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Click here to subscribeREELS (4): A Sharpe`s of Aberdeen the Gordon 3.5" Wide drum alloy fly reel, smooth constant check, 90% finish, an Army & Navy 2.75" alloy brook trout fly reel with ivorine handle, constant check and brass foot, good and a pair of Rimfly King size English fly reels with fixed checks, good in zip case.
REELS (4): An Army navy London 3.5" alloy wide drum grilse alloy fly reel, ivorine handle, rim tension regulator, smooth check, fine an Anderson of Edinburgh by Heaton 3.5" narrow drum fly reel with black handle, brass foot and smooth check, a 2.75" alloy trout dry fly reel with white handle, brass foot and check and a Young`s Beaudex 3.75" diameter fly reel in fine condition with backplate tension regulator and wire line guide in MOB.
ACCESSORIES: Approximately twenty five card packets of sets of hooks to gut including the rare "Basket Packet" in the shape of a creel by Milward`s c1935 and other examples by Allcock, Woodfields, Gamages, A R Rudge & Son, Albert Smith, Army & Navy and Eton and Deller. Plus a box of Harrison`s "Spring Steel Carlisle" hooks. The main box contains ten smaller boxes each bearing Harrison`s trade label and each holding 100-eyed hooks. And a further Allcock & Co box of Kirby hooks to twisted gut containing examples of Kirby`s hooks to gut and other makers with the hooks held in the traditional triangular shaped sleeves.
Postcards - collection including Tuck`s Views, early coloured vignettes with undivided backs. Harry Payne British Army vignettes. Tuck`s Turner series, Heraldic series, Empire series with Ships and Flags, British Army and Wife Aways. Celebrated posters - Colman`s Blue and Hoe`s sauce, plus other advertising cards. Artists include Thackerary, Florence Upton, Louis Wain etc. (300+)
Postcards - Colchester military collection in album with some exceptional cards including Military Heart Hospital caricatures, parades, Band of the Norfolk Regiment r/p, Band and Bugles DLI Colchester 1913, HM The King Inspecting Troops at Colchester, SCA Hut r/p, Sabraon Barracks r/p, Artillery Barracks r/p, Military funeral r/p, Camp Church r/p, Sixth Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment Goojerat Barracks, Kitchener`s Army The Arrival at Colchester r/p, Band of the Thirteenth Cavalry r/p, Army Kitchen r/p, Airship on Abbey Fields, The Departure of the Gordons, St Botolphs Railway, Tug o War, Garrison Hurdles Race 1911, Regimental group photograph, Sports Days, Medal Presentations (300+)
Postcards - Album of Suffolk Topographical, Lavenham Salvation Army Band, real photographic cards including Thorrington Post Office shop and staff, West Suffolk Special Police, East Bergholt bus and Wedding guests, St Leonards Church, Colchester Company, Outing in Southwold, horses and wagon, gatherings and groups. German prisoners Shotley 1919, Aldeburgh life-boat hauled up beach by horses with crowds, lion in Bury St Edmunds town centre, children`s outings, church parades, mills and windmills. Many animated street scenes, good social history, village shows and prize-givings, Bildeston string Band, shop fronts, disaster cards including bomb damage, fire damage, firemen and hoses, Ipswich, floods in Framlingham and printed cards (qty)
Postcards - Relating to 1912 Boxted Eviction. Real photographic cards of the small-holders eviction by Salvation Army for non-payment of rent from houses in Straight Road and Langham Road Boxted. Cards feature houses with placards, furniture and belongings piled outside houses, Small-holders and Police entering the Town Hall together with Daily Mail press photographs Small-holders and families being forcibly evicted along with their belongings etc. Estate agents sale brochure for the sale of the small-holding with pictures of the houses and plans of the land 1916. Also research notes and photographs of local Policeman PC Perry and his family. Plus other items (qty)
Photographs - Small collection of Colchester related photographs to include Canteen at Colchester Garrison, rare scene at Castle Bailey Roast 1863 (2), dock scenes (2) Women`s Army Corps (1919), Howard Removal Contractor, Colchester Sick and Wounded Soldiers Comforts Committee 1919, M Brown Boxford Coach, Colchester High Street (qty)
A WWI medal collection including: The British War Medal 1914-18, Victory Medal and 1914-15 Star inscribed "11239 L Cpl G Cockell Yorks LI", and three WWII medals: The Defence Medal, the 1939-45 Star and the 1939-45 Medal, each inscribed "6466200 George T Cockle WO Class II the Buffs", together with an Edward VII Queen Alexandra Coronation Medallion, Soldier`s Service and Pay Book for George Cockle, including Discharge Certificate dated 10 April 1943, detailing cause of discharge "Ceasing to fulful army physical requirements, military conduct examplary", together with a selection of buttons and badges (PART ILLUSTRATED)
AN IMPORTANT FAMILY GROUP OF MEDALS TO INCLUDE THE FATHER AND THREE SONS. THE THREE SONS ALL DIED ON ACTIVE SERVICE DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR. TOTAL SERVICE SPANNING FROM THE AFGHAN CAMPAIGN TO THE FIRST WORLD WAR. i). ERNEST FREDERICK SULLIVAN. C.B.E. (badge) Mily, (box of issues and certificate), Afghanistan medal with Kabul clasp, 2nd Lieut. 67th Foot , Queens South Africa medal with Cape Colony and South Africa 1902 clasps Lt. Col. E. Surrey Reg. First World War medal, Col. This group with four miniatures. ii). PHILIP HAMILTON SULLIVAN. First World War Mons Star trio with clasp, and memorial plaque 2nd Lieut, Royal Munster Fusiliers, died 27th Aug. 1914.iii). HENRY ERNEST SULLIVAN. First World War trio, A. Major (Lieut. on Star) Princess Patricia`s Canadian Light Infantry. Died 31st Oct. 1917. iv). EUGENE GILBERT SULLIVAN First World War pair, Capt. E. Surrey Reg. Died 8th May 1917. The group is mounted in two "spink" frames with some fading of the ribbons. They also benefit from the inclusion of a large quantity of ephemera. ERNEST FREDERICK SULLIVAN A group of letters to his wife including war time, deploring the devastation and hoping for a good outcome as far as his children are concerned, one letter dated the day his son, Philip died. Letters from The London Necropolis Co. Ltd in relation to his grave no. 193694 at Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey; together with a rubbing of his dedication. Copy extracts of letters to his parents from 1881 to circa 1902. Two cabinet photographs of him as a young officer circa 1885, other images circa 1918, two diaries 1882 and 1883, each outlining military and private activities including sea voyages to and from India. Miscellaneous other including holiday snap-shots. PHILIP HAMILTON SULLIVAN A cased heightened miniature photograph showing Philip in dress uniform. A copy of "The 2nd Munster in France" published 1922, here is outlined the Munsters defence at the town of Estreux, holding back the advancing German army, long enough to allow the main body of the British Army to retreat successfully from Mons. A copy of the story of The Munsters at Etreux, published 1918. Various photographs, some copies including him as a baby, toddler and youth; together with one of his grave. Embarkation document. Notification document appointing him to 2nd Lieutenant. Several letters sent to his mother in sympathy of her loss. Miscellaneous press cuttings, including one outlining the action where Philip lost his life. HENRY ERNEST SULLIVAN Photograph of his grave along with a cabinet photo of him as a child and an officer. Press cuttings, letters to his sister during the war period, a copy of a memorial service for fallen officers and men of the P.P.C.L.I. EUGENE GILBERT SULLIVAN (BUMBO) Photograph of his grave, press cuttings, various letters to his mother including during active service. Letters to his then fiance, plus a letter outlining discovering Eugene`s grave during 1 20. A copy of the war graves of the British Empire, showing an entry for Eugene, Orchard Dump Cemetery VI. C. 15. GENERAL EPHEMERA A copy of "Three Brothers HES, EGS, PHS", a privately printed book by their mother published in 1921. A 55 page hard back book outlining the life and service of each, son with a photograph of each. Copy photos of the family including one of their mother. Miscellaneous press cuttings. A Crown copyright photograph of the Queen Mother with her two daughters and an officer. Also included with this lot is ephemera relating to another brother, George Frederick Sullivan, including papers of his Second World War service 1938-1951, born 12.9.1900.
A collection of World War II and post war badges comprising a Nazi Germany wound badge another cast metal badge with a paper label saying `radio operator and air gunners badge`, a pressed white metal badge of a tank surmounted by an Eagle & Swastika bearing a label `tank battle badge` (panzer assault) given to crews of fighting vehicles for three engagements, another pressed metal badge with the dates 1941-42 with the Crimea with surmounted by a needle Eagle & Swastika label states `a krim shield`, also another cast metal badge with a paper label stating General assault badge, and another cast metal badge showing a AK88 surmounted by an Eagle & Swastika with a paper label stating `army flak badge` and five other cloth badges
`Libri Salomonis` being a book in Latin with the following sections, `Prouerbia`, `Ecclesiastes`, `Canticum Canticorum`, `Liber Saprentiae` and `Ecclesiasticus` printed by `Simonis Colinaei` Paris 1529, second part of the this book being `Machabae Orum Libri Duo` printed by `Simonem Colinaeum` Paris 1526 in two parts, the whole bound in parchment (af), please note the title page is missing the inner page of this book has an ink inscription `Liardet 36th Regiment Malta 1825`. The thirty sixth foot now called the Worcester Regiment was posted to Malta in 1817, an Ensign Frederick Liardet is recorded as having been posted to Malta in September 1823 (see Malta family history, the British Army Garrison in Malta 1799-1827) it is possible that Ensign Frederick Liardet purchased this book from the library of the Knights of Malta. Together with some research (illustrated)
EAST INDIA COMPANY. 2 bound vols manuscript copy letters written by A. Lambert-Merchant/Offial with East India Company based at Calcutta to family at Alnwick Castle and to many other correspondents. Good detail army campaigns-Tipoo and other. Detail regarding all sorts of goods, merchandising, shipping , sugar re West Indian Slave Trade. Domestic arrangements in India. The 2 vols orig roan, folio, May 1788-March 1798. Altogether 750 close written pages (See Illustration)
Military postcards in album. A collection of World War I, Cologne German 1918-1919. Mainly real photographic cards including British Tanks and Crews, Troops on Demob in Homestrasse, Army Band, Churchill, Air Raid damage to buildings and station. Naval crews on Hohenzollern Bridge. Peace Day Parade, Crowds and Generals German retreat one - Rhine, retreat at Hangbrucke crossing, retreat from Perronne, India Artillery in Cologne, General Robertson and Marshall Foch, Tanks and bomb damage. German troops and trenches at Ypres, battlefields and floods etc (qty)
F/g Letter Signed By The Rolling Stones (Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger, Brian Jones & Keith Richards) regarding The Rolling Stones visit to Finsbury Park addressed to the officer in charge of Police Station Finsbury Park dated 9th September 1964 &Photograph Album inc. photos of Royal Family, policeman, gentleman in army uniform on his wedding day? etc.
Paré (Ambroise) The Workes 1st Eng. 1634 translated by Thomas Johnson first English edition fine engraved title with portrait and scenes of trepanning a herbalist at work distillation apparatus surgical instruments monsters etc. numerous woodcuts in text of similar subjects engraved title soiled and frayed at edge with very slight loss to border (repaired) dedication and To the Reader leaf defective at upper outer corner and fore-edge with loss of a few letters (repaired) Ff 3-5 and final two leaves also repaired light water-staining at beginning and end slight worming to lower margin modern calf ruled in blind [STC 19189] folio Th.Cotes and R.Young 1634. ***”Paré was the greatest of the army surgeons before Larrey...He is particularly remembered for his abandonment of boiling oil and the cautery for his revival of podalic version his re-introduction of the ligature and his invention of many new surgical instruments. He was the first to suggest that syphilis is a cause of aneurysm. He popularized the truss introduced artificial limbs and (in dentistry) re-implantation of the teeth.” GM.
Praeger (S. Rosamond) The Olde Irishe Rimes of Brian O`Linn, 1901, 4to., pages loose, some pencil scribbles, cloth-backed pictorial boards; Harland (Margaret), The Yellow Witch Book, 1905, cloth-backed pictorial boards; Hassall (John) (illus.), Favourite Nursery Rhymes, nd., 4to., presentation inscription with sketch to endpaper, signed by artist, cloth-backed pictorial boards; id. An Active Army Alphabet, 1899, 4to., pages loose, some pencil scribbles, cloth-backed pictorial boards (worn); Gallico (Paul) & Scott (Peter), The Snow Goose, 1946, pen and ink sketch of goose to half title, signed and dated by Scott, dust wrapper (worn); Dasent (G. W.), Norse Fairy Tales, nd., illus. by R.L. & H.J. Knowles, pictorial boards (worn); with a small quantity of others (qty)
Three Albums of Cigarette Cards: Wills: Allied Army Leaders (50), Dogs (50). Players: Regimental Colours and Cap Badges 1907 (50) (2 Sets), Drum Banners and Cap Badges (50), Regimental Standards and Cap Badges (50), Kings and Queens of England, large (50), Famous Beauties, large (50), Aviary and Cage Birds, large (25), Aviary and Cage Birds (50), Dogs (50), Dogs (50), Poultry (50). Gallaher: Dogs (48). Ty-phoo: British Birds and their Eggs (25) and Bodyguard Soap: Butterflies and Moths (48)
Two Albums of Cigarette Cards: Players: Coronation Series (Ceremonial Dress) (50), National Flags and Arms (50), Kings & Queens of England (50), Uniforms of the Territorial Army (50), Cycling (50), Animals of the Countryside (50), Birds and Their Young (50), International Air Lines (50). Stephen Mitchell & Son: Our Empire (50), First Aid (50), Empire Exhibition Scotland 1938 (25). Ardath: Britain`s Defenders (50). Wills: Radio Celebrities (50), 2nd Series (50), The Reign of H.M. George V (50), Association Footballers (50), Railway Engines (50), Dogs (50), The Sea Shore (50). Godfrey Phillips: This Mechanical Age 2nd Series (50). Cerreras: Kings & Queens of England (50)
Three Albums of Cigarette Cards: Players: Poultry (50), Association Cup Wines (50), Hints on Association Football (50), Cricketers 1938 (50), Tennis (50), RAF Badges, Aircraft of the Royal Air Force, Film Stars (3 series) (150), Sea Fishes (50), Fresh Water Fishes (50), Motor Cars (50). Wills: Life in the Royal Navy (50), Our Kings and Queens (50), Safety First (50), Wild Flowers, series 1-2, Air Raid Precautions (50). Godfrey Phillips: Famous Crowns (25), International Caps (50). Ogden`s: British Birds (50). Churchmans: The Story of London (50). Carreras: Orchids (24), History of Army Uniforms and Navy Uniforms (50) (3)
Two Albums of Cigarette Cards: Gallahers: British Birds 1937 (48), Dogs (48) and Dogs 2nd series (48), Trains of the World, Army Badges (48), Sporting Personalities (48), Wild Animals (48), Racing Scenes (48), Famous Jockeys 1936 (48). Stephen Mitchell: The World of Tomorrow (50), Air Raid Precautions (50). R.J. Hill: Famous Ships 1940 (50), Wills: Roses 1926 (50), Irish Industries 1937 (50). Players: Butterflies 1932 (50), Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, 1933 (50). Ogdens: The Story of Sound (50), Ocean Greyhounds. Lambert & Butler: Garden Life (25), Keep Fit (50). United Kingdom Tobac Co: Chinese Scenes (24) (2)
An Album of Cigarette Cards: Carreras: Flowers (50), Birds of the Countryside (50), Do You Know (50), Britains Defences (50), Dogs and Friend (50), Our Navy (50). Lambert & Butlers: Interesting Sidelights on the work of G.P.O., Dance Band Leaders (50), Pirates and Highwayman (50), Horsemanship (50), Cricketers 1934 (50), Army Life (25), Aeroplane Markings (50). Churchman: Well Known Ties (2nd series) (50), Rugby International (50). Wills: Speed (50), Garden Flowers (50). Players: Derby & Grand National Winners (50), Aviary and Cage Birds (50), Cricketers (50), Army Life, etc (1)
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