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Brian Sanders (British, B. 1937) "Warsaw Uprising" Artist notes in margins. Original Oil painting on Masonite. Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder of Unicover Corporation. This painting is the original painting which appeared on the Republic of the Marshall Islands 50c Warsaw Uprising 1944 stamp issued August 1, 1994. During World War II, Poland suffered at the hands of the Soviets while being targeted for some of Nazi Germany's worst atrocities as well. Starting with the Luftwaffe attack on Warsaw during the first days of World War II, Polish citizens continually rallied to defend their homeland. Since early 1940, Poland's Home Army -- an underground group of Polish freedom fighters -- had been planning an uprising against the Germans. Encouraged by Russia, the Home Army went forward with its rebellion against German forces on August 1, 1944. However, the Poles were a poor match for the heavily-armed German army. After 63 days of fighting, about 83 percent of Warsaw had been destroyed, and an estimated 18,000 Polish insurgents and some 200,000 civilians had perished. Image Size: 13.5 x 16.5 in. Overall Size: 17.5 x 20.5 in. Unframed. (B14777)

Shannon Stirnweis (B. 1931) "Remagen Bridge Taken by U.S. Forces" Signed lower right. Original Oil painting on Illustration Board. Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder of Unicover Corporation. This painting originally appeared on the Republic of the Marshall Islands 32c Remagen Bridge Taken by U.S. Forces 1945 stamp issued March 7, 1995. As Anglo-American forces pushed into the heart of Germany, Adolf Hitler ordered that all bridges over the Rhine River be razed to hinder their progress -- but not until the Allies were within 12 miles. Thus, instead of immediately lining the Remagen railroad bridge with explosives, the Germans covered it with planks to expedite their retreat. When U.S. troops unexpectedly arrived early on the afternoon of March 7, 1945, the Germans had just started to prepare the bridge for demolition. Seeing it intact, U.S. Army troops under Lieutenant Karl H. Timmermann charged the span, cutting everything that resembled a demolition cable. Two hasty German attempts to destroy the bridge failed. One merely blew a crater at its western end, the second raised the bridge a few feet but it settled back into place. By 4:15 p.m., the Americans were in firm control of a vital crossing over the Rhine. Image Size: 19.75 x 23.75 in. Overall Size: 21.75 x 25.75 in. Unframed. (B14952)

Jim Butcher (American, B. 1944) "Winter Mischief" Original Mixed Media painting on Illustration Board. Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder of Unicover Corporation. From the beginning of civilization, man has been fascinated by the dream of flying. By the mid-19th century, the Union Army had used balloons for reconnaissance of the Confederate forces, and by the end of that century inventors everywhere in the Old World and the New were trying to construct airplanes. Wilbur and Orville Wright, two children born of a Bishop of the Church of the United Brethren, were among these inventors. When scarcely grown out of kneepants, they built themselves bicycles and then balloons, and in the early 1890s they built a model biplane with a five-foot wingspread. A few years later, with their inventive minds dedicated now to the airplane, they moved to Kitty Hawk in North Carolina where they set up what amounted to an airplane laboratory. After hundreds of experiments with glider planes in a specially built wind-tunnel, they managed to build a plane powered by a motor which provided twelve horsepower, but had to be launched by a catapult. In 1903, Orville -- the elder and the leader of the two -- launched a gasoline-powered plane and sent an historic wire: "Success four flights Thursday morning against 21-mile wind. Average speed 31 miles. Longest 59 seconds." Though this first success attracted little attention at the time, the brothers were able to raise enough money to carry on their experiments. By 1905, one of their planes had stayed aloft for thirty-eight minutes and they took out a patent on their airplane -- soon to remake the world. Image Size: 16.5 x 21.25 in. Overall Size: 20 x 23.25 in. Unframed. (B05976)

British Army General Officers Tunic Buttons, being the crossed baton and sword in laurel wreath, 19 large and 1 small. Good overall condition.

Wristwatch and Pocket Watch Assortment (13) items; (8) mens wrist watches including stem wind and set Benrus having a 14k white and yellow gold bezel and seconds sub-dial, quartz Omega Electronic Chronometer F-300-Hz-Ex having extra band links, Swiss Army having date window with stainless steel case and band, Michael Kors chronograph #MK5221, Kenneth Cole #KC334, Seiko #670242, Fossil #FS-2643 and a Spiro Agnew character watch, including (4) original boxes; (3) ladies stem wind and set wrist watches including 14k gold filled case Bulova having round cut diamonds and diamond chip decoration with velvet and brass storage case, a 14k white gold filled case and a gold-tone Bulova; (2) stem wind and set pocket watches including a Waltham full hunter having a gold-tone case, 17-jewel movement, seconds sub-dial and gold-tone chain having fob decorated with red gemstones and Wesclox 'Pocket Ben' having a stainless steel case Property from: an Evanston, Illinois estate Height: 3 3/4 inches, Length: 5 1/4 inches, Width: 3 3/4 inches (largest box) Condition: Very Good to Good, ladies gold-tone Bulova missing crystal; Benrus gold bezel unmarked but XRF tested as 14k; Swiss Army and Seiko having nicks to crystal; character watch band fading; Seiko box having wear at corners; overall light wear consistent with normal use; stem wind and set watches working when tested; quartz watches not tested Disclaimers: not checked for replacement parts; we cannot guarantee the operation, accuracy or longevity Category: Watches > Mixed Lots Estimated Sale Time: 5:26 pm (America/Chicago) Shipping Status: Leonard Auction Shipping Quote Sales Tax (United States Only): Kansas (6.5%), New Jersey (6.625%), Pennsylvania (6%), Washington (10.5%) Download High Resolution Photographs:Photograph #1

Pair: Sergeant R. Minns, 52nd (Oxfordshire) Light Infantry Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Delhi (Serjt. R. Minns, 52nd L.I.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (2317 Serjt. R. Minns 52nd Foot), with ornate hand tooled silver riband buckle, suspension claw to LS&GC tightened with small abrasions to rim and a few small knocks, overall nearly very fine (2) £400-£500 --- Robert Minns was born at Wymondham, Norfolk, and enlisted into the 52nd Foot as a Private on 30 December 1847, at the age of 17. He was promoted Corporal on 12 April 1853, Sergeant, 28 June 1856 and Colour Sergeant on 14 February 1867. He was recorded as serving with the 52nd Foot at Limerick in 1851. He was discharged as a Colour Sergeant having claimed his discharge on the termination of his second period of engagement, having served in total for 21 years and one day, having served overseas in the East Indies for 11 years and five months. His discharge papers note that he was a recipient of the Indian Mutiny Medal with clasp for Delhi and that he was entitled to the medal for long service and good conduct. His intended place of residence would be at Taunton, to serve with the 1st Somerset Militia.

PHELPS & ENSIGN, Publishers. Phelps & Ensign's Traveller's Guide, and Map of the United States...  New York: Phelps & Ensign, 1841 [copyright 1837].  Steel-engraved wall map of the United States on 5 sheets hand-colored in outline, 671 x 987 mm visible area, framed (unexamined out of frame). Map within ornate border, insets of a world map, chief rivers of the world, principal mountain ranges, and the text of the Declaration of Independence reproducing the signatures and with a cartoon rendering of the signing, inset plans of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, New Orleans, Mobile, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Charleston, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Detroit, and the District of Columbia; several steel-engraved vignettes in bottom margin (see below). (Some overall browning, some cracking or minor losses, a few stains.)  With vignettes in lower margin, including portraits of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, James Monroe, William Henry Harrison, Martin Van Buren and Andrew Jackson.   With vignettes of the Landing of the Pilgrims, the Battle of Lexington, the Battle of Bunker's Hill, and Washington's farewell to his army, and with a large engraved vignette of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.    Phelps and Ensign's map was issued with various copyright dates, from 1837 to 1840.   The present edition includes Stephen F. Austin's colony in Texas, and reaches further west than most maps of the period, extending to the Rockies, and including Missouri territory, New Mexico, and Texas as a separate political entity.   RARE: OCLC locates only three copies of this edition, none of which include the steel-engraved vignettes in the lower margin.  Property from the Collection of Julie Riedl, Whitefish Bay, WisconsinFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com

EDWARD VII 1897 PATTERN INDIAN ARMY INFANTRY OFFICER'S SWORD by Robert Mole & Sons Birmingham - in leather scabbard, 82.5cms L, fullered straight blade, 99cms overall fully sheathed, wire bound shagreen grip, the basket hilt with ERI cypher, maker's marks and decorative detail to the blade very worn, blade and possibly the hilt re-chromed, the scabbard probably brown pig skin with leather frog

Meccano - A boxed Meccano Army Multikit set and a box with a large quantity of loose Meccano construction parts. They are unchecked for completeness, the parts appear in Good condition overall. The Army Multikit box is Poor with splits and crushing. (This does not constitute a guarantee) (2)

Enfield two band percussion hammer Snider action rifle with lock stamped 'Tower', stock stamped 'F Hill & Sons Army Contractors Sheffield' brass trigger guard and butt plate, adjustable pop-up ladder sight, steel ram-rod, sling suspension mounts and 30.5 inch rifled barrel, overall length 122cm. 

Euroarms New Model Army .44 six-shot single action revolver with brass trigger guard, shaped wooden grips and 8 inch octagonal barrel, overall length 36cm, serial number 020612. PLEASE NOTE THAT A VALID RELEVANT FIREARMS/SHOTGUN CERTIFICATE IS REQUIRED TO HANDLE/PURCHASE THIS ITEM.

Army & Navy CSL London Tranter's Eureka .220 rim fire hammer action rook rifle with chequered semi-pistol grip, pop up sights and 26 inch part octagonal barrel, overall length 103.5cm, serial number 41598. PLEASE NOTE THAT A VALID RELEVANT FIREARMS/SHOTGUN CERTIFICATE IS REQUIRED TO HANDLE/PURCHASE THIS ITEM.

A group of unboxed Tri-ang plastic car models from their 'Push and Go' range including six Racing Cars, Vanwall, Mercedes etc,.a scarce M.3410 Sunbeam Alpine Convertible in green, 10cm long together with an Army Jaguar and three miniature models from the M.609 Minikit Set – Standard Vanguard Estate, Sunbeam Rapier and a Ford Zodiac, overall generally G/G+. A hard to find Tri-ang Minic models Catalogue from 1961, generally VG, which was removed from a Tri-ang retailers ring bound file and therefore with punched hoes down the spine, is also included as part of this lot. (12)

FM Montgomery of Alamein signed Army Re Union Dinner menu, some signs of age, clear ink signature top LH. About 6 x 4 inches overall. Good condition Est.

WW2 British Army Major Generals Battle Dress Blouse CBE DSO & Bar and Military Cross Winner, an interesting officer tailored battle dress blouse with open collar, red gorget collar patches, small type rank pip above bronzed generals shoulder rank insignia. To each arm is tartan formation sign and one arm has a post war made padded Parachute qualification jump wing. To the breast are medal ribbons for the CBE, DSO with rosette, MC, GSM, 1939-45 star, Africa star with 8th army emblem, Italy star, France & Germany star, Defence medal and 1939-45 War medal with MID oakleaf. Interior of the battle dress with William Anderson & Son Edinburgh tailors label with typed name “Magnus v, Major General 6/44”. Battle dress remains in very good overall condition.

WW2 German Army Officers Dress Dagger by Richard Herder Solingen, fine untouched example with a deep orange celluloid grip, pommel with oakleaves relief, cross guard in the form of army eale. Housed in its original scabbard with two hanging rings. Accompanied by a restored pair of officers hanging straps. The blade remains in excellent overall condition with makers trade mark to the base. Nice dark patina to the exterior fittings. Blade 25cms, overall 39 ½ cms.

Imperial Russian Tsar Nicholas II Period Dragoon Shasqua with Damascus Blade, Used by a Don Cossack Officer Serving with the German Armed Forces During WW2, superb example of a Imperial Russian dragoon pattern sword shasqua with gilt metal knuckle guard having fine relief of foliage leaves, top pommel with floral figure and the back strap with the cipher of Tsar Nicholas II. Blackened grip and brass mounts. Housed in its original black leather covered and gilt brass mounted scabbard with single hanging ring on the correct side of the scabbard for this pattern of sword. Applied to the top section of the scabbard is an original German army helmet decal, which would indicate that the sword was possibly carried by a member of the Don Cossack cavalry division which served with the German armed forces or placed on the sword when captured during operation Barbarossa. The curved blade dates from the early 20th century period and has fullers to the centre. Blade with Damascus pattern the full length of the blade. One side of the blade is etched with the cipher of Tsar Nicholas II and the other side has the Imperial Russian eagle emblem. Blade made by WKC and has its early trade mark, other side “F. FICHTE SOLINGEN”. Some light staining to the blade and some small nicks out on the edge. Overall a superb example of a very desirable pattern Imperial Russian sword with a high quality blade. Would have been carried by a Russian Cossack of significant rank.

Rare Third Reich SS Honour Ring (SS-Ehrenring / Totenkopfring), very fine example of the extremely rare award personally bestowed on the recipient by the leader of the Third Reich Schutzstaffel, better known as the SS, Heinrich Himmler. The ring of silver with Totenkopf skull to the centre and the band decorated with various runic symbols between oakleaves. The ring is engraved to the inside with the recipients name, “s.lb. Strutz” the date 20.4.37 and the signature of Heinrich Himmler. The ring remains in very good overall condition showing just very light wear and evidence of polishing when looked under a glass. This ring was given to the vendors mother Janette Diefendorf by an American serviceman. Her mother served with the Clubmobile Group of the American Red Cross, an American from Greenwich, Connecticut with German ancestry. The vendor has provided copies of newspaper cuttings which feature her mother and detail her wartime service which took her from New York to Northern Ireland and then onto mainland Europe, landing in France in July 1944 and following the American 1st Army through France, Belgium (Ardennes offensive) and into Germany. It was whilst stationed in Germany she believes her mother was given this ring. The SS honour ring was not something that could be bought, it had to be personally awarded and as such was very highly regarded and used as a symbolic item of SS ideology. In 1938, Himmler ordered the return of all rings of dead SS men and officers to be stored in a chest in Wewelsburg Castle. This was to be a memorial to symbolize the ongoing membership of the deceased in the SS order. In October 1944, Himmler ordered that further manufacture and awards of the ring were to be halted. Himmler then ordered that all the remaining rings, approximately 11,500, be blast-sealed inside a hill near Wewelsburg. By January 1945, 64% of the 14,500 rings made had been returned to Himmler after the deaths of the "holders". In addition, 10% had been lost on the battlefield and 26% were either kept by the holder or their whereabouts were unknown.

WW2 German Army Pioneer Other Ranks Tropical Pattern Overseas / Side Cap, fine example of the olive tropical cloth other ranks overseas cap with its original bevo tropical pattern eagle and cockade with black soutache indicating service with the pioneer section. Interior with red cloth lining having makers and size stampings and also the date 1942. Overall a good example.

Edward VII 1821 Pattern Officers Sword of the Army Service Corps, regulation pattern officers sword with three bar guard leading to patterned pommel and plain back strap. Grip retaining the original covering and wire binding. Housed in its brown leather field service scabbard. Attached to the scabbard is a brown leather sword frog. Polished regulation blade with crowned EVII cipher, regimental badge of the Army Service Corps and foliage. Retailed by J R Gaunt & Son. Blade 90cms, overall 107 ½ cms. Some wear to the lower part of the scabbard and the blade heavily polished but otherwise a good example.

WW2 British B2 Fairbairn Sykes (F.S) Commando Knife and Archive Belonging to Captain Douglas James Cotton Minchin 43rd Royal Marines Commando, Formerly Scottish Rifles and Royal Air Force, Killed in Action 15th March 1945, fine example of a brass hilted B2 pattern Fairbairn Sykes (F.S) commando knife with the oval guard stamped with broad arrow and “B2”. Housed in the original leather scabbard with brass lower chape, tabs removed from the scabbard but the securing tab is still in place. Un-marked double edged stiletto blade with medial ridge. Some surface staining and expected wear. Blade measures 15 ½ cms, overall 30cms. Accompanying the knife is his officers Sam Browne belt and a small archive of original handwritten letters from Captain Cotton Minchin, mostly written to his mother and family members, from the early 1940’s period, a small hand written diary and a number of photographs, some of him in uniform of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), paperwork from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission also. An interesting grouping. The Commando Veterans association gives the following details about his career, “Captain Douglas Cotton Minchin was missing reported presumed killed after his patrol prior to the planned attack at Lake Comacchio, Italy, came under fire. He had earlier served with 12 Commando on the Lofoten raid, and had also been Chief Instructor at the Commando Basic Training Centre. Douglas Cotton Minchin was in the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). He served briefly in the RAF before returning at his own request to the Army. He was later attached as a Lieutenant to No.12 Commando for a period of time before becoming Chief Instructor at the CBTC, Achnacarry.  In 1944 he was posted overseas to the CMF after a brief spell at the HOC. From the 7th October 1944 he was an Instructor at the 2 Commando Brigade Training Centre at Bari.  On the 2nd February1945 he was attached as a personal advisor to 43 RM Commando and was subsequently killed in action on the 15th March 1945. He therefore has the unique status of having been attached at some stage prior to his death to the Army, RAF, and the Royal Navy.”

REPLICA US ARMY 45 AUTOMATIC PISTOL by Replica Models, boxed, M-1911A1-67, non firing in original box, 21.5cms overall L

REPLICA MODELS SINGLE ACTION ARMY 45 WESTERN REVOLVER - boxed model 1974, 32.5cms overall L

A rare campaign group of seven awarded to Sergeant Major, later Flight Lieutenant, J. Baxter, Royal Engineers, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force, who served in No. 1 Balloon Section, Royal Engineers during the Boer War Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Laing’s Nek, Belfast, Cape Colony (29281. Cpl. J. Baxter. R.E.) clasps in this order, unofficial rivets between 4th and 5th clasps; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (29281 Corpl: J. Baxter. R.E.); 1914 Star, with clasp (11 Sjt. J. Baxter. R.F.C.) note early number; British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. J. Baxter. R.F.C.); Defence Medal; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (11. Sjt: J. Baxter. R.F.C.) with 2 Aldershot R.E. Challenge Shield Prize medals, both bronze and both engraved to recipient for ‘1906’ and ‘1907’ respectively, contact marks overall, nearly very fine (lot) £1,000-£1,400 --- Saleroom Notice Now sold with a further 2 Balloon Company R.E.shooting medals for 1906 and 1910, both in SILVER, both named and in cases of issue --- James Baxter was born in February 1877, attested for the Royal Engineers in 1896, and was posted for service with the Royal Engineers ballooning unit, the Balloon Section, in August 1899. Shortly thereafter, he witnessed active service in South Africa, serving in No. 3 Field Troop, R.E. from June 1900, which was formed from No. 2 Balloon Section after the relief of Ladysmith, and in No. 1 Balloon Section, until the end of hostilities. Baxter advanced to Sergeant, and was serving with No. 1 Balloon Company on mobilisation of the Air Battalion (awarded L.S. & G.C. in April 1914 - the third L.S. & G.C. to be awarded to a member of the newly formed Aeronautical Service). He served as a Flight Sergeant with 2 Squadron in the French theatre of war from 13 August 1914. Baxter advanced to Sergeant Major, and was awarded his Aero Club Aeronauts’ Certificate No. 98, 12 October 1916. He was also commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps on the same date. Baxter made a safe descent when his balloon (Br balloon 33-11-3) was shot down by the German Ace and Pour Le Merite winner Heinrich Gontermann near Arras, 22 April 1917. He was appointed Acting Flight Lieutenant Royal Air Force (Balloon Section) in April 1918, and is shown in the Air Force Lists as retired Flight Lieutenant (E) in 1937. Baxter died in December 1959. Medals illustrated in A Contemptible Little Flying Corps. Sold with copied research, and photographic images of recipient in uniform.

James Bond Quantum of Solace (2008) - Original Wallpaper from the Set, the 12 x 12 inch section of the original Wallpaper can be seen at the end of the 2008 Spy Film when Bond (Daniel Craig) confronts Yusef about seducing female agents for valuable connections. These scenes were filmed at a disused Army Barracks located in Hampshire, England; which were rented to the Production Company by the MOD. The barracks were later demolished in 2015 & some of the remaining Wallpaper was salvaged. Framed (16x20 inches overall) with two stills & logo.

British Army D Day signed limited edition 23/850 print by Terence Cuneo also signed by General Sir John Mogg, overall dimensions 107 x 76cm

Loudon Sainthill (Australian, 1919-1969)The Musician pen and ink, watercolour and gouache77 x 57cmA work from the same series of 'The Musicians' and dated 1958 is in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia.Provenance: Bequeathed to the current owner by Alfred Hecht.Loudon Sainthill (Australian, 1919-1969)Artist, costume and set designer, Loudon Sainthill lived a life designing for stars of the ballet, opera, theatre and film. He was born in Tasmania, but moved to Melbourne where he met his lifelong partner, Harry Karl Tatlock Miller (1913-1989). His love of theatre design began in Australia, where he designed for touring ballets. His paintings of the dancers garnered attention and, in 1939, he was invited to London to exhibit at the Redfern Gallery. This success was followed by exhibitions in Australia. During the Second World War, Sainthill served with the Australian Army. He was discharged in 1946 and briefly lived with Miller in Merioola, which was also the home of a group of artists including Alec Murray, Jocelyn Rickards and Donald Friend. Returning to London in 1949, Sainthill’s career took off; he designed for the ballet 'Ile des Sirenes' starring Margot Fonteyn (1950) and then 'The Tempest' at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (1951). One of his most celebrated projects was for the set and costume designs of 'Le Coq d’Or' at the Royal Opera House, Sainthill being given this commission after Marc Chagall suddenly withdrew from the project. Sainthill later won a Tony for his work on 'The Canterbury Tales' (1967). During his lifetime, he worked on more than fifty productions, and published multiple books of his designs and paintings with his partner, Miller, enabling his innovative and vibrant designs to live on to inspire future generations. Condition report: Unexamined out of glazed frame. The paper is cockled due to gouache on the paper rather than caused by a condition issue. There is a very small brown mark on the man’s hat (his left side) – this is shown in a photograph. Overall, the paper is a very light brown in colour, consistent with its age. This is clear if you look at the hand (see image). There is a light line to the right hand caused by time staining where an older mount may have been removed (see image). There is some damage to the frame (see image).However, in our opinion, the condition comments noted above do not affect the appeal of the work.

Two Militaria garden finds, comprising a 5.5ibs cannon ball, 9cm diameter, and a double edged British army Enfield bayonet, blade length 30.2cm, overall length 42cm, items found at vendor's previous home near Pennypot Farm, Hythe Kent during the late 1960s. (2)

A Remington New Model 1858 Army single action 44 cal percussion revolver, with 8” octagonal barrel and walnut pistol grip with signs of an inspection stamp and makers name to the top of the barrel. 35 cm overall length.Condition report: The mechanism cocks locks and releases but does not index the cylinderThe rammer and cylinder release is working freelyThe percussion nipples are damagedThe frame and barrel both bear a stamped letter "P" and an "H" to the brass trigger guard.

Portrait of King Charles I, bust-length, in armour wearing the Garter Ribbon and the Lesser Georgeoil on canvas74 x 62cmProvenance:At an unknown date entered the collection at Castletown House, County Kildare, Ireland,Castletown House Sale, Jackson-Stops & McCabe, 20th April 1966 and following days, 2nd day of sale, 21st April 1966, lot 342, as 'Attributed to Wissing', when acquired by the parents of the present ownerFootnote: The attribution - based on photographs - to Jan van Belcamp, was proposed by the late Sir Oliver Millar in 2006 at which time he drew a comparison with a signed portrait by the artist at Longford Castle - presumably the painting formerly there of King Charles I attributed to van Dyck (see H. Radnor, Catalogue of the Pictures in the Collection of the Earl of Radnor, 1901, vol. 1, p. 15, no. 24) The ex-Longford portrait is presumed to be that now in an American private collection that was on long loan from 1961 to 1995 to the Phoenix Art Museum (see E. Larsen, van Dyck, vol. I, p. 296, pl. 293, and vol. II, p. 311, no. 785. - where a slightly different size is given to that in the Longford catalogue). Larsen in 1988 seems to have been unaware, as Millar claimed to be in 2006, that the Longford portrait was apparently signed by Belcamp - a rare occurrence as he was generally copying other pictures in the collection of the King.In 2006, Sir Oliver wrote: "The portrait is clearly dependent on van Dyck and in particular on the portrait of 1637; a very popular image of which the probable original is in Dresden" (see E.A. Seemann, Katalog der ausgestellten Werke, 1992, p. 189, no. 1038). In that portrait, the King is wearing garter robes and Millar suggested "the armour etc. could be his [Belcamp's] own invention. One should date the work, I think, to the 1640s." The Dresden composition was much repeated by van Dyck's studio of which a fine example still in the Royal Collection, hangs today at Kensington Palace. According to the parents of the present owner, who acquired the painting at the Castletown sale of 1966, the portrait may have been taken to Ireland after the Restoration of Charles II by Sir Abraham Yarner (c. 1598-1677). Yarner, though a soldier in Ireland in the 1640s during the Irish Rebellion, was later sent back, when in 1661 he was appointed Commissary-General of the Musters for the King's Army in Ireland. After Yarner's death in Dublin in 1677, how and when the portrait could subsequently have been acquired for Castletown is unknown. A possible alternative for it being in the collection of Castletown - which was not being built until 1722-c.1729 by Speaker William Conolly (1662-1729) - is that the latter's great-nephew Thomas (1738-1803) who inherited the great house, was married in 1758 to Lady Louisa Lennox (1743-1821) great-granddaughter of Charles II and thus great-great-granddaughter of the sitter in the present lot. It could be equally possible that the present portrait entered the collection at Castletown via Lady Louisa's mother-in-law, who was Lady Anne Wentworth, daughter of Thomas Wentworth, 1672-1739 (1st Earl Strafford of the 3rd creation) who was descended from the brother of King Charles I's favourite Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford (1593-1641) who was Lord Deputy in Ireland from 1632 to 1640.Though Belcamp is known to have been employed at the court of Charles I to generally copy paintings particularly by van Dyck, he was in 1649 after the King's death, appointed to the commission set up to sell the King's goods (H. Walpole, Anecdotes of painting in England, with some account of the principal artists, Volume II, 1849, pp.359-60). Another portrait of Charles I of almost identical composition other than in detail and in a painted oval (74.5 x 58.5cm) was sold at Sotheby's, London on 6th December 2012, lot 352, for £32,450 as from the Studio of Honthorst. As however Honthorst was only in England in 1628, an attribution also to Jan van Belcamp is perhaps more plausible.Condition report: Oil on canvas which has been lined, there is a thick layer of gritty adhesive present on the reverse of the lining canvas and the cut edges of the original are visible in the frame. The paint layers are in a good stable condition overall. Losses and abrasion around the edge of the canvas have been retouched. The overpaint has darkened over time and is now very apparent, especially along the lower edge. There is some overpaint and reinforcement of the hair but the sitter’s face appears to be in a good condition. The varnish layer has yellowed with age and is slightly matte and uneven in appearance.

Brian Sanders (British, B. 1937) "Liberation of Kharkov - Tank and Soldiers" Original Oil painting on Canvas. Artist notes in margins. Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder of Unicover Corporation. This painting is the original painting which was published on the Republic of the Marshall Islands 29c Liberation of Kharkov stamp issued February 16, 1993. During the winter of 1942-1943, Germany's thrust into Russia was stalled by a vigorous Russian counter-offensive. Despite advice to retreat from Russia, Hitler refused. As a result, the German Sixth Army was destroyed while attempting to take Stalingrad. This Soviet victory, together with another in Voronezh, led to an advance toward Kharkov, a captured Soviet city used for German logistal support. On February 14, the Soviet Voronezh Front encircled the city. For several days, a fierce partisan revolt ensued, forcing the Second SS Panzer Corps to vacate Kharkov. But Russian jubilance was short-lived. On February 17, Hitler rushed to the area and, after two days of discussion with General Manstein, permitted a counterstrike toward Kharkov, which was ultimately successful. Image Size: 13.5 x 16.25 in. Overall Size: 17.5 x 20.25 in. Unframed. (B14043)

Charles J Lundgren (New York, Connecticut, 1911 - 1988) "U.S.S. Louisiana" Signed lower right. Original Oil painting on Masonite. Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder of Unicover Corporation. This painting is the original painting which appeared on the Fleetwood Commemorative Cover for the U.S.S. Louisiana. During the War of 1812, the U.S.S. Louisiana almost single-handedly saved her home port, New Orleans. Built as a merchant sloop for service on the Mississippi River, the Navy purchased the U.S.S. Louisiana in September, 1812, and immediately attached her to the New Orleans station. She remained unarmed for the first two years of the war. Then, in August 1814, she received her guns and fittings in anticipation of her role as Commodore Daniel T. Patterson's flagship. The heaviest and most powerfully armed ship in Patterson's flotilla, U.S.S. Louisiana served as a floating battery, stationed on the right bank of the Mississippi to cover any possible British attack by land or sea. By 23 December 1814, the British Army landed only nine miles below New Orleans, and Commodore Patterson ordered the U.S.S. Louisiana and U.S.S. Carolina to attack downriver in much needed support of General Jackson's troops. After disabling the U.S.S. Carolina, the British moved forward on the 28th, but U.S.S. Louisiana's heavy battery forced them back, firing nearly eight hundred rounds. Fighting alone, she dropped farther downriver on the 30th, and continued inflicting damage on the British Army. By sunset on 8 January 1815, the British retreated, thoroughly defeated and New Orleans saved. That evening, a grateful General Jackson paid tribute to the efforts of the U.S.S. Louisiana. Image Size: 13.5 x 15.75 in. Overall Size: 20.5 x 21.75 in. Unframed. (B11018)

David K. Stone (American, 1922 - 2001) "Pearl Harbor" Signed lower right. Original Oil painting on Masonite. Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder of Unicover Corporation. This painting is the original painting which appeared on the Republic of the Marshall Islands 50c Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor 1941 - American Warplanes stamp issued December 7, 1991. At 8 a.m. on the morning of December 7, 1941, Army Lt. General Walter Short heard from his quarters the distant rat-tat of gunfire and the muted roar of aircraft engines. Within minutes a junior officer confirmed that Fort Shafter 13 miles inland from Pearl Harbor, was under attack from enemy aircraft, as were Wheeler and Hickam Fields and Kaneohe Naval Air Station. Chaos ruled the day, for Short -- fearful of sabotage -- had ordered all aircraft to be kept in wing-to-wing formations in the center of the unprotected airfields. Although only a few aircraft survived the first attack, American pilots attempted to pursue the enemy. But their valiant efforts could not stem the Japanese onslaught, which had effectively destroyed 75 percent of America's Pacific-based air power. Image Size: 27 x 19.25 in. Overall Size: 27 x 24.25 in. Unframed. (B13411 / B13412 / B13413 / B13414)

Jack Fellows (American, B. 1941) "F-80 Shooting Star" Signed lower right. Original Oil painting on Masonite. Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder of Unicover Corporation. This painting is the original which was published on the Republic of the Marshall Islands 32c F2H Banshee stamp issued August 28, 1998. Affectionately nicknamed "Old Banjo," the F2H Banshee performed admirably in the Korean War as both a Navy and Marine Corps fighter-bomber and photo-reconnaissance aircraft. In July 1953, Banshees conducted fierce attacks against dug-in forces of the Chinese Red Army in central Korea. Image Size: 16.5 x 14 in. Overall Size: 18.5 x 16 in. Unframed. (B13887)

Jim Butcher (American, B. 1944) "Army/Defenders of Freedom" Signed lower right. Original Mixed Media painting on Illustration Board. Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder of Unicover Corporation. This painting is the original painting which was used on the Fleetwood Commemorative Cover for the Army Defenders of Freedom issued July 21, 1980. The history of the uniform of the U.S. Army began during the Revolutionary War, when the typical member of General George Washington's Continental Army was a brave farmer or woodsman turned militiaman. If he was properly outfitted he wore a blue cutaway coat faced in the color that identified the region he came from: white for New England, buff for Pennsylvania and vicinity, and red if he was from the South. In addition he wore a white shirt and breeches. But, because necessary cloth and leather were lacking, few were able to wear the first "proper" uniform. By 1775, cloth shortages were so severe that not enough uniforms were available to distinguish officers from their men, and General Washington was obliged to devise badges so rank could be identified by sight. The Civil War ushered in the Union Army uniform of dark blue flannel blouses and forage caps worn with light blue trousers. After the rigors of the Civil War, the dashing epaulettes and sashes on the uniforms appeared more handsome than ever, and officers proudly wore gold sword knots and shakos decorated with plumes or gilt. By the onset of World War I, the uniform had evolved into the "Doughboys" khaki uniform. The emphasis on the protective coloration and simplicity of style continued through World War II. Today's U.S. Army serviceman wears a dark green single-breasted coat and trousers in winter and green shirt with dark green trousers for the summer. Army women wear green two-piece uniforms with white shirts and black berets. Image Size: 15.5 x 15.5 in. Overall Size: 20 x 20 in. Unframed. (B06443)

Shannon Stirnweis (American, B. 1931) "Rome Falls to Allies" Signed lower right. Original Oil painting on Illustration Board. Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder of Unicover Corporation. This painting appeared on the Republic of the Marshall Islands 50c Rome Falls To Allies 1944 mint stamp issued June 4, 1994. For nine long months, Allied forces crept toward Rome, battling rugged terrain, inclement weather and fierce resistance from the German army. A series of bloody conflicts marked their progress as they inched closer to the Eternal City. Finally, on June 4, 1944, despite Germany's skillful defensive tactics, Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark's 5th Army penetrated the environs of Rome with an interminable advance of infantry and tanks. The next day, the retreating Germans were headed 150 miles north, while U.S. Forces were inside the liberated city. That same day, Clark entered Rome at the head of a some convoy of Jeeps and was greeted by a cheering throng. Image Size: 15 x 22.75 in. Overall Size: 19.25 x 26.5 in. Unframed. (B14669)

Artist: Damien Hirst (English, b.1965). Title: "Pharmacy Panel (Gold) (1997) (4 panel)". Medium: Color silkscreen and offset lithograph. Date: Composed 1997. Dimensions: Overall size: 36 x 42 1/2 in. (914 x 1079 mm). Image size: 36 x 42 1/2 in. (914 x 1079 mm).Lot Note(s): Signed lower right. Printed with five colors and metallic gold ink. The full sheet. Fine impression. Fine condition. Backed with a conservation support sheet. Provenance: Private collection, Birmingham, England. Comment(s): A panel of wallpaper (the complete pattern). In 1997, for his restaurant called 'The Pharmacy' located at Notting Hill Gate, London, Hirst designed wallpaper (the "wall chart") based on the pharmaceutical giant Merck’s handbook endpapers, showing pills and products and describing them with their pharmaceutical titles. Merck objected and he withdrew it as an artwork of wallpaper, after he had already plastered the restaurant with silver and gold sheets of the material. Hirst's venture gained further publicity thanks to a dispute with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, which claimed the name, pill bottles, and medical items on display could confuse people looking for a real pharmacy. The name itself breached the Medicines Act 1968, which restricts the use of the word "pharmacy". The restaurant's name was subsequently changed to "Army Chap" and then "Achy Ramp" (anagrams of "pharmacy"). Initial plans to open further restaurants outside London were quietly dropped and the restaurant itself closed in September, 2003. Sotheby's dispersed its contents in 2004. There was a small overrun of the 1997 rolls, from which our example is a part. For the massive Pharmacy sale at Sotheby’s in 2004, though, new wallpaper was designed and made that didn’t offend copyright laws, using biblical titles and references to biblical passages. The 1997 wallpaper is much scarcer and more valuable than the 2004 version. Image copyright © Damien Hirst. [27848-6-1600]

World War II Japanese kai gunto sword with sheath. Swords of this kind were produced for the Imperial Japanese navy and army during World War II. The wooden scabbard has a rayskin wrapping and is decorated with three metal bands, two with mounting rings, ending with a metal cap that resembles the decoration at the top of the hilt. The Tsuka (hilt) of the sword is wrapped in a brown cloth which forms diamond-shaped openings. Three metal ornaments with cherry blossom designs are visible in these diamond openings. The tsuba is decorated with a cherry blossom band with a rayed design on the top and underside. Marked on the top of the pommel.Keywords: Katana, wakizashiBlade length: 26 3/4 in. Overall length: 38 3/4 in.Please contact us for a detailed condition report. Please note that the lack of a condition statement does not imply perfect condition. Email condition@revereauctions.com with any condition questions.Blade length: 26 3/4 in. Overall length: 38 3/4 in.

ARMY & NAVY CSL A GOOD ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS PRESENTATION SWORD, dated 1938, with 33 3/4in. Wilkinson-style blade with a single fuller, scroll etching and royal cyphers on each side, one side etched 'ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS', the other 'PRESENTED BY THE OFFICERS, R.A.S.C. TO LIEUT. F.A. BURRIDGE 22.3.38', ricasso with brass proved plug on one side and 'ARMY & NAVY STORES 105 VICTORIA ST LONDON S.W.' to the other, blade back etched 'MADE IN ENGLAND' and numbered '17060', nickel-plated three-bar guard with quillion, black fishskin grip bound with white metal wire, brown leather sword-knot, brown leather scabbard and black felt lined case, some flaking of the nickel on the blade and hilt, scabbard in excellent condition, wear to case, 42in. overall. This bladed product is not for sale to people under the age of 18. By bidding on this item you are declaring that you are 18 years of age or over.Please be aware that we are unable to send edged weapons or bladed products by postal courier to a UK residential address (Offensive Weapons Act 2019)

The ex-Tim Rose-Richards/Cecil Randall1929 Lagonda 2-Litre 'Low Chassis' TourerRegistration no. PK 9201Chassis no. 9411Footnotes:THE FORSHAW COLLECTIONThe remarkable family of low-chassis 2-Litre Lagonda sports cars offered here from the Forshaw Collection reflects the early background of their very well-known and highly-respected Aston Service Dorset business, in the 1930s when Ivan Forshaw made his name as a Lagonda specialist. He was instrumental in establishing the 2-Litre Lagonda Register and later involved in its amalgamation with the Lagonda Club, becoming spares and technical advisor. Ivan and his wife Enid established their home in Parkstone, Dorset. They had two sons, Roger in 1940 and Richard in 1946. When World War 2 began Ivan joined the Army, initially as a dispatch rider, rising through the ranks and seeing service in North Africa and Italy before being invalided out in 1945. Postwar he resumed business and when Aston Martin and Lagonda merged in 1947 the new company passed enquiries concerning pre-war Lagondas to Ivan Forshaw. When Sir David Brown's ownership of Aston Martin Lagonda Limited ended, sole rights to remanufacture parts for Aston Martin DB2 and DB2/4 models plus the David Brown Lagondas were offered to 'The Captain' and Aston Service Dorset was launched in 1972 to cater for that market. The business continued as officially recognised parts specialists for all models up to and including the DB7 Vantage. Ivan Forshaw passed away in 2006 at the age of 94, and he maintained his lifelong enthusiasm for all things Lagonda right to the end. His family collection of Lagondas - particularly this group of low-chassis 2-Litre Tourer competition cars from the 1929 season - was a particular pride and joy. BONHAMS is privileged to have been entrusted with offering them now to the market - for new generations of collectors and enthusiasts to admire, and to enjoy.THE 'FOX & NICHOLL' AND 'SYNDICATE' 2-LITRE LAGONDAS - 1929 RACING SEASONAt the end of 1928 a syndicate of Waltham and Hertford, Hertfordshire-based racing enthusiasts decided to pool their resources in order to enter long-distance sports car racing seriously in 1929. Those enthusiasts - supported by budding driver Tim Rose-Richards - were Arthur Pollard, George Roberts, Cecil Randall and Bill Edmondson - who was General Metcalfe of Lagonda Cars' solicitor. In February 1929 the General agreed to supply the syndicate with two special competition versions of the 2-Litre model, for £350 each - roughly half price - on condition that they would not be resold for less than £600. The syndicate planned to run the cars in the Brooklands Double-Twelve, the Six Hours, the Ulster Tourist Trophy and, possibly, to enter and run one in the Le Mans 24- Hour race. Lagonda had a paid-for entry at Le Mans and placed it at their new client's disposal. The General also promoted their embryo venture to Shell Oil and KLG Spark Plugs recommending sponsorship. Arthur Fox of the Fox & Nicholl primarily Talbot team had also been campaigning a 2-Litre Lagonda, Fox's own car, and an agreement was reached under which Fox & Nicholl of Tolworth, Surrey, would also prepare the new syndicate's sister Lagondas. The cars arrived at the Fox & Nicholl works at the end of April 1929 which left little time for them to be prepared properly for the Brooklands Double-Twelve race in mid-May. Four cars were provided in all for the syndicate and for Fox & Nicholl, with the fourth being owned by specialist tuner R.R. Jackson. The quartet of 2-Litre cars - now offered in this unique Sale opportunity - were given consecutive UK road registrations, PK 9201, 202, 203 and 204. Amongst them 'PK 9201' and '9202' were to be the syndicate's cars, Fox's was 'PK 9203' and Robin Jackson's 'PK 9204'. These cars were prototypes of the low-chassis 2-Litre with a revised front axle and the dynamo mounted on the nose of the crankshaft as on the Lagonda 3-litre and 16/65 models. Fox & Nicholl's men were amused when the cars were delivered to them without the spacers required to go between the axle and springs at the rear, which left the cars in low-chassis form up front, and 'high-chassis' at the rear. The spacers in fact only arrived in time for the second practice session of the Double-Twelve at Brooklands - until which point the paddock habitués there were highly intrigued by the Lagondas' peculiar stance...Arthur Fox was a great detail man in his preparation and he ensured his team drivers practised a special start procedure repeatedly pre-race, which paid off as they were flagged away, leading the field. The early race laps had to be completed with hoods raised, and again Fox's attention to detail equipped the hoods with spring loaded clips to assist in each one's furling and being made secure. The syndicate cars and Fox's entry had a windscreen which could be hinged open and locked near-horizontal as a deflector, presenting less frontal area to the airstream yet deflecting it more efficiently than a simple aero-screen around the driver's head and shoulders. Jackson's 'PK 9204' lacked that feature, using a plain aero screen and wire-mesh stone screen instead. The cars were in fact lightened and modified in many other subtle ways as detailed in the wonderful Lagonda history by Arnold Davey and Anthony May ('Lagonda', David & Charles, 1978). Furthermore Arnold Davey informs us that: 'Dan Hagen, who owned 'PK 9204' from 1938 until 1967, wrote in the Lagonda Club magazine, in 1954, how he had extracted from the factory before the war details of the amount of tuning the 1929 team cars' engines had received, in addition to drastic lightening of the chassis and bodywork. The camshafts were lighter and carried quick lift, long-dwell cams, The compression ratio was raised to 7.45 to 1, inlet ports honed out to 36 mm, lightened flywheel, 'French type' Zenith triple-diffuser carburettors, enlarged radiator with pressurised system, straight cut bevel axle with 4 to 1 ratio.' Mr Davey adds: 'I doubt if the car would have been sold to the public with that compression ratio, which required a 40% benzole fuel mix to run without detonation. At the time of his writing, the car had done over 250,000 miles...'. For the 1929 Brooklands Double-12 race, driver pairings were: 'PK 9201' - Tim Rose-Richards/Cecil Randall 'PK 9202' - Bill Edmondson/George Roberts 'PK 9203' - Frank King/Howard Wolfe 'PK 9204' - Robin Jackson/C.A. Broomhall. This split 24-Hour race - leaving the gigantic Motor Course quiet overnight to ease the inhabitants of Weybridge's slumbers - proved to be a contest between supercharged Alfa Romeos and the big Bentleys - while the 2-Litre cars above were outrun by the factory's proxy entry of a 2-Litre for Mike Couper, which proved to be their 200-mile record car. Still all five of these 2-Litre cars were running at the end of the first 12-Hour competition, the four low-chassis cars and Couper's high-chassis 'special'. Starting the cold engines at the start of the second day's racing proved near disaster for the Jackson/Broomhall car which lost nearly an hour before it could be persuaded to fire. Broken exhausts and silencers then afflicted the Fox cars and the Rose-Richards/Randall entry broke its crankshaft. An Alfa Romeo finally won, with Couper's high-chassis 'special' 9th overall and winner of the 2-Litre class, with Edmondson/Roberts 13th overall and class 2nd in 'PK 9202', Jackson/Broomhall in 'PK 9204' 14th overall, class 3rd - and King/Wolfe 18th overall and 6th in class in 'PK 9203'.The syndicate emerged most unhappy about the late entry of Couper in the special Lagonda, and a storm blew up between them and General Metcalfe which took a little time to be resolved amicably. The cars were overhauled at Lagonda's Staines factory, and the ... For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

The ex-Robin Jackson/C.A. Broomhall 1929 Lagonda 2-Litre 'Low Chassis' TourerRegistration no. PK 9204Chassis no. 9414Footnotes:THE FORSHAW COLLECTIONThe remarkable family of low-chassis 2-Litre Lagonda sports cars offered here from the Forshaw Collection reflects the early background of their very well-known and highly-respected Aston Service Dorset business, in the 1930s when Ivan Forshaw made his name as a Lagonda specialist. He was instrumental in establishing the 2-Litre Lagonda Register and later involved in its amalgamation with the Lagonda Club, becoming spares and technical advisor. Ivan and his wife Enid established their home in Parkstone, Dorset. They had two sons, Roger in 1940 and Richard in 1946. When World War 2 began Ivan joined the Army, initially as a dispatch rider, rising through the ranks and seeing service in North Africa and Italy before being invalided out in 1945. Postwar he resumed business and when Aston Martin and Lagonda merged in 1947 the new company passed enquiries concerning pre-war Lagondas to Ivan Forshaw. When Sir David Brown's ownership of Aston Martin Lagonda Limited ended, sole rights to remanufacture parts for Aston Martin DB2 and DB2/4 models plus the David Brown Lagondas were offered to 'The Captain' and Aston Service Dorset was launched in 1972 to cater for that market. The business continued as officially recognised parts specialists for all models up to and including the DB7 Vantage. Ivan Forshaw passed away in 2006 at the age of 94, and he maintained his lifelong enthusiasm for all things Lagonda right to the end. His family collection of Lagondas - particularly this group of low-chassis 2-Litre Tourer competition cars from the 1929 season - was a particular pride and joy. BONHAMS is privileged to have been entrusted with offering them now to the market - for new generations of collectors and enthusiasts to admire, and to enjoy.THE 'FOX & NICHOLL' AND 'SYNDICATE' 2-LITRE LAGONDAS - 1929 RACING SEASONAt the end of 1928 a syndicate of Waltham and Hertford, Hertfordshire-based racing enthusiasts decided to pool their resources in order to enter long-distance sports car racing seriously in 1929. Those enthusiasts - supported by budding driver Tim Rose-Richards - were Arthur Pollard, George Roberts, Cecil Randall and Bill Edmondson - who was General Metcalfe of Lagonda Cars' solicitor. In February 1929 the General agreed to supply the syndicate with two special competition versions of the 2-Litre model, for £350 each - roughly half price - on condition that they would not be resold for less than £600. The syndicate planned to run the cars in the Brooklands Double-Twelve, the Six Hours, the Ulster Tourist Trophy and, possibly, to enter and run one in the Le Mans 24- Hour race. Lagonda had a paid-for entry at Le Mans and placed it at their new client's disposal. The General also promoted their embryo venture to Shell Oil and KLG Spark Plugs recommending sponsorship. Arthur Fox of the Fox & Nicholl primarily Talbot team had also been campaigning a 2-Litre Lagonda, Fox's own car, and an agreement was reached under which Fox & Nicholl of Tolworth, Surrey, would also prepare the new syndicate's sister Lagondas. The cars arrived at the Fox & Nicholl works at the end of April 1929 which left little time for them to be prepared properly for the Brooklands Double-Twelve race in mid-May. Four cars were provided in all for the syndicate and for Fox & Nicholl, with the fourth being owned by specialist tuner R.R. Jackson. The quartet of 2-Litre cars - now offered in this unique Sale opportunity - were given consecutive UK road registrations, PK 9201, 202, 203 and 204. Amongst them 'PK 9201' and '9202' were to be the syndicate's cars, Fox's was 'PK 9203' and Robin Jackson's 'PK 9204'. These cars were prototypes of the low-chassis 2-Litre with a revised front axle and the dynamo mounted on the nose of the crankshaft as on the Lagonda 3-litre and 16/65 models. Fox & Nicholl's men were amused when the cars were delivered to them without the spacers required to go between the axle and springs at the rear, which left the cars in low-chassis form up front, and 'high-chassis' at the rear. The spacers in fact only arrived in time for the second practice session of the Double-Twelve at Brooklands - until which point the paddock habitués there were highly intrigued by the Lagondas' peculiar stance...Arthur Fox was a great detail man in his preparation and he ensured his team drivers practised a special start procedure repeatedly pre-race, which paid off as they were flagged away, leading the field. The early race laps had to be completed with hoods raised, and again Fox's attention to detail equipped the hoods with spring loaded clips to assist in each one's furling and being made secure. The syndicate cars and Fox's entry had a windscreen which could be hinged open and locked near-horizontal as a deflector, presenting less frontal area to the airstream yet deflecting it more efficiently than a simple aero-screen around the driver's head and shoulders. Jackson's 'PK 9204' lacked that feature, using a plain aero screen and wire-mesh stone screen instead. The cars were in fact lightened and modified in many other subtle ways as detailed in the wonderful Lagonda history by Arnold Davey and Anthony May ('Lagonda', David & Charles, 1978). Furthermore Arnold Davey informs us that: 'Dan Hagen, who owned 'PK 9204' from 1938 until 1967, wrote in the Lagonda Club magazine, in 1954, how he had extracted from the factory before the war details of the amount of tuning the 1929 team cars' engines had received, in addition to drastic lightening of the chassis and bodywork. The camshafts were lighter and carried quick lift, long-dwell cams, The compression ratio was raised to 7.45 to 1, inlet ports honed out to 36 mm, lightened flywheel, 'French type' Zenith triple-diffuser carburettors, enlarged radiator with pressurised system, straight cut bevel axle with 4 to 1 ratio.' Mr Davey adds: 'I doubt if the car would have been sold to the public with that compression ratio, which required a 40% benzole fuel mix to run without detonation. At the time of his writing, the car had done over 250,000 miles...'. For the 1929 Brooklands Double-12 race, driver pairings were: 'PK 9201' - Tim Rose-Richards/Cecil Randall 'PK 9202' - Bill Edmondson/George Roberts 'PK 9203' - Frank King/Howard Wolfe 'PK 9204' - Robin Jackson/C.A. Broomhall. This split 24-Hour race - leaving the gigantic Motor Course quiet overnight to ease the inhabitants of Weybridge's slumbers - proved to be a contest between supercharged Alfa Romeos and the big Bentleys - while the 2-Litre cars above were outrun by the factory's proxy entry of a 2-Litre for Mike Couper, which proved to be their 200-mile record car. Still all five of these 2-Litre cars were running at the end of the first 12-Hour competition, the four low-chassis cars and Couper's high-chassis 'special'. Starting the cold engines at the start of the second day's racing proved near disaster for the Jackson/Broomhall car which lost nearly an hour before it could be persuaded to fire. Broken exhausts and silencers then afflicted the Fox cars and the Rose-Richards/Randall entry broke its crankshaft. An Alfa Romeo finally won, with Couper's high-chassis 'special' 9th overall and winner of the 2-Litre class, with Edmondson/Roberts 13th overall and class 2nd in 'PK 9202', Jackson/Broomhall in 'PK 9204' 14th overall, class 3rd - and King/Wolfe 18th overall and 6th in class in 'PK 9203'.The syndicate emerged most unhappy about the late entry of Couper in the special Lagonda, and a storm blew up between them and General Metcalfe which took a little time to be resolved amicably. The cars were overhauled at Lagonda's Staines factory, and the sy... For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

The ex-Tim Rose-Richards/Hon. Brian Lewis 1929 Le Mans 24-Hour race1929 Lagonda 2-Litre 'Low Chassis' TourerRegistration no. PK 9203Chassis no. 9413Footnotes:THE FORSHAW COLLECTIONThe remarkable family of low-chassis 2-Litre Lagonda sports cars offered here from the Forshaw Collection reflects the early background of their very well-known and highly-respected Aston Service Dorset business, in the 1930s when Ivan Forshaw made his name as a Lagonda specialist. He was instrumental in establishing the 2-Litre Lagonda Register and later involved in its amalgamation with the Lagonda Club, becoming spares and technical advisor. Ivan and his wife Enid established their home in Parkstone, Dorset. They had two sons, Roger in 1940 and Richard in 1946. When World War 2 began Ivan joined the Army, initially as a dispatch rider, rising through the ranks and seeing service in North Africa and Italy before being invalided out in 1945. Postwar he resumed business and when Aston Martin and Lagonda merged in 1947 the new company passed enquiries concerning pre-war Lagondas to Ivan Forshaw. When Sir David Brown's ownership of Aston Martin Lagonda Limited ended, sole rights to remanufacture parts for Aston Martin DB2 and DB2/4 models plus the David Brown Lagondas were offered to 'The Captain' and Aston Service Dorset was launched in 1972 to cater for that market. The business continued as officially recognised parts specialists for all models up to and including the DB7 Vantage. Ivan Forshaw passed away in 2006 at the age of 94, and he maintained his lifelong enthusiasm for all things Lagonda right to the end. His family collection of Lagondas - particularly this group of low-chassis 2-Litre Tourer competition cars from the 1929 season - was a particular pride and joy. BONHAMS is privileged to have been entrusted with offering them now to the market - for new generations of collectors and enthusiasts to admire, and to enjoy.THE 'FOX & NICHOLL' AND 'SYNDICATE' 2-LITRE LAGONDAS - 1929 RACING SEASONAt the end of 1928 a syndicate of Waltham and Hertford, Hertfordshire-based racing enthusiasts decided to pool their resources in order to enter long-distance sports car racing seriously in 1929. Those enthusiasts - supported by budding driver Tim Rose-Richards - were Arthur Pollard, George Roberts, Cecil Randall and Bill Edmondson - who was General Metcalfe of Lagonda Cars' solicitor. In February 1929 the General agreed to supply the syndicate with two special competition versions of the 2-Litre model, for £350 each - roughly half price - on condition that they would not be resold for less than £600. The syndicate planned to run the cars in the Brooklands Double-Twelve, the Six Hours, the Ulster Tourist Trophy and, possibly, to enter and run one in the Le Mans 24- Hour race. Lagonda had a paid-for entry at Le Mans and placed it at their new client's disposal. The General also promoted their embryo venture to Shell Oil and KLG Spark Plugs recommending sponsorship. Arthur Fox of the Fox & Nicholl primarily Talbot team had also been campaigning a 2-Litre Lagonda, Fox's own car, and an agreement was reached under which Fox & Nicholl of Tolworth, Surrey, would also prepare the new syndicate's sister Lagondas. The cars arrived at the Fox & Nicholl works at the end of April 1929 which left little time for them to be prepared properly for the Brooklands Double-Twelve race in mid-May. Four cars were provided in all for the syndicate and for Fox & Nicholl, with the fourth being owned by specialist tuner R.R. Jackson. The quartet of 2-Litre cars - now offered in this unique Sale opportunity - were given consecutive UK road registrations, PK 9201, 202, 203 and 204. Amongst them 'PK 9201' and '9202' were to be the syndicate's cars, Fox's was 'PK 9203' and Robin Jackson's 'PK 9204'. These cars were prototypes of the low-chassis 2-Litre with a revised front axle and the dynamo mounted on the nose of the crankshaft as on the Lagonda 3-litre and 16/65 models. Fox & Nicholl's men were amused when the cars were delivered to them without the spacers required to go between the axle and springs at the rear, which left the cars in low-chassis form up front, and 'high-chassis' at the rear. The spacers in fact only arrived in time for the second practice session of the Double-Twelve at Brooklands - until which point the paddock habitués there were highly intrigued by the Lagondas' peculiar stance...Arthur Fox was a great detail man in his preparation and he ensured his team drivers practised a special start procedure repeatedly pre-race, which paid off as they were flagged away, leading the field. The early race laps had to be completed with hoods raised, and again Fox's attention to detail equipped the hoods with spring loaded clips to assist in each one's furling and being made secure. The syndicate cars and Fox's entry had a windscreen which could be hinged open and locked near-horizontal as a deflector, presenting less frontal area to the airstream yet deflecting it more efficiently than a simple aero-screen around the driver's head and shoulders. Jackson's 'PK 9204' lacked that feature, using a plain aero screen and wire-mesh stone screen instead. The cars were in fact lightened and modified in many other subtle ways as detailed in the wonderful Lagonda history by Arnold Davey and Anthony May ('Lagonda', David & Charles, 1978). Furthermore Arnold Davey informs us that: 'Dan Hagen, who owned 'PK 9204' from 1938 until 1967, wrote in the Lagonda Club magazine, in 1954, how he had extracted from the factory before the war details of the amount of tuning the 1929 team cars' engines had received, in addition to drastic lightening of the chassis and bodywork. The camshafts were lighter and carried quick lift, long-dwell cams, The compression ratio was raised to 7.45 to 1, inlet ports honed out to 36 mm, lightened flywheel, 'French type' Zenith triple-diffuser carburettors, enlarged radiator with pressurised system, straight cut bevel axle with 4 to 1 ratio.' Mr Davey adds: 'I doubt if the car would have been sold to the public with that compression ratio, which required a 40% benzole fuel mix to run without detonation. At the time of his writing, the car had done over 250,000 miles...'. For the 1929 Brooklands Double-12 race, driver pairings were: 'PK 9201' - Tim Rose-Richards/Cecil Randall 'PK 9202' - Bill Edmondson/George Roberts 'PK 9203' - Frank King/Howard Wolfe 'PK 9204' - Robin Jackson/C.A. Broomhall. This split 24-Hour race - leaving the gigantic Motor Course quiet overnight to ease the inhabitants of Weybridge's slumbers - proved to be a contest between supercharged Alfa Romeos and the big Bentleys - while the 2-Litre cars above were outrun by the factory's proxy entry of a 2-Litre for Mike Couper, which proved to be their 200-mile record car. Still all five of these 2-Litre cars were running at the end of the first 12-Hour competition, the four low-chassis cars and Couper's high-chassis 'special'. Starting the cold engines at the start of the second day's racing proved near disaster for the Jackson/Broomhall car which lost nearly an hour before it could be persuaded to fire. Broken exhausts and silencers then afflicted the Fox cars and the Rose-Richards/Randall entry broke its crankshaft. An Alfa Romeo finally won, with Couper's high-chassis 'special' 9th overall and winner of the 2-Litre class, with Edmondson/Roberts 13th overall and class 2nd in 'PK 9202', Jackson/Broomhall in 'PK 9204' 14th overall, class 3rd - and King/Wolfe 18th overall and 6th in class in 'PK 9203'.The syndicate emerged most unhappy about the late entry of Couper in the special Lagonda, and a storm blew up between them and General Metcalfe which took a little time to be resolved amicably. The cars were overhauled at Lagond... For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

The ex-Bill Edmondson/George Roberts1929 Lagonda 2-Litre 'Low Chassis' TourerRegistration no. PK 9202Chassis no. 9412Footnotes:THE FORSHAW COLLECTIONThe remarkable family of low-chassis 2-Litre Lagonda sports cars offered here from the Forshaw Collection reflects the early background of their very well-known and highly-respected Aston Service Dorset business, in the 1930s when Ivan Forshaw made his name as a Lagonda specialist. He was instrumental in establishing the 2-Litre Lagonda Register and later involved in its amalgamation with the Lagonda Club, becoming spares and technical advisor. Ivan and his wife Enid established their home in Parkstone, Dorset. They had two sons, Roger in 1940 and Richard in 1946. When World War 2 began Ivan joined the Army, initially as a dispatch rider, rising through the ranks and seeing service in North Africa and Italy before being invalided out in 1945. Postwar he resumed business and when Aston Martin and Lagonda merged in 1947 the new company passed enquiries concerning pre-war Lagondas to Ivan Forshaw. When Sir David Brown's ownership of Aston Martin Lagonda Limited ended, sole rights to remanufacture parts for Aston Martin DB2 and DB2/4 models plus the David Brown Lagondas were offered to 'The Captain' and Aston Service Dorset was launched in 1972 to cater for that market. The business continued as officially recognised parts specialists for all models up to and including the DB7 Vantage. Ivan Forshaw passed away in 2006 at the age of 94, and he maintained his lifelong enthusiasm for all things Lagonda right to the end. His family collection of Lagondas - particularly this group of low-chassis 2-Litre Tourer competition cars from the 1929 season - was a particular pride and joy. BONHAMS is privileged to have been entrusted with offering them now to the market - for new generations of collectors and enthusiasts to admire, and to enjoy.THE 'FOX & NICHOLL' AND 'SYNDICATE' 2-LITRE LAGONDAS - 1929 RACING SEASONAt the end of 1928 a syndicate of Waltham and Hertford, Hertfordshire-based racing enthusiasts decided to pool their resources in order to enter long-distance sports car racing seriously in 1929. Those enthusiasts - supported by budding driver Tim Rose-Richards - were Arthur Pollard, George Roberts, Cecil Randall and Bill Edmondson - who was General Metcalfe of Lagonda Cars' solicitor. In February 1929 the General agreed to supply the syndicate with two special competition versions of the 2-Litre model, for £350 each - roughly half price - on condition that they would not be resold for less than £600. The syndicate planned to run the cars in the Brooklands Double-Twelve, the Six Hours, the Ulster Tourist Trophy and, possibly, to enter and run one in the Le Mans 24- Hour race. Lagonda had a paid-for entry at Le Mans and placed it at their new client's disposal. The General also promoted their embryo venture to Shell Oil and KLG Spark Plugs recommending sponsorship. Arthur Fox of the Fox & Nicholl primarily Talbot team had also been campaigning a 2-Litre Lagonda, Fox's own car, and an agreement was reached under which Fox & Nicholl of Tolworth, Surrey, would also prepare the new syndicate's sister Lagondas. The cars arrived at the Fox & Nicholl works at the end of April 1929 which left little time for them to be prepared properly for the Brooklands Double-Twelve race in mid-May. Four cars were provided in all for the syndicate and for Fox & Nicholl, with the fourth being owned by specialist tuner R.R. Jackson. The quartet of 2-Litre cars - now offered in this unique Sale opportunity - were given consecutive UK road registrations, PK 9201, 202, 203 and 204. Amongst them 'PK 9201' and '9202' were to be the syndicate's cars, Fox's was 'PK 9203' and Robin Jackson's 'PK 9204'. These cars were prototypes of the low-chassis 2-Litre with a revised front axle and the dynamo mounted on the nose of the crankshaft as on the Lagonda 3-litre and 16/65 models. Fox & Nicholl's men were amused when the cars were delivered to them without the spacers required to go between the axle and springs at the rear, which left the cars in low-chassis form up front, and 'high-chassis' at the rear. The spacers in fact only arrived in time for the second practice session of the Double-Twelve at Brooklands - until which point the paddock habitués there were highly intrigued by the Lagondas' peculiar stance...Arthur Fox was a great detail man in his preparation and he ensured his team drivers practised a special start procedure repeatedly pre-race, which paid off as they were flagged away, leading the field. The early race laps had to be completed with hoods raised, and again Fox's attention to detail equipped the hoods with spring loaded clips to assist in each one's furling and being made secure. The syndicate cars and Fox's entry had a windscreen which could be hinged open and locked near-horizontal as a deflector, presenting less frontal area to the airstream yet deflecting it more efficiently than a simple aero-screen around the driver's head and shoulders. Jackson's 'PK 9204' lacked that feature, using a plain aero screen and wire-mesh stone screen instead. The cars were in fact lightened and modified in many other subtle ways as detailed in the wonderful Lagonda history by Arnold Davey and Anthony May ('Lagonda', David & Charles, 1978). Furthermore Arnold Davey informs us that: 'Dan Hagen, who owned 'PK 9204' from 1938 until 1967, wrote in the Lagonda Club magazine, in 1954, how he had extracted from the factory before the war details of the amount of tuning the 1929 team cars' engines had received, in addition to drastic lightening of the chassis and bodywork. The camshafts were lighter and carried quick lift, long-dwell cams, The compression ratio was raised to 7.45 to 1, inlet ports honed out to 36 mm, lightened flywheel, 'French type' Zenith triple-diffuser carburettors, enlarged radiator with pressurised system, straight cut bevel axle with 4 to 1 ratio.' Mr Davey adds: 'I doubt if the car would have been sold to the public with that compression ratio, which required a 40% benzole fuel mix to run without detonation. At the time of his writing, the car had done over 250,000 miles...'. For the 1929 Brooklands Double-12 race, driver pairings were: 'PK 9201' - Tim Rose-Richards/Cecil Randall 'PK 9202' - Bill Edmondson/George Roberts 'PK 9203' - Frank King/Howard Wolfe 'PK 9204' - Robin Jackson/C.A. Broomhall. This split 24-Hour race - leaving the gigantic Motor Course quiet overnight to ease the inhabitants of Weybridge's slumbers - proved to be a contest between supercharged Alfa Romeos and the big Bentleys - while the 2-Litre cars above were outrun by the factory's proxy entry of a 2-Litre for Mike Couper, which proved to be their 200-mile record car. Still all five of these 2-Litre cars were running at the end of the first 12-Hour competition, the four low-chassis cars and Couper's high-chassis 'special'. Starting the cold engines at the start of the second day's racing proved near disaster for the Jackson/Broomhall car which lost nearly an hour before it could be persuaded to fire. Broken exhausts and silencers then afflicted the Fox cars and the Rose-Richards/Randall entry broke its crankshaft. An Alfa Romeo finally won, with Couper's high-chassis 'special' 9th overall and winner of the 2-Litre class, with Edmondson/Roberts 13th overall and class 2nd in 'PK 9202', Jackson/Broomhall in 'PK 9204' 14th overall, class 3rd - and King/Wolfe 18th overall and 6th in class in 'PK 9203'.The syndicate emerged most unhappy about the late entry of Couper in the special Lagonda, and a storm blew up between them and General Metcalfe which took a little time to be resolved amicably. The cars were overhauled at Lagonda's Staines factory, and the sy... For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Hornby - Merrit A quantity of loose and boxed 00 gauge railway accessories including boxed # 603 Seated Army Personnel, # 5092 box of 8 x Carboys, # 5031 boxed Coal Bunker and similar. The boxed items appear in Very Good to Mint condition, the loose items show some signs of age and use and are unchecked for completeness, they appear Good overall. (this does not constitute a guarantee)

B10 The Spirit of Alamein by J Lawrence Isherwood signed by Field Marshall Montgomery of Alamein. The full title of this early framed print is "The Spirit of Alamein After The Oil Painting by J Lawrence Isherwood FRSA. FIAL. " this being number 26 of just 75 published by Henry Donn in 1971. Signed by the artist J Lawrence Isherwood (1917-1989) and an icon of Second World War history, Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery (1887 - 1976), 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC, DL, nicknamed "Monty" and "The Spartan General", was a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War, the Irish War of Independence and the Second World War. This print has been stored out of natural light for many years and is in. The print is framed and overall in frame measures approximately 70 cm x 63 cm (27. 5 inches x 24. 75 inches). Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99

British Army 1856 pattern Drummers Sword with 480mm long double edged blade. Spine of blade marked "ER". Cast plated brass hilt and crossguard with "VR" cypher. Overall length 620mm. Complete with leather scabbard, with brass mount with frog stud, but missing chape.

Victorian British Army 1827 Pattern Rifles Officers Sword with fullered single edged blade 822mm in length. Proof marked with etched decoration to the Manchester Volunteer Rifles. Maker marked "J&M Wood, Cutlers, Winchester". Washer present. Overall length approx 975mm. No scabbard.

Pair of British Victorian Swords: Army Officers 1897 pattern with single edged fullered blade, 825mm in length, proof marked, overall length 975mm, no scabbard: Royal Navy Officers Sword with double edged double fullered blade 740mm in length. Folding guard, wire bound Shagreen grip, Lions Head Pommel. Overall length 880mm. No scabbard. (2)

WW1 British Indian Army No1 India Pattern Lance. Lance spear point is 315mm in length. Marked No1 IP, along with CO for Cossipore Arsenal, IG for Indian Govt plus dated 1915. Rivetted to a wooden shaft this in turn is fitted into a Bamboo lance. Metal point to tip, overall length 281cm.

WW2 Nationalist Chinese Army Officers Sword with fullered single edged blade 750mm in length. Etched Chinese characters to one side, while opposite side has a Nationalist flag, two characters and the number "40127". Cast brass grip with decoration and D shaped guard. Overall length 895m. Complete with scabbard with single suspension ring.

WW2 Third Reich Heeroffizierdolch Heer Officers Dagger with double edged 250mm long blade, maker marked "A Schuttelhofer & Co, Solingen-Wald". Washer present under crossguard. White Trolon grip. Overall length 374mm. Complete with scabbard. Earlier production example with german silver fittings. Direct British Army Veteran's war souvenir bring back, new to the market and never been in a collection before.

Reproduction WW2 Third Reich Heer Offizierdolch Army Officers dagger with 250mm long double edged blade, maker marked "H&M". Orange grip. Overall length 366mm. Complete with scabbard.

British Army Officer's Pattern Leather Boots. .A good pair of the pattern during the late stages of the Great War and into the interwar period. Tailored with lace and eye to the ankle and strap and buckles to the upper section. Complete with wood trees. Overall GC some age wear. Approx. size heal to toe 12 inches . . . .

The mounted group of nine miniature dress medals worn by Colour Sergeant D. Cutterham, C.G.C., 1st Battalion, The Rifles, formerly Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment Conspicuous Gallantry Cross, E.II.R.; General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland; N.A.T.O. Medal 1994, 1 clasp, Non-Article 5; Iraq 2003-11, no clasp; Operational Service Medal 2000, for Afghanistan, 1 clasp, Afghanistan; Jubilee 2012; Accumulated Campaign Service Medal 2011, mounted as originally worn, good very fine (9) £300-£400 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, November 2020 (when sold alongside the recipient’s full-sized awards) C.G.C. London Gazette 23 March 2012: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Afghanistan during the period 1st April 2011 to 30th September 2011.’ The original recommendation states: ‘Conspicuous Gallantry Cross in recognition of your singular courage during Operation Herrick 14. When your patrol was ambushed on 24 May 2011 you reacted instinctively and without hesitation to protect the lives of your men. Demonstrating the utmost bravery and a selfless disregard for your own safety, you took the conscious decision to run towards and pick up an accurately thrown grenade that had landed in an irrigation channel where your patrol was manoeuvring. Your cool composure and clarity of thought in throwing the grenade into the next ditch minimised the risks of airborne detonation and prevented serious injury. Your gallant and inspirational leadership made a telling contribution to sustained success throughout a demanding tour, upholding the fine reputation of your Regiment.’ Deacon Cutterham joined ‘the British Army on the 9th January 2000 at the age of 16 – It was my childhood dream to be a soldier and I counted down the days until my 16th birthday when I could finally sign up. My journey began at the Army Foundation College Harrogate (AFC). My intake started with 105 recruits, the course lasted almost a year and was tremendously challenging, both physically and mentally, by the end of the course there were only 23 of us left. Before I started basic-training I remember my father taking me to the train station and saying ‘This will be the hardest but the most fulfilling thing you will ever do’ – he was right! I was the lightest boy on my intake (8 stone) and was incredibly quiet to begin with – probably as I was doing an arduous job that most grown men would struggle with. I knew even back then I had something a little extra than the rest and my instructor would say to me ‘you’re like a little piece of iron’ I took that as a compliment. I went on to complete many overseas exercises, operational tours, arduous courses and compete in multiple sports for the British Army at a National level. The opportunities that the British Army gave me were incredible and have shaped me from a 16-year-old boy into the man I am today in so many positive ways. It has enabled me to live a life of excitement and do things most young boys only dream of.’ (Unpublished account of service provided by vendor refers) Cutterham carried out training at the Infantry Training Centre, Catterick, and was posted to The Royal Gloucester, Berkshire and Wiltshire Light Infantry. In his second year at Battalion he deployed to Northern Ireland on Operation BANNER. Cutterham passed a Non Commissioned Officer cadre in order to become a Lance Corporal in 2004. He then almost immediately completed the Section Commanders Battle Course. On this arduous course he performed so well that he received a recommendation to return as an instructor. Cutterham only remained a Lance Corporal for a year, promoted to Corporal the following year - described as a ‘remarkable feat’ in his Certificate of Service. Cutterham took the Commando Course in 2006: ‘The Commando Course was a childhood dream of mine and a course I’d longed to complete for my own development. My campaign didn’t start well as I broke my lower back on the pre-course training which meant I had to wait for the next course, which was really frustrating! Eventually, I started the course which turned out to be 11 weeks long. It did not disappoint, I really loved it and it was great fun from start to finish. The course didn’t test me much as I was exceptionally fit and already a seasoned section commander. The commando tests were great fun and I excelled at the endurance course breaking the course record. I even called in to see the camp RSM because he couldn’t believe that someone could run it that quick.’ The following year Cutterham deployed with the 1st Battalion, The Rifles to Iraq on Operation TELIC, and then almost immediately to Afghanistan on Operation HERRICK. As a section commander on these two operational tours he was at the very front edge of the action, leading a section of around 8 men into combat. During deployment, Cutterham was selected to take the Platoon Sergeants Battle Course (PSBC): ‘This course was a defining moment in my life, I felt like I had something to prove and I wanted to excel. I wanted to transfer to the Engineers as there was some politics in the Rifles. I was then promised that if I went to Iraq they would push my transfer through quicker, sadly that didn’t happen and I was on Herrick 9. Two tours back-to-back! During Herrick 9 I was offered the Platoon Sergeants Battle Course (PSBC) to entice me to stay in the Rifles. I cancelled my transfer and prepared for PSBC best I could whilst on tour. Upon returning from Herrick 9 and having some much-needed rest I went on the PSBC pre course. This is a two-week long course aimed at preparing soldiers for the PSBC. I was extremely happy to find out that I was the top candidate on the pre-course. I was determined to excel, I won everything and for 8 weeks and I made sure I was top, I went the extra mile and never faltered at any task given. I was resistant to the elements, to hunger and to the tiredness that fell due to the arduous nature of the course. At the end of the course we were all in the presentation room/cinema and they started to give out the awards, I’d finished 2nd overall and awarded a distinction. I was the first soldier ever from 1 Rifles to be awarded a distinction on PSBC. At that time, it was one of the proudest moments of my life. I returned into camp and the RSM stood me up in front of the CPLs Mess and promoted me on the spot!’ Herrick 14 - CGC Cutterham returned for his second tour of Afghanistan in 2011, and he provides the following account of the actions behind the award of his Conspicuous Gallantry Cross: ‘I was a multiple commander on active operations in charge of Check Point (CP) Leverette with A-COMPANY 1 Rifles. I was initially a multiple 2nd in command (2ic) but due to the death of one my closest friends and confidants Kevin Fortuna [on 23 May 2011] I was given a battlefield promotion and took over command of the multiple (12 men & women) and the check point. I remember that morning [24 May 2011] with great clarity. I woke up and immediately felt like there was something wrong, the atmosphere was tense. I remember briefing the multiple just before setting out on the days patrol. I told them to be extra alert and vigilant. I didn’t want to unnerve them, but I did turn to my 2ic quietly and say can you feel the tension in the air, he replied to me ‘no mate it’s just another day another dollar’. I’ve always had a great sixth sense and I’ve always acted on it – I think this is the reason I’m still alive. We set off on patrol and strangely there weren’t many people ar...

A Colt 1860 Army Model .44 six shot percussion cap single action revolver with 8" cylindrical barrel stamped with the maker's details to the top 'Address Col. Sam L. Colt, New-York U.S. America' and further stamped to the cylinder 'Colt's Patent No.???' and further stamped 'Pat. Sept. 10th 1855', the frame further stamped 'Colt's Patent' and mounted with a brass trigger guard, the barrel, frame, trigger guard and back strap all have matching serial numbers 79123, overall length 36cm (af).Additional InformationThere is heavy corrosion and pitting throughout. The hammer is mostly seized in position and will not pull back as far as either the half or fully cocked position. The cylinder is also seized and will not rotate. There is heavy pitting to the steel back strap and there is further extensive wear to the walnut grips including scratches, nicks, losses, etc. There is verdigris on the back edge of the trigger guard and this gun would benefit from extensive restoration. 

A Remington New Army model nickel plated revolver converted to .44 rimfire, with a six shot cylinder and 8" octagonal barrel, the top flat stamped Patented September 14 1856, further stamped E. Remington & Sons, Illion. New York, US above New Model, and mounted with walnut grips, overall length 37cm.Additional InformationThere is heavy wear and pitting to the nickel plating throughout although the majority of the finish remains. There is additional surface corrosion, potentially eating the surface of the metal, most noticeably through the back strap and the back edge of the hammer, with several small patches also visible on the cylinder. There is surface breakdown on the nickle plating to the right hand side of the barrel. The walnut grips with several chips to the butt end and further deep scuffs, scratches, nicks and losses, etc.

A deactivated Colt 1911 .45ACP semi-automatic pistol, stamped to the side model of 1911 U.S. Army and further stamped to the opposing side 'Patented April 20th 1897. September 9th 1902. December 19th 1905. Feb 14th 1911. August 19th 1913' and further stamped 'Colts PT.F.A.MFG.CO, Hartford. CT.USA' and further to the frame 'United States Property' (lacking magazine), SN:179865, and deactivation certificate number 162049.Additional InformationOverall solid but used condition with signs of minor dulling and surface pitting to the slide, slight wear to the chequered walnut grips, the right hand side of the frame has a blob of weld where there was previously a pin, unsure whether this is part of the deactivation process or an early repair. No in-house postage available on this lot and date unknown. We do not know the year of manufacture of this item.

* PETER HOWSON OBE (SCOTTISH b. 1958), IN THE ARMY oil on board, signed image size 33cm x 23cm, overall size 53cm x 43cm Framed and under glass.

Nine boxed Dinky military diecast models to include 626 Military Ambulance, 670 Armoured Car, 677 Armoured Command Vehicle, 692 5.5 Medium Gun x 2, 643 Army Water Tanker, 674 Austin Champ, 623 Army Covered Wagon and 676 Armoured Personnel Carrier, diecast vg overall, boxes gd overall

The Great Sword of Howthÿ An early antique steel two hand Sword, with round pommel on a 21" (53cms), upward tapering tang the two cross quillions, measuring 19" (48cms), and one oval ring guard on a tapering double edge blade lacking its tip 44" (112cms), 66" (168cms) overall, as is. (1) This mighty weapon has been in the St Lawrence family for many generations.ÿ According to tradition, it was used by Sir Armoricus Tristram, who arrived at Howth with Sir John de Courcy in the year 1177 and commanded the Norman army which defeated the local inhabitants in battle at Evora outside the gate of the present castle, at a little river since known as the Bloody Stream.ÿ He was rewarded for his services by being granted the lordship of Howth and changed his name to St Lawrence in honour of the saint on whose feast-day the battle had been fought. A more sober assessment dates the sword to the late 15th century, so it may well have been borne by Sir Armoricus?s descendant Sir Nicholas St Lawrence, 16th Lord & 3rd Baron Howth, [Lordship by Tenure, and Barony by Royal Appointment] who commanded the ?billmen? (wielders of a fearsome chopping blade mounted on a strong staff) at the battle of Knockdoe in 1504, in which the army of the Lord Deputy, the Earl of Kildare, defeated that of Ulick Burke, Lord of Clanricarde. The Sword is first recorded in an inventory of 1748, and is described and illustrated in Joseph C. Walker?s An Historical Essay on the Dress of the Ancient and Modern Irish ? to which is subjoined, a Memoir on the Armour and Weapons of the Irish (1788), while Lodge?s Peerage of Ireland (1789) states, after mentioning the victory of Sir Armoricus, that ?The sword, wherewith he fought, is still hanging in the hall of Howth?. Important Note: In view of the cultural and historic importance of this lot , the vendors have granted an option to the Irish State to acquire same at a price equal to the hammer price realised at the auction date, should a private or trade buyer successfully bid for same.ÿThis option shall be valid for a period ofÿthree monthsÿfrom the auction date, and the Irish Stateÿ( as represented by theÿDepartment of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht,ÿin conjunction with the National Museum, National Gallery and National Library of Ireland and Office of Public Works) shall have the option to acquire and purchase this lot within this time frame, at the final hammer price achieved at the auction date, plus buyer's premiums.ÿ This lot shall be retained within this jurisdiction, and collection and shipment of same shall only be permitted on the expiryand non-exercise of this option by the Irish State bodies.ÿA binding purchase contract shall still exist in relation to any private or trade buyer who successfully bids for this lot on the sale date and the full purchase price plus buyer's premiums due, shall become payable immediately following the expiry of the above option period.