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Auction date Tuesday 9 April 2024 10:00 - 17:30 BST
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Tuesday 9th April starting at 10:00am

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Total lots: 870

THREE WW2 GAS MASK RESPIRATORS IN THEIR BOXES
Lot 625 Sold
THREE WW2 GAS MASK RESPIRATORS IN THEIR BOXES
all from one family
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £20 - £40
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
TWO GERMAN MILITARY JACKETS
Lot 626 Unsold
TWO GERMAN MILITARY JACKETS
with Bundeswehr badges, and a cap (3)
Estimate: £30 - £60
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
A COLLECTION OF MILITARIA
Lot 627 Sold
A COLLECTION OF MILITARIA
including a WWII helmet, a scratch-built toy wooden gun, policemans' helmets etc
Hammer price: £90
Estimate: £40 - £60
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
A 'BAVEYWARE IS BEST' CAMP BED
Lot 628 Unsold
A 'BAVEYWARE IS BEST' CAMP BED
(canvas a/f) and a WWII camp bed (2)
Estimate: £30 - £50
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
A SHELL FUSE (EXCAVATED)
Lot 629 Sold
A SHELL FUSE (EXCAVATED)
a quantity of pennies and halfpennies, mostly Victorian, and other items, in an old 'OXO' tin
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £10 - £20
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
A QUANTITY OF MILITARY LETTERS, Lt Col G.E. CAVE
Lot 630 Unsold
A QUANTITY OF MILITARY LETTERS, Lt Col G.E. CAVE
and other items, including items from Iceland, and covers etc
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
FRAMED PHOTOGRAPHS OF FIGHTER PLANES
Lot 631 Unsold
FRAMED PHOTOGRAPHS OF FIGHTER PLANES
including an air-to-air view of Fairey Battle, 1649, in flight.
Estimate: £30 - £50
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
A QUANTITY OF ITALIAN AND FRENCH TOUR PHOTOGRAPHS
Lot 632 Sold
A QUANTITY OF ITALIAN AND FRENCH TOUR PHOTOGRAPHS
commercially produced, views of Milan, Menton, etc (un-mounted, rolled, in a box)
Hammer price: £15
Estimate: £30 - £40
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
TWO ALBUMS OF POSTCARDS; DORSET
Lot 633 Sold
TWO ALBUMS OF POSTCARDS; DORSET
Wareham, Swanage, Corfe etc
Hammer price: £140
Estimate: £100 - £200
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
TWO ALBUMS OF POSTCARDS; BOURNEMOUTH
Lot 634 Unsold
TWO ALBUMS OF POSTCARDS; BOURNEMOUTH
and area; Sandbanks, Boscombe, Southborne, Christchurch
Estimate: £100 - £200
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
A COLLECTION DORSET POSTAL HISTORY
Lot 635 Sold
A COLLECTION DORSET POSTAL HISTORY
Including stamps & letters.
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
A BOX OF MARCONI RELATED EPHEMERA
Lot 636 Sold
A BOX OF MARCONI RELATED EPHEMERA
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
AN ALBUM OF POSTAL STRIKE MAIL
Lot 637 Sold
AN ALBUM OF POSTAL STRIKE MAIL
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
A COLLECTION OF POSTCARDS; SPORTING, MUSICIANS
Lot 638 Sold
A COLLECTION OF POSTCARDS; SPORTING, MUSICIANS
Pierrot troupes, entertainers, choirs, tennis players (including a small autograph album), Royalty, in three albums
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £50 - £80
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
FRANK SINATRA: TWO EARLY SIGNED PHOTOGRAPHS
Lot 639 Unsold
FRANK SINATRA: TWO EARLY SIGNED PHOTOGRAPHS
c.1940s, with dedications each 25.5 x 21cm (some scuffs and marks), with other signed photos, Lydia Clarke, Rosalie Fiorato, and Dick Crawley (5)
Estimate: £400 - £600
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
A SIGNED 1966 ROYAL OPERA HOUSE PROGRAMME FOR GISELLE
Lot 640 Unsold
A SIGNED 1966 ROYAL OPERA HOUSE PROGRAMME FOR GISELLE
signed by Margot Foteyn and Rudolph Nureyev
Estimate: £100 - £200
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
BUCHAN, JOHN, ‘THE NOVEL AND THE FAIRY TALE’
Lot 641 Unsold
BUCHAN, JOHN, ‘THE NOVEL AND THE FAIRY TALE’
published by The English Association, Pamphlet No. 79, July 1931, paper bound
Estimate: £20 - £40
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
MONTGOMERY OF ALAMEIN: AN AUTOGRAPHED LETTER
Lot 642 Sold
MONTGOMERY OF ALAMEIN: AN AUTOGRAPHED LETTER
'Dear Ashill,
Thank you for your kind offer of help...' Dated 8-10-59
Hammer price: £35
Estimate: £50 - £100
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
MARIE HALL (VIOLINIST) INTEREST: AN ALBUM OF MUSICIAN AND COMPOSER POSTCARDS
Lot 643 Unsold
MARIE HALL (VIOLINIST) INTEREST: AN ALBUM OF MUSICIAN AND COMPOSER POSTCARDS
mostly late 19th/ 20th Century musicians , including Miss Marie Hall (1884-1956), Jan Kubelik and his wife, Melba, Elgar, etc, contained in a bound album, together with one of Miss Hall's calling cards. Hall was the first performer of Vaughan Williams' Lark Ascending, and a major figure early 20th century music. Most cards addressed to one Miss M. Glennie, Gravelly Hills (a music school?)
Provenance: by repute acquired by the vendor's grandfather in exchange for cigarettes during WWII.
Estimate: £100 - £200
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
'MUTINEERS OF THE BOUNTY', 1809, A NEWSPAPER
Lot 644 Sold
'MUTINEERS OF THE BOUNTY', 1809, A NEWSPAPER
The Edinburgh Advertiser, No. 4791 reporting that event, Nov 28th
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £30 - £50
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
AN EDWARDIAN POSTCARD ALBUM, VARIED CONTENTS
Lot 645 Sold
AN EDWARDIAN POSTCARD ALBUM, VARIED CONTENTS
topographical, including the fire at Morley's dept. store, Brixton 1910, private house exteriors, family groups, a football team, roller skating girl, greetings and others
Hammer price: £200
Estimate: £100 - £200
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
A COLLECTION OF CIGARETTE CARDS
Lot 646 Unsold
A COLLECTION OF CIGARETTE CARDS
(three albums)
Estimate: £30 - £50
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
A COLLECTION OF CIGARETTE CARDS
Lot 647 Sold
A COLLECTION OF CIGARETTE CARDS
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
'A SUMMER HOLIDAY AT SHRIGLEY PARK ...1908'
Lot 648 Sold
'A SUMMER HOLIDAY AT SHRIGLEY PARK ...1908'
-an album of watercolours, with a collection of ephemera, including maps, engravings, tea cards and other items
Hammer price: £110
Estimate: £30 - £50
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
MOON LANDING NEWSPAPERS, 1969
Lot 649 Unsold
MOON LANDING NEWSPAPERS, 1969
and a collection of mostly Royal ephemera, newspapers, magazines, scraps etc
Estimate: £30 - £40
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
A SET OF LINEN BRITISH ISLE MAPS
Lot 650 Sold
A SET OF LINEN BRITISH ISLE MAPS
with a wooden jigsaw of the British Isles and other emphemera including cigarette cards
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £30 - £50
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
A QUANTITY OF HAND WRITTEN BOOKS, PHOTOGRAPHS
Lot 651 Sold
A QUANTITY OF HAND WRITTEN BOOKS, PHOTOGRAPHS
and other ephemera
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £30 - £50
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
A VARIED COLLECTION OF POSTCARDS
Lot 652 Sold
A VARIED COLLECTION OF POSTCARDS
Topographical, UK and abroad, S. Africa, Winchester, some theatrical, comic etc, many in albums
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £80 - £120
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
SHAKESPEARE'S THE TRAGEDIE OF CYMBELINE PRINTED FROM THR FOLIO OF 1623
Lot 653 Unsold
SHAKESPEARE'S THE TRAGEDIE OF CYMBELINE PRINTED FROM THR FOLIO OF 1623
of an edition of 550 (this copy not numbered) The Player's Shakespeare, Shakespeare Head Press for Ernest Benn, London 1923, with Robert W. Lincoln; 'Lives of the Presidents of the United States, New York 1839, and various other books (9)
Estimate: £40 - £60
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
WINSTON CHURCHILL INTEREST: A PRINTED THANK YOU NOTE
Lot 654 Sold
WINSTON CHURCHILL INTEREST: A PRINTED THANK YOU NOTE
on Downing Street headed paper, 18.5 cm x 12.5cm; Rune Strand (20th Century), a glass paperweight etched with a portrait of Churchill, 14.5cm wide, limited edition no 145/5000; Churchill, W.S. ‘Great Contemporaries’, published by Readers Union, 1939; and Roberts, Andrew, ‘Churchill’, published by Penguin 2018, with a Tiffany and Co Sterling silver bookmark
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £60 - £80
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
JOHNSON, GEORGE W. (Ed), ‘THE COTTAGE GARDENERS’ DICTIONARY’
Lot 655 Unsold
JOHNSON, GEORGE W. (Ed), ‘THE COTTAGE GARDENERS’ DICTIONARY’
second edition, published by W. Kent & Co, London 1857, green three quarter leather binding
Estimate: £30 - £50
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
JOHN LEECH - PICTURES OF LIFE CHARACTER SERIES 2-5
Lot 656 Sold
JOHN LEECH - PICTURES OF LIFE CHARACTER SERIES 2-5
(four volumes)
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £50 - £100
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER: TWO PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHS
Lot 657 Sold
SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER: TWO PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHS
one signed 'John Miles 10/100, with 'The diaries of Sylvia Townsend warner' ed. Claire Harman (3)
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £30 - £50
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
JAMES JOYCE: ULYSSES, JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD 1937
Lot 658 Sold
JAMES JOYCE: ULYSSES, JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD 1937
(no d/w, some spotting, green cloth soiled)
Hammer price: £90
Estimate: £80 - £120
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
TOM CLANCY: HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER FIRST EDITION, SIGNED
Lot 659 Sold
TOM CLANCY: HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER FIRST EDITION, SIGNED
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £100 - £200
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
THOMAS HARDY: VARIOUS VOLUMES
Lot 660 Sold
THOMAS HARDY: VARIOUS VOLUMES
some in foreign languages, and a quantity of The Thomas Hardy Journal
Hammer price: £55
Estimate: £30 - £40
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
A COLLECTION OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS, REFERENCE BOOKS
Lot 661 Sold
A COLLECTION OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS, REFERENCE BOOKS
on the subject, IBIS newsletters, auction catalogues pertaining to children's and other illustration
Hammer price: £240
Estimate: £30 - £50
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
'THE HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE CORONATION... OF KING EDWARD VII AND QUEEN ALEXANDRA'
Lot 662 Sold
'THE HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE CORONATION... OF KING EDWARD VII AND QUEEN ALEXANDRA'
compiled by H. Farnham Burke, C.V.O., Somerset Herald, privately printed, Harrison and Sons London 1904, with illustrations by Byam Shaw, in slipcase (poor condition)
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £30 - £40
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
A QUANTITY OF FOREIGN TRAVEL BOOKS
Lot 663 Sold
A QUANTITY OF FOREIGN TRAVEL BOOKS
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £30 - £40
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
A QUANTITY OF ART REFERENCE BOOKS
Lot 664 Sold
A QUANTITY OF ART REFERENCE BOOKS
art, architecture, antiques etc
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £30 - £50
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
A QUANTITY OF MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS
Lot 665 Sold
A QUANTITY OF MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £30 - £40
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
A LARGE COLLECTION OF VARIED BOOKS
Lot 666 Sold
A LARGE COLLECTION OF VARIED BOOKS
much fiction; Dornford Yates, Jeffrey Farnol, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kipling, Conan Doyle, Scott, William Black, poetry, biography, Reprint Society, antiques etc (most with wear/damage)
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £50 - £100
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
BOOKS ON ART AND ART HISTORY
Lot 667 Sold
BOOKS ON ART AND ART HISTORY
a varied collection, mostly European art
Hammer price: £10
Estimate: £40 - £60
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
BOOKS ON THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Lot 668 Sold
BOOKS ON THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
various individual photographers, exhibitions, collections, themed works etc
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £50 - £100
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
BOOKS ON ASIAN ART; JAPANESE, CHINESE
Lot 669 Sold
BOOKS ON ASIAN ART; JAPANESE, CHINESE
Thailand, etc, and other areas including; Elise Grilli; 'The art of the Japanese screen', Sydney L. Moss; 'Escape from the world of dust' and 'One hundred years of beatitude', and many others
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £150 - £200
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
BUCHAN, JOHN, ‘THE MAGIC WALKING STICK’
Lot 670 Unsold
BUCHAN, JOHN, ‘THE MAGIC WALKING STICK’
first edition, published by Hodder and Stoughton, 1932, ‘The Poetry of Neil Munro’ with preface by John Buchan, second impression 1932, blue cloth bound and a quantity of John Buchan volumes, some first editions (50) (most lacking jackets, wear)
Estimate: £100 - £200
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
DISRAELI, BENJAMIN, ‘THE NOVELS AND TALES’
Lot 671 Sold
DISRAELI, BENJAMIN, ‘THE NOVELS AND TALES’
The Bradenham Edition, volumes 1-12, published by Peter Davies, London, 1927, blue cloth bound with dust wrappers
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £70 - £100
9 April 2024
9 April 2024
OBSERVER'S BOOKS; SEVEN VOLUMES, INCLUDING 'MOTORCYCLES'
Lot 672 Unsold
OBSERVER'S BOOKS; SEVEN VOLUMES, INCLUDING 'MOTORCYCLES'
(1977 edn), and others, all with jackets
Estimate: £30 - £40
9 April 2024
9 April 2024

Total lots: 870

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