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Click here to subscribeCORGI & DINKY: A collection of assorted loose playworn vintage Corgi, Dinky (and some Matchbox and Crescent) diecast model cars, to include; Dinky - 236, Austin Atlantic, Formula One cars, Hillman Minx, Fire Engine, Daimler, Atlantean Bus, Big Bedford, Foden in Blue & Orange, 30W Hindle, pre-war truck, Fire Engine, 10 Ton Army Truck and others.Crescent - Cooper Bristol, BRM etc. Along with some Matchbox Lesney and other loose assorted diecast.
A set of 5 WWII Medals including 1939-45 War Medal, Defence Medal, 1939-1945 Star, Africa and Italy Stars, in original box addressed to H.G. Briggs, Grangetown, Cardiff, together with various papers including Driving Permit, Occupational Force Permit 1945, Medical Certificate, also Photograph of ''No. 1 Section Tipper Platoon'', sepia Photograph of Platoon with Montgomery, various Cap Badges, RASC and Welsh Dragon Cloth Badges, etc. plus various Publications including ''Flinto - The P.O. Valley Campaign'', ''Notes for Troops proceeding to N. Africa 1943'', ''The Road Home - (route overland from Austria to English Channel), various Fuel Ration Books, Special Order of the Day printed Letter - April 1945, copy of Typed letter Feb 1943 ''Panzer Aufklarungs-Ableilung HG-11b'', etc. After leaving the army Harold George Briggs became chauffeur to Gen. Sir Reade Godwin-Austen, Chairman of S.W. Divisional Coal Board, and there are various related newspaper cuttings. Also included in this lot, is the original cloth bound File containing Discharge and Character Certificates for his father, George Briggs (Royal Engineers).
ÁNGEL BOTELLO PUERTO RICAN MONO-PRINT ON PAPER H 17" W 13" FEMALE STANDING NUDEÁngel Botello was a Spanish painter known for his use of vibrant colors and depictions of island life and people in Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. Born on June 20, 1913 in Cangas de Morrazo, Spain, Botello fought for the Republican Army during the Spanish Civil War and consequently fled the country to escape persecution from the Nationalists who won the war. The artist spent the rest of his life living in the Caribbean, though he often travelled to New York and France, and became a pioneer of the local art scene in Puerto Rico by opening one of the first art galleries on the island. Botello died on November 11, 1986 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.Overall condition is good, no signs of damage or repairs. RFM- For High Resolution Photos visit Dumouchelles website.
COLLECTION OF WWII MEDALS to include The Defence Medal, The 1939-45 War Medal, The 1939-45 Star, The Italy Star, The Africa Star, The France and Germany Star, each unnamed, and a Territorial Army 'For Efficient Service' medal, named for '2068666 CPL. J. S. SANGSTER R.E.' and one bar reading '8th Army'; together with seven ribbons
EARLY 20TH CENTURY BRITISH HOLLOWCAST LEAD TOY SOLDIER AND CAVALRY GROUPprobably made by Britains, including a troop of British Army Coldstream Guards & Royal Horse Guards, comprising fourty one mounted troopers with drawn swords (dressed similarly to members of the Blues and Royals) and seventy three foot soldiers with guns at the shoulder, all with various levels of paint rubbing, a few with damage, cavalry figures each approximately 7.5cm long (114)
UNUSUAL COLLECTION OF BRITISH WAR MEDALSthese medals are all part of a recovered quarry cache, including a late Victorian India Medal, awarded to 'N 52001 CE Corpl. T. Donald. 2. High.L.I' [some letters and numbers unclear], two silver Army Temperance Association 'Army Temperance Medal's, India 1862 and India 1897 and a Turkish Crimean War Medal 1855, (issued by Sultan Abdülmecid I of the Ottoman Empire); together with twelve 1914-18 War Medals, eight WWI Victory Medals, two 1914-15 Stars, four 1939-1945 War Medals, two WWII Defence medals, a George V Faithful service medal and a 1962 General Service medals, some of these medals with partial or full names still visible, all in descending stages or ware or disrepair
COLLECTION OF WWI AND WWII PHOTOGRAPHS AND EPHEMERA including a Christmas 1914 tin containing cigarettes and tobacco, and the postcard to accompany it, 1915 embroidered card, National Identity Card named Harold J Wilson, a handwritten letter to Mrs H J Wilson from France 1918, a soldier's pay book, menu cards, territorial army photograph album, etc
COLLECTION OF DC SILVER AGE COMICS WITH OTHER COMICStogether with other sci-fi/horror comics; including Superboy (Mar #95, Mar. #111, July #114, Sept #115, May #129), Batman (Aug. #141), Our Army at War (Aug. #121), Tales of the Unexpected (Nov. #55, Jan. #74), Rip Hunter... Time Master (June #2), Action Comics (Feb. #297), Detective Comics (July #293), Mystery in Space (Nov #87), also with Submarine Attack, Race for the Moon, Space Age: Guardian of the Universe, Aventures of the Fly, Konga, The Beatles, Star Trek, Kona, Mysteries of Unexplored World, The Munsters, House of Secrets, Strange Planets, Space Adventures, etc, over 100 examples
WARTIME AT CHELSEA Two Chelsea programmes for wartime games at Stamford Bridge, British Army v RAF, 26/4/43 (punch-holes-no print affected, also covers Belgian Army v Norwegian Forces played the same day) plus England XI v Combined Services XI 29/4/44, slight wear along fold, minor tears. Fair
WARTIME CRYSTAL PALACE Official programme , RAF (Amateur XI) v Belgian Army, 18/3/44 at Selhurst Park, small piece off top corner. RAF team included Finch of Barnet at number 11 who in 1988 wrote a privately produced book, also included in this Lot titled Playing for Fun , 96 pages and covering his career as one of the best known amateur players of his day. Lester Finch played for England, GB in the 1936 Olympic Games, and was on the winning side in the 1946 Amateur Cup Final playing for Barnet and on the losing side in the 48 Final also playing for Barnet. Fair-good
ASTON VILLA - ARMY FA 1950 Scarce Villa home single card programme v Army FA, 22/02/50 at Villa Park. The Army team listing includes Sims (Wolves), Jones (Everton), Ellis (Charlton), Stokoe (Newcastle), Monkhouse (Millwall) and Jimmy Hill (Coventry). The card has four folds and is a little grubby, no writing. Fair
REPRESENTATIVE Five representative match programmes, FA XI v RAF XI 5/10/60 at Old Trafford, Manchester, FA XI v RAF XI 29/10/47 at Arsenal, Army v RAF 13/3/46 at Chelsea, FA XI v RAF XI 24/10/51 at Chelsea and FA XI v Army Physical Training Corps , 6/4/46 at Wembley. Minor faults such as scores, folds etc. Generally good
FILM POSTERS / EVENING NEWS/ STANDARD The Final 2 editions of the Evening News newspapers for Thurs 30th and Friday 31st October 1980 together with the Final Evening News poster 20"x30" saying "Goodbye London". The paper had been in publication for 99 years. Plus the Evening Standard newspaper 31st Oct announcing their merger with the Evening News with the loss of 1750 jobs. Plus 3 Italian Film Posters from 1970, Barquero - starring Lee Van Cleef, Warren Oates and Forrest Tucker 26" x 18", Anne of the Thousand Days - starring Richard Burton, Genevieve Bujold 13"x27" and The Army of Vengeance - starring Gerard Barray 13"x27". Generally good
TOM HOGG / BRADFORD PARK AVENUE A scrapbook which was compiled by former player Tom Hogg from 1930's and 1940's which includes team groups for Bradford Park Avenue 1929/30 postcard and photographs for 1930/1 and team group v. Wolverhampton Easter Tuesday 1931, Goole Town 1932/3 plus other War-Time teams Hogg participated for. Includes personal photographs of Hogg in the Army. Includes Army v RAF Cricket scorecard 1/8/1943 at Beverley, Sports programme 28/6/1944 at RAF Dyce in Aberdeen, plus newspaper reports. Generally good
WARTIME-STOKE 44 Programme for game at Stoke, 11/3/44, FA XI v The Army, folds, pencil score, scorers. Army won 7-3 with goals from Elliott 3, Lawton 2 and Jack Rowley 2 whilst Steele 2 and Hagan replied for the FA XI. Other players included Matthews on his home ground, Swift, Cullis, Compton, Soo, Hardwick and Welsh. Fair-generally good
Umayyad, dinar, Ma‘din Amir al-Mu’minin 92h, obv., in field: la ilaha illa | Allah wahdahu | la sharik lahu | Ma‘din Amir | al-Mu’minin; rev., standard Umayyad type with date legend in margin, point below b of duriba, 4.25g (SICA 10, 487, same obverse die; Bernardi 47), minor marks in reverse field but generally good very fine, historically important and extremely rare. Enigmatic, historically intriguing, and of the highest rarity, Umayyad dinars from the ‘Mine of the Commander of the Faithful’ have fascinated numismatists for more than a century. The circumstances under which they were issued are still the subject of scholarly debate, although recent research and newly published coins have advanced our knowledge considerably in recent years. Examples dated 89h, 92h and 105h have been sold in these rooms previously (the unique coin of 89h on 23 April 2012 and the other two dates on 4 April 2011). The phrase ‘Ma‘din Amir al-Mu’minin’ is found on two groups of gold coins. The earlier group, known for the years 89h, 91h and 92h and to which this coin belongs, carries these words in the obverse field below the normal inscriptions. On the later coins, known only for the year 105h, the phrase is expanded to read ‘Ma‘din Amir al-Mu’minin bi’l-Hijaz,’ ‘Mine of the Commander of the Faithful in the Hejaz,’ and is placed in the lower part of the reverse field. The significance of the Ma‘din inscription is still debated but, as has previously been argued, there is much to be said for the simplest explanation: that it refers to a mine belonging to the caliph. While the word ‘mine’ can be used metaphorically in Arabic, all other legends found on post-Reform Umayyad gold and silver coins are either religious (verses from the Qur’an) or factual (stating where and when the coin was struck). That being said, it seems difficult to treat it as a normal mint-name, which one would expect to find in the margin with the date, and for which there would certainly have been space to include there. It has also been observed that the mints on the Umayyad silver coinage were set up in cities, or perhaps at places where the army halted on campaign, but are not otherwise known to have been set up at a mine itself. There are several with the title Madinat, city,’ but none with Ma‘din, ‘mine.’ It seems more plausible that this inscription denotes to the source of the gold, indicating that it had been extracted from a mine owned by the caliph himself. It has been plausibly suggested that ‘Mine of the Commander of the Faithful’ dinars may have been struck at a travelling mint which accompanied the caliph. If this was staffed by workers from the Damascus mint using their usual tools and equipment, one would expect the coins they produced to look identical, whether struck in the capital or on the road. But coins of all three dates known for this issue – 89h, 91h and 92h, and indeed of the related coins dated 105h, all share dated reverse dies with standard mintless Umayyad dinars which are generally accepted as having been struck in or near Damascus. These reverse dies also bear the date, which means that they can only (or should only) have been used for the one year engraved on them. It therefore follows that if these reverse dies did indeed leave Damascus with a travelling mint they can only have been away from the capital for more than a few months at most. On the other hand we know that an obverse die with the Ma‘din Amir al-Mu’minin legend was shared between coins struck over a period of at least four years. Clearly this special die was not considered redundant at the year’s end but was kept for future use. For a single die to survive for four years also suggests that these ‘Mine of the Commander of the Faithful’ dinars can only have been produced in very small numbers, which is consistent with their great rarity today. Where might the caliph’s mines have been located? The legend Ma‘din Amir al-Mu’minin bi’l-Hijaz found on dinars of 105h, together with the fact that the Umayyad caliph ‘Umar is recorded as having purchased a plot of land containing a gold mine in the Hejaz area (Miles, op. cit., p. 266), has led scholars to propose that the gold used to strike these earlier dinars also came from the Hejaz. It has also been suggested that the caliph might have visited mines in this area while travelling to the Holy Places. In his catalogue of the Turath Collection, Ilisch hypothesized that ‘a travelling “court mint”, dependent on the main mint and Damascus and working for the caliphal private treasury...was in operation on several occasions: in connection with the construction work for the great mosque in Medina (built...in 88-91 A.H.) [and] during the visit of the caliph al-Walid to Medina in 91/92 A.H., when he led the Hajj.’ This in turn raises several interesting questions: Did gold from the caliph’s personal mines have a different status from gold obtained from other sources? Was this gold somehow treated differently from gold brought to the mint through tax revenues or by private individuals? Might it reflect an early distinction between state funds and the privy purse? Or might they even have been personal gifts from the caliph himself? For further discussion of this coinage and a specialist bibliography, please see Morton and Eden auction 48, 4 April 2011 where two other ‘Mine of the Commander of the Faithful’ dinars were sold, dated 92h (sold for £648,000) and 105h (sold for £3,720,000).
Hamdanid Governor of Aleppo, Qarghuya (fl. 358h), dirham, Madinat [Halab] 35[8]h, rev., citing Qarghuya below, 2.30g, about fine and extremely rare, apparently unpublished. In the year 358h two large rebellions took place within Sayf al-dawla’s territory, including one in Antioch under the leadership of Rashid b. ‘Abdallah al-Nasimi, who raised an army and laid siege to Aleppo. The town was defended for Sayf al-dawla by his ghilman, Qarghuya, who is named on this coin. Rashid b. ‘Abdallah was killed three months into the resulting siege, but Qarghuya was eventually defeated by the new rebel commander, Dizbar, and Aleppo taken later that year.
An unusual saddle structure affixed to a metal stand, likely a British Army 'artillery' saddle, the short tree with large oval cut-outs to skirts, long flaps with two girths/ belly bands, low pommel and cantle, the metal post with horizontal bar foot rest near weighted stepped circular base, 80cm high, 38cm wide (faults)
Dinky, Corgi & Matchbox, including Pre-War Dinky 35a Saloon Car, grey body, white rubber wheels, F-G (2), 62m Airspeed Envoy, gold (G-A CMT), 29c Double Decker Bus, 623 Army Wagon, boxed 651 Centurion Tank, 670 Armoured Car, 692 5.5 Medium Gun, loose Corgi Joe's Diner Snack Bar, Matchbox 1-75 Series (3), F-E, one Matchbox repainted, boxes P-G (12)
Dinky Military, 660 Tank Transporter, 651 Centurion Tank, 626 Military Ambulance, 692 5.5 Gun, 677 Armoured Command Car, 670 Armoured Car, 621 3-Ton Army Wagon, in original boxes, loose Lone Star Bren, Rocket Launcher Lorry, Dinky 696 Gun, 623 Army Wagon, 905 Foden Flat Truck with Chains, dark green cab, chassis and flatbed, mid-green hubs, empty 676 (2), 643 boxes, F-VG, 905 one post broken, boxes P-F (15)
Dinky Toys Cars, Commercials & Military, 230 Talbot Lago, 23j HWM, 163 Bristol 450, 133 Cunningham C-5R, Observation Coach (2), Daimler Ambulance, 190 Caravan, Land Rover, 706 Viscount, 621 Army Wagon, 670 Armoured Car, 673 Scout Car and others including Matchbox 11a ERF Petrol Tanker with small rear 'Esso' decal, P-VG (20+)
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