Part 1 of the Autumn Connoisseurs’ Sale: Tuesday 14th October Lots 1-51 followed by Lots 1001-1269.

A brass motor horn, mounting bracket marked ?Made in India?, rubber bulb (worn), 18? overall. GWO & C ...[more]

A compact SUI binocular, marked ?Antireflex. Triple Tested. 6x25. Field 11.5°. Extra Wide Angle?, in case; a small ?Praktica Sport CN8x21? binocu...

A WWII Canadian 7x50 binocular, marked ?Rel./Canada.1944. Like.1900A?, individual eye piece focus, with strap, in its later leather fitted case w...

An interesting presentation barograph/barometer, in its panelled veneered case, with drawer in pedestal base, and silver plate engraved ?C C Waug...

A WWI presentation pocket watch, the enamelled dial marked ?8 Jours/Hebdomas?, with exposed balance wheel, the gun metal case engraved ?Lieut Rob...

A black leather fire bucket, painted in yellow ?Victory. GR.1803?, height 10?, with copy of a photo of a group of officers on the quarter deck, w...

A shaped leather fire bucket, copper rim, and studded base, leather carrying handle on rings, with Geo VI crown and GR transfer, height 9½?. GC P...

The head of a Lesser Reedbuck, mounted on a wall shield with plaque dated 1894, (a little mothed); and a quantity of deer antlers, including a pa...

A mounted crow, a pheasant and a weasel. GC ...[more]

The following 10 lots comprise a small taxidermy collection: A trout, in a realistic setting of sand and waterweeds, labels inside ?Taken by Mr W...

A family of weasels, in a natural setting of grass and bracken, case 15? x 18? x 8?. GC ...[more]

A snarling fox, realistically portrayed amid grass with rural background, in case 26? x 45? x 10?. GC ...[more]

A Shelduck, maritime setting, case 20? x 24? x 10?. GC ...[more]

A Brent Goose, in case 20? x 24? x 10?. GC ...[more]

A pair of Kingfishers, a pied wagtail and a jack snipe, on ground with reeds, case 13? x 11? x 6?. GC ...[more]

A Hooded crow, a kingfisher, a snipe and another, on ground and branch, case 15? x 18? x 8?. GC ...[more]

A cock Pheasant, with hen, and a partridge, on ground with bracken, case marked on back ?John Cotton, Stockbridge, 1876?, 16? x 34? x 9?. GC .....

A well displayed group of 4 Australian Bee Eaters, with small printed label ?Prize Medal 1862. Ashmead & Co 85 Bishopsgate Without?, old label wi...

A Great Northern Diver and a Red Throated diver in winter plumage, well displayed at waters edge with foliage, in case 25? x 41? x 11?. GC ...[...

30 various books and pamphlets on military uniform, etc. Generally GC ...[more]

10 Books of biographies of famous men, Auchinleck, Wavell, Sir Harry Smith, Peter The Great, Pitt the Younger, Kitchener, FM Allanbrook, FM Montg...

7 books of Napoleonic interest, including: ?Napoleon? (a biography) by McLynn; ?The Armies of Wellington?, ?Sir John Moore?; ?Peninsula Cavalry G...

11 books of naval interest, including: ?Nelson?s Favourite? (Agamemnnon); ?Admiral of the Blue? (Admiral Purves); ?Cochrane?, ?Byng?, ?Command of...

9 books of naval interest, including ?Capt Cook?s War-Peace, Storm & Conquest - Battle for the Indian Ocean 1809?, ?The Nelson Companion?; ?Unpat...

11 military books of Scottish interest, including ?Glencoe?, ?Culloden? and ?Mutiny? all by Peebles; ?London Scottish WWII, Records of the 90th?,...

7 military books of Scottish interest: ?History of the 51st Highland Div 1939-45?, ?The Royal Scots 1914-19?, 2 vols; ?History of the A&S Highlan...

15 miliary books on India: ?Wellington in India?, ?Hindu Horsemen?, ?Armies of India?, ?Kashmir Gate?; ?North West Frontier?, ?Old Soldier Sahib?...

?The Bronze Cross? by Gordon Roe, ?The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Military Insignia of the 20th Century? by Rosignoli; ?Military Bands and Their...

?Headdress Badges of the British Army? by Kipling & King Vol 1 (no DW) and Vol 2 in DW; ?Military Badges of the British Empire 1914-18? by Cox; ?...

?Uniforms and Equipment of the Czarist Russian Armed Forces in World War I? by Coil, profusely illus, in DW; ?The German Reichswehr? by Schlicht ...

?The Military Badges and Insignia of Southern Africa? by Owen, fully illus reference work, ?The Territorial Artillery, 1908-88? by Litchfield, il...

?Headdress Badges of the British Army? by Kipling & King, the standard reference work, 2 vols, revised ed. 1978 and 1979 both signed by the autho...

?The History and Campaigns of The Rifle Brigade?by Col Willoughby Verner, with plates, 2 vols, 1912 and 1919, cloth gilt (bindings AF, contents s...

?Izzat: Historical Records and Iconography of Indian Cavalry Regiments 1750 - 2007? by Ashok Nath, a detailed and fully illustrated study of the ...

A quantity of military ephemera etc, including sundry post WWII training manuals, including Light Machine Gun, Machine Carbine, 2? and 3? mortar,...

An album of 100 military postcards, over half being Edwardian, Drum Horses, Scottish, Regimental etc. GC ...[more]

Approx 550 postcards and photos of shipping, c 1925-1970, few earliers, comprising ocean liners (including ?Queen Mary?, ?Normandie?), merchant s...

A large framed black and white print ?The Relief of Lucknow and Triumphant Meeting of Havelock, Outram and Sir Colin Campbell?, framed in gilt, 3...

A large framed black and white print Napoleon the Great Rebuking his Officers at Bassano?, framed with gilt inner frame, 35? x 53? overall. QGC ...

A set of 8 Royal Marine coloured military prints by Charles Stadden 1664-1910, includes artillery and light infantry, 8? x 10½?, gilt and cream f...

2 stylized watercolour paintings of fighting cocks, one showing an all black bird titled ?Ready for Battle?, 16? x 10½?, mounted and framed 24? x...

A set of 6 hand coloured prints of cockfighting: ?Set Too?, ?Fight?, ?Throat?, ?Knock Down?, ?Recovery? and ?Death?, after originals by H Alken, ...

?Der Bayerischen Armee Samtliche Uniformen von 1800-1813?, a finely produced reprint of the original, by Eikon Verlag, Schwarzbach, 1976, consist...

An Imperial German Brunswick War Merit Cross, 1st class, the screw back with backing plate and domed nut embossed ?D.R.G.M 653146?, GC, (slgiht v...

A 1939 Iron Cross 1st Class, with iron centre and flat pin fitting. GC (black paint slightly crazed) ...[more]

A German Order of the Silesian Eagle, 2nd class without swords, of iron with silvered crescent and scroll. GC (some light surface rust) ...[mor...

A rare Third Reich 3rd type NSFK Pilot?s badge, of diecast grey metal with small ?L/58? in rectangle on the reverse, with round pin and flat hook...

A Third Reich rectangular enamelled wall plaque, 20? x 20?, with black on white eagle and swastika over NSDAP within lined border. Basically GC (...

8 pairs of Third Reich shoulder straps, including Luftwaffe flight section Oberfeldwebel, ditto Hauptmann, Army cavalry Leutnant, Army transport/...

A WWII period continental fireman?s steel helmet, possibly French, reissued to German Luftschutz, the black skull with ventilation holes, grey me...

A WWI Prussian Cuirassier trooper?s helmet, of blackened steel with line eagle badge (brass but showing traces of plating), with plated steel spi...

A WWI Baden pickelhaube, with PL skull (crazed and squashed), lightly gilt washed plate (gilt worn), brass spike and mounts, and original leather...

A late WWI Saxon ersatz pickelhaube, with blackened spun steel skull with integral front and rear peaks, the latter marked on the inside ?BA XII ...

A Third Reich dress bayonet, plated blade 8? with late type ?Original? Eickhorn maker?s mark, with plated hilt and staghorn grips, in its black p...

A Third Reich Fire Department sidearm, plated blade 9¼? (very small piece broken from tip), with early style Eickhorn mark, with plated hilt and ...

A non matching pair of Third Reich Naval officer?s dagger straps, of black ribbed fabric with velvet backing, the longer strap with gold anodised...

A pair of Third Reich Naval officer?s dagger straps, of black ribbed fabric with velvet backing, the mounts of gold anodised aluminium with chain...

A Third Reich Naval officer?s dagger, with early style Eickhorn mark, the blade etched with fouled anchors, dolphins etc, in its sheath. Basicall...

A composite Third Reich dagger, the hollow ground blade with SS motto and RZM mark over ?1211/39? and SS logo, the replacement black stained grip...

A Third Reich 2nd pattern Luftwaffe officer?s dagger, by A W Jr, Solingen, with partly heat blued blade, the grip replaced with one of tapered he...