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An interesting Army records and pay book of Norman Ward WWII.

1916 Easter Week: Anon. - Poems and Songs of Easter Week, No. 1, a very large single sheet folded, 8pp. 4to n.p. n.date, [probably 1916], newsprint paper. An interesting and rare compilation, which includes, - Lines written in Richmond Barracks Prison, on the occasion of hearing Mass in the Barrack Yard, Sunday 28 April 1916; To the murdered Officers of the Irish Republican Army; The Romance of Grace Gifford; To the Memory of the O'Rahilly, 2 versions; Recruiting Song of the Irish Republican Army; When the Rats Came out; 'To J.E.R'; O'Dwyer and Maxwell; Easter Week; Ireland's Best; and Ireland, 1916. As a song sheet, w.a.f. Very scarce, in such condition. (1)

George Cruikshank after Swebach published by John Fairburn - A Set of Nine Napoleonic Aquatint Engravings; comprising Napoleon & Kleber Defeating the Mamelukes at The Battle of Mount Thabor, Napoleon Receiving the Sword of General Mack on the Capitulation of Ulm, Napoleon Defeating the Mamelukes at the Battle of The Pyramids near Cairo, Napoleon & The Emperor Alexander Upon the Raft on The Niemen after The Treaty of Tilsit, Napoleon & Augereau in the heat of the Tremendous Battle of St George, Napoleon's Decisive Victory ove The Austrians at The Battle of Marengo, Napoleon's Entrance into the City of Berlin, Napoleon Defeating The Prussian Army at The Battle of Eylau, The Attack & Capture of Naples by The French after a Most Obstinate Resistance, each image size 19 x 27.5cm.

BRITISH 18th CENTURY TOKENS, Charles Biggar, Copper Halfpenny, 1796, obv C : BIGGAR SPRING - GARDEN COFFEE - HOUSE AND HOTEL . FOR GENTLEMEN AND FAMILIES, line below, rev BIGGAR’S CORRECTED MSS. ARMY LIST BY SUBSCRIPTION COMMENCING JANY. 1ST. 1796, with CONTINUED ANNUALLY. SUBSCRIPTION TWO SHILLS. & SIX PENCE EACH * around, edge plain, not in collar (Conder p.85, 132; Pye p.27, 10; Atkins p.87, 177; D&H Middlesex 256). Good extremely fine with substantial underlying colour.

BRITISH 18th CENTURY TOKENS, Jasper & Simon Kelly, White Metal Halfpenny, obv man holding a horse in harness, KELLY’S LIGHT HARNESS &c. around, SOLD CHEAP AT THEIR MANUFACTORY STRAND LONDON in exergue, rev saddle, spur and bit, OFFICERS SADLERY FOR ALL NATIONS BY KELLY MAKR TO THE D OF YORK STRAND below, SUCCESS TO THE ARMY & NAVY OF ENGLAND around, edge plain (D&H unlisted; Davisson as D&H Middlesex 345bis). From the fractured obverse die, light marks and a little tin pest, otherwise extremely fine and exceedingly rare, possibly unique, no other example traced. ex Lincoln “No. 1” Collection, acquired by F S Cokayne 17 March 1934 for 84/-

BRITISH 18th CENTURY TOKENS, Unknown Issuer, The ‘Unofficial’ Loyal Associations Medal in White Metal, 1798, obv rear view of a mounted officer, another soldier adjacent, flanked by rows of soldiers receding into the distance, COLOURS PRESENTED TO THE BIRM. ASSOCIATIONS 4 JUNE 1798 around, rev long row of gibbets with men hanging on them, END OF BUNEPART AND THE FRENCH ARMY around, edge plain (Atkins p.203, 6; D&H Warwickshire 29). Very light brush marks and a few small spots, otherwise essentially as made and retaining almost full original brilliance, exceptionally rare in white metal, possibly unique. ex F S Cokayne Collection, acquired 5 April 1914 for £12.10.0 This medal has been attributed to John Stubbs Jorden. This was likely due to some confusion with the official Birmingham Loyal Associations medal that was produced by him to commemorate the Presentation of the Colours on 4 June 1798.

An album of stamps, GB interest, including; Army official stamps, pre 1840 letters, Penny Black, etc

Two Second World War period tapestry souvenirs, Egypt 1941, bearing regimental badge of Royal Army Service Corps, and an early twentieth century telescope having leather sheath

A .44 cal 6-shot 1863 Percussion Starr Army Revolver, 8inch sighted barrel, cylinder stamped with the serial no. 17445, the framed stamped STARR ARMS CO NEW YORK to the left and STARRS PATENT JAN 15 1856 on the other, barrel assembly stamped with the serial no. 35651 and the frame assembly stamped no. 35651, walnut grip, various letter based inspection stamps over all.

A Victorian Indian Army Officer's Sabretache, the burgundy leather covered body applied with an embossed white metal and gilt crowned VR cypher, three brass D-shaped suspension rings.

An EIIR boxed Army Emergency Reserve Medal, the crowned white and yellow metal laurel wreath with centered EIIR cypher, engraved 1958 to the reverse, blue ribbon with central yellow strio and ARMY EMERGENCY RESERVE suspension bar.

A First War Death Plaque and Scroll, to Private John Bradley, Army Service Corps, scroll with contemporary frame and glazed. Private John Bradley died at sea, he enlisted in London and was from Banbury in Oxfordshire.

Second War British Cloth Insignia, a pair of Military Police Vulnerable Point blue diamond shoulder badges embroidered VP in red, together with a single Traffic Control example, single Polish Armoured Division and a further Polish Eagle, SAS (?) breast or sleeve wings, York Release Centre (?) embroidered R on blue square ground, 88 Army Group RA embroidered yellow cannon and 88 on a blue and red diamond ground, three further embroidered yellow GY on red and black diamond ground and EG or EAG within a laurel wreath. (12)

A Sam Browne Belt Applied with Cap Badges, comprising Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, ARP lapel badge, six rank pips, one enamelled, Manchester Regiment, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, York and Lancaster, Army Service Corps, King's Liverpool Regiment, Northumberland Fusiliers, 5th Lancers (damaged), 144th Battalion Winnipeg Black Devils, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry cast white metal badge with pin back, Australian Commonwealth, Imperial Service, Horse Shoe cap badge, A Deo Et Rege white metal pin back badge, seven various buttons including General Steam Navigation Company, Royal Fusiliers cap badge, Royal Artillery Cap and Sweetheart badge, together with a 1941 dated side cap bearing Royal Fusiliers cap badge and a Third Reich 1st Pattern Luftwaffe Officer's dagger, blade with shortened and rounded off tip, scabbard leather lacking and now painted blue, complete with hanging chains.

A Gordon Highlanders Field Officer's sword, 79cm double fullered broadsword blade etched with scrolling foliage, thistles and a crowned VR cypher, special pattern pierced steel hilt decorated with thistles and regimental device, wire bound fishskin grip, contained in its steel scabbard. See illustration 146 on pg. 131 Swords of the British Army by B. Robson.

A Third Reich Army Officer's Dagger Ensemble, 26cm flattened diamond section blade by Alcosa, Solingen, regulation plated hilt with spirally fluted white celluloid grip, contained in its stippled steel scabbard, complete with knot and hanging straps.

A Third Reich Army or Airforce Commander's Car Pennant, 40cm x 29c, composed from red, black and white machine sewn triangles, mounted on a plated steel frame and complete with cylindrical car mounts.

STERLING SILVER SOUVENIR COMMEMORATING QUEEN VICTORIA'S RULE OVER THE BRITISH EMPIRE 1837-1901, ISSUED BY THE ATA ARMY TEMPERANCE ASSOCIATION (DIA: 34 mm) 20g

GERMAN ARMY WORLD WAR II PERIOD PINE BOX WITH METAL HANDLES AND CLOSINGS IN FIELD GREY. ORIGINALLY CONTAINED EXPLOSIVE ANTI CONCRETE SHELL/PROJECTILES 8 Stück, Sprldg. d. 15 cm Gr. 19 Be. (H: 31 cm x 74 cm x 42 cm). LATTERLY PAINTED WITH NAME AND ADDRESS ON TOP OF BOX (INDISTINCT)

11 books appertaining to Army and War Battles including The Battle of Flanders, the Official Account of Air to Battle Bomber Command, all from the 1940's

Sicily, Syracuse AR Didrachm. Deinomenid Tyranny. Time of Gelon I, circa 490-485 BC. Nude rider on horseback right, leading a second horse on far side / Head of Arethusa right within thin linear circle, wearing hair-tie, earring and necklace, hair falling simply behind; ΣVRAQOΣION and four dolphins around. Boehringer 51 (V28/R34); SNG ANS 11 (these dies); Antikenmuseum Basel 429 (these dies); Rizzo pl. XXXIV, 16 (these dies); Jameson 745 (these dies); SNG Lloyd 1282 (these dies). 8.64g, 20mm, 1h. Extremely Fine. Lustrous metal, lightly toned with vivid iridescent flashes. Very Rare. From the Ambrose Collection; Ex Giessener Münzhandlung 46, 30 October 1989, lot 36. This beautiful archaic didrachm dates to the time of Gelon, Tyrant of Syracuse, under whom Syracuse expanded and prospered greatly both in economic and military terms. By forcing wealthy families of conquered cities to move to Syracuse, and by initiating grand civil building programmes, Syracuse soon became extraordinarily prosperous and the greatest Greek city in the west. Gelon’s fortifications and formation of a powerful mercenary army ensure the safety of the city and indeed very probably all of Sicily. Upon the Carthaginian invasion of the island that coincided with the Persian assault on mainland Greece, Gelon led an army of 55,000 to Himera and the aid of his ally Theron, winning a decisive victory and keeping Sicily safe from Carthaginian invasion for the next seventy years. While the didrachm denomination had been introduced at Syracuse shortly after 510 BC, with the denomination indicated by the number of horses on the obverse (2= didrachm; 4 = tetradrachm), it was not until the reign of Gelon that the Syracusan monetary system was expanded to include a comprehensive series of silver fractional denominations - the drachm, obol, pentonkion, and hexas.

Attica, Athens AR Tetradrachm. Circa 500-490 BC. Archaic head of Athena right, wearing crested helmet decorated with chevron and dot pattern / Owl standing right, head facing, olive sprig behind, ΑΘΕ before. Cf. Svoronos Pl. 4, 15. 17.05g, 24mm, 4h. Extremely Fine. In particularly good condition for the issue, with a full crest; struck and preserved on sound and lustrous metal. Athens was one of the few Greek cities with significant silver deposits in their immediate territory, a remarkable stroke of fortune upon which Xenophon reflected: 'The Divine Bounty has bestowed upon us inexhaustible mines of silver, and advantages which we enjoy above all our neighbouring cities, who never yet could discover one vein of silver ore in all their dominions.' The mines at Laurion had been worked since the bronze age, but it would be only later in 483 that a massive new vein of ore would be discovered that enabled Athens to finance grand new schemes such as the construction of a fleet of 200 triremes, a fleet that would later prove decisive in defending Greece at the Battle of Salamis. This coin was produced in the period before the discovery of the new deposits at Laurion, around the time of the Ionian Revolt and the subsequent first Persian invasion of Greece. Athens aided the Ionian Greeks in their rebellion against Persian tyranny with both coin and soldiers, participating in the 498 BC march on Sardes which resulted in the capture and sack of that city – the only significant offensive action taken by the Ionians, who were pushed back onto the defensive and eventually subjugated once more. Vowing to punish Athens for their support of the doomed rebellion, the Persian king Darius launched an invasion of Greece, landing at Marathon in 490 BC. Just twenty five miles from Athens, a vastly outnumbered Athenian hoplite army inflicted a crushing defeat on the Persians, who after suffering horrendous casualties turned to their ships and fled.

Macedon, Chalkidian League AR Tetradrachm. Olynthos, circa 382-379 BC. Laureate head of Apollo left / Kithara of seven strings, XAΛKIΔEΩN around; all within incuse square. Robinson & Clement Group H, A13/P13. 14.50g, 25mm, 6h. Good Extremely Fine. From the Ambrose Collection. The extensive 'Group H' coinage appears to have been produced in order to finance the Olynthian war effort against a Spartan campaign to subdue the city and dissolve the Chalkidian League in 382-379 BC. Amid continuous Illyrian invasions along the northern border of Macedon, in around 385 BC Amyntas III once more mortgaged certain territories, this time formally to the Chalkidian League. By 382 the League had absorbed most of the Greek cities west of the river Strymon, and unlike in 392, it was reluctant to return control of the Macedonian territories that Amyntas had transferred to its control, which included the capital at Pella. Amyntas now sought the aid of Sparta against the growing threat of the Chalkidian League; his disposition was shared by the cities of Akanthos and Apollonia, who anticipated imminent conquest by the League. Sparta, keen to reassert its presence in northern Greece, consented and a force of 10,000 was mobilised and dispatched against the League. An advance force of 2,000 under Eudamidas succeeded in separating Potidaea from the League; meanwhile the main force under Teleutias, brother of the Spartan king Agesilaos II, proceeded slowly, being augmented by allied contingents as it went. Teleutias thus arrived in Olynthian territory at the head of a substantial army and won an initial victory outside the city walls of Olynthos. In the spring of 381 however, Teleutias allowed himself to be drawn in too close to the walls, whereupon his forces came under missile fire and were routed with heavy losses by an Olynthian sortie, Teleutias himself being killed in the engagement. With the death of Teleutias, command passed to king Agesipolis I, who in 380 recommenced operations against the League, taking the city of Toroni in an assault. Agesipolis' success was short-lived however, as he was seized with fever and died within seven days. After three years of protracted but indecisive warfare, Olynthos consented to dissolve the Chalkidian League, though this dissolution appears to have been little more than a token formality, since in the following year the League appears among the members of the Athenian naval confederacy, and twenty years later Demosthenes reported the power of the League as being much greater than before the Spartan expedition. Olynthos itself is at this time spoken of as a city of the first rank, and the Chalkidian League then comprised thirty-two cities.

Ionia, Magnesia ad Maeandrum AR Hemiobol. Themistokles, governor. Circa 465-459 BC. Barley grain; ΘE monogram to left, E to right / Head of Apollo to right, wearing diadem; M-A-[Γ?]-N-E around; all within incuse square. Cf. Nollé & Wenninger Th5c. 0.43g, 7mm, 8h. Extremely Fine. Apparently unique and unpublished. Themistokles was one of the greatest statesmen and generals of the early Athenian democracy. It was his influence that led Athens to considerably increase its naval power, which would prove decisive in its conflicts with the Achaemenid Persian empire. He fought at the Battle of Marathon, and commanded the Greek allied navy at the battles of Artemision and Salamis. It was due in part to Themistokles' cunning that the allies were able to lure the Persian fleet into the straights of Salamis, and in the cramped conditions the superior numbers of the Persians became a hindrance. Disorganised and unable to manoeuvre, the Greeks formed in line and won a decisive victory. The following year, the Persian army was soundly defeated at the Battle of Plataea, ending the Persian attempts to conquer the Greek mainland. These battles of Salamis and Plataea thus mark a turning point in the course of the Greco-Persian wars as a whole; from then on, the Greek city-states would take the offensive. A number of historians believe that a Persian victory would have hamstrung the development of Ancient Greece, and by extension western civilization, and this has led them to claim that Salamis is one of the most significant battles in human history. Despite this and other accomplishments, the perceived arrogance of Themistokles alienated him from his fellow citizens and in 472/1 he was ostracised, and went into exile. Having before aroused the hostility of Sparta by ordering the re-fortification of Athens, the Spartans now implicated him in the treason of Pausanias, forcing Themistokles to flee from Greece to Asia Minor. There, he offered his service to his former enemies, and entered the service of the Persian Great King Artaxerxes. In recognition of his reputation and former glories, the Persian king made him governor of Magnesia, where he lived out the remainder of his life.

Ionia, Phokaia EL Hekte. Circa 478-387 BC. Bearded head of Tissaphernes to left, wearing satrapal headdress / Quadripartite incuse square punch. Bodenstedt 86; SNG von Aulock –; Boston MFA –; BMC –; Pozzi –; Traité –; Winzer 6.6; CNG e342, lot 287; CNG e210, lot 43; Gemini VI, lot 192; Peus 361, lot 184. 2.55g, 11mm. Mint State. Extremely Rare, only one example recorded by Bodenstedt, and apparently only the fifth known. From the Kleines Meisterwerk Collection. Since it is known that satraps issued coins in their own name with their own portraits, both Bodenstedt and Winzer named the satrap depicted on this coin as Tissaphernes on the basis of parallels between the portrait as seen here and those on other coinages. Indeed there are distinct physical similarities (the shape of the nose, brow and eye sockets) between the present type and the portrait of Tissaphernes on the Kyzikene-issued tetradrachms of Athenian owl reverse type struck c.420-395. Tissaphernes was born in 445 into an important Persian family; his grandfather was Hydarnes, who was a general under Xerxes, and commander of the Immortals during the invasion of Greece in 480. He rose to the position of commander in chief of the Persian armies in Asia Minor, and was appointed satrap of Lydia and Karia. Yet because Tissaphernes preferred duplicitous negotiation to open warfare, in 408 he was replaced in his position as general by the King’s second son, Cyrus the Younger. When King Darius II died in 404, his eldest son Artaxerxes II was crowned. Cyrus, seeking the throne for himself, attempted to have his brother assassinated, though Tissaphernes learned of the plot and informed Artaxerxes. Imprisoned, but soon pardoned through the intercession of their mother, Cyrus was sent back to his command, where he now gathered an army which included Xenophon’s ‘Ten Thousand’ Greek mercenaries. Tissaphernes was instrumental in warning Artaxerxes of his perfidious brother’s intentions, and in gathering an army to oppose Cyrus. Cyrus was undone at the Battle of Cunaxa in 401, through the disobedience of the Greek commander Klearchos of Sparta, who refused to move his troops to the centre of the line (wary of his undefended right flank) in order to directly attack Artaxerxes. The Greeks instead charged and scatted the loyal Persian left wing, but meanwhile Cyrus died in his assault on the centre while attempting to kill or capture his brother. Tissaphernes was then able to rout all of Cyrus’ leaderless and demoralised forces, except the Greek mercenaries who steadfastly maintained their discipline, and were unassailable by frontal assault. Tissaphernes therefore dealt with the Greeks by supplying them with food and leading them northwards for home. He invited the senior Greek commanders to attend a feast, whereupon he took them prisoner, led them before Artaxerxes, and had them decapitated. As a reward for his loyalty, Artaxerxes gave Tissaphernes one of his own daughters in marriage and restored him as governor of Lydia and commander in chief of the Persian armies in Asia Minor. Xenophon, until then a middle ranking officer, was hereupon elected one of the leaders of the Ten Thousand. In his Anabasis, he describes Tissaphernes as lacking in all honour, the supreme example of faithlessness and oath-breaking, for he used his hospitality to delude and decoy his victims before having them executed - a treachery of the most heinous kind.

Kingdom of Lydia, Kroisos AV Stater. Sardes, circa 564/53-550/39 BC. Light standard. mint. Confronted foreparts of lion and bull / Two incuse squares. Berk 3; Traité I 401–3; SNG von Aulock 2875; SNG Lockett 2983 = Pozzi 2726; Athena Fund I 60; BMC 31; Boston MFA 2073; Gulbenkian 757; Zhuyuetang 11. 8.08g, 16mm. Fleur De Coin. Superbly lustrous, exceptionally rare in such quality. Kroisos is credited with issuing the first true gold coins with a standardised purity for general circulation. His kingdom represented the last bastion against Persian expansion westwards into Greek lands; encouraged by a prediction of the Delphic Oracle that if he attacked Persia he would destroy a great empire, Kroisos made his preparations for war with Cyrus the Great. The war resulted in defeat for Kroisos; his numerically superior army was smashed, and the capital Sardes was captured along with Kroisos and his family, who were immolated on the orders of Cyrus. Lydia became a satrapy of the Persian Empire, though it continued to mint coins in the traditional types, and indeed the legendary wealth of Kroisos was used by Cyrus to form the basis of a new Persian gold standard currency.

Kingdom of Pontos and Cimmerian Bosporos, Pharnakes II AV Stater. Pantikapaion, 53/52 BC. Diademed bust of Pharnakes right, with luxuriant hair falling behind neck / Apollo, semi-draped, seated to left on lion-footed throne, holding laurel branch over tripod, left elbow resting on kithara at his side; BAΣIΛEΩΣ BAΣIΛEΩN above, MEΓAΛOY ΦAPNAKOY below, date ΣMΣ to right, three pellets to left. K.V. Golenko and J.P. Karyszkowski, 'The Gold Coinage of King Pharnaces of the Bosporus,' in Numismatic Chronicle 1972, p. 38, fig. 3 (same dies); MacDonald 185/3; HGC 7, 198. 8.25g, 20mm, 12h. Minor die break on reverse, otherwise Mint State. Extremely Rare – the second known specimen. The three pellets symbol depicted on the reverse of this rare coin is known on Sasanian coins where it held great significance as an old Iranian sacral symbol of power (cf. Ardashir I, SNS I Type IV/3a). Such pellets apparently with the same meaning, and are also found on the debased late staters of the Sarmatian king Thothorses of the Bosporos (cf. MacDonald 647/1). Born the youngest son of Mithradates VI, he nonetheless became the sole heir after the deaths of his brothers Arkathios and Machares – the former died while on campaign in Macedonia in 86, the latter committed suicide after rebelling against Mithradates. After his father's final defeat and escape to Pantikapaion, Pharnakes had no desire to support his father's continued wish to wage war with the Romans. He therefore began a plot to remove Mithradates from power. Though his plans were discovered, the army supported him, not wishing to engage Pompey and the Roman armies again. So in 63 BC, surrounded, Mithradates VI was forced to take his own life. Pharnakes II quickly sent an embassy to Pompey with the body of his father, to be at the disposal of Pompey. Pompey granted Pharnakes the Bosporan Kingdom, and named him friend and ally of Rome. Like his father, he could not resist taking advantage of the war between Caesar and Pompey, thinking Rome to be too distracted to prevent his conquests of Colchis and Lesser Armenia. He defeated Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus and a Roman army, and proceeded to overrun Pontos. Caesar however made haste to give battle himself, and at Zela in 47 BC Pharnakes was routed, escaping with only a small detachment of cavalry. Thus, this parricide would-be 'Great King of Kings' was soundly defeated by the might of Rome in the person of Julius Caesar, who reported this victory to the Senate with the famous phrase: 'veni, vidi, vici' (Plutarch, Caesar. 50; Suetonius, Iulius Caesar, 37).

Vitellius AV Aureus. Rome, August - December AD 69. A VITELLIVS GERM IMP AVG TR P, laureate head right / XV VIR SACR FAC, tripod lebes with dolphin above and raven standing right below. BMC 38; BN 75; C. 110; RIC 108; Biaggi 288; Calicó 585. 7.26g, 19mm, 6h. Good Extremely Fine. Very Rare. Lustrous, beautifully struck and possessing a superb portrait. Easily among the finest surviving aurei of Vitellius. Emperor for only eight months, Vitellius was the third to take the purple during the Year of the Four Emperors in AD 69. Consul in 48 and Proconsul of Africa in 60/61, Vitellius commanded the army of Germania Inferior in 68, where he made himself extremely popular with the officers and soldiery through lavish extravagance and lax discipline. It was because of two of his legion commanders on the Rhine that he was acclaimed emperor by the legions in Germania, and they were soon joined by the armies of Britannia, Gaul and Raetia. With Otho’s suicide, Vitellius gained the throne without the need for excessive bloodshed. His short lived reign was characterised by excessive feasting, gambling and indolence. Suetonius records some of the greater outrages which led to his being deserted in favour of Vespasian: ‘Acting more and more in open violation of all laws, both divine and human, he assumed the office of Pontifex Maximus, upon the day of the defeat at the Allia; ordered the magistrates to be elected for ten years of office; and made himself consul for life.’ The reverse of this coin makes reference to Vitellius’s membership of one of the four priestly colleges, the Quindecimviri Sacris Faciundis (the other three being the Pontifices, Augures, and the Epulones), and so also his new self-appointed position as Pontifex Maximus. The raven refers to the college of Augures who interpreted the will of the gods through the study of the flight of birds. The tripod lebes can be linked with the college of Epulones, which arranged the religious feasts and festivals. The dolphin holds several symbolic meanings including that of messenger, protector and guide, and can be associated directly with various gods including Neptune, but when viewed as a symbol for protection and guidance, is associated with the college of Quindecimviri Sacris Faciundis. Members of this college were responsible for keeping the Sybilline Books in safety and secrecy. At the command of the Senate, they consulted the Books in order to discover not exact predictions of definite future events in the form of prophecy, but the religious observances necessary to avert extraordinary calamities and to expiate ominous prodigies (comets and earthquakes, showers of stones, plague, and suchlike).

Pacatian AR Antoninianus. Viminacium, AD 248-249. IMP TI CL MAR PACATIANVS P F A.., radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right / PAX AETERNA, Pax standing left, holding branch and transverse sceptre. C. 6; RIC 5. 2.35g, 21mm, 1h. Good Very Fine. Very Rare. Tiberius Claudius Marinus Pacatianus was raised to the purple by his troops, and then killed by them within a matter of months and before Trajan Decius, sent by the Emperor Philip I, was able to tackle him himself. Usurping power in the region of the Danube, later writers such as Zosimus relate that he was an officer of the army and perhaps of senatorial rank. Though no specific reasons for the rebellion are clear from the sources, the Danube frontier is known to have been threatened repeatedly by the Goths, and the sheer number of uprisings in this area led by the army is suggestive of serious and continuing unrest. Though at least seven reverse types are known for Pacatian, the remaining coinage is extremely rare and in the main of poor quality. One reverse type, featuring Roma seated, securely dates Pacatian's revolt to AD 248 as it commemorates the 1000th anniversary of the founding of Rome, an event that Philip I also marked on his coinage. Viminacium is taken to be the mint for Pacatian's coinage due to similarities in style to other issues from this mint, and also because for the period of the rebellion no coins of Philip I were produced there.

Julian I of Pannonia Æ Antoninianus. Siscia, late AD 284-February 285. IMP C M AVR IVLIANVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right / FELICITAS TEMPORVM, Felicitas standing left, holding caduceus and sceptre; S – B across fields, XXI in exergue. C. 1; RIC 2. 3.84g, 23mm, 6h. Extremely Fine. Some original silvering remaining. Rare. One of the more serious of the ‘Thirty Tyranni’ described by Roman historians in the Historia Augusta, the revolt of Marcus Aurelius Julianus of Pannonia against Carinus in 284 caused the emperor to march from Britain and lead his army against the rebels near Verona, or perhaps in Illyricum (the sources are unclear), crushing them in early 285. Issued from the mint at Siscia, the coins of Julian of Pannonia are in the same good style that this mint had previously issued in the service of legitimate emperors, with a fine portrait.

Maximianus Herculius AV Aureus. Nicomedia, AD 294. MAXIMIANVS P F AVG, laureate bust right / HERCVLI VICTORI, Hercules standing facing, head right, holding club and apples, lion skin draped over left arm; SMN in exergue. RIC 3; Depeyrot p. 119, 2/1; cf. Calicó 4668 var. (no apples). 5.36g, 20mm, 1h. Good Extremely Fine. Very Rare. From the Ambrose Collection; Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 59, 4 April 2011, lot 1154. Given the title ‘Herculius’ by Diocletian, Maximianus’ role was always that of the military might to Diocletian’s stategic planning, hence the rich and varied series of depictions of Hercules that we see on his coinage. This reverse depicts Hercules after the completion of his eleventh labour - to steal the apples of the Hesperides. The garden of the Hesperides, nymphs of the evening and golden light of sunset, is Hera’s garden in the west, where an apple tree grows which produces golden apples conferring immortality when eaten. Planted from the fruited branches that Gaia gave to Hera as a wedding gift when she wed Zeus, the garden and tree were tended by the Hesperides. After Hercules had completed his ten labours, Eurystheus gave him two more, claiming that neither the Hydra counted (because Iolaus helped him) nor the Augean stables either (because he received payment for the job or because the rivers did the work). Thus the first of these two additional labours was to steal the apples from the garden of the Hesperides. During this labour, Hercules had to take the vault of the heavens on his shoulders to relieve Atlas, who was the father of the Hesperides and could therefore persuade them to give up the apples. Having obtained the apples Atlas, relieved of his burden, was unwilling to take it back and offered to deliver the apples in Hercules’ stead. Hercules however tricked him by agreeing to take his place on condition that Atlas relieve him temporarily so that he could make his cloak more comfortable. Hercules was thus able to complete the task; as for the apples, as property of the gods, they had to be returned to the garden from which they had been removed, a task that Athena completed on Hercules’ behalf. In later years it was thought that the ‘golden apples’ might have actually been oranges, a fruit unknown to Europe and the Mediterranean before the Middle Ages. Under this assumption, the Greek botanical name chosen for all citrus species was Hesperidoeide (‘hesperidoids’ and even today the Greek word for the orange fruit is ‘Portokali’ after the country of Portugal in Iberia near where the Garden of the Hesperides was thought to grow. Struck in the east of the Empire at the new mint of Nicomedia, this coin was most probably produced in response to the increase in bureaucracy that the appointment of the two new Caesars in 293 will have occasioned, as well as the ever present needs of the army protecting the eastern frontier of the Empire.

DMITRY STAKHIEVICH MOOR [ORLOV] (RUSSIAN 1883-1946)Poster Maquette featuring the Red Army and the Red Fleet, 1923gouache and India ink on paper101.6 x 69 cm (40 x 27 1/8 in.)signed and dated lower leftPLEASE NOTEIf you will be bidding live on auction day, please note that Session I of the Auction (Asian and Russian Fine & Decorative Art), starts at 10:00 AM New York Time and goes from Lot 1 through Lot 254. Session II of the Auction (European, American and International Fine & Decorative Art) starts at 3:00 PM New York Time and goes from Lot 500 through Lot 676. We sell approximately 70 lots per hour.

A LARGE SOVIET AGITLAK KEEPSAKE BOX OF YEDUT S PESNEI MOLODIYE KAZAKI, A. KOTUKHINA, PALEKH, 1950of a rectangular shape, the hinged cover depicting an epic scene of the Don Cossacks heading off to join the forces of the Red Army, three brave warriors on horses are shown in the foreground, they are calling their troops for battle with trumpets, behind them, legions of determined Cossacks are leaving their homes and waving farewell to their women, an ornate gilded border runs around the cover of the box, an elaborately painted wide gilded floral garland runs around the body of the box, with further depiction of a Cossack on horseback in the center of the longer sides, a slightly wider base is raised on four feet, crimson interior, length: 27.5 cm (10 7/8 in.), height: 9.5 cm (3 3/4 in.), signed Anna Kotukhina, inscribed in Cyrillic s. Palekh and dated lower right, numbered No 394 lower left, three verses of a poem describing the illustrated event in Cyrillic are written along the lower border of the cover:To ne tuchi, grozoviye oblakaTo nad Terekom na kruchakh zalegli, -Klichut trubi molodogo kazaka, Pyl` sedaya vstala oblakom vdali.Osedlayu ya goryachego konya,Krepko sumy pritorochu v peremyot.Vstan, kazachka molodaya, u pletnya,Provodi menya do solnishka v pokhod!Skachut sotni iz-za Tereka-reki,Pod kopitami dorozhenka drozhit.Yedut s pesney molodiye kazakiV Krasnoy Armii respublike sluzhit!PLEASE NOTEIf you will be bidding live on auction day, please note that Session I of the Auction (Asian and Russian Fine & Decorative Art), starts at 10:00 AM New York Time and goes from Lot 1 through Lot 254. Session II of the Auction (European, American and International Fine & Decorative Art) starts at 3:00 PM New York Time and goes from Lot 500 through Lot 676. We sell approximately 70 lots per hour.

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‘…I saw the Queen being handed the wrong cakes…’ DU MAURIER DAPHNE: (1907-1989) British Author. T.L.S., Daphne, four pages, 8vo, Menabilly, Par, Cornwall, 16th August 1962, to 'My dear' (Foy Quiller-Couch). Du Maurier proclaims 'What a typical arrival! Be sure to see all fires are extinguished when you go to bed, and that the doors and windows are locked against burglars' and adds 'I have written my name under yours in Castle Dor, and have returned the book'. She continues to recount a visit from Queen Elizabeth II, 'Well, the Queen..I was so exhausted…from doing 26 vases of flowers the day before that I had lost my nerves when the moment came. I must say, it was rather splendid to see the big Rolls drive slowly up to the front door bearing the Royal Standard, and the Queen, a radiant figure in white, seated within. That was really the best of it. The actual hour passed very quickly really, but nobody hardly touched the enormous spread of tea I had prepared, and out of my eye I saw the Queen being handed the wrong cakes by Angela, and she even got a non-matching plate at one moment instead of the Rockingham! The nice Prescotts helped us, she chatting informally away to Prince P[hilip] about schools, and Colonel Prescott reviving old Grenadier memories with the Queen. The entourage seemed endless (actually we were 14) and disposed themselves about the Long Room, and old Sir Edward Bolitho spilt his tea, and was the only one to munch, and enjoy, a split with cream! The house had been scrubbed, and better scrubbed (I found Mr. Burt, 81 a few days before, washing down the Long Room mantle piece with Jeyes fluid!!) and so much tidied away that none of us have been able to find a thing since. No, I wore neither hat nor gloves, thank goodness. I wrote and asked a lady-in-waiting I knew, and she said "Not at an informal tea in one's own house." My relief was enormous. I haven't a hat to my name, tho' I could have borrowed gloves, and Flave had actually sent down a handsome white bag from Harrods, which I suggest we all borrow in time of need. Anyway, it's a good thing done, and I think the G'sman [Guardsman, her husband Frederick Browning] was very pleased at the honour shown….' Du Maurier also writes of children, 'I still wish they were better at amusing themselves and had more imagination. Paul, who is apt to be scared at bedtime, looked at me as if I were mad when I told him that Kits also used to be rather nervous, but was all right when he had a group of small Indians called Black Wolf and Laughing Thunder on his bedside table to guard him, along with a small soldier on one knee called Terry. "If you like", I said, "I will see if there are any Indians left in the playroom drawer." "But they aren't real", answered Paul, and I saw it was no good. My word, those toy Indians were as real to me as they were to Kits - the "Guarders" we always called them. It is a pity that children seem so factual these days, and I don't see why it should be anything to do with men whirling round in space.' and concludes by briefly referring to her own work, 'I have finished my Glass-Blowing book, and the publishers in England and U.S. very pleased with it. I was afraid they'd find it dull'. A small tape stain to the upper corner of the first and final pages, only very slightly affecting one word of text and not the signature, VG Foy Quiller-Couch - daughter of British writer Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944), and a life-long friend of Du Maurier. Indeed, Du Maurier was accompanied by Foy Quiller-Couch when she became inspired with the storyline for her novel Jamaica Inn. In 1930, apparently around the time of the present letter, the two ladies were staying at Jamaica Inn and went riding on Bodmin Moor. They became lost in bad weather conditions and apparently sheltered for some time in a derelict cottage on the moor but were eventually led back to Jamaica Inn by their horses. Frederick Browning (1896-1965) British Lieutenant-General of World War II, deputy commander of the First Allied Airborne Army in Operation Market Garden, 1944. Husband of Du Maurier from 1932. Comptroller and Treasurer to Princess Elizabeth from 1948-52 and later Treasurer in the Office of the Duke of Edinburgh.

BOOTH WILLIAM: (1829-1912) British Methodist Preacher, founder of The Salvation Army. T.L.S., William Booth, two pages, 4to, London, 10th April 1909, to [Mildred Blanche] Duff ('My dear Colonel'), on the printed stationery of the International Headquarters of The Salvation Army. Booth announces 'I am forbidden to write either with the new eye or the old one, or I should send you a line to acknowledge your beautiful Birthday Gift' and continues 'I shall think about you when I use those necessary articles, and as in the past, shall always think of you very kindly' Booth further writes 'Did you get a letter I wrote from Scandinavia, or did I only fancy I wrote one? In it I named the pleasure it would give me to see you at Hadley Wood to a cup of tea some afternoon' and in a holograph postscript remarks 'I must talk to you about yr extravagant kindness when I have the opportunity - meanwhile I hope all is well with you and yours'. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, VG Mildred Blanche Duff (1860-1932) British Colonel of The Salvation Army.

GEORGE VI: (1895-1952) King of the United Kingdom 1936-52. Autograph Envelope Signed (with his initials GRI), the oblong 8vo envelope simply addressed in his hand to Mr. Woods, the contents evidently having been delivered by hand. Dated 1945 in pencil to the upper right corner in an unidentified hand. A few light creases and minor spots of foxing. Together with Mary of Teck (1867-1953) Queen Consort of the United Kingdom 1910-36, wife of King George V and mother of King George VI. Autograph Envelope, unsigned, addressed in her hand to Sir Douglas Dawson at the Lord Chamberlain's Office at St. James' Palace. Generally VG, 2 Douglas Dawson (1854-1933) British Army General and Courtier, Comptroller in the Lord Chamberlain's Department.

HENRY III: (1551-1589) King of France 1574-89 and King of Poland & Grand Duke of Lithuania 1573-75. L.S., Henry, one page, folio, Camp at [? Illegible], 10th December 1587, to Cardinal Dancelot, in French. The King states that Cardinal Mario Bandini, a gentleman of his Chamber, has asked the King to come and see Dancelot in person and let him know that 'I have dissipated the great foreign army and removed it from my kingdom' and further stating 'I do not doubt that you are as grateful as the Regent for the good and loyal services rendered by the Cardinal, for the glory of God and the propagation of our Catholic, Apostolic and Roman religion'. With address panel to the verso. Some very light, minor foxing and a few small, minor tears to the edges and with two thin tape stains at the foot of the page, none of which affect the text or signature. About VG

BONAPARTE JOSEPH: (1768-1844) King of Naples (1806-1808) and King of Spain (1808-1813). Elder brother of Napoleon Bonaparte. D.S., Joseph, as King of Naples, one page, folio, Naples, 20th June 1807, in French. The manuscript document is a proposal to engage Monsieur Noel, a Lieutenant in the 6th Regiment, as a Captain and sets out in tabular form his army service and lists the campaigns in which he has served. Some slight creasing, VG

FREDERICK: (1763-1827) Duke of York & Albany, son of King George III. Commander-in-Chief of the Forces 1795-1809, 1811-27. A.N.S., Frederick, at the foot of an A.L.S. H. Taylor by Herbert Taylor, one page, folio, Head Quarters, 28th October 1799, to Lieutenant Colonel Anstruther, Deputy Quarter Master General. Taylor informs his correspondent 'In consequence of the great hardships & fatigues sustained by the troops, I am directed by the Commander in Chief to desire that you will issue to the several Regiments, the shoes received from England at the Rate of One Dollar for each pair' and continues 'I am further directed by H.R.H. to authorize you to issue Two Hundred Pairs of Shoes to the Crew of His Majesty's Ship Isis as a Donation'. The Duke of York has penned a note at the foot stating, in full, 'I certify that the orders above mentioned was given verbally by me to Colonel Anstruther about the 9th or 10th October after the retreat from Alkmaar'. With blank integral leaf. Some minor age wear and toning, about VG Herbert Taylor (1775-1839) British Lieutenant-General, Assistant Secretary and Aide-de-Camp to the Duke of York. Taylor later served as Private Secretary to King George III 1805-11 and Treasurer to Queen Charlotte 1817-18. Robert Anstruther (1768-1809) Scottish General who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The Duke of York's second field command was with the army sent for the Anglo-Russian Invasion of Holland in August 1799. Following the Duke's arrival with the main body of the army, a number of disasters befell the allied forces, including shortage of supplies. On 17th October 1799 the Duke of York had signed the Convention of Alkmaar, by which the allied expedition withdrew after giving up its prisoners. After this ineffectual campaign, Frederick was mocked, perhaps unfairly, in the rhyme The Grand Old Duke of York.

CONGREVE WALTER: (1862-1927) English General, Victoria Cross winner for his actions at the Battle of Colenso, South Africa, on 15th December 1899. Dark fountain pen ink signature ('W. N. Congreve, General, C in C Southern Comd.') on an 8vo sheet of paper, with a newspaper image of Congreve neatly affixed to the upper half. Congreve has additionally annotated the sheet in his hand, beneath the image, 'Inspection of 3rd Division British Army on Salisbury Plain May 1924.…'. A central horizontal fold does not affect the image or signature, VG

BERTHIER LOUIS-ALEXANDRE: (1753-1815) Marshal of France and Chief of Staff under Napoleon. L.S., Berthier, two pages, folio, Alassio, 6 fructidor an 3 (23rd August 1795), to Adjutant General Prisye, on the printed stationery of the General Headquarters of the Army of the Alps and Italy and featuring a vignette of the figure of liberty carrying a Phrygian cap, in French. Berthier writes, in part, 'I have received, Citizen, your letter of 23 thermidor in which you tell me that you were unable to arrive at the destination which General Kellermann had assigned to you. The representative of the people….having decided that in view of the lack of general officers in the 3rd division you should be sent to La Bonne-ville in order to provisionally take over the command of that division, I have informed General Kellermann of this change of plans. There is no problem, Citizen, with you taking Citizens LeBon and Andrieux as your deputies. The decree of the Committee of Public Safety which states that deputies can only be chosen from lieutenants does not appertain to captains….who fulfilled these functions at the time the law was promulgated and who have not ceased to fulfil these duties. I have written on this subject several days ago to Generals Moulin and Piston, so you may ask them to approve the two deputies you propose; from the high praise you have for these two soldiers, these generals cannot help but give their assent immediately. As for me, I give you mine…'. Some light staining and some extensive fraying at the edges, causing a few small areas of paper loss, not affecting the text or signature, G Francois Christophe de Kellermann (1735-1820) Marshal of France.

KELLERMANN FRANCOIS CHRISTOPHE: (1735-1820) Marshal of France. L.S., Kellerman, one page, 4to, Army of Reserve Headquarters in Mayenne, 31st July 1807, to Monsieur Dalbignac, General Division in Vigan, in French. Kellerman states that he cannot grant his correspondent's request of appointing his son to the rank of Lieutenant, explaining that the corps is being phased out. However Kellerman remarks 'My esteem for you, my dear General, means that I shall look for the moment when I may be of use to your son, and as soon as it occurs, I shall seize it will alacrity, born of old friendship. Of that you can be sure.' With integral address leaf. A small typed caption appears to the lower edge of the letter. Lightly tipped at the left edge to a slightly larger sheet, VG

LEE ROBERT E.: (1807-1870) American General, Commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War from 1862 until his surrender in 1865. A good A.L.S., R E Lee, one page, 8vo, Arlington, 23rd May 1859, to Major P. V. Hagner (‘My dear Major’), incorporating a small original drawing. Lee states ‘I thought Housings had been adopted by the Board. I know I voted against it. If not adopted I do not wish any’. The General further gives his correspondent some instructions, ‘I will have the brass plates in the bit as you suggest [at this point in the letter Lee has penned a small drawing of a design he wishes to create] The 2 enveloped by the C, different from that of the men’ and remarks that the pouches must have covers in order to secure their contents, and that he wishes them to be light. With blank integral leaf (slight traces of former mounting). Some light uniform age toning, most likely caused by previous framing, about VG Peter V. Hagner (1815-1893) United States Army officer who served in the American Civil War. In the years before the war Hagner commanded several arsenals and was responsible for the maintenance and upkeep on weaponry and military stores. The present letter is written just months before Lee defeated the white abolitionist John Brown and his men at what is known as the Raid on Harpers Ferry (October 1859). It is considered by military historians to have been one of the monumental events leading up to the Civil War.

BEAUREGARD PIERRE: (1818-1893) American Military officer, the first prominent General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Fine dark ink signature ('G. T. Beauregard') and date, 1884, in his hand on an oblong 12mo piece. VG

[BALLOONING]: An interesting A.L.S., W N Hutchinson General, two pages, 8vo, Eastbourne, 13th November 1889, to the Secretary, Ballooning Department, Exposition in Paris. Hutchinson introduces himself as a 'perfect stranger' although continues 'I have taken great interest in navigable ballooning & patented a plan by which the skin of the largest Navigables could be kept smooth however much the gas might shrink or expand' and further requests 'that you would kindly tell me what pamphlet or article has been printed - and where purchasable - explaining the construction of "La France" and describing any project for building navigables of great size'. Accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by Hutchinson and re-directed in another hand to [Gaston] Tissandier. Also included is Hutchinson's personal printed visiting card. VG William Nelson Hutchinson (1803-1895) British Army Officer and Inventor, a Colonel in the Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment 1863-95. Hutchinson patented several inventions relating to the steering of balloons. Gaston Tissandier (1843-1899) French Aviator and Chemist.

URQUHART ROY: (1901-1988) British Military officer of World War II, commanded the 1st Airborne Division during Operation Market Garden. T.L.S., R E Urquhart, one page, 4to, Whitehall, 22nd January 1947, to Whom it may concern, on the blind embossed stationery of the War Office. Urquhart writes a letter of testimonial, in full, 'Major S. Gregory has been acting as my Personal Assistant for the last 6 months of my tenure as D.T.A. & A.C.F. He has a likeable personality and can be relied upon at all times to do his best. He has a cheerful manner and is a very willing worker. His long experience of the Army has given him a very valuable background, of which he makes full use'. Together with an A.L.S. by Major General Russell Gurney (1890-1947), one page, 4to, War Office, 17th June 1946, to Samuel Gregory, thanking him for his magnificent work and loyal support and also including a folio document granting the dignity of an Additional Member of the Military Division of the Order of the British Empire to Gregory, 1st January 1941, bearing rubber stamped signatures of King George VI and Queen Mary. Further including Leslie Rundle (1856-1934) British General of World War I. A.L.S., Leslie Rundle, three pages, 4to, The Palace, Malta, 4th October 1914, to [Arthur Edward Tolfrey] Christie, stating, in part, 'You have been a great assistance to me in every way - I shall not be alive when you get to the top of the tree, but I believe and hope you will go far. In losing you I part with a good deal; but for the sake of the service & your own, I do not regret your going - though I do for my own....The local auditor is going to play the devil with this place & had much better go to Egypt where I am sure he is much more wanted. I fancy we save hundreds here where Egypt wastes thousands...' and also including a naval commission and document granting the dignity of an Additional Officer of the Military Division of the Order of the British Empire to Lieutenant Commander Christie, bearing rubber stamped signatures of King George V, King George VI and Queen Mary. Some light overall age wear, generally VG, 6

PATTON GEORGE S.: (1885-1945) American General of World War II. Blue fountain pen ink signature ('G S Patton Jr') to the upper left corner of an envelope, addressed to Mrs. E. Krieger in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and post marked 12th November 1944. Alongside Patton's signature appears the typed word Censored and beneath his signature is the printed return address of the Headquarters, Third United States Army, Office of the Commanding General, APO 43. Some light overall creasing and tears to the edges, slightly affecting Patton's signature, about G

JODL ALFRED: (1890-1946) German General of World War II. Chief of the Operations Staff and Deputy to Wilhelm Keitel. Brief T.L.S., Jodl, one page, 4to, Berlin, 14th June 1941, on the printed stationery of the Head of Army Command staff, to an unidentified correspondent, in German. Jodl responds to his correspondent's request and forwards a signed photograph of himself (no longer present). Two file holes to the left edge, not affecting the text or signature, otherwise VG

HERZNER HANS-ALBRECHT: (1907-1942) German Oberleutnant of World War II, the first man to engage in combat at the beginning of the war, one week before the official commencement of hostilities. Herzner was also the first recipient of a decoration for valour in World War II. Extremely rare, bold pencil signature ('Herzner') on a small oblong 12mo ticket, possibly removed from a larger document. The pale pink printed ticket bears the black printed numbers 5 and 281 along with several other light pencil numbers. One small file hole towards the left edge, not affecting the signature. VG On Friday, 25th August 1939 at 15.02 hours Adolf Hitler issued his order to attack Poland in what was known as Operation White. However four hours later he rescinded the order although it came too late to stop Herzner and his thirteen man special commando unit who had crossed the Slovakian-Polish border at 00.03 hours on 25th August, intent on preventing the destruction of the strategic Jablunka Pass Tunnel by the Polish Army. At 03.55 hours Herzner captured the railway station at Mosty, but failed to secure the tunnel as a result of stiff resistance. When radio communications (which had been lost) were re-established with Herzner's HQ, a few hours later, he and his unit were immediately withdrawn. One Pole had been killed, two Germans wounded and one taken prisoner. On the 1st September Hitler re-ordered the attack on Poland and, once again, Herzner captured Mosty. The tunnel was destroyed by the Polish Army. For his actions Herzner received the Iron Cross II Class.

Current and old world coins including Victorian caricature Salvation Army bonnet halfpenny, silver threepenny pieces, £5 and £2 coins, bank notes, jar of pennies

A mixed lot to include various Army cap badges and pins, etc together with miscellaneous cufflinks (a lot)

A Vintage pine painted shipwrights tool box. 70cm long and two Tole ware boxes. One brass mounted and labelled J Linney & Co. Army and Navy outfitters. London together with a pony skin trunk.

Taxidermy:- An antique early 20th Century lion skin with mounted head. Original sail cloth and felt backing with Army and Navy label.

One tray of various diecast and plastic kit built military vehicles to include amphibian US Army Jeep by Wemy Models, T55 medium tank by Hobbymaster, and others included

A group of five autograph written letters to include George Gleig (1796-1888) Soldier and later chaplain to the Chelsea Pensioners (last surviving officer to have served with Wellington in Spain) :- John Fox Gurboyne (1782-1871) Field Marshall British Army. :- Garnet Wolseley (1833-1913) (Field Marshall Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley) :- Samuel Rogers (1763-1855) English Poet and Colleague of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron and David Wilkie (1785-1841) Scottish painter.

A vintage leather double shot gun case with Army and Navy trade label.

A Second War 1st Army Group of four, comprising 39-45 Star, Africa Star with 1st ARMY BAR, Italy Star and 39-45 Medal, together with a mixed quantity of Second War, Society and First War Medals, including five named Victory Medals. (Parcel)

A 1st and 2nd War group of medals to Private T R Ibbotson Rifle Brigade, territorial Service medal and Army Temperance medal together with a well collated collection of military and family history, photograph certificates etc. An associated WWI memorial death plaque to A H Ibbotson.

An army GSTP pocket watch, retailed by Bravingtons of London