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Tuesday 5th August starting at 10:00am

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Total lots: 762

A COLLECTION OF MILITARY BUTTONS
Lot 479 Sold
A COLLECTION OF MILITARY BUTTONS
badges, ribbons etc
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A BAYONET; POSSIBLY AN M1890 TURKISH MAUSER
Lot 480 Sold
A BAYONET; POSSIBLY AN M1890 TURKISH MAUSER
blade 46cm long, with various markings, dated '1313' (1895) (stitched scabbard damaged)
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £40 - £60
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A COLLECTION OF MILITARY BADGE TIE PINS
Lot 481 Sold
A COLLECTION OF MILITARY BADGE TIE PINS
including a white metal anchor brooch
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £80 - £120
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A COLLECTION OF W.V.S, W.I, AND OTHER BADGES
Lot 482 Sold
A COLLECTION OF W.V.S, W.I, AND OTHER BADGES
Regimental Association, etc
Hammer price: £35
Estimate: £40 - £60
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A PAIR OF ROSS, LONDON, BINOCULARS
Lot 483 Unsold
A PAIR OF ROSS, LONDON, BINOCULARS
No. 103459, inscribed for D.P. Williams, Bridehead, Dorchester, and a cased precision measuring instrument (2).

Provenance: Bridehead, Dorset.
Estimate: £30 - £60
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
WWI MEDAL PAIR; R-37058 PTE. J. WALKER. K. R.R.C.
Lot 484 Sold
WWI MEDAL PAIR; R-37058 PTE. J. WALKER. K. R.R.C.
and a collection of Naval hat ribbons
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A WWII A.R.P WARDEN'S WOODEN RATTLE
Lot 485 Sold
A WWII A.R.P WARDEN'S WOODEN RATTLE
by W. Clements and Sons, dated 1939
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
TRENCH ART: A DESK CONTAINER MADE FROM AN OLD SHELL
Lot 486 Sold
TRENCH ART: A DESK CONTAINER MADE FROM AN OLD SHELL
and a decommissioned 'round', 11cm high
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A PAIR OF WWII OFFICER'S BOOTS BY JOHN WHITE
Lot 487 Sold
A PAIR OF WWII OFFICER'S BOOTS BY JOHN WHITE
size 7, dated 1945.

Provenance: Bridehead, Dorset.
Hammer price: £35
Estimate: £40 - £60
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A PAIR OF DATED WWII FIREMANS' BOOTS
Lot 488 Sold
A PAIR OF DATED WWII FIREMANS' BOOTS
stamped 'B. LADDS ltd 1944'
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A GEORGE V OFFICERS COMMISSION
Lot 489 Sold
A GEORGE V OFFICERS COMMISSION
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
S E T TAYLOR - PHOTOS, DOCUMENTS, MEDALS, BOOKS ETC
Lot 490 Sold
S E T TAYLOR - PHOTOS, DOCUMENTS, MEDALS, BOOKS ETC
relating to his career as a navigator in the RAF, and later for BOAC. Includes log books, photo album covering RAF service overseas, scrap book, and technical books written by Taylor. Also medals and other items relating to Captain A Regan.
Hammer price: £600
Estimate: £80 - £150
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A LARGE WWII SEARCHLIGHT
Lot 491 Unsold
A LARGE WWII SEARCHLIGHT
with ribbed glass, approx 50cm dia (copper stripped and polished)
Estimate: £250 - £300
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A CANADIAN RUBBERISED CAMOUFLAGE HELMET COVER
Lot 492 Unsold
A CANADIAN RUBBERISED CAMOUFLAGE HELMET COVER
with broad arrow stamp, on a WWII helmet
Estimate: £50 - £80
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A COLLECTION OF VICTORIAN AND LATER CHRISTMAS CARDS
Lot 493 Sold
A COLLECTION OF VICTORIAN AND LATER CHRISTMAS CARDS
a tuck's 'Children's Box' of picture scraps, and a quantity of sheet music with decorative covers
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A 1930s ALBUM OF SIGNED POSTCARDS OF BRITISH DANCE BANDS
Lot 494 Sold
A 1930s ALBUM OF SIGNED POSTCARDS OF BRITISH DANCE BANDS
band leaders, and variety performers, and two albums of cigarette cards; Ogden's Guinea Gold, Player's, including 'Straight line caricatures', etc
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A COLLECTION OF MIXED POSTCARDS
Lot 495 Sold
A COLLECTION OF MIXED POSTCARDS
photographs, and other ephemera.

Provenance: Bridehead, Dorset.
Hammer price: £15
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A 'GRAND TOUR' VELLUM BOUND PHOTO ALBUM
Lot 496 Sold
A 'GRAND TOUR' VELLUM BOUND PHOTO ALBUM
imcluding photographs by Giacomo Brogi and Carlo Naya
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £50 - £100
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
TWO FRENCH 'OPTIQUE' FOLDING PEEPSHOWS
Lot 497 Sold
TWO FRENCH 'OPTIQUE' FOLDING PEEPSHOWS
'Optique No.4, Promenade de Longchamp', in slipcase with label for Berthellemot, Palais Royal, No. 54, Paris, the other lacking its case, but apparently No 2 'Interieur D'Eglise' (2)
Hammer price: £900
Estimate: £150 - £300
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
RAILWAY POSTCARDS: THE GREAT SNOWSTORM NEAR DINGWALL, DEC. 1905
Lot 498 Sold
RAILWAY POSTCARDS: THE GREAT SNOWSTORM NEAR DINGWALL, DEC. 1905
two cards depicting a train cutting through the snow, and another of a digging party, with a card of 'London and South Western Railway Servant's Orphanage, and two ship cards.

Provenance: Bridehead, Dorset.
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
QUEEN ELIZABETH II CHRISTMAS CARD
Lot 499 Sold
QUEEN ELIZABETH II CHRISTMAS CARD
1968, showing the family in a garden, signed Elizabeth R and Philip
From a private source with a Royal family connection
Hammer price: £110
Estimate: £100 - £150
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
QUEEN ELIZABETH II CHRISTMAS CARD
Lot 500 Unsold
QUEEN ELIZABETH II CHRISTMAS CARD
1969, showing the family with a motor boat, signed Elizabeth R and Philip
From a private source with a Royal family connection
Estimate: £100 - £150
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
QUEEN ELIZABETH II CHRISTMAS CARD
Lot 501 Unsold
QUEEN ELIZABETH II CHRISTMAS CARD
1970, showing H.M.Y. Britannia in Sydney Harbour, signed Elizabeth R and Philip
From a private source with a Royal family connection
Estimate: £100 - £150
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A QUANTITY OF POSTCARDS
Lot 502 Unsold
A QUANTITY OF POSTCARDS
including trams and other transport (in one shoebox)
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM
Lot 503 Unsold
A VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM
containing various C.D.V.s and other photos, with 'Sights and Scenes in England and Wales', Cassell and Co, , an album of film star postcards, and 'Black and White' 1897 Jubilee issue (a/f)
Estimate: £30 - £60
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A QUANTITY OF POSTCARDS
Lot 504 Unsold
A QUANTITY OF POSTCARDS
mostly topographical (in one shoebox)
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A COLLECTION OF JUDGE DREDD COMICS
Lot 505 Unsold
A COLLECTION OF JUDGE DREDD COMICS
1-4 1983, 14 x 1984, 12 x 1985 and 9 x 1986
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
FIFTEEN COLOUR PRINTED PANTOMIME BILLS
Lot 506 Unsold
FIFTEEN COLOUR PRINTED PANTOMIME BILLS
circa 1950s/60s, various theatres and productions, with performers including Harry Worth, George Lacy (the famous 'Dame'), Ken Dodd, Beryl Reid, Vic Oliver, Stan Stennett, etc;
from the collection of actor Norman Robbins 1938-2016
Estimate: £40 - £60
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A COLLECTION OF POSTCARDS
Lot 507 Sold
A COLLECTION OF POSTCARDS
some in an Edwardian album, cigarette cards, cartes de visite, etc
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £30 - £60
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
SIX ALBUMS OF CIGARETTE CARDS
Lot 508 Sold
SIX ALBUMS OF CIGARETTE CARDS
Anstie, Wills's, Player's, many arranged in sets
Hammer price: £90
Estimate: £30 - £60
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
'FORTNUM & MASON'S EASTER COMMENTARY' (1928)
Lot 509 Sold
'FORTNUM & MASON'S EASTER COMMENTARY' (1928)
- 'Describes dainties before the charms of which Brave Men Crash', printed Stuarts, Kingsway House, gilt calf bound, presented 1928 to Col. C. Wyld from H, Stuart Menzies
Hammer price: £90
Estimate: £50 - £80
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
FORTNUM & MASON: A COLLECTION OF CATALOGUES, 1970-85
Lot 510 Sold
FORTNUM & MASON: A COLLECTION OF CATALOGUES, 1970-85
(13)
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
AN ALBUM OF VICTORIAN GREETINGS CARDS
Lot 511 Unsold
AN ALBUM OF VICTORIAN GREETINGS CARDS
with some loose later cards, and a Victorian scrap album
Estimate: £50 - £100
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A COLLECTION OF THOMAS HARDY YEAR BOOKS
Lot 512 Sold
A COLLECTION OF THOMAS HARDY YEAR BOOKS
Nos. 1 - 25 (1970-98), and 28 - 53 (2000 - 2021)
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A COLLECTION OF VINTAGE 'ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION'
Lot 513 Sold
A COLLECTION OF VINTAGE 'ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION'
1940s,1950s and subsequent 'Analog Science fact - Science Fiction', 1960s (approx 120 issues, variable condition)
Hammer price: £45
Estimate: £50 - £100
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A COLLECTION OF PANTOMIME EPHEMERA
Lot 514 Sold
A COLLECTION OF PANTOMIME EPHEMERA
late 19th century and later; booklets, souvenir pamphlets, programmes, modern posters etc; including 'Sleeping Beauty' with Dan Leno, Drury Lane, 1901;
from the collection of actor Norman Robbins 1938-2016, including a few of Robbins's scripts from his appearances in 'Open all hours', 'Last of the summer wine' and 'For the love of Ada', the latter signed by Irene Handl, Wilfred Pickles, etc
Hammer price: £90
Estimate: £30 - £60
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
MONOGRAPHS ON THE LIFE, TIMES AND WORKS OF THOMAS HARDY
Lot 515 Sold
MONOGRAPHS ON THE LIFE, TIMES AND WORKS OF THOMAS HARDY
published by J. Stevens Cox, Toucan Press, 1960s-80s , including Lois Deacon; Tryphena's Portrait Album, author's own copy (62 booklets, and some photocopied)
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £50 - £80
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A LARGE COLLECTION OF RAVE FLYERS AND POSTERS
Lot 516 Sold
A LARGE COLLECTION OF RAVE FLYERS AND POSTERS
including from The Hacienda, various conditions, in folders and indexed (C:1990 - 1996), with two related 'Rave Art' books and Spiral Symphony by 'The Scientist' vinyl LP. (12)
Hammer price: £320
Estimate: £100 - £200
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
WILHELM VON GLOEDEN: A PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT
Lot 517 Sold
WILHELM VON GLOEDEN: A PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT
With a quantity of 'W. Von Gloeden' photo books, 'Larry Clark' exhibition guide and photo books and 'Will McBride photo books.
Hammer price: £140
Estimate: £50 - £100
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A QUANTITY OF EPHEMERA
Lot 518 Sold
A QUANTITY OF EPHEMERA
including Edwardian calendars, Stevengraph bookmarks, board games, etc
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
'TANDEM MEMORIES' AN ANNOTATED 1930s POSTCARD ALBUM
Lot 519 Sold
'TANDEM MEMORIES' AN ANNOTATED 1930s POSTCARD ALBUM
detailing a tandem trip by Marjorie Sturton and Frank Cooper, South coast including Dorset, July 1935, and some other trips by motorcycle, and a large quantity of later postcards
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A FRAMED SET OF 1995 ENGLAND CRICKET CHARACTERS CIGARETTE CARDS
Lot 520 Unsold
A FRAMED SET OF 1995 ENGLAND CRICKET CHARACTERS CIGARETTE CARDS
mostly signed by players (faded)
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO: WEDDING ALBUM
Lot 521 Sold
JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO: WEDDING ALBUM
English issue
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £40 - £60
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO: WEDDING ALBUM
Lot 522 Sold
JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO: WEDDING ALBUM
Japanese issue
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £40 - £60
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A 19th CENTURY 'GRAND TOUR' PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM
Lot 523 Sold
A 19th CENTURY 'GRAND TOUR' PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM
with commercially produced photographs, some loose, of views, works of art, etc, later cloth cover (a/f)
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £30 - £60
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
A COLLECTION OF FRAMED POSTERS
Lot 524 Unsold
A COLLECTION OF FRAMED POSTERS
late 20th century, two for the Eagles, including one for the 1979 'THE LONG RUN TOUR', four for the Pavilion Theatre, Weymouth, and one for the 'Peace Fest '93, the largest 75cm x 50cm. (7)
Estimate: £30 - £60
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
THE PETIT TRIANON VERSAILLES
Lot 525 Sold
THE PETIT TRIANON VERSAILLES
illustrated by a series of measured drawings and photographs...and descriptive letterpress, by James A. Arnott and John Wilson, in 3 parts, Batsford, London 1908 (ex. Waring and Gillow) (a/f)
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
5 August 2025
5 August 2025
J R R TOLKEIN
Lot 526 Sold
J R R TOLKEIN
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings 3 vols, revised editions
Hammer price: £130
Estimate: £50 - £100
5 August 2025
5 August 2025

Total lots: 762

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