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Auction date Tuesday 7 October 2025 10:00 - 17:30 BST
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Tuesday 7th October starting at 10:00am

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Total lots: 720

A SHORTENED WWI BAYONET
Lot 480 Sold
A SHORTENED WWI BAYONET
another adapted bayonet, and two knives (4)

Note: You must be over 18 to purchase this item. By bidding on this Lot you are declaring that you are 18 years of age or over.
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £30 - £60
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
MEDALS: WWI PAIR AWARDED TO 291874. PTE. G. POTTS. WELSH. R.
Lot 481 Sold
MEDALS: WWI PAIR AWARDED TO 291874. PTE. G. POTTS. WELSH. R.
with a Welsh Regiment enamelled badge, another WWI medal to J. 92804. A. W. POTTS. BOY 2. R. N., with later Police Exemplary Service award, WWII medals, and a silver Masonic Jewel to John H. Mander, lodge 4233
Hammer price: £160
Estimate: £50 - £100
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
A LEATHER MILITARY BELT
Lot 482 Sold
A LEATHER MILITARY BELT
in old Herbert Johnson box for Colonel K.C. Davis
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £30 - £60
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
A MUSTANG AIR PART
Lot 483 Sold
A MUSTANG AIR PART
(a relic) and a Mustang rocker arm from Mustang P51 (2)
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £30 - £50
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
TWO SETS OF MILATARY BINOCULARS
Lot 484 Sold
TWO SETS OF MILATARY BINOCULARS
one cased Reg No.21407, the other uncased and repainted Reg No.79801 (2)
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £50 - £100
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
A DOLLOND, LONDON THREE-DRAW TELESCOPE
Lot 485 Sold
A DOLLOND, LONDON THREE-DRAW TELESCOPE
leather covered, in a leather case, no.1953
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £80 - £150
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
WWII COMPASS WITH A SIMILAR
Lot 486 Sold
WWII COMPASS WITH A SIMILAR
two leather compass cases dated 1931 and 1916,an 1898 optical tool and another
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £30 - £50
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
A GERMAN BAYONET, ALEX COPPEL, SOLINGEN
Lot 487 Sold
A GERMAN BAYONET, ALEX COPPEL, SOLINGEN
regimentally marked 3B1038

Note: You must be over 18 to purchase this item. By bidding on this Lot you are declaring that you are 18 years of age or over.
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £30 - £60
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
A JAPANESE NAVAL OFFICER'S DAGGER
Lot 488 Sold
A JAPANESE NAVAL OFFICER'S DAGGER
in scabbard (a/f)
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £30 - £50
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
A QUANITY OF BAYONETS
Lot 489 Sold
A QUANITY OF BAYONETS
three spike for No. 4 303 rifle and two parade versions (5)

Note: You must be over 18 to purchase this item. By bidding on this Lot you are declaring that you are 18 years of age or over.
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £30 - £50
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
A VICTORIAN CROWN ROYAL IRISH RIFLES HELMET PLATE
Lot 490 Sold
A VICTORIAN CROWN ROYAL IRISH RIFLES HELMET PLATE
in white metal
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £30 - £50
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
AN 'ACROW TOOL' MULTI-TOOL SPADE
Lot 491 Sold
AN 'ACROW TOOL' MULTI-TOOL SPADE
marked 'World Patent'
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £60
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
A QUANTITY OF MILITARY BADGES
Lot 492 Sold
A QUANTITY OF MILITARY BADGES
metal and cloth, ribbons etc
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £30 - £60
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
A COLLECTION OF EPAULETTES AND RANK BADGES FOR THE MERCHANT NAVY, ARMY AND POLICE
Lot 493 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: £100 - £150
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
NAVIGATORS DRESS UNIFORM, TROUSERS AND HAT TO PILOT OFFICER AFFLECK
Lot 494 Sold
NAVIGATORS DRESS UNIFORM, TROUSERS AND HAT TO PILOT OFFICER AFFLECK
Named in the inside pocket 19.10.42
2/17443 J Affleck
Hammer price: £300
Estimate: £50 - £80
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
A METROPOLITAN POLICE HELMET
Lot 495 Sold
A METROPOLITAN POLICE HELMET
E II R badge
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
A COLLECTION OF WWII AND LATER EPHEMERA
Lot 496 Sold
A COLLECTION OF WWII AND LATER EPHEMERA
including 'Guide to civilian occupation' S.P. Book 3, 'Documents concerning German-Polish relations', Continental maps, and other items
Hammer price: £35
Estimate: £30 - £60
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
A COLLECTION OF MILITARY UNIFORM
Lot 497 Unsold
A COLLECTION OF MILITARY UNIFORM
Estimate: £50 - £100
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
THE BEATLES: OFFICIAL FAN CLUB PHOTO CARD
Lot 498 Unsold
THE BEATLES: OFFICIAL FAN CLUB PHOTO CARD
bearing signatures possibly printed (unauthenticated; creased, tear), with newspapers from the time of John Lennon's death, and two Beatles books; 'The Beatles Anthology' and 'Imagine John Yoko'
Estimate: £150 - £250
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
BOXES OF HOUSE OF LORDS AND HOUSE OF COMMONS BOOK MATCHES
Lot 499 Unsold
BOXES OF HOUSE OF LORDS AND HOUSE OF COMMONS BOOK MATCHES
with a collection of book matches and related items
Estimate: £30 - £50
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
A COLLECTION OF FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS
Lot 500 Sold
A COLLECTION OF FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS
including travel, with family books, and a collection of stamps and cigarette cards
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £30 - £50
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
A VICTORIAN BROWN LEATHER PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM
Lot 501 Sold
A VICTORIAN BROWN LEATHER PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM
containing many cabinet portraits and cartes de visite
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £50 - £100
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
JOURNAL OF A 65 DAY TOUR OF THE WEST INDIES ON THE RMS TRENT
Lot 502 Sold
JOURNAL OF A 65 DAY TOUR OF THE WEST INDIES ON THE RMS TRENT
undertaken by Percy Thatcher between Jan 22nd and March 27th 1902, illustrated with photographs, maps etc. full leather binding
Hammer price: £240
Estimate: £40 - £60
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
THREE WESSEX WATER WATER SHORTAGE POSTERS
Lot 503 Sold
THREE WESSEX WATER WATER SHORTAGE POSTERS
undated but likely 1976
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £30 - £50
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
FRENCH LINE CGT SS NORMANDIE, THREE MENUS
Lot 504 Unsold
FRENCH LINE CGT SS NORMANDIE, THREE MENUS
luncheon 26 April 1939, Gala Dinner, 3rd Class, 17 June 1939, Dinner, Tourist Class, 12 November 1938
Estimate: £30 - £50
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
CHURCHILL FAMILY INTEREST; AN 18th CENTURY MANUSCRIPT INVENTORY
Lot 505 Sold
CHURCHILL FAMILY INTEREST; AN 18th CENTURY MANUSCRIPT INVENTORY
describing various documents between 1697 - 1777, with references to Sir John Churchill, William Harris of Churchill, and other families, and the parish of Churchill, North Somerset (on laid paper)
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £30 - £50
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
A QUANTITY OF EARLY 1970s CHILDREN'S MAGAZINES
Lot 506 Sold
A QUANTITY OF EARLY 1970s CHILDREN'S MAGAZINES
including Look-in Follyfoot Special,, Pippin, Playhour, Now I Know, etc
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £5
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
A QUANTITY OF EPHEMERA
Lot 507 Sold
A QUANTITY OF EPHEMERA
including 19th century newspapers, greetings cards, an early 20th century travel journal etc
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £30 - £40
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
A QUANTITY OF 19th CENTURY AND LATER PHOTOGRAPHS
Lot 508 Sold
A QUANTITY OF 19th CENTURY AND LATER PHOTOGRAPHS
including cartes de visite, portraits, an album containing sporting groups, interiors, etc
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £30 - £60
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
A QUANTITY OF EPHEMERA
Lot 509 Sold
A QUANTITY OF EPHEMERA
including Corgi toys mini catalogues, Infants Hospital Ball programme, 1932, 'A.B.C. Locomotive guides, football items, postcards, etc
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £30 - £60
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
SIGNED FOOTBALL BOOKS
Lot 510 Sold
SIGNED FOOTBALL BOOKS
Geoff Hurst; 1966 and all that, Alan Ball; Playing extra time, 'Greavsie', and Bobby Robson (autobiography), and a quantity of football ephemera; 1966 World Cup items, Jimmy Hill's Football Weekly, Sun Soccercards, etc
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £40 - £80
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
A COLLECTION OF RAILWAY EPHEMERA
Lot 511 Sold
A COLLECTION OF RAILWAY EPHEMERA
including London Transport Railway Rule Book 1983, British Railways items, Regional Operating Notices, various magazines, etc
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £30 - £60
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
A QUANTITY OF LOOSE CIGARETTE CARDS
Lot 512 Unsold
A QUANTITY OF LOOSE CIGARETTE CARDS
mostly John Player, tea cards in albums, Star Wars Tazos, and other items
Estimate: £30 - £60
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
A COLLECTION OF RAILWAY EPHEMERA
Lot 513 Sold
A COLLECTION OF RAILWAY EPHEMERA
including bound 1980s redevelopment plans for Liverpool St, Farringdon, Embankment and others, many timetables, public and Railway Company use, Tube maps, etc
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £30 - £60
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
A COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS, MANY DORSET
Lot 514 Unsold
A COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS, MANY DORSET
including an Edwardian view of Westover Palace Tea Gardens, Bournemouth, two ambrotype portraits in an ebonised frame, a 19th century album, etc, contained in a (damaged) small travel trunk with labels
Estimate: £30 - £50
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
C.S. LEWIS: 'THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER;
Lot 515 Sold
C.S. LEWIS: 'THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER;
1957 reprint. , Geoffrey Bles (no jacket), and another 'The magicians Nephew' , Bodley Head 1858 reprint (with jacket, a/f) with inscription; 'C.S. Lewis' (possibly by the owner) (2)
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £30 - £50
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
SWINHOE, RODWAY - ‘THE INCOMPLETE GUIDE TO BURMA’
Lot 516 Sold
SWINHOE, RODWAY - ‘THE INCOMPLETE GUIDE TO BURMA’
illustrated by T. Martin Jones, illustrated pamphlet 18cm x 26.5cm
Hammer price: £35
Estimate: £30 - £50
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
‘THE THRENODY - PART 1 VIXEN’
Lot 517 Sold
‘THE THRENODY - PART 1 VIXEN’
dated November 1830, an intriguing blue paper bound pamphlet of printed facsimile handwritten verse, with pencil annotations, 25.5cm x 20.5cm
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £30 - £50
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
FORSYTH, FREDERICK: ‘THE SHEPHERD’
Lot 518 Sold
FORSYTH, FREDERICK: ‘THE SHEPHERD’
first edition, published by Hutchinson & Co, London 1975, red cloth bound with dustwrapper, together with a signed and typed letter from the author to Mrs Johnson dated 25th February 1975 discussing the similarity of Forsyth’s novel with the death of Mrs Johnson’s husband in 1943, the letter headed ‘Kilgarrow, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow’
Hammer price: £150
Estimate: £100 - £200
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
WHITE, MARJORIE HILDA ‘JO’: ‘JO. WHITE’S BOOK’
Lot 519 Unsold
WHITE, MARJORIE HILDA ‘JO’: ‘JO. WHITE’S BOOK’
published by Odhams Press, 1926, a brown card bound pamphlet of numerous illustrations, 23.5cm x 29cm
Estimate: £100 - £200
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
ROWLING, J.K. ‘THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN’
Lot 520 Sold
ROWLING, J.K. ‘THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN’
first edition, second printing with print line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2, published by Bloomsbury, 1999, hardbound with dustwrapper and two other Harry Potter titles - ‘The Philosopher’s Stone, 1998 edition and ‘The Order of the Phoenix’, first edition 2003 (3)
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £30 - £50
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
HENRY COLEMAN FOLKARD: ' THE WILD-FOWLER'
Lot 521 Sold
HENRY COLEMAN FOLKARD: ' THE WILD-FOWLER'
2nd ed, Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts 1864 (poor condition)
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £40
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL FLINT: A CATALOGUE RAISONNE
Lot 522 Sold
SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL FLINT: A CATALOGUE RAISONNE
De Luxe Edition, red leather bound, with slip case, 1986; with Alex A. Hurst; 'Arthur Briscoe, Marine artist', Elizabeth Longford; 'Images of Chelsea', and C.A. Wilkinson and Walter Wood; 'Fishing boats and Barges' (4)
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £40 - £60
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
JEFFERY FARNOL, THE BROAD HIGHWAY AND THE AMATEUR GENTLEMAN
Lot 523 Sold
JEFFERY FARNOL, THE BROAD HIGHWAY AND THE AMATEUR GENTLEMAN
illustrations by C E Brock, with framed print of Virginia Water
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £30 - £40
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
A QUANTITY OF MIXED BOOKS
Lot 524 Sold
A QUANTITY OF MIXED BOOKS
including 1920s Thomas Hardy editions
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £30 - £50
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
THE LENOIR COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL FRENCH PORTRAITS AT STAFFORD HOUSE
Lot 525 Sold
THE LENOIR COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL FRENCH PORTRAITS AT STAFFORD HOUSE
Auto-lithographed by Lord Ronald Gower, M.P. 1874.
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £30 - £50
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
A COLLECTION OF MIXED BOOKS
Lot 526 Sold
A COLLECTION OF MIXED BOOKS
including Children's books, illustrated by Caldecott, etc, 'The tale of Mr Tootleoo', Nonesuch Press, 17th century and later leather-bound books, and others (much in poor condition)
Hammer price: £300
Estimate: £30 - £60
7 October 2025
7 October 2025
QUANTITY OF BOOKS
Lot 527 Sold
QUANTITY OF BOOKS
including a set of Dickens, with a quantity of Christie's sale catalogues.
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £30 - £50
7 October 2025
7 October 2025

Total lots: 720

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