ‘YORK 1762’ with pierced pommel and black painted grip, 28cm overall (1)
£500-700
£350-400
Lot 914
187
£500-700
917* WWI Binoculars. A pair of Great War period binoculars by Hensoldt Wetzlar, 6 x 36 No.68664, stamped D.R.P. (Deutsche Reichs Patent), adjustable eyepieces, leather covered body tubes, good clear optics, 16.5cm high, in original leather case with spare eyepieces to inner lid, together with Stollberg (O). Reichsprasident Hindenburg, pub.1927 featuring an illustration of General Hindenburg wearing the same binoculars (2)
£100-150
919* WWI Trench Art. A collection of Great War sweetheart badges and trench art souvenirs, including an officer’s hat brooch made from a copper penny and brass shell case bearing ‘RE’ (Royal Engineers), a similar piece made from a 1914 silver sixpence with bullet bar brooch, others made from pennies, including ‘Soon Dot x’, ‘V 1918’, a button hook from a 303 Enfield plus similar pocket knife inscribed ‘YPRES’ (15)
SRD bottles were passed around by troops before going over the top. (4) £50-80
(1)
Oflag VIIA was prisoner of war camp for Polish Officers near Munich, Germany. Approximately 5000 Officers and 300 regular soldiers were detained there. (1) £70-100
£100-150
920* WWI. A Great War period “S.R.D.” (Service Rum Dilute) Flagon, two-tone salt glaze painted ‘S.R.D.’, base impressed ‘BRISTOL’, 33cm high, together with a WWI-period charcoal sketch of a Nigerian soldier, ‘Pte. Idi Gungara, Nigeria Regt.’, signed ‘D.L. from F.J. 1917?’, 56 x 34.5cm, in a period oak frame, glazed, plus a pair of WWI framed prints “Hearts as One” and “The Unexpected Return”, 48 x 69cm, framed and glazed
918* WWI boots. A pair of Great War Officer’s boots, brown leather with fastening buckles and nickel plated spurs, 44cm high
922* WWII. An interesting box presumably made by a Polish Prisoner of War, the square card box painted with what huts before the mountainous landscape of Murnau, Germany, enclosing a wooden shield carved with Polish eagle and icon to the centre, the interior of the box inscribed ‘OFLAG VIIA MURNA’ and ‘AMICI PROBANTUR REBUS ADVERSIS’ (friends are proved by adversity), 18.5 x 17cm
921* WWII. An Officer’s uniform of the Royal Engineers, comprising tunic with brass buttons by Gaunts, two pips to each shoulder strap, ‘Ubique’ collar badges and medal riband bar, trousers and great coat, bearing label to ‘2/Lt. G. Alexander., R.E.’, dated ‘18-7-44’ (1)
£70-100
£80-120
188
923* WWII - Royal Artillery “Vickers Gun”. A competition display trophy, dated 1943, an evocative desk-piece representing a 25-pounder field-gun, trench art style fabrication of aluminium & brass construction, well-detailed with gun-laying ancillaries, elevation-quadrant, trimmingwheel, splinter-shield etc., mounted on a raised ebonised dais stand with “roped” balustrade surround and three standing shells complement, and having applied plaque inscribed “Vickers Gun - 23 Group Competition 1943”, length 13.5 ins (34cm) (1)
£150-250
INFORMATION FOR BUYERS AFTER THE AUCTION Online results If you weren’t present or able to follow the auction live, you can find results for the sale on our website shortly after the sale has ended. Payment The price you pay is the amount at which the auctioneer’s hammer falls (the hammer price), plus a buyer’s premium (a percentage of the final hammer price) and vat where applicable. You will be issued with an invoice made out to the name and address provided on your registration form. Please note successful bids made via the-saleroom.com cannot be invoiced or paid for until the day after an auction. A live bidding fee of 3% + vat will be added to your invoice.
METHODS OF PAYMENT Cheque Cheques will only be accepted on the day of the sale by prior arrangement (please contact our office for further information). Cheques by post will be accepted but a period of 5 working days will be required for the cheque to clear before purchases can be collected or posted. Cash Payments can be made at the Cashier’s Office, either during or after the sale. Debit Card There is no additional charge for purchases made with these cards. Debit cards drawn on an overseas bank, however, will be subject to a 2% surcharge. Credit Cards Visa and Mastercard are accepted, a 2% surcharge will apply. It is a good idea to let your card provider know in advance if you are intending to buy something. This can help cut down the time we need to seek authority when you come to pay. Bank Transfer All transfers must state the relevant invoice no. If transferring from a foreign currency, the amount we receive must be the total due after the currency conversion and the deduction of any bank charges. Collection/Postage/Delivery If you attend the auction in person and are successful in your bid, you are free to collect your item once payment has been made. Successful commission or live bids will be invoiced to you the day after the sale. When it is possible for our in-house packing department to send your purchase(s), a charge for postage/packing/insurance will be included in your invoice. Where it is not possible for our in-house packing department to send your item you will be required to make your own arrangements or to contact Mailboxes etc (tel: 01793 525009) who may be able to help. We provide a monthly delivery service to Central London, usually on Wednesday of the week following an auction. Payment must be received before this option can be requested. A charge will be added to your invoice for this service.
189
Conditions of Sale and Business 1. The Seller warrants to the Auctioneer and the buyer that he is the true owner or is properly authorised to sell the property by the true owner and is able to transfer good and marketable title to the property free from any third party claims. 2. (a) The highest bidder to be the buyer. If during the auction the Auctioneer considers that a dispute has arisen he has absolute authority to settle it or re-offer the lot. The Auctioneer may at his sole discretion determine the advance of bidding or refuse a bid, divide any lot, combine any two or more lots or withdraw any lot without prior notice. (b) Where goods are bought at auction by a buyer who has entered into an agreement with another or others that the other or others (or some of them) shall abstain from bidding for the goods and the buyer or other party or one of the other parties is a dealer (as defined in the Auction Biddings Agreement Act 1927) the buyer warrants that the goods are bought bona fide on joint account. 3. The buyer shall pay the price at which a lot is knocked down by the Auctioneer to the buyer (“the hammer price”) together with a premium of 19.5% of the hammer price. Where the lot is marked by an asterisk the premium will be subject to VAT at 23.40% which under the Auctioneer’s Margin Scheme will form part of the buyer’s premium on our invoice and will not be separately identified (the premium added to the hammer price will hereafter collectively be referred to as “the total sum due”). By making any bid the buyer acknowledges that his attention has been drawn to the fact that on the sale of any lot the Auctioneer will receive from the seller commission at its usual rates in addition to the said premium of 19.5% and assents to the Auctioneer receiving the said commission. 4. (a) The buyer shall forthwith upon the purchase give in his name and permanent address and pay to the Auctioneer immediately after the conclusion of the auction the total sum due. (b) The buyer may be required to pay down during the course of the sale the whole or any part of the total sum due, and if he fails to do so after such request the lot or lots may at the Auctioneer's absolute discretion be put up again and resold immediately. (c) The buyer shall at his own expense take away any lot or lots purchased no later than five working days after the auction day. (d) The Auctioneer may at his own discretion agree credit terms with a buyer and extend the time limits for collection in special cases but otherwise payment shall be deemed to have been made only after the Auctioneer has received cash or a sterling banker’s draft or the buyer's cheque has been cleared. 5. (a) If the buyer fails to pay for or take away any lot or lots pursuant to clause 4 or breaches any other condition of that clause the Auctioneer as agent for the seller shall be entitled after consultation with the seller to exercise one or other of the following rights: (i) Rescind the sale of that or any other lots sold to the buyer who defaults and re-sell the lot or lots whereupon the defaulting buyer shall pay to the Auctioneer any shortfall between the proceeds of that sale after deduction of costs of re-sale and the total sum due. Any surplus shall belong to the seller. (ii) Proceed for damages for breach of contract. (b) Without prejudice to the Auctioneer's rights hereunder if any lots or lots are not collected within five days or such longer period as the Auctioneer may have agreed otherwise, the Auctioneer may charge the buyer a storage charge of £1.00 + VAT at the current rate per lot per day. (c) Ownership of the lot purchased shall not pass to the buyer until he has paid to the Auctioneer the total sum due. 6. (a) The seller shall be entitled to place a reserve on any lot and the Auctioneer shall have the right to bid on behalf of the seller for any lot on which a reserve has been placed. A seller may not bid on any lot on which a reserve has been placed. (b) Where any lot fails to sell, the Auctioneer shall notify the seller accordingly. The seller shall make arrangements either to re-offer the lot for sale or to collect the lot and may be asked to pay a commission not exceeding 50% of the selling commission and any special expenses incurred in cataloguing the lot. (c) If such arrangements are not made within seven days of the notification the Auctioneer is empowered to sell the lot by auction or by private treaty at not less than the reserve price and to receive from the seller the normal selling commission and special expenses.
7. Any representation or statement by the Auctioneer in any catalogue, brochure or advertisement of forthcoming sales as to authorship, attribution, genuineness, origin, date, age, provenance, condition or estimated selling price is a statement of opinion only. Every person interested should exercise and rely on his own judgement as to such matters and neither the Auctioneer nor his servants or agents are responsible for the correctness of such opinions. No warranty whatsoever is given by the Auctioneer or the seller in respect of any lot and any express or implied warranties are hereby excluded. 8. (a) Notwithstanding any other terms of these conditions, if within fourteen days of the sale the Auctioneer has received from the buyer of any lot notice in writing that in his view the lot is a deliberate forgery and within fourteen days after such notification the buyer returns the same to the Auctioneer in the same condition as at the time of the sale and satisfies the Auctioneer that considered in the light of the entry in the catalogue the lot is a deliberate forgery then the sale of the lot will be rescinded and the purchase price of the same refunded. "A deliberate forgery" means a lot made with intention to deceive. (b) A buyer's claim under this condition shall be limited to any amount paid to the Auctioneer for the lot and for the purpose of this condition the buyer shall be the person to whom the original invoice was made out by the Auctioneer. 9. Lots may be removed during the sale after full settlement in accordance with 4(d) hereof. 10. All goods delivered to the Auctioneer's premises will be deemed to be delivered for sale by auction unless otherwise stated in writing and will be catalogued and sold at the Auctioneer's discretion and accepted by the Auctioneer subject to all these conditions. In the case of miscellaneous books, the Auctioneer reserves the right to extract and dispose of books that, in the opinion of the Auctioneer at his absolute discretion, have no saleable value and, therefore, might detract from the saleability of the rest of the lot and the Auctioneer shall incur no liability to the seller, in respect of the books disposed of. By delivering the goods to the Auctioneer for inclusion in his auction sales each seller acknowledges that he/she accepts and agrees to all the conditions. 11. (a) Unless otherwise instructed in writing all goods on the Auctioneer's premises and in their custody will be held insured against the risks of fire, burglary, water damage and accidental breakage or damage. The value of the goods so covered will be the hammer price, or in the case of unsold lots the best bid, or in the case of loss or damage prior to the sale that which the specialised staff of the Auctioneer shall in their absolute discretion estimate to be the auction value of such goods. (b) The Auctioneer shall not be responsible for damage to or the loss, theft, or destruction of any goods not so insured because of the owner’s written instructions. 12. The Auctioneer shall remit the proceeds of the sale to the seller thirty days after the day of the auction provided that the Auctioneer has received the total sum due from the buyer. In all other cases the Auctioneer will remit the proceeds of the sale to the seller within seven days of the receipt by the Auctioneer of the total sum due. The Auctioneer will not be deemed to have received the total sum due until after any cheque delivered by the buyer has been cleared. In the event of the Auctioneer exercising his right to rescind the sale his obligation to the seller hereunder lapses. 13. In the case of the seller withdrawing instructions to the Auctioneer to sell any lot or lots, the Auctioneer may charge a fee of 12.5% of the Auctioneer's middle estimate of the auction price of the lot withdrawn together with Value Added Tax thereon and any expenses incurred in respect of the lot or lots. 14. The Auctioneer’s current standard notices and information (i.e. Collation and Amendments) will apply to any contract with the Auctioneer as if incorporated herein. 15. These conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English Law.
#
DOMINIC WINTER SPECIALIST AUCTIONEERS AND VALUERS Saleroom and Offices: Mallard House, Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Gloucestershire GL7 5UQ Tel: 01285 860006 Fax: 01285 862461
COMMISSION SLIP Please Bid on my behalf at the sale on 15/16 May 2014 up to the amount shown. I acknowledge that I will be required to pay a buyer's premium at the current rate.
Lot ÂŁ Brief Description ______________________________________________________________________________________
Name: Address
Telephone: Email:
Fax:
Postage can be arranged for most purchases. For UK and European customers we use DPD (formerly Parceline) or Royal Mail: a separate charge is added to the invoice (minimum ÂŁ15) and parcels are despatched as soon as possible after payment has been received. All framed and glazed items and all lots for overseas customers outside Europe will be sent to Mail Boxes Etc. (tel: Swindon 01793 525009) or R.F. Shipping (tel: London 0845 873 6240). Both of these companies will quote and invoice separately. Please note: DWBA invoices must be paid before consignments are handed to third party shipping companies.
The nearest train station to the saleroom is Kemble (BR) which is on the London (Paddington) to Worcester Shrub Hill line. Train journey times from London are on average 90 minutes whether direct or with one change, and run at about one per hour from early until late. Several of the trains in each direction are direct and about half the services require a brief change at Swindon. Customers are advised to check train times and book as early as possible for the best range of ticket services and discounts.
National Rail Enquiries:
08457 484950
Telephone advance train ticket booking:
08457 000125 (First Great Western)
Online train timetables and online ticket bookings:
www.nationalrail.co.uk
Taxis from Kemble Station (5 miles/10 minutes) Brian's Cabs Cirencester Radio Cars Cirencester Taxis
01285 655299 / 07980 579947 01285 650850 01285 642767
Taxis from Swindon Station (12 miles/25minutes) V-Cars
01793 701701
Cirencester Visitor Information Centre
+44 (0)1285 654180 cirencestervic@cotswold.gov.uk
Catalogue Produced by Jamm Design – 020 7424 7830 info@jammdesign.co.uk
Photography by Ben Cavanna – 07968 342013 bencavanna@gmail.com
Lot 726
Back Cover: Lot 361