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Auction date Tuesday 5 August 2025 10:00 - 17:30 BST
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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

Total lots: 762

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