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Auction date Tuesday 4 November 2025 10:00 - 17:30 GMT
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Total lots: 708

THREE 19th CENTURY FRENCH BAYONETS
Lot 480 Unsold
THREE 19th CENTURY FRENCH BAYONETS
one cruciform, in scabbard (3)
Estimate: £40 - £60
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
AN 1869 FRENCH BAYONET
Lot 481 Sold
AN 1869 FRENCH BAYONET
with brass grip, in scabbard
Hammer price: £35
Estimate: £30 - £50
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
A COLLECTION OF EPAULETTES AND RANK BADGES FOR THE MERCHANT NAVY, ARMY AND POLICE
Lot 482 Unsold
A COLLECTION OF EPAULETTES AND RANK BADGES FOR THE MERCHANT NAVY, ARMY AND POLICE
the British army section including a pair of full dress gold wire epaulettes possibly for a Field Marshall with velvet crown and laurel leaves; a selection of American items including bullion knot for mess-dress, eight epaulette shoulder insignia for private rank; the merchant navy items including three pairs of rank cloth epaulettes with metal buttons, and a police rank badge (a lot)
Estimate: £50 - £100
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
A QUANTITY OF MILITARY WEBBING
Lot 483 Sold
A QUANTITY OF MILITARY WEBBING
and kit, post-war
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £30 - £50
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
A COLLECTION OF 'DELHI SPEARMAN' MAGAZINES
Lot 484 Sold
A COLLECTION OF 'DELHI SPEARMAN' MAGAZINES
'The Regimental Journal of the 9th/12th Royal Lancers'
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £50 - £100
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
A COLLECTION OF MILITARY UNIFORM
Lot 485 Sold
A COLLECTION OF MILITARY UNIFORM
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £30 - £50
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
A 19th CENTURY HERBARIUM
Lot 486 Sold
A 19th CENTURY HERBARIUM
circa 1870s - 80s, of pressed specimens mounted on card and annotated by hand (some foxing)
Hammer price: £140
Estimate: £100 - £200
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
A GROUP OF LONDON TRAM TICKETS
Lot 487 Unsold
A GROUP OF LONDON TRAM TICKETS
including a 'Last Tram Week July 1952' ticket, and others, with two Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch platform tickets
Estimate: £30 - £50
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
H.C. ('HARRY') BECK: LONDON UNDERGROUND MAP
Lot 488 Unsold
H.C. ('HARRY') BECK: LONDON UNDERGROUND MAP
early pocket edition of the famous diagrammatic underground/tube map, numbered (750M -1-33), printed by Waterlow & Sons Limited, London, Dunstable and Watford, the map with two folds, with 'Places of Interest, &c.', and 'Theatres' to the verso, the title with 'We should welcome your comments...' and note that Cockfosters extension to 'open midsummer 1933', 16 x 22.7cm (some staining, wear, and tears along folds)
Estimate: £400 - £800
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
AN EDWARDIAN ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF INDIGENOUS AMERICAN 'INDIANS'
Lot 489 Sold
AN EDWARDIAN ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF INDIGENOUS AMERICAN 'INDIANS'
taken against painted backdrops, and annotated, probably William 'Buffalo Bill' Cody's 'Wild West Show', at Olympia, including; 'A group at Olympia, Feb 1903', 'Philip, the biggest Indian at Olympia', etc
Hammer price: £320
Estimate: £100 - £200
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
A 19th CENTURY SKETCHBOOK
Lot 490 Sold
A 19th CENTURY SKETCHBOOK
with many sketches after old masters, leather bound 10.5 x 18cm
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £30 - £50
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
A COLLECTION OF RAILWAY EPHEMERA;
Lot 491 Sold
A COLLECTION OF RAILWAY EPHEMERA;
waybills, instructions, reports, rules and regulations, etc, for various companies, 19th century and later, mostly contained in two ring binders
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £40 - £80
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
THE BEATLES: OFFICIAL FAN CLUB PHOTO CARD
Lot 492 Unsold
THE BEATLES: OFFICIAL FAN CLUB PHOTO CARD
bearing probably printed signatures (creased, tear), with newspapers from the time of John Lennon's death, and two Beatles books; 'The Beatles Anthology' and 'Imagine John Yoko'
Estimate: £60 - £100
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
STAR WARS WEEKLY, INCLUDING No. 1, Feb 8, 1978
Lot 493 Sold
STAR WARS WEEKLY, INCLUDING No. 1, Feb 8, 1978
(Marvel Comics Group) a collection contained in plastic sleeves, in three binders
Hammer price: £90
Estimate: £60 - £100
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
A GOOD COLLECTION OF 1930'S BOXING PHOTOS
Lot 494 Sold
A GOOD COLLECTION OF 1930'S BOXING PHOTOS
Photos of different boxers and fights, many annotated/named to the back, with photographer's studio stamps
Hammer price: £360
Estimate: £100 - £200
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
A QUANTITY OF EPHEMERA
Lot 495 Unsold
A QUANTITY OF EPHEMERA
WWII and later
Estimate: £30 - £50
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
AN INDENTURE, DATED 1675
Lot 496 Unsold
AN INDENTURE, DATED 1675
(framed)
Estimate: £40 - £60
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
A COLLECTION OF RAILWAY EPHEMERA;
Lot 497 Sold
A COLLECTION OF RAILWAY EPHEMERA;
including a London Transport 1976 'Visitor's London' map, an unused L and S.W.R number taker's book with marbled covers, and other items
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
A QUANTITY OF PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS
Lot 498 Sold
A QUANTITY OF PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS
1920s/30s, with other ephemera, football programmes, books etc
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £30 - £50
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
'LITHOGRAPHIC SKETCH OF THE NORTH BANK OF THE THAMES'
Lot 499 Sold
'LITHOGRAPHIC SKETCH OF THE NORTH BANK OF THE THAMES'
'from Westminster Bridge to London Bridge shewing the Proposed Quay...' Published by Hurst and Robinson, London 1825, and other ephemera, including 'Victoria Park Building Estate, Dorchester' details, 'The Graphic' Edward VII funeral issue, etc (some nicotine deposit)
Hammer price: £90
Estimate: £30 - £50
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
A QUANTITY OF EPHEMERA WITH CONNECTIONS TO STANLEY BALDWIN, PRIME MINISTER
Lot 500 Sold
A QUANTITY OF EPHEMERA WITH CONNECTIONS TO STANLEY BALDWIN, PRIME MINISTER
including an invitation to a Mad Hatter's party at Astley Hall; 'R.S.V.P. Mrs Stanley Baldwin', and other items including, a 1918 letter from Princess Victoria regarding the Red Cross Pearl Necklace Appeal, etc
Hammer price: £320
Estimate: £30 - £50
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
A COLLECTION OF CIGARETTE CARDS
Lot 501 Sold
A COLLECTION OF CIGARETTE CARDS
mostly Player's, many series in modern and original albums, loose, contained in various boxes and an old Blue Bird toffee tin
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £50 - £100
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
LONDON GENERAL; THE STORY OF THE LONDON BUS 1856-1956
Lot 502 Unsold
LONDON GENERAL; THE STORY OF THE LONDON BUS 1856-1956
and other London books, guides and maps
Estimate: £30 - £40
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
A QUANTITY OF OLD PHOTOGRAPHS
Lot 503 Sold
A QUANTITY OF OLD PHOTOGRAPHS
some of colonial groups, and other ephemera
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
A COLLECTION OF AMERICAN EPHEMERA
Lot 504 Sold
A COLLECTION OF AMERICAN EPHEMERA
'Beauty Spot' Decals, 1950s 'DIG' magazine, 'American Boy', 'Interview', autograph of Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini, etc,
Hammer price: £45
Estimate: £30 - £60
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
EDDIE STOBART: A COLLECTION OF 'SPOT ON' MAGAZINE
Lot 505 Unsold
EDDIE STOBART: A COLLECTION OF 'SPOT ON' MAGAZINE
Stobart fan club spotter's guides, calendars, and other Eddie Stobart items
Estimate: £30 - £50
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
THOMAS HARDY: A QUANTITY OF PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS
Lot 506 Sold
THOMAS HARDY: A QUANTITY OF PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS
a Vanity Fair print, posters, etc,
Hammer price: £35
Estimate: £30 - £50
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
A QUANTITY OF OLD PHOTOGRAPHS
Lot 507 Sold
A QUANTITY OF OLD PHOTOGRAPHS
negatives, and ephemera
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
'A GRAMMAR OF THE ARABIC LANGUAGE'
Lot 508 Unsold
'A GRAMMAR OF THE ARABIC LANGUAGE'
with book plate for Monier Williams, D.C.L., Boden Professor of Sanskrit, Oxford (a/f; incomplete, lacking title page etc)
Estimate: £30 - £50
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
COUNT LEO TOLSTOY: 'PATRIOTISM AND CHRISTIANITY'
Lot 509 Sold
COUNT LEO TOLSTOY: 'PATRIOTISM AND CHRISTIANITY'
with a note to English readers by John C. Kenworthy, London, Walter Scott Ltd, 1896, cloth bound
Hammer price: £300
Estimate: £300 - £500
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
EDWARDS, LIONEL: MY HUNTING SKETCH BOOK
Lot 510 Sold
EDWARDS, LIONEL: MY HUNTING SKETCH BOOK
together with 'Scene from the Saddle'; 'Sketches in Stable and Kennel'; and 'Thy Servant the Horse' (4)
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £30 - £50
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
LEIGHTON, JOHN (ILLUS) - ‘THE LIFE OF MAN’
Lot 511 Sold
LEIGHTON, JOHN (ILLUS) - ‘THE LIFE OF MAN’
first edition, published by Longmans et al, London 1866, green tooled cloth bound
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £50 - £100
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
THE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE, ILLUS. BY JOHN GILBERT
Lot 512 Sold
THE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE, ILLUS. BY JOHN GILBERT
engraved by The Brothers Dalziel, Edited by Howard Staunton, 3 Vols, George Routledge and Sons, London 1865 (binding scruffy, some loose leaves)
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £50 - £80
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
GUSTAVE DORE: (ILLUSTRATED) DON QUIXOTE
Lot 513 Unsold
GUSTAVE DORE: (ILLUSTRATED) DON QUIXOTE
Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, London, Half calf bound with marbled boards (some foxing notably to title and fly leaves, 1876 owner inscription)
Estimate: £80 - £120
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
CHARLES DICKENS, THOMAS HARDY
Lot 514 Sold
CHARLES DICKENS, THOMAS HARDY
Bronte sisters, Jane Austen etc, various editions including Memorial editions
Hammer price: £45
Estimate: £30 - £50
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
A COLLECTION OF FOXHUNTING BOOKS
Lot 515 Unsold
A COLLECTION OF FOXHUNTING BOOKS
ephemera, videos and other items
Estimate: £30 - £50
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
A COLLECTION OF AUCTION CATALOGUES
Lot 516 Sold
A COLLECTION OF AUCTION CATALOGUES
including Christie's and Sotheby's, covering sales in Toys, Dolls and musical instruments (a lot)
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
A QUANTITY OF MIXED BOOKS
Lot 517 Unsold
A QUANTITY OF MIXED BOOKS
including 'The Peace Egg' and 'Jackanapes' by Juliana Horatia Ewing, and others (mostly in poor condition)
Estimate: £30 - £50
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
A COLLECTION OF FISHING BOOKS
Lot 518 Unsold
A COLLECTION OF FISHING BOOKS
including Falkus, Hugh: 'Salmon Fishing', Morgan, Paul and Friends: 'Salt Water Fly Fishing'; Bucknall, Geoffrey: 'To Meet the First March Brown', Seangler: 'Flatfish (How to Catch Them)'; Fethney, J. R.:'Mackerel: How to Catch Them'; and various other fishing books
Estimate: £50 - £100
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
THOMAS HARDY: POCKET EDITION, 27 VOLUMES
Lot 519 Sold
THOMAS HARDY: POCKET EDITION, 27 VOLUMES
plus 'Thomas Hardy's Wessex', all in gilt leather bindings (some variation in colour) (28)
Hammer price: £200
Estimate: £200 - £300
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
A QUANTITY OF MIXED BOOKS
Lot 520 Sold
A QUANTITY OF MIXED BOOKS
R.C.H.M. 'CAMBRIDGE', 1959 (boxed), Ruskin; The stones of Venice (Folio Society), and others on archaeology, architecture, etc (2 shelves)
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £80 - £120
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS; DORSET AND DORSET WRITERS
Lot 521 Sold
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS; DORSET AND DORSET WRITERS
including Thomas Hardy; 'Life and Art', Greenberg, new York 1925, and others (one shelf)
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £80 - £120
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
A LARGE COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON ART
Lot 522 Sold
A LARGE COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON ART
collecting, and other subjects (contents of bookcase)
Hammer price: £160
Estimate: £60 - £80
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
A LARGE COLLECTION OF 'THE LONDON MERCURY' MAGAZINE
Lot 523 Sold
A LARGE COLLECTION OF 'THE LONDON MERCURY' MAGAZINE
edited by J.C. Squire, 1920s-30s (varying condition)
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £50 - £100
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
THOMAS HARDY: THE WESSEX EDITION, 1912 TO 1931
Lot 524 Sold
THOMAS HARDY: THE WESSEX EDITION, 1912 TO 1931
24 volumes, all first editions, with the first 20 numbered base of spine I - XX; final three scarce poetry volumes added subsequently, Human Shows and Winter Words a library copy; first 21 volumes inherited by Dr Mann, the Hardy family G.P., bequeathed by Kate Hardy, 1940, these volumes likely from Hardy himself, allowed to him by the publisher, hence the 'With the Author's compliments' slips in some volumes (some fading, etc)
Hammer price: £450
Estimate: £200 - £300
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
'HISTORICAL MAP OF WALES AND MONMOUTH'
Lot 525 Sold
'HISTORICAL MAP OF WALES AND MONMOUTH'
published by John Bartholomew and Son Ltd, 1966, framed, 105 x 73cm (some nicotine deposit)
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £100 - £200
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
NEW MAP OF BUCKINGHAM DIVIVED INTO HUNDREDS
Lot 526 Unsold
NEW MAP OF BUCKINGHAM DIVIVED INTO HUNDREDS
C Smith, Strand, 1808 revised edition, with framed history of Buckinghamshire
Estimate: £30 - £50
4 November 2025
4 November 2025
A QUANTITY OF ORDNANCE SURVEY FOLDING MAPS
Lot 527 Unsold
A QUANTITY OF ORDNANCE SURVEY FOLDING MAPS
Bartholomew's maps, and other items
Estimate: £30 - £50
4 November 2025
4 November 2025

Total lots: 708

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