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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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Lots per page:

Total lots: 762

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
479 A COLLECTION OF MILITARY BUTTONS
badges, ribbons etc
£30 - £50 £20 View
480 A BAYONET; POSSIBLY AN M1890 TURKISH MAUSER
blade 46cm long, with various markings, dated '1313' (1895) (stitched scabbard damaged)
£40 - £60 £50 View
481 A COLLECTION OF MILITARY BADGE TIE PINS
including a white metal anchor brooch
£80 - £120 £80 View
482 A COLLECTION OF W.V.S, W.I, AND OTHER BADGES
Regimental Association, etc
£40 - £60 £35 View
483 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.
£30 - £60 - View
484 WWI MEDAL PAIR; R-37058 PTE. J. WALKER. K. R.R.C.
and a collection of Naval hat ribbons
£30 - £50 £20 View
485 A WWII A.R.P WARDEN'S WOODEN RATTLE
by W. Clements and Sons, dated 1939
£30 - £50 £30 View
486 TRENCH ART: A DESK CONTAINER MADE FROM AN OLD SHELL
and a decommissioned 'round', 11cm high
£30 - £50 £40 View
487 A PAIR OF WWII OFFICER'S BOOTS BY JOHN WHITE
size 7, dated 1945.

Provenance: Bridehead, Dorset.
£40 - £60 £35 View
488 A PAIR OF DATED WWII FIREMANS' BOOTS
stamped 'B. LADDS ltd 1944'
£30 - £50 £20 View
489 A GEORGE V OFFICERS COMMISSION £30 - £50 £30 View
490 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…
£80 - £150 £600 View
491 A LARGE WWII SEARCHLIGHT
with ribbed glass, approx 50cm dia (copper stripped and polished)
£250 - £300 - View
492 A CANADIAN RUBBERISED CAMOUFLAGE HELMET COVER
with broad arrow stamp, on a WWII helmet
£50 - £80 - View
493 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
£30 - £50 £25 View
494 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
£30 - £50 £40 View
495 A COLLECTION OF MIXED POSTCARDS
photographs, and other ephemera.

Provenance: Bridehead, Dorset.
£30 - £50 £15 View
496 A 'GRAND TOUR' VELLUM BOUND PHOTO ALBUM
imcluding photographs by Giacomo Brogi and Carlo Naya
£50 - £100 £40 View
497 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)
£150 - £300 £900 View
498 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,…
£30 - £50 £40 View
499 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
£100 - £150 £110 View
500 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
£100 - £150 - View
501 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
£100 - £150 - View
502 A QUANTITY OF POSTCARDS
including trams and other transport (in one shoebox)
£30 - £50 - View

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