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Auction date Tuesday 8 July 2025 10:00 - 17:30 BST

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Tuesday 8th July starting at 10:00am

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Lots per page:

Total lots: 659

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
409 A WW2 HELMET
marked BMB 1941
£50 - £80 £50 View
410 A PAIR OF WW2 OFFICERS BOOTS £40 - £60 £20 View
411 A COURT SWORD, IN SCABBARD
with cruciforn hilt and guard, the blade 70cm long, unmarked
£40 - £80 £30 View
412 WW2 DATED SUITCASE, 1940
with other military items
£40 - £60 £45 View
413 A USA ARMY SIGNAL CORPS CHEST
dated 1945, including various kit
£40 - £60 £70 View
414 A PAIR OF WWII KERSHAW Mk II ARMY BINOCULARS, DATED 1943
in webbing case dated 1941, and a pair of Taylor-Hobson Mk III binoculars, dated 1943, in leather case (2)
£40 - £80 £20 View
415 A PHOTOGRAPH OF SOLDIER FROM A CYCLE BATTALION
c1910, framed, 50cm wide
£30 - £50 - View
416 A COOPER TYPE A-2 US MILITARY ISSUE LEATHER FLYING JACKET
size 48, with certificate
£80 - £120 £90 View
417 A LARGE WWII SEARCHLIGHT
with ribbed glass, approx 50cm dia (copper stripped and polished)
£500 - £800 - View
418 FIVE MILITARY UNIFORMS
including Royal Marines, Great Coat and a Mess Dress
£50 - £80 £40 View
419 THE EROTIC PRINT SOCIETY:
prints and illustrations, in folders, including Thomas Rowlandson, Twelve works, Aubrey Beardsley, 'The Lysistrata of Aristophanes', and other works (9, some duplicates)
£40 - £60 £90 View
420 A COLLECTION OF POSTCARDS, INCLUDING THE MESSINA EARTHQUAKE, 1908
and other views of India, Japan, etc
£40 - £80 £30 View
421 GENERAL STRIKE INTEREST: THE BRITISH GAZETTE MAY 1926
Nos. 2-8, including two copies of 5 & 8 (9 in total)

Note: The British Gazette was a propaganda exercise designed to combat the British General Strike. Edited by Winston Churchill, the newspaper…
£50 - £100 £40 View
422 A POSTCARD ALBUM INCLUDING WWI ERA MILITARY CARDS
and other photographs
£100 - £200 £30 View
423 A COLLECTION OF GRAPHIC WORKS ON PAPER
prints, lettering, facsimiles, etc
£30 - £40 £50 View
424 A QUANTITY OF EPHEMERA
copies of old masters, War maps, Noel Pocock sporting illustrations, literary guides and reviews, Vanity Fair prints etc
£30 - £50 £50 View
425 RENA GARDINER: DORSET; TARRANT TO BLANDFORD
Workshop Press, 1970 (scruffy, some losses to cover), other Dorset ephemera, and other items
£30 - £50 - View
426 A COLLECTION OF VINTAGE 'ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION'
1940s,1950s and subsequent 'Analog Science fact - Science Fiction', 1960s (approx 120 issues, variable condition)
£100 - £200 - View
427 A LARGE QUANTITY OF EROTIC POSTCARDS
published by Hobart and Maclean (many duplicates), Erotic Print Society catalogues, and other erotica
£30 - £60 £30 View
428 THREE 19th CENTURY ALBUMS OF PHOTOGRAPHS
containing British landscapes, architecture, Cathedrals, colleges etc, groups, some others commercially produced, and a 19th century m.s. book 'Stagenhoo' (4)
£30 - £50 £120 View
429 JOHN HUTCHINS: THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET
4 vols, third edition, John Bowyer Nichols, Westminster 1861 - 1870
£500 - £800 £300 View
430 THE PENGUIN NEW WRITING, VARIOUS , ED JOHN LEHMANN
1940s, with a few 1930s Penguin Parade, 1970s New Poetry, and other poetry books and booklets
£30 - £60 £20 View
431 DAVID HOCKNEY: THE BLUE GUITAR
Petersburg Press, 1977 (dust jacket a/f), with Worlds and Windows by Gilbert and George (cloth dusty, bumped), Edward Seago 1910-1974 memorial exhibition catalogue (Marlborough Fine Art) (cover dirty…
£40 - £60 £20 View
432 FLORENCE K. UPTON; THE ADVENTURES OF BORBEE AND THE WISP
Longmans, Green and Co, 1908 (spine loose, boards rubbed, etc), with Struwwelpeter (Hoffmann), copy with 'Struwwelhitler' parody added in 1941 (deconstructed and stuck opposite each matching…
£50 - £100 £50 View

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