MOTORING LITERATURE, AUTOMOBILIA EARLY CYCLING, RAILWAYANA CLOCKS AND SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS STAMPS & COINS MEDALS, ARMS, WWI & WWII MILITARIA

* ‘Quadrant No 10’ Tandem Tricycle by Lloyd Brothers. A highly original machine, circa 1886, possessing a pair of 44-inch driving wheels, and 26-i...

*A circa 1900 Loop-Frame Tricycle. With a 21-inch frame, it possesses 6 1/2-inch cranks driving a Sturmey patented differential axle via a double-...

*A Motorised Tricycle. A restoration project, comprising a 1.75hp De Dion Bouton single-cylinder engine, with fittings to include the automatic in...

*A George Brooks Semi-Lightweight Bicycle, possessing a green-enamelled 19-inch frame with 26-inch Endrick rims, Weinmann side-pull calliper brake...

*A circa 1900 Dursley Pedersen Bicycle. Numbered 488, and an early period size 5 bicycle, having been restored in 1984, it now possesses a red ena...

*Rudge Whitworth ‘No 7 Aero Special’, lady’s bicycle, having a 22-inch black-enamelled frame which retains its gilt block-lining and original tra...

*1919 Sunbeam ‘Royal’ Lady’s Loop-Frame Bicycle. A re-painted 22-inch framed machine, retaining its correct mudguards, 26-inch Westwood rims, cha...

*1914 Sunbeam ‘Golden’ Lady’s Loop-Frame Bicycle. A 23-inch framed machine with its original black enamel finish, gilt box lining and transfers, ...

*A circa 1900 Fabrique Nationale ‘Shaft Drive’ Lady’s Bicycle. With a 22 1/2-inch black-painted loop frame, it possesses a back pedalling rear hub...

*Overman Wheel Co. ‘Victoria’ Lady’s Bicycle. Described as the ‘Queen of Safeties’, this circa 1894 single-tube American design was considered t...

*A Solid-Tyred Safety Bicycle. A black-painted bicycle with good quality old-style nickel-plating and retaining its rear and front mudguards, fron...

*1889 Coventry Machinists Co. ‘Swift’ Safety Bicycle, circa 1889. Owned by the vendor for many years, this rare bicycle from a quality manufacture...

An 1886/1887 Starley & Sutton `Special Rover` Safety Bicycle. This sprung framed machine, numbered '69', is based on the James K Starley patent nu...

*A circa 1887 Hillman, Herbert & Cooper Ltd. ‘Premier’ Safety Bicycle. An older restoration with a frame number of 37405 and currently painted bro...

*A circa 1890 Hillman, Herbert & Cooper Ltd. ‘Model F’ Safety Bicycle. Having a combination duplex and mudguard frame design, the machine represen...

*J. Parr & Co. Diamond-Framed Safety Bicycle. Possessing a 21-inch frame with tubing of varying diameters, it is offered as a complete machine wit...

*A circa 1897 Quadrant Cycle Co. Diamond-Framed Bicycle. This restoration project features a ‘Lloyds Cross-Roller Gear Drive’, which appears to be...

*A circa 1900 Terrot of Dijon Diamond-Framed Bicycle. An interesting machine with a rare Lavinge chain, chain set and rear sprocket fitted, with a...

*A circa 1873 Smith Starley & Co. ‘Ariel’ Ordinary Bicycle featuring Starley and Hillman’s patent lever spoke tensioning of 1871, finished in maro...

*A circa 1884 Clement & Co. ‘Grand Bi’ Youth’s Ordinary. A small but perfectly-formed bicycle, having a 41-inch driving wheel, hollow forks with ...

*A Velocipede Bicycle with a high steering stem, 25-inch straight handlebars with turned grips, twisting to actuate the rear brake, the frame pain...

*A circa 1895 Pacing Quad Bicycle by Langton & Co., of Cold Harbour Lane, Brixton, an historic and imposing machine with a very stout silver-paint...

*A Spilane Family ‘Whitney’ Ordinary Bicycle. A reproduction machine in good fettle, having a 54-inch hollow rim front wheel and a 17-inch traili...

*Rensch Paris Galibier Lightweight Bicycle. A classic design with a frame number of 147O, fitted with Airlite LF hubs, the rear double fixed using...

*A 1930 Selbach Semi-Lightweight Gentleman’s Bicycle, having a Morris-Selbach front hub dated 1930, with fair nickel-plating and Golden Wylde lacq...

*A circa 1949, Albert Waller ‘Kingsland’ Lightweight Bicycle. A refurbished bicycle, with a blue and white enamel finish, chromium-plating fork e...

*Architectural Drawings & Ephemera. A bound portfolio of pen and ink and watercolour architectural drawings by Bensley Thornhill, circa 1880s, inc...

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*Great Western Railway. An early 20th-century advertising sign ‘To Ireland by the New Fishguard Route’, with map of British Isles and Ireland deta...

Great Western Railway. A Letter to the Shareholders of the Great Western Railway, by a Proprietor, 3rd edition, 1838, bound with Great Western Rai...

Great Western Railway. The Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Western Railway... , by George Measom, 1st edition, [1860], engraved frontispie...

*Great Western Railway. A good and well-presented archive of Great Western Railway ephemera, mostly circa 1840s-1900, including approximately 20 l...

Locomotive Magazine. [Continued as] The Locomotive Railway Carriage and Wagon Review, volumes 6-65, 1901-59, a complete run of 59 volumes, folding...

*Locomotive Prints. Gardner (Maurice), ‘Silver Link’, colour print, signed in pencil by 22 drivers and crew, 49.5 x 66.5cm overall, together with...

*London & South West Railway. A drop dial wall clock, the 20.5cm circular enamel dial signed J.F. Fox, JN.o Gaydon, Barnstable 27’, with black rom...

*Orient Express. A modern brass carriage clock produced for the Orient-Express, with white dial with black roman numerals bearing the crest of Ven...

Railway Maps. Six volumes of Railway Maps from the London to Birmingham Railway, circa 1890, six very long folding lithographic maps with contempo...

*Railway Posters. Southern Railway Poster, Mind that door by Ernest J. Day Ltd., (AD 7847/A2/58), British Railways (Eastern Region) Great Yarmouth...

*Railway Sign. A cast iron sign for ‘Beware of the Trains’, painted in black and white, 32cm high x 52cm wide. (1)

*Railway. Approximately 6,000 35mm slides, mostly steam railway post 1960, plus loose photographs. (4 cartons)

*Railwayana. A London Midland Scottish cast iron wagon plate for ‘LMS Wolverton Lot No 1198 1939’, 13cm wide, together with a brass signal box ke...

*Railwayana. A collection of GWR jigsaw puzzles, including A Cornish Fishing Village, St Julien, The Cornish Riviera Express, together with Corona...

*Railwayana. An album of railway tickets, mostly post WWII, all corner mounted in a scrap album, circa 1960s lines include Rotherham Valley Railwa...

Railways & Inventions. Los Inventos Modernos, Aplicados a la Industria, Agricultura y Comercio, volume 1 only, Barcelona, Year 1 Number 1 to Year ...

*Great Western Railway. An early 20th-century oak-framed office-chair, c. 1920s, having splat-back with jointed arm-rests and spring-supported "Re...

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*Clock. An Art Deco electric clock, the circular glass dial signed ‘Helma Neon Electric Clock, Made in England, Patt’s applied for’, with revolvi...

*Compass. An Edwardian circular sighting compass by B.J. Hall & Co. Ltd., London, with silvered dial and four divisions for 0-90, signed dial with...

*Medical Instrument. A Victorian bladder and catheter set, by Down Brothers, containing twelve silver instruments, each with hallmarks for London ...

*Microscope Slides. A good collection of Victorian and later microscope slides, subjects include Crystals, Entomology, Lepidoptera, Histology, Bot...

*Microscope. A George III brass simple microscope, signed Banks 440 Strand London, with pivotal mirror and rack and pinion bracket with and other ...

*Pantograph. A late Victorian brass pantograph, engraved with scales, 97cm long with various accessories, in a mahogany box. (1)

*Patek Philippe. A rare integrated Electronic Master Clock System with independent minute and seconds comparators in seven-piece tower, circa 1975...

*Scales & Weights. A George III set of apothecary’s scales, the cut steel balance with brass pans with a mixture of brass and aluminium weights, i...

*Sound Detection. A cased instrument for the Detection, Location & Comparison of Sound, manufactured by The Capac Bin-Aural Co. Ltd., London, with...

*Wimshurst Machine. A well made electrostatic induction machine, with large wooden wheel set with silver paper divisions, on a mahogany and brass ...

*Vespasian (69-79 AD). Commemorative silver antoninianus issued under Trajan Decius, Milan 250 - 1 AD. DIVO VESPASIANO around radiate head right, ...

*Septimius Severus (193 - 211 AD). Denarius, Rome, 210 - 11 AD, Reverse: VICTORIAE BRIT around Victory advancing right, extremely fine, (RIC 332),...

*Macrinus (217-218 AD). Denarii (2), Rome, Reverse types: PONTIF MAX TR P , Jupiter standing left holding thunderbolt and sceptre, good very fine,...

*Elagabalus (218-222 AD). Antoniniani (2), Rome, Reverse: SALVS ANTONINI AVG, Salus holding snake, very fine/fine, (RIC 138), and another of the s...