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Lot 216
A Rogers and Spencer Army model .44Cal. six shot revolver S/No. 4664. One of a 5,000 U.S. Ordnance Contract, November 1864. The last delivered September 1865. Matching S/No. on barrel, cylinder and frame, with Government inspection. Inspector's markings on left hand grip. This fine example has near mint bore and a high percentage of original finish. Presented in a later case with accessories
Lot 198
A World War II period American Air Force brown leather flying jacket, with a wool lining, bearing a label inscribed TYPE B-3, DRAWING NO. 33H 5595, ORDER NO (535) 42-21700P, SIZE 40R, PROPERTY OF AIR FORCE U.S. ARMYWearable and complete. The leather is dry, brittle and cracked. Various splits in the seams and surface wear.
Lot 168
Two Military Style MWC Quartz Wristwatches, a Swiss Army Style Quartz Wristwatch, Three Adidas Quartz Wristwatches, Plated Manual Wound Oris Wristwatch, Timex Indiglo Quartz Wristwatch, Two Russian Manual Wound Wristwatches, Two Shenhua Wristwatches, and a 2 Can Pro-Chrono Quartz Wristwatch, (13)
Lot 120
FORTESCUE (Hon J W): 'A History of the British Army..': vols. 1-13, 1899-1930: publishers red cloth, worn and variously sunned, 8vo: EDMONDS (Brigadier General J E) 'Military Operations France and Belgium, 1914': 2 vols 1922-25, plus part 2 of the plate volumes: plus the 13 vol. reprint of the first mentioned title, published Imperial War Museum, plus 5 vols. 'Order of Battle of Divisions'. (34)
Lot 185
British medal group awarded to Captain. W.V. Sloan of the Royal Army Service Corps. comprising; First World War War Medal, Victory Medal (with oak leaf) (Capt. W.V. Sloan) and Second World War Defence Medal, with corresponding miniatures, together with framed despatch certificate, diary, photographs, etc.Mentioned in a despatch from General Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby dated 5th March 1919 for gallant and distinguished services in the field.
Lot 1469
1921 (Feb 8) 3c Postcard from Kasanga to Morogoro cancelled "ARMY POST OFFICE / 2 / NORTHERN RHODESIA", Morogoro arrival c.d.s. This Army Post Office c.d.s, originally used by the Rhodesia forces in 1916-17, was reused at the civilian office at Kasanga from April 1919 until July 1921. Very unusual and scarce, only about five examples recorded. Photo on Page 212.
Lot 166
Letitia. 1917 Printed "Donaldson Line" envelope to Canada with violet oval "H.M HOSPITAL SHIP / No ... / Date ... / "LETITIA"", a 2c stamp applied at Halifax over the central portion of the cachet. Also a photographic card of the ship wrecked on the rocks at Portuguese Cove near Halifax. The former Indian hospital ship was transferred to the Canadian Army Medical Corps in March 1917; she competed four round trips from Liverpool to Halifax before running aground near Halifax on her fifth trip. A fine and scarce cover. (2). Photo on Page 28.
Lot 1670
Naval Mail. 1915-19 Covers and cards with 1915 cover franked 6c tied by Zanzibar squared circle with manuscript "Censored Rev D. Whitburn" on flap; 1916 Zanzibar postcard franked 1c strip of three + 3c cancelled by Zanzibar squared circles with circular "PASSED BY / CENSOR" of H.M.S "Talbot" (piece missing at lower right corner); picture postcards of Zanzibar with G.B stamps cancelled in London (5) or stampless with London Received From H.M Ship machine all with naval censor cachets; stampless cover with "Zanzibar Government" flap, endorsed "On Postal Service" with London Received From H.M. Ship machine; also a real Photo postcard of the wreck of the "Konigsberg" (Base Office B c.d.s) and card of the "Ben-My-Chree" whose seaplanes helped sink the "Konigsberg"; and a 1917 telegram from Zanzibar to Pretoria with "ARMY / SIGNAL SERVICE" cachet. An interesting lot. (12).
Lot 302
1840-1960s QV - QEII Collection in seven large stockbooks, virtually all used, the majority collected for their cancellations with large numbers of fine single ring datestamps and other unusual cancels, with used or cancelled abroad, numbers in Maltese Cross (19, all numbers), camps, F.P.Os and military, Boer War and WW1, T.P.Os, stations and R.S.Os, rubbers and skeletons, Salisbury "683" trial cancels, boxed "No. 1" (2), Liverpool P.L.O (2) or Landing Stage (8), British Army P.O Egypt, Tresco on 1884 1/-, "OXO" on embossed 6d (cut to shape), rare Edinburgh 131 experimental duplex, Cape Packet Plymouth, Dartmoor F.P.O duplex on piece, Paquebots and Ship Letters, oval railway cancels, VR Scrolls, 1862 International Exhibition on piece, Islands, Azemars, etc., some better stamps with 1d blacks (5, all four margins), 1840 2d blue (three margins), 1883 Anchor 10/-, 1884 Imperial Crown £1 brown (small thin), 1900 £1 Green, a few mint with 1841 1d reds (3), many multiples and plate varieties, watermark varieties, postal fiscals, officials, postage dues, etc. Also many unusual items with railway and other perfins (many on Line Engraved), BT perfins, underprints and overprints (37), several mint surface printed stamps with "HUTH" perfins, telegraph stamps, Circular Delivery Co., postal stationery cut-outs with 1887 dotted Hoster and Ethridge machines and a few advertising rings, labels and cinderellas, revenues, railway parcel and newspaper stamps (154) or letter stamps (65), etc. Also an eighth stockbook of c.d.s and rubber cancels mainly on piece. A very unusual and interesting collection that should be viewed to be fully appreciated. (1000s). Photo on Page 50.
Lot 390
1786-1951 Covers and cards including undeliverable mail; redirected covers; Oxford 613 duplex errors (2); 1916 cover from London to France but missent to Toronto, Canada; 1917 Army Form C.398 envelope sent by despatch rider with Army Telegraphs despatch and receipt datestamps; 1916 O.A.S cover to USA with violet "CENSORED ON BOARD /H.M.T - Z75"; etc. (30).
Lot 460
Free Frank Addressed Abroad. 1836 (Dec 23) Entire with printed "ARMY PAY-OFFICE / Pursuant to Act of Parliament" and an O.H.M.S heading, addressed to the British Consul in Nantes, red Free datestamp with "FREE" crossed out, datestamps of London, Calais and Nantes, charged 6f. Minor edge faults, an unusual failed free frank to France.
Lot 542
British Plebiscite Forces - Upper Silesia/Flensburg. 1922 (Feb 1) Registered cover to George King in London franked G.B 5d, bearing a blank type registration label, the stamp and registration label both with "ARMY POST OFFICE / S.120" c.d.s used at Oppeln, Upper Silesia, by the 2nd Bn Sherwood Foresters, sent to oversee the plebiscite. Also a second 1920 cover to George King with enclosed letter from Sgt-Major J.A. Ward, 1st Sherwood Foresters, Schleswig Plebiscite Force, Flensburg, Denmark, sending Flensburg stamps on behalf of the Postmaster, the cover with G.B stamps cancelled in London. A scarce registered cover. (2 + letter). Photo on Page 94.
Lot 545
c.1890-1956 Parcel Post labels (236, the majority stamped), boxed Parcel Post datestamps on pieces (124, also additional QEII examples), other parcel labels including labels used on parcels arriving from abroad printed with the country or town of origin (30), etc., cancels including rubber handstamps, with Parcel Post labels for Finstown, Orkneys (2, both 1914, franked 7d or 8d), Walls, Shetland (2, 1909 franked 3d, 1911 label with faults franked 4d), Castletown, Isle of Man (1919), Isle of Wight labels, part 1913 label for La Rocque, Jersey franked KEVII 5d + 6d, Ireland with 1911 (Sep 30) label of Ballingarry sent during the Irish railway strike endorsed "at senders risk", small 1922 label with Ireland 1/- overprint tied "Main St. Cavan" c.d.s, cancels of 1931 Indian Round Table Conference and 1935 Shepherds Bush Exhibition, Army and Field Post Offices (one "Australian Imperial Forces" type), etc. (450+). Photo on Page 92.
Lot 686
1944 (14/15 Nov) Forms from Jersey, numbered I.2563 or I.2575, both with light boxed "Gepruft / Dienststelle / Feldpost Nr / IC", both flown to Germany on the 6th supply flight which left Guernsey on 25th November, both unusually addressed to soldiers in the British forces, c/o Army Post Office, England, the reverse of the forms handstamped "NOT TO BE USED FOR REPLY", or "NOT TO BE USED FOR REPLY / POST OFFICE WILL SUPPLY / ADDRESS OF NEAREST RED / CROSS MESSAGE BUREAU WHICH / WILL DESPATCH A NEW MESS-/ AGE FOR YOU". One form badly tape stained, nevertheless scarce from Jersey, especially to British soldiers, with 1998 article on these fortress period flown forms by Alan Moorcroft. (2).
Lot 949
1898 (May 6) Advertising envelope from T. Roland Lightbourn to Halifax franked 2½d, the reverse with a superb overall advertising design for "Bermuda Island, Most Equitable Climate in the World, Sea Bathing all Winter, 100 Miles Stone Road - Never Muddy, Good Hotels, Fine Shops, Good Tailors, Cheap Livery, Delightful Yachting, Good Fishing, Best Cycling, Army and Naval Station" with charts comparing the Bermuda weather with various places in the USA. Small repair at left, otherwise fine and attractive.
Lot 102
Dairen Maru. 1904-05 Stampless picture postcards (3) and a field service postcard, three from medical staff on the hospital ship (one from Dairen with F.P.O 1, 3rd Army c.d.s), the other card from a soldier in Manchuria to a Doctor on the hospital ship with F.P.O 6, 4th Army c.d.s from Sujiatung, the letter describing the Battle of Mukden. (4).
Lot 1057
1886 (Jan 22) Cover from London to "F.H Mercerde Burton, Army Medical Staff, Expeditionary Force, Mandalay, Burmah" franked 4d, redirected to Bhamo, backstamped Sea Post Office A and at Mandalay; and a cover from Burton to his wife in London with ½a + 1a (3) each cancelled by "R" within bars with a "THAYETMYO" c.d.s below, fine. (2).
Lot 1065
Port Blair. c.1870-1951 Covers and cards (21) and stamps (8), the interesting collection written up on pages including octagonal "B / 227" on single ½a, 1894 1a postcard to England with 19mm single ring c.d.s, c.1880 cover from Rangoon (signed by the Bishop of Rangoon) franked OHMS 1a to the Chaplain at Port Blair, 1899 cover from Italy to the Superintendent at Port Blair with 26mm c.d.s backstamp, 1898 cover franked ½a, QV OHMS 1a envelope used in 1913 and 1905 cover from the Chief Commissioners Office franked KEVII OHMS 1a all with the 26mm c.d.s, 1904 postcard franked QV ½a pair with both 26mm unhyphenated c.d.s and 25mm c.d.s with hyphen, 1904-05 picture postcards (3) and a cover (letter enclosed from an army officer) all with 26mm double circle c.d.s, 1915 cover with larger 31mm c.d.s, also incoming mail, 1946 Indian F.P.O No 40, etc. A fine collection. (29). Photo on Page 162.
Lot 109
1904-05 1½sn Postal stationery postcards (2), picture postcards franked 1½sn (4) and a scarce official military postcard issued by the Post & Telegram Ministry, the last from an army nurse at 1st Field Hospital, 3rd Division, to a nurse on the "Awa Maru" with F.P.O No. 9, 2nd Army c.d.s (Gaomingtao, Manchuria), one card from a wounded officer in Hiroshima Reserve Hospital reporting his arrival on the "Rosetta Maru", and two cards from Japan to the "Rohilla Maru" or "Toei-Maru", three other cards written from the "Hakuai Maru" at Ujina, or the "Ohmi Maru" at Aomori or Ujina, an interesting group. (7).
Lot 115
Asturias. 1914-18 Picture postcards of the ship (21), a cover and letter, comprising 1917 stampless cover to No. 20 Ambulance Train, B.E.F with red boxed "HOSPITAL SHIP "ASTURIAS" / PASSED BY CENSOR", 1915 card cancelled in London with violet "ASTURIAS" and oval "POSTED ON THE / HIGH SEAS", seven other cards written by wounded soldiers, three of these stampless cards posted at Southampton with red "ARMY / LETTER / FREE" or ½d charge marks (2, one with a ½d due stamp), two stampless cards with red triangular "WOUNDED / SOLDIER / IN HOSPITAL" applied in Salisbury or violet circular "2nd WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL / MANCHESTER / POSTED / BY A / WOUNDED / SOLDIER". Also three postcards showing the ship beached off the South Devon coast after being torpedoed on 21st March 1917, and a letter of 25th March written by a crew member describing the torpedoing. An interesting lot. (23).
Lot 1199
World War One. 1914 (Oct 18-23) 13 Page letter written by Captain E.D Giles, General Staff, Indian Cavalry Division, posted from Port Said (Oct 31) to his girl friend in India, the envelope signed and endorsed "Passed Censor". The very detailed letter, written on S.S "Ballarat" with the Indian forces en route to France, gives a superb eye witness account of the mobilisation and sailing of the troop transport ships carrying the Indian army. An excellent historical letter, full of very good detail.
Lot 120
Copenhagen". 1916 (Jan 4/7) Covers with enclosed letters both sent in the first week of service as a hospital ship, a stampless cover from Army P.O 2 at Rouen with violet boxed "HOSPITAL SHIP / S.S "Copenhagen"" on reverse, and a cover posted at Southampton franked 1d with red boxed "R.A.M.C / HOSPITAL SHIP" on the front. Also a postcard of the ship, and a card of H.M.H.S "St Denys" written from the "Copenhagen" at Southampton. Two very scarce cachets. (4). Photo on Page 24.
Lot 131
Goorkha. 1915-18 Stampless covers (6) and picture postcards (5, all depicting the ship), all posted on board, ten with cachets comprising "SIGNED BY / H.M.H.S "GOORKHA"" (3), "HOSPITAL SHIP "GOORKHA"" (2), "Hospital Ship "Goorkha"" (2), triangular "CENSORED / PURSER" (3) or facsimile signatures of officers in the I.S.M.D (4, two types), cancels include London, Southampton or A.P.Os at Boulogne, Alexandria or Salonica, also two cards of the ship. One cover addressed to the British Fever Hospital at Belgrade with arrival backstamps. An interesting lot, the ship serving in 1915 with the Indian army. (13).
Lot 1320
1940-43 Covers showing various routings, most sent part of the way by air mail, including 1943 (Apr 19) air letter to Canada from a member of the R.C.A.F with 5c + 20c cancelled "E.A ARMY POSTAL SERVICES / No. 1", this c.d.s recorded by Proud "used 1940-41 with philatelic use seen in 1943" but this 1943 use clearly genuine and commercial. (7).
Lot 139
Nevasa. 1916-17 Stampless covers (3) and picture postcards (3, two depicting the ship) all posted from the ship, two with Bombay datestamps (one also with "PAQUEBOT") and one from Base A.P.O Z at Alexandria all with violet oval "H.M HOSPITAL SHIP "NEVASA"" (two dated, one undated, one with scalloped inner oval, two with a plain inner oval); the other three with London Received From H.M Ship machine, red "ARMY LETTER FREE" of Southampton or Totland Bay c.d.s with manuscript ½d charge. Also five other postcards of the hospital ship. (11).
Lot 3224
Corgi, Solido, Corgi Aviation Archive and similar a boxed group of mainly 1/18 and 1/144 scale models including Military Aircraft to include Corgi AA47304 (Aviation Archive), Avro Lancaster (operation chastise) The Dam Busters Special Edition, Corgi AA48301 (Military Air Power Series) Avro Vulcan B2 XM607-RAF 44 Squadron - Operation "Black Book" (The Worlds Longest Bombing Mission), Solido 1/18th scale 8074 Jeep "Willys" (US Army 1942), Corgi 1/18th scale MGB Roadster (1963) along with 1 other. All contents do generally appear to be Good although not checked for completeness or correctness with 1 or 2 models appearing loose inside packaging therefore may have smaller delicate pieces, broken off or loose and are in generally Good pictorial boxes/window boxes although the window boxes do suffer from crushing and slight splitting etc. (5)
Lot 14
ZENITH GREAT BRITAIN ARMY G.S.MK I WWII, 40s - ZENITH GREAT BRITAIN ARMY G.S.MK I WWII, 40S Case: signed, n. 8287411, three-body in chromed metal, screwed caseback marked G.S.Mk I. Dial: signed, black, luminescent Arabic indexes, small seconds, skeletonized hands. Movement: signed, key-less winding caliber 19-34-3, n. 3286751, gilded, cut compensated bimetallic balance with screws, Breguet hairspring. Accessories: – Diameter Ø: 58 mm Note: to be repaired.
Lot 242
VERTEX BRITISH ARMY "DIRTY DOZEN", ANNI '40 - VERTEX BRITISH ARMY "DIRTY DOZEN", ANNI '40 Case: signed, n. 3515979, two-body in stainless steel, screwed caseback marked A3063 with Broad Arrow. Bracelet/Strap: – Dial: signed, black, Broad Arrow, Arabic numerals, small seconds, index hands. Movement: signed, manual-winding caliber 59, 15 jewels, nickel-plated, monometallic balance with screws, Breguet hairspring. Accessories: – Diameter Ø: 35,5 mm Note: working, but a service is recommended.
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