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Tuesday 8 August 2023 10:00 - 17:30 BST Starts with Lot 1
Wednesday 9 August 2023 10:00 - 17:30 BST Starts with Lot 700
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Auction:

Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th August starting at 10:00am

8th August Lots 1 to 658

9th August Lots 660 to end

This Auction is online with The Saleroom, Easy Live and room bidding.

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Lots 1 to 658

 Avenue Auctions, Weymouth Avenue, Dorchester DT1 1QS

Saturday 5th August         9.00am - 12.00pm

Monday 7th August         9.00am - 7.00pm


Fine Art Saleroom, Brewery Square, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1GA

Lots 660 onwards

Saturday 5th August         9.30am - 12.00pm

Monday 7th August         9.30am - 7.00pm

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Please Note that payment and collection is required by the Friday after each sale unless otherwise agreed. If an Item has not been paid for by the end of the third week after each sale then it will be reoffered in our following sale with charges for storage and administration deducted. If an item is uncollected then storage charges may apply.

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Total lots: 1273

A WWII GERMAN AFRIKA KORPS AIR BAND
Lot 1047 Sold
A WWII GERMAN AFRIKA KORPS AIR BAND
circa 1940's
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £30 - £50
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
THREE JAPANESE BRONZE AND STEEL TSUBA
Lot 1048 Sold
THREE JAPANESE BRONZE AND STEEL TSUBA
20th Century, the largest 9cm long
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £40
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
A WWII AIRCRAFT AXE
Lot 1048a Sold
A WWII AIRCRAFT AXE
stamped C27N/1 A.N., 29cm long; a WWII gas mask, in the original cardboard box; and a Bristol Street Fire Guard Organisation booklet (3)
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £50 - £100
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
HAWKES & CO OF PICCADILLY, LONDON: AN OFFICERS DRESS SWORD
Lot 1049 Sold
HAWKES & CO OF PICCADILLY, LONDON: AN OFFICERS DRESS SWORD
the hilt with a pierced Edward VII cypher, sharkskin and metal wire-bound grip, the blade with engraved floral decoration, in the original metal and leather-covered scabbard
Hammer price: £130
Estimate: £50 - £100
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
A PAIR OF WATSON MILITARY BLACK LACQUERED BINOCULARS
Lot 1050 Sold
A PAIR OF WATSON MILITARY BLACK LACQUERED BINOCULARS
with brown leather case

Provenance: The Estate of the late John Rollo Somerset-Paddon, formerly of Chalk Newton House, Maiden Newton, Dorset, thence by descent.
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £20 - £30
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
A FLINTLOCK SERVICE PISTOL
Lot 1051 Sold
A FLINTLOCK SERVICE PISTOL
with full walnut stock and a brass trigger guard; and one other flintlock service pistol with a full walnut stock, steel ram rod, brass trigger guard and brass butt plate (2)
Hammer price: £240
Estimate: £30 - £50
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
A WWI MILITARY BRITISH ARMY BOOT RELIC
Lot 1052 Unsold
A WWI MILITARY BRITISH ARMY BOOT RELIC
Estimate: £50 - £100
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
A GERMAN HINDENBERG HONOUR CROSS MEDAL WITH SWORDS
Lot 1053 Sold
A GERMAN HINDENBERG HONOUR CROSS MEDAL WITH SWORDS
mounted with certificate awarded to Police Officer Peter Grosch in Frankfurt, framed and glazed, 19cm x 14cm
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £40 - £80
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
A WWII GERMAN AFRIKA KORPS FIELD CAP
Lot 1054 Sold
A WWII GERMAN AFRIKA KORPS FIELD CAP
the cap constructed of olive green twill with red interior, with eagle and roundel insignia.
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £200 - £400
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
A ROYAL ENGINEERS 'SWAGGER' STICK
Lot 1054a Sold
A ROYAL ENGINEERS 'SWAGGER' STICK
a WWI military map case; and a pair of binoculars in a canvas carrying case (3)
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £50 - £100
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
A QUANTITY OF VARIOUS MILITARY BADGES
Lot 1055 Sold
A QUANTITY OF VARIOUS MILITARY BADGES
including 8th Battalion Gurkha Regiment and the Indian Signal Corps; a WWII Parachute Regiment cap badge; a City of London belt bucklet, and others (a lot)

Provenance: Lampard Collection.
Hammer price: £90
Estimate: £80 - £150
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
A FRENCH WWI MILITARY WATER BOTTLE
Lot 1056 Unsold
A FRENCH WWI MILITARY WATER BOTTLE
and a quantity of various other military items including Patent No. 2 military brass button cleaner, fuse heads, a trench art pin dated 1917, a WWI canvas belt with various military buttons and badges, two Canadian Machine Gun Corps badges etc.
Estimate: £100 - £200
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
A WWII GERMAN OFFICERS SIDE CAP
Lot 1056a Sold
A WWII GERMAN OFFICERS SIDE CAP
with army eagle insignia, silver bullion piping, leather sweat band stamped '59'
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £100 - £200
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
A WWI FRENCH GROUP OF MEDALS TO LEOPOLD
Lot 1057 Sold
A WWI FRENCH GROUP OF MEDALS TO LEOPOLD
from the 175th Artillery, framed and glazed with French War Certificate, 33cm x 43cm
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £100 - £200
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
A WILTSHIRE REGIMENT SILK EMBROIDERY OF BATTLE HONOURS
Lot 1058 Unsold
A WILTSHIRE REGIMENT SILK EMBROIDERY OF BATTLE HONOURS
inscribed The Wiltshire Regiment (The Duke of Edinburgh's), framed and glazed, 60cm x 50cm
Estimate: £50 - £100
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
A NAVAL COAT, BY GIEVES LTD
Lot 1059 Unsold
A NAVAL COAT, BY GIEVES LTD
once belonging to A.B. Black
Estimate: £30 - £50
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
A LARGE QUANTITY OF INTERNATIONAL WATCH MAGAZINES
Lot 1060 Sold
A LARGE QUANTITY OF INTERNATIONAL WATCH MAGAZINES
1990's - 2000's (a lot)
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £20 - £40
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
THE STUDIO: A QUANTITY OF LOOSE MAGAZINES
Lot 1061 Sold
THE STUDIO: A QUANTITY OF LOOSE MAGAZINES
1920s - 1940s, with older issues of 'The Art Journal' and other periodicals
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £20 - £30
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
A ‘FAMOUS 1ST EDITION SILVER MINT’ REPLICA OF BATMAN #1
Lot 1062 Sold
A ‘FAMOUS 1ST EDITION SILVER MINT’ REPLICA OF BATMAN #1
originally published in 1940, together with a quantity of Marvel comics including Hulk, Avengers and Fantastic Four (two boxes)
Hammer price: £160
Estimate: £100 - £200
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
AN EXTENSIVE RUN OF MILITARY MODELLING MAGAZINES
Lot 1063 Sold
AN EXTENSIVE RUN OF MILITARY MODELLING MAGAZINES
Hammer price: £35
Estimate: £40 - £60
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
THREE BOXES OF 1970S AND 1980S UK COMICS
Lot 1064 Sold
THREE BOXES OF 1970S AND 1980S UK COMICS
including Tiger and Sparky
Hammer price: £90
Estimate: £60 - £80
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
A COPY OF JIM PINKOSKI’S ‘SPACED’
Lot 1065 Sold
A COPY OF JIM PINKOSKI’S ‘SPACED’
3rd issue, 1976, a copy of Hinge comic, a 1977 Comic Art Convention 10th anniversary comic, and a quantity of sci-fi comics including Star Reach (two boxes)
Hammer price: £220
Estimate: £40 - £60
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
EIGHT POSTCARD ALBUMS
Lot 1066 Sold
EIGHT POSTCARD ALBUMS
containing a quantity of British and world stamps, together with some loose stamps and two Decimal coin albums
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £40 - £60
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
A ‘FASNACHT 84’ BRONZED METAL ‘STAMP’ PIN BADGE
Lot 1067 Sold
A ‘FASNACHT 84’ BRONZED METAL ‘STAMP’ PIN BADGE
designed by Muller, 3.5cm x 3cm, and a quantity of stamps, some in albums (one box)
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £30 - £40
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
A SMALL QUANTITY OF BAMFORTH AND OTHER ‘SAUCY’ POSTCARDS
Lot 1068 Sold
A SMALL QUANTITY OF BAMFORTH AND OTHER ‘SAUCY’ POSTCARDS
and a small quantity of other postcards, various
Hammer price: £15
Estimate: £20 - £30
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
A COLLECTION OF RUSSIAN BONDS/NOTES
Lot 1069 Sold
A COLLECTION OF RUSSIAN BONDS/NOTES
mostly for woollen cloth manufacture
Hammer price: £320
Estimate: £40 - £80
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
GERTRUDE JEKYLL AND CHRISTOPHER HUSSEY: GARDEN ORNAMENT
Lot 1070 Sold
GERTRUDE JEKYLL AND CHRISTOPHER HUSSEY: GARDEN ORNAMENT
Country Life, second edition (revised) 1927 (scuffs, corners damaged)
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £60
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
DAVID SHEPHERD: PAINTINGS OF AFRICA AND INDIA
Lot 1071 Sold
DAVID SHEPHERD: PAINTINGS OF AFRICA AND INDIA
signed copy 208/506 Tryon Gallery 1978, in slipcase, with Lewi/Gardner Sir William Russell Flint, De-luxe edition, signed to bookplate by Susan Russell Flint (title page has ink offset from opposite illustration) (2)
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £30 - £60
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
H. AVRAY TIPPING: 'ENGLISH HOMES', COUNTRY LIFE
Lot 1072 Sold
H. AVRAY TIPPING: 'ENGLISH HOMES', COUNTRY LIFE
ten volumes covering 1066 - 1820, published in the 1920s , Ex Libris Oswald James Finney (variable condition; period 1 vol 1 badly damaged)
Hammer price: £45
Estimate: £40 - £80
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
A SMALL COLLECTION OF VINTAGE GUIDE BOOKS, MAPS
Lot 1073 Sold
A SMALL COLLECTION OF VINTAGE GUIDE BOOKS, MAPS
and other items, including Lewis/ Garner 'Sir William Russell Flint', pub. David and Charles, 1989, and an Edwardian sketchbook
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £20 - £40
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
LAURENCE WHISTLER: 'REX WHISTLER; THE KONIGSMARK DRAWINGS'
Lot 1074 Sold
LAURENCE WHISTLER: 'REX WHISTLER; THE KONIGSMARK DRAWINGS'
The Richards Press 1952, No. 164/1000, in slip case, with a further collection of mixed books
Hammer price: £35
Estimate: £40 - £60
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
WALTER WINANS: 'THE SPORTING RIFLE'
Lot 1075 Sold
WALTER WINANS: 'THE SPORTING RIFLE'
G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS, 1908, with Rev'd. Wm. B. Daniel 'Rural Sports' (two volumes only) (3)
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £40 - £60
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
‘THE FEMALE PILGRIM’
Lot 1076 Unsold
‘THE FEMALE PILGRIM’
published by J. Nicholson, Halifax 1809, one brown leather bound volume, Gray - History of Rome, published by Hatchard, London, 1858, one brown cloth bound volume, and a quantity of mixed antiquarian and other books
Estimate: £100 - £200
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
DICKENS, CHARLES: THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS, HOUSEHOLD EDITION
Lot 1077 Unsold
DICKENS, CHARLES: THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS, HOUSEHOLD EDITION
'A Tale of Two Cities', together with a small collection of further literature (5)
Estimate: £20 - £30
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
A COLLECTION OF FOLIO SOCIETY BOOKS
Lot 1078 Sold
A COLLECTION OF FOLIO SOCIETY BOOKS
and other books
Hammer price: £35
Estimate: £40 - £60
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
CHATWIN, BRUCE: THE VICEROY OF OUIDAH
Lot 1079 Sold
CHATWIN, BRUCE: THE VICEROY OF OUIDAH
Penguin Books, New York, 1980, together with a collection of further works by Chatwin, and a large collection of reference books and works of fiction (a lot)

Property from the collection of Bruce and Elizabeth Chatwin, formerly of Sinclair Gardens, London.
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
GREENWOOD & CO, A MAP OF NORTHAMPTON
Lot 1080 Unsold
GREENWOOD & CO, A MAP OF NORTHAMPTON
coloured engraving, in Hogarth style frame and glazed
Estimate: £30 - £40
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
ROBERT MORDEN, A MAP OF WARWICKSHIRE
Lot 1081 Sold
ROBERT MORDEN, A MAP OF WARWICKSHIRE
36cm x 42cm, together with a map of Birmingham and etchings of Birmingham (5)
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £20 - £40
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
18TH CENTURY SCHOOL, ‘A VIEW OF LONDON ABOUT THE YEAR 1560’
Lot 1082 Unsold
18TH CENTURY SCHOOL, ‘A VIEW OF LONDON ABOUT THE YEAR 1560’
coloured engraving, 35cm x 50cm, dated 1738, pasted to board, together with seven other rolled maps (8)
Estimate: £40 - £60
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
AN ANTIQUARIAN MAP OF HAMPSHIRE
Lot 1083 Sold
AN ANTIQUARIAN MAP OF HAMPSHIRE
'Hantshire', with text verso 39 x 51cm plus frame, with four 19th century topographical prints (3 Dorset, 1 Hastings)
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £80 - £150
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
20TH CENTURY ENGLISH SCHOOL, THREE STUDIES OF ASIAN FLORA AND FAUNA
Lot 1084 Sold
20TH CENTURY ENGLISH SCHOOL, THREE STUDIES OF ASIAN FLORA AND FAUNA
gouaches on coloured paper, each 29cm x 22cm, indistinctly signed ‘H. Bullfield (?), in cream frames and glazed
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £40 - £60
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL FLINT (1880-1969), MODELS
Lot 1085 Unsold
SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL FLINT (1880-1969), MODELS
signed, colour print, gilt frame
Estimate: £80 - £100
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
*PATRICK PROCKTOR (1936-2003) 'Northern Lass'
Lot 1086 Sold
*PATRICK PROCKTOR (1936-2003) 'Northern Lass'
from Europaeische Graphik VII, 1971, signed and numbered "XIX/XXXV in pencil to the margin, lithograph printed onto Japanese paper, from the second edition of 35, Published by Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer and with their blindstamp lower left, 75cm x 52.5cm
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £20 - £40
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
WILLIAM WALLS (1860-1942) A collection of studies of lions
Lot 1087 Sold
WILLIAM WALLS (1860-1942) A collection of studies of lions
watercolour and pencil; together with three similar studies of wolves by Walls (all unframed) (6)
William Walls was a landscape and animal painter born in Dunfermline and based in Edinburgh. He…
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £50 - £100
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
JEAN CECIL (B. 1929), PORTRAIT OF A LADY
Lot 1088 Unsold
JEAN CECIL (B. 1929), PORTRAIT OF A LADY
oil painting, 28cm x 22cm, in gilt frame and glazed, the label verso for Bladon Society of Arts & Crafts inscribed in ink ‘Jean Cecil, Monxton Manor, Nr. Andover’
Estimate: £40 - £60
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
VALENTINE GREEN AFTER JOHN OPIE (1761-1807), 'THE SCHOOL'
Lot 1089 Unsold
VALENTINE GREEN AFTER JOHN OPIE (1761-1807), 'THE SCHOOL'
coloured mezzotint, 50cm x 61cm, in Hogarth style frame with verre eglomise slip, ink label posted verso with alterative title of 'The School Mistress'
Estimate: £80 - £150
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
WILLIAM WALLS (1860-1942) A collection of views of Cluny
Lot 1090 Sold
WILLIAM WALLS (1860-1942) A collection of views of Cluny
watercolour and pencil, mostly dating from 1932; four further landscape views by Walls, probably all Scotland; together with a still life study of shoes on a tabletop, a similar still life study of a doll and other toys; and a study of an artist painting two figures 'en plein air', all unframed (14)
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £50 - £100
9 August 2023
9 August 2023
GEORGE CATTERMOLE (1800-1868) A Medieval court
Lot 1091 Sold
GEORGE CATTERMOLE (1800-1868) A Medieval court
monogrammed, watercolour, 17cm x 59cm, in gilt frame
Hammer price: £140
Estimate: £100 - £200
9 August 2023
9 August 2023

Total lots: 1273

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