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[CHRISTIE JOHN REGINALD]: (1899-1953) English Serial killer of the 1940s & 1950s, his victims including at least eight females, amongst them his wife Ethel, whom he strangled at his flat at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London. Christie was arrested, convicted and hanged in 1953. An historically important Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, seven pages, folio, Pentonville Prison, 8th July 1953, being the holograph pencil notes made by Detective Chief Inspector George J. Woolcott while present at an interview with John Reginald Christie, conducted as part of an official Private Inquiry by John Scott Henderson QC into the conviction of Timothy Evans, a tenant at 10 Rillington Place. Woolcott heads his manuscript 'Interview between Mr. G. Blackburn and Prisoner, J. W. H. Christie, at Pentonville Prison between 6.30pm and 8pm on Wednesday, 8th July 1953' and notes that the Prison Governor and Chief Officer of the Prison were also present along with himself and [George] Blackburn (Assistant Chief Constable of West Riding, Head of C.I.D. 1939-48), and adds the following introduction, 'Mr. Blackburn opened the interview by telling Christie that he was enquiring into the Evans case and gave him clearly to understand that no matter what he might say in reply to any question, he, Mr. Blackburn, could offer Christie no hope whatever of any favour being shown to him in any way or suggest anything whatever to interfere with the course of justice.' Woolcott's manuscript continues Replies to Questions and what follows are comprehensive notes on the responses that Christie provided, in part, 'It was not easy for me to walk up and down stairs at the time of the Evans' murders…..Evans went on the bus with me; he went to Paddington.…..I went up to Evans' flat with Chief Inspector Jennings and Inspector Black. They will tell you the state I was in. We didn't know Mrs. Evans a great deal. My wife looked after their kiddie. We never went out with them. We were just amiable. We wanted to help them in any way we could. She was taking pills and things. I recall quite clearly giving her sound advice. As we knew her she was looking half like a skeleton. My wife knew what was wrong with her. She was too far gone (pregnant). It was a waste of time taking pills. When we chatted our persuasion was more emphatic than we wanted it to be. We made it sound as dangerous and as bad as we could to make her pack up taking the stuff. After Evans had the fight upstairs they were going to separate but the Probation Officer has a talk to them. My wife said that if there was any controversy about the baby she wanted to adopt it and she offered to adopt it legally. She was told that Evans' mother was going to take the baby. I had no ill feeling against Evans. I knew bits behind the scenes about him. I just didn't like to be seen with him. He wasn't my type. Once he brought home three gold wristlet watches and said he was selling them for a sailor friend. He asked me to buy one. Then he told me a café proprietor had offered him a bag of sugar to sell if the price was fair. I knew he was working for a baker and it was to come from the shop, but the proprietor was not a man who would sell sugar…..' continuing 'How he came to live at Rillington Place - We had rooms and were looking for a flat. We found this flat…..The Evans never interfered with us and we weren't inclined to make them our friends. They got wed because of their baby. He got some furniture and if we could help them we did. Some people in our street told me he had been hitting her. His mother caught him once hitting her in some mews and gave him a hiding for hitting her. Evans lived there about 18 months while we were there. We went there in 1937. Evans was not there when war broke out. Their first baby was a girl, Geraldine. She was 14 months old. I don't recollect anyone teaching it to walk. I don't think it was capable. It could only say the usual "dad, dad". I wouldn't know when a child should talk, we never had any children. I never heard it talk. Mrs Evans was not working all the time she was there, she gave up just after they came because of the baby. My wife told me after the baby was born that Mrs Evans wanted to go to work but she couldn't go out and look after the baby. My wife promised to look after the baby. She looked after it for over three weeks, then his mother, Mrs Probert, or his sister looked after it. She didn't get any payment. I think she had the idea that she would adopt it later. I don't know if Mrs Evans was working right to the end. They used to bring the baby down on their way out and call for it when they came in. We could here it downstairs when it was crying. They used to leave it upstairs if they hadn't gone out for long. They left their doors open and if it cried my wife went up with my torch and saw to it. I never fed it. I should be too scared to feed a baby. We went up to their flat once or twice. When they distempered the walls they asked us to go up and see it. They had only been there about a week then. There was no necessity to go up otherwise. I don't know if I went up after that, I'm not certain. I had no quarrels with Evans, he showed respect for me. He always called me "Mr". They should have been grateful to me. They had nothing against me. She told me he didn't know she was taking the pills etc. That was a few days after our talk to him and her. He told me that he didn't know that she was taking them. All these things you have talked about have been drummed into me time and time again, and not so kind as you are with it. My solicitors and legal advisers have been very severe with me. I can't say why I can't remember whether I killed Mrs Evans or not……can't remember what happened in 1949 but what's more surprising still I can remember my school days quite well. If I could remember I would tell you. Next Wednesday is not far away so what does it matter. When I am upset I always go off my food. I was off food for thirteen days at once last year. I feel certain I didn't see Inspector Black after the Evans case. He told me if I wanted anything I could write to him. I don't think I got the sack from the Post Office because of what was said in the Evans case. I was away ill, then I went back and something cropped up. Two of their investigating officers came and spoke to me and escorted me to the door. No one pointed the finger at me after the Evans' case, on the contrary, they were always willing to help. My wife and I were very happy until the blacks bought a house. When I was in the witness box Counsel suggested I knew more than I was saying. He suggested that I killed Mrs Evans and her baby, I still say, and I am not emphatic, that I did not kill the baby. The solicitors have been harder on me than you to try and jog my memory. They have been vigorous with me but no matter what anyone says I am sure I didn't kill the baby. I know you want to know the truth, so do I. I still stick to what I have said about my wife when she died. When Counsel suggested that I killed Mrs Evans and her baby the Judge pulled him up. No one does something wrong admits it at first. If it can be said without doubt that I am responsible for something I would accept it, if the opposite with medical evidence etc. I accept that. I was not down and out when the police found me. I have been in the police myself. They have to put the frills on. There is something else you don't know. There were three policemen at Putney, not one. Two were sure I was not Christie and said "Let him go", but nothing was said about that. I remember Chief Inspector Griffin at Notting Hill. I made a statement to him, but I can't remember and I didn't know that I had a medical exam when I first went to Brixton on remand. When I was at Putney and they asked questions I didn't know what they were saying. I asked them to tell me something. They said they had found three bodies in the kitchen. I said if that's the case I must have done it. There was very little in my statement apart from promptings. Police and solicitors said it would be a miracle if there were two stranglers in one house. It pointed it was me. No one has suggested to me that I killed Mrs Evans. There were two stranglers in the house because someone killed the baby I know I didn't do it. There is a similarity. Evans case was four and a half years ago, then there's the same now. My solicitor mentioned the similarity of the cases. They questioned me about all sorts of murders. They asked me if I was at Windsor. You remember the little girl that was strangled at Windsor but there, mine were all adults. I am not certain whether the story I told at my trial was true. I am certain there was phenol-barbitone with my wife. I am certain and stick to it regardless of the laboratory. My mind has worked over and over for months. They talked to me and I get a picture in my mind and I believe it has happened, then I develop another picture and I believe that. I volunteered to be hypnotized and accept the truth drug. Do you think I would do this if I wasn't telling the truth? I know the effects of gas poisoning, I got some when a 15 inch gas main was hit with a bomb in Harrow Road during the war. It doesn't take long for people to be overcome. I can't say why I was not overcome and Mrs Evans was. If I used the gas tube in the same way on those three, I wouldn't get gassed. I wouldn't discuss my case with other prisoners in Brixton. I talked to two people. One was Sir George Miller who got three years. We talked about photography. He was an amateur photographer, so was I, I was keen on it. Then there was that fellow, Haskain, he had fits. He told me why he left home and how the police told him not to worry. In my cell I start trying to think, then my mind wanders. I behave myself here, nothing worries me. I will try and think again and see if I can help myself and you by the time I see you tomorrow but it stands very clearly in my mind that I did not kill the baby. Thank you for being so kind to me.' Together with a folder containing various related letters and documents including a T.L.S. by George Blackburn, one page, 4to, Wakefield, 16th July 1953, to Woolcott, on the printed stationery of the County Chief Constable's office, West Riding Constabulary, thanking him for his assistance in the inquiry and referring to favourable letters of appreciation from Scott Henderson and the Home Secretary, David Maxwell Fife; a briefer set of pencil notes from the interview, in the hand of Woolcott, three pages, folio; a contemporary copy of the final typescript of the interview, presented to a second inquiry in 1965, along with a contemporary copy of Woolcott's signed statement given to the later inquiry, one page, folio, 29th November 1965, in part, 'I recall accompanying Mr. Blackburn when he interviewed Christie at Pentonville Prison. I refer to my handwritten note of the interview….I recall that I wrote out the head note before Mr. Blackburn commenced his questions. The replies are I am certain the actual replies made by Christie….Christie's attitude was that he was emphatic that he did not kill Geraldine Evans and the last sentence in the notes was in fact made by Christie after the interview had concluded and was not in answer to any question. I have no recollection of Mr. Blackburn commenting at the interview upon whether there was any evidence that Christie had killed the child. In fact I am certain that evidence available was never at any time mentioned either in the case of Mrs. Evans or the child….', a small number of T.Ls.S. from the office of The Treasury Solicitor regarding the Inquiry by Mr. Justice Brabin into the deaths of Beryl and Geraldine Evans, all to Woolcott, referring to his statement and asking him to appear before Brabin on 20th December 1965 at the Royal Courts of Justice, and in another letter returning Woolcott's original pencil notes. Also included are photocopies of the pages of Woolcott's personal scrapbook containing newspaper articles relating to the various cases he was involved in during his career from August 1929 - January 1958, covering his role in the 1953 Inquiry. G to VG, Sml Qty. A FASCINATING AND IMPORTANT MANUSCRIPT MOST LIKELY THE LAST PRIMARY EVIDENCE PROVIDED IN RELATION TO THE EVANS MURDERS BY CHRISTIE BEFORE HE WAS HANGED ON 15TH JULY 1953 Timothy John Evans (1924-1950) Welshman accused of murdering his wife and daughter at their residence at 10 Rillington Place, London in November 1949. In January 1950 Evans was tried and convicted of the murder of his daughter, and he was sentenced to death by hanging. During his trial, Evans had accused his neighbour John Reginald Christie of being responsible for the murders. Three years after Evans's trial, Christie was found to be a serial killer who had murdered a number of women at his property, including his wife, and this cast serious doubt on the safety of Evans's conviction. Because Christie's crimes raised doubts about Evans's guilt in the murders of his wife and daughter, the serving Home Secretary, David Maxwell Fyfe commissioned an inquiry to investigate the possibility of a miscarriage of justice. It was chaired by John Scott Henderson QC. The inquiry ran for one week and its findings upheld Evans's guilt in both murders with the explanation that Christie's confessions of murdering Beryl Evans were unreliable because they were made in the context of furthering his own defence that he was insane. The conclusion was met with scepticism by the press and the public alike: if Christie's confessions were unreliable, why should those of Evans be acceptable? The enquiry ignored vital evidence, and was biased to the prosecution case. The result of a prolonged campaign was that the Home Secretary, Frank Soskice, ordered a new inquiry chaired by High Court judge Sir Daniel Brabin in 1965-66. Brabin found it was "more probable than not" that Evans murdered his wife and that he did not murder his daughter. This was contrary to the prosecution case in Evans's trial, which held that both murders had been committed by the same person as a single transaction. The victims' bodies had been found together in the same location and had been murdered in the same way by strangulation. Despite his perverse conclusion, the Brabin enquiry exposed police malpractice during the Evans case, such as destruction of evidence. Since Evans had only been convicted of the murder of his daughter, Roy Jenkins, Soskice's successor as Home Secretary, recommended a Royal pardon for Evans, which was granted in October 1966. The case generated much controversy and is acknowledged as a major miscarriage of justice. It played a large part in the abolition of Capital Punishment in the United Kingdom.

World War Two group of five awarded to 1750283 SGT. John Ashton R.A.F. to include Distinguished Flying Medal (1750283 SGT. J.N.S. ASHTON. R.A.F.); Air Crew Europe Star (replacement by Spink & Son, Ltd); 1939-45 Star; Defence Medal and War Medal 1939-45, together with original box of issue, a pair of German naval binoculars and a model Halifax B11 made by his ground crew using parts of the aircraft before it was scrapped due to the damage sustained. John died in September 1944 with all his crew mates whilst mine laying off the Dutch coast. 1750283 Sergeant John Norman Stephen ASHTON, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, No. 419 (R.C.A.F.) Squadron. This airman was flight engineer of an aircraft detailed to attack Munchen-Gladbach on August 30th, 1943. Soon after leaving the target the bomber was hit by fire from an enemy fighter. Some batteries were set alight, the flames sweeping back along the -fuselage. Displaying great promptitude, Sergeant Ashton sprayed the flames around the batteries with an extinguisher until they subsided. Having secured another extinguisher be went to mid position and raised the bomb bay inspection panels to investigate further. Flames immediately blazed up into his face. With his gloved hands he held and rotated the extinguisher in an opening in the floor so that the wind in the slip stream sprayed the fluid around the bomb bay and thus the flames were put out. By his promptitude and resource this gallant airman contributed materially to the safe return of the aircraft.

Judaica – Palestine in the 1930s – a fine photo album compiled by a member of the British Palestine Police force with considerable number of snapshots, including the body of Superintendent Berger who was murdered by terrorists, his funeral in 1937, shots of patrols, armoured vehicles, flying boats on the Sea of Galilee, searches for Arab terrorists, devastation by same, scenes of killings and bomb attacks, as well as tourist sites etc. The album also incorporates a reward notice issued by the Palestine Police for the capture of the murders of a civilian and a police constable who were killed in Nazareth in 1937. A particularly good album.

WWII correspondence ‘... Montgomery is regarded by the men who came through the fighting in Italy as a butcher...’ a remarkable series of more than 70 autograph letters sent by a British soldier, Kenneth Hipkin of 13th Corps Troops Workshop REME to his wife Susan just after the end of WWII making his own observations on the war and the personalities involved. It is remarkable that most of these letters were not destroyed or heavily obliterated by the censor, such were the forthright views expressed in them. In one letter he remarks about the fate of the 243 British paratroopers imprisoned for mutiny in Kuala Lumpur in what was known as the ‘Kluang Incident’: ‘...what a vile and terrible crime has been committed against these men, men who risked their lives for their country. It is high time England had a purge and got rid of all the Nazi elements...the MPs of the British Army make the German Gestapo look like a bunch of Boy Scouts...’ On the effects of the atomic bomb, he writes: ‘...they were the most ghastly sights I have ever seen and it is a grave thing when one realises that a supposedly civilised country, America, used this most hideous form of warfare not on military objectives not on troops but without warning on defenceless people. His views on Montgomery are also revealing: ‘...Montgomery is regarded by the men who came through the fighting in Italy as being a butcher. They say he used to completely disregard the loss of life a battle might cost... that ‘idiot’ Montgomery known as the Butcher says we still need large forces of infantry even though the atom bomb has come...’, ‘...we may as well be under German rule, it couldn’t be much worse than this. ‘[Churchill] is nothing but a wicked old war monger and will never be happy till he sees Britain fighting Russia. Like all Tories he is afraid of Communism spreading and thinks he and his type would loose their power and their money and to prevent that happening would be prepared to start a war that may cost thousands of men’s lives...’ Hipkin is clearly from the far left in his political thinking, but these letters provide a valuable insight into the thinking of the ordinary soldier in the wake of the end of WWII and the dawn of the Cold War. Not everyone though of Churchill and Montgomery as heroes.

A selection of stereoscope slides depicting early bomb damage, social history, milking etc, Cairo, Glastonbury Abbey etc (approx 100 slides).

WW2 USAAF OfficerÕs Writing Case and Contents brown leather fold out writing case. The front with USAAF printed badge. Internal compartments containing calendar, address book and memo book. Various letters addressed to Frank Kremler, together with medical cards. Good complete set. Lt Frank Kremler Navigator 8 AF USAAF 4th Combat Wing 487 Bomb Group flying B17 out of Bury St Edmunds. His aircraft was shot down by fighters 10 April 45, Most of the crew bailed out but two were killed.

WW2 Dated No 69 Grenade and German Incendiary Bomb consisting black composite body with removable base plug. The base marked ÒNo 69Ó ÒD.L.R. -40Ó. Black composite screw off cap with inner lead weighted webbing pin pull. Top fuse housing absent ... WW2 German incendiary bomb. Tubular body with removable nose cap. Sheet steel tail fin. Various stamps. Some rusting. 2 items.

Scarce WW2 American A2 Bomber Crew ÒFlying DutchmanÓ Jacket brown chrome leather short jacket. Lower pockets with press stud fastened flaps. Brown elasticated waistband and cuffs. Velvet and embroidery eagle in flight chest badge. The rear panel with painted ÒFlying DutchmanÓ and 75 bombs, a Dutch clog with Ò2Ó in the centre. Brown lining with issue label ÒType A2Ó. Some wear to collar lining and edges. Leather remains supple. Flying Dutchman 7th Squadron 34th Bomb Group 8th Air Force Mendlesham Suffolk April 44 - May 45. 83 combat missions, 4 aborts. Together with modern paperwork listing the mission dates

GARDEN ORNAMENT, in the form of a 1970's bomb tail, 102cm H.

GARDEN ORNAMENT, in the form of a 2000 lb bomb, 141cm H.

1970`s Dinky Toys: 112 Purdey`s TR7, 207 Triumph TR7 Rally, 604 Land Rover Bomb Disposal Unit, 221 Corvette Stingray, 123 Princess 2200HL Saloon, 244 Plymouth Police Car, 384 Convoy Truck and 211 Triumph TR7 Sports Car, all in original window boxes, E, boxes G-VG (8)

Lead Soldiers and Games, including Britains Egyptian Camel Corps Riders from set 48 (6), Hill type gilt figures (5), Uniti Toy Series French Bomb Thrower, The Great Race Game Steeplechase, Chad Valley Atlantic Records, Bread and Honey Card Game, Parcheesi, Pocket Solitaire and other items, P-G figures with damages, games incomplete, boxes F (a lot)

British Empire Medal (Civil) in box of issue named to James "Jimmy" Robert Smith, with original paperwork including a Post Office Stores letter dated 7/3/1941 to Mr Smith of Finsbury Park `It has been reported to me that about 1am on 12th Sept 1940 during an enemy air raid you assisted to remove methylated spirit from the vicinity of an unexploded bomb which had fallen just outside Studd Street Depot. Also that on the night of 17/18 Oct 1940 you assisted in extinguishing a fire caused by an incendiary bomb on the 4th floor of Studd Street Depot thus aiding in preventing what might have been serious damage`. Smith was also latter involved in fire prevention at Goswell Road Depot on 10/11th May 1941 when a high explosive bomb landed. Lot also includes Buckingham Palace letter 15th July 1947, a personal letter from Sir Raymond Birchall re award of the BEM. (1)

DCM & 1914-15 trio 10494 Pte W.Kilkenny Scots Gds DCM LG 6-9-1915 "For gallant conduct on the 26-7-1915 near Cambrin. He was coming out of his dugout to relieve a man on sentry duty when a bomb fell at the entrance. Pte Kilkenny immediately threw it over the parapet, where it at once exploded. His prompt action undoubtedly saved the life of the sentry and probably also those men inside the dugout" with copy papers DCM pages etc mounted as worn, GVF

TWO DINKY TOYS ALMOST MINT AND BOXED "BATTLE OF BRITAIN" AIRCRAFT, viz No 719 Spitfire MKII with motor driven propellor No 721 Junkers Ju 87B Stuka with cap firing bomb, complete with leaflets, boxes fair and a BOXED DINKY TOYS No 718 HAWKER HURRICANE MKIIc fair, on card base with leaflet and under vacu-form cover, fair (3)

A Deactivated No.5 Mk.1 Mills Bomb (Hand Grenade), painted black, purple and blue; a Deactivated German Stick Grenade, the green canister marked ``VOR GEBRAUCH SPRENGKAPSEL EINSETZEN Sk. Do 11. 12.``; a Steel Powder Flask, the brass charger stamped Sykes Patent; a British Pattern 1907 Mk1 ``SMLE`` Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Bayonet, by Wilkinson, lacks scabbard; a Russian First Model AKM/SVE Wirecutter Knife Bayonet, the blued steel scabbard with rubber insulation piece and leather belt loop (5)

A small printed white on black H Bomb pennant, inscribed “Christmas Island. H-Bomb Tests. 1957-58” with eagle holding an anchor, 16½” x 6½” (max). GC (minor wear)

WALLIS BARNES: (1887-1979) English Scientist & Inventor of the bouncing bomb used in Operation Chastise (The Dambusters Raid), 16th May 1943. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, one page, folio, n.p., n.d. Wallis has made various observations with regard to experiments of Guided SP Projectiles, of both Wingless and Winged types, drawing up a chart in which he comments on the Strongly marked Characteristics of both projectile in relation to Acceleration (both along the axis and with a normal axis), Velocity, Range (the wingless 'short' and the winged 'good over all ranges') and Height (the wingless 'anything' and the winged 'Restricted by speed'). An interesting and unusual original manuscript, penned in bold blue fountain pen in Wallis' distinctive hand. To the verso is an A.L.S. by his wife, Mary, one page, folio, Effingham, Surrey, 9th March 1977, to a friend, in part, 'Excuse my paper…I am very conversation minded & I hate wasting my husband's “backs”…..The cake was much enjoyed by Barnes….As to the tea - It is heavenly….I expect to see you both at 12.30 off the 12.2 from Waterloo….I have a small present for you. Arthur Whitmarsh & his wife came on Thursday, asking for Barnes's autograph….We had never met him & knew nothing of him till he rang up to ask if he could come….We liked him very much.' VG

A disarmed original Mills bomb grenade in unused condition together with a brass rocket shaped ornament

A chrome plated WWII incendiary bomb, with presentation inscription The 126 81 MM PAT 10/66, 47 cm long

Peake (Mervyn). Shapes & Sounds, 1st ed., 1941, original cloth-backed boards, d.j., one or two nicks and closed tears, 8vo, together with Witchcraft in England, by Christina Hole, 1st ed., 1945, illustrations by Mervyn Peake, a few spots, previous owner signature, original cloth, d.j., a few chips and tears, 8vo, plus Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson, 1949, illustrations by Peake, original blue cloth, d.j., 8vo, with others by Peake including an uncorrected proof copy of Titus Alone, 1959 and The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb, 1962, plus a typed letter signed from Walter de la Mare (10 November 1936), to Miss Price, `... On Sunday Mervyn Peake came to tea with us to do a drawing, and another visitor was Dr. Capek ...`, 1 page, 8vo. (22)

Greene (Graham). Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party, 1st UK ed., Bodley Head, 1980, together with 1st US ed., Simon & Schuster, 1980, both orig. boards in d.j., together with The Letters of Mercurius, 1st ed., John Murray, 1970, t.e.g., orig. linen-backed boards (limited edition 29/40, signed ‘Mercurius Oxoniensis’), 8vo, plus Betjeman (John), Church Poems, 1st ed., 1980, b & w illusts. by John Piper, orig. cloth in d.j., with other modern literature and fiction, biographies, etc., mostly VG (3 shelves & a carton)

*DS Paule Vezelay (1893-1984) Bomb damage at Bristol Coloured chalk over charcoal Signed and dated 1942 lower left 59 x 74cm (23 1/4 x 29in)

*DS Paule Vezelay (1892-1994) Wartime sketchbook, several of bomb damaged sites, including a study of a bomb shelter 9 pages of pen, ink and pencil studies and text descriptions all with detailed annotations One drawing dated July 1942, bound in grey cloth covers, oblong 8vo.

India Bombay Presidency 1 Pice 1741 cast tin issue KM156.1 GR above large crown obverse above BOMB, reverse AUSPICIO REGIS ET SENATUS ANGLIAE 1741 probably Fine for issue with all legends and design discernible, 14.18 grams

Two 18th century carved pine architectural roundels carved with quatrefoil foliate decoration, 12in. (30.5cm.) diameter. (2) * These roundels are believed to have been salvaged from the bomb damaged ruins of the Inns of Court, London during WW2.

Group of Three: British War Medal (2 Lieut W.L. Andrews R.A.F.), Mercantile Marine (Walter L. Andrews), Victory (as BWM). VF, mounted as worn, together with a Royal Naval Air Service Pilot’s Flying Log Book named to W.L. Andrews RFC and commencing March 19th 1918 and ending Jan 3rd 1919; a “Protection Certificate (Officer) released with effect from 25 May 1919 Crystal Palace; and “Authority to Wear War Medals for the Mercantile Marine” , and notice from Metropolitan Police New Scotland Yard stating “…your claim for the Defence medal has been approved”. The log book with wear commensurate with age. See Plate.32. Note: Walter Leonard Andrews started his career at Roehampton with the K.B.S. before serving at Cranwell and Luce Bay Stranraer. His log book records mostly instructional flights but includes an entry from 3.11.1918 showing “South West Patrol. Bomb dropped on oil in 68E. Drifter Flower dropped 8 depth charges” above which is written “Certified as enemy submarine and destroyed”. A copy of his service record included.

2 x 25pr brass shell cases, a 3.45” brass shell case, 2 other large brass shell cases, 5 excavated 3.45” anti aircraft shells, an excavated 3” mortar bomb, a finned projectile from a 90mm recoil less gun, and a steel box for a .303” Vickers ammunition belt. Poor to GC

"Tri-ang Hornby Battle Space - R216K tactical rocket launcher; H314K anti-aircraft search light wagon; R568 assault tank transporter; R239K bomb transporter; and R343K multiple missile launcher, all boxed"

*Vickers-Armstrongs Limited. A WW1 `Vickers-Armstrongs Limited` manual for their Automatic Machine Guns, nine finely illustrated plates, detailing the Vickers Automatic R.C. Gun, Class E. Pilots Gun, Class F. Observer`s Gun, Vickers Scarff Wind Balanced Aircraft Gun Mounting No7 Class F Gun, Twin Class F. Guns, Vickers .5 Inch Automatic Gun Air-Cooled, Sights for Aeroplane Guns, `C.C.` Patented Gun Firing Gear `C`. Type Set for Single Gun, Vickers Automatic R.C. Gun Ammunition, Vickers .5 Inch Automatic Gun Ammunition with accompanying pages with printed technical details and a series of notes from the Aviation Department on Bomb Carrier Light Series, Mk.1., various hand annotations throughout, bound with soft morocco boards (1)

*World War II. An interesting and miscellaneous collection of official R.A.F., private and other photographs of aircraft and personnel, air to ship strikes, bomb damage, pilots with ground crew, senior officer portraits, captured German aircraft on display in Moscow in 1943, glider landings at Arnhem and in Normandy, good aircraft portraits and others of similar interest, approx. 100 images contained in a folder (approx. 100)

*RAF Canberra. Bomb-Aimers Perspex window, c. 1950s, of ventilated double-glazed curved section to prevent misting, 10 x 14in (26 x 30cm) (1)

*WWII Luftwaffe Bomb. An historically recorded unexploded war-salvaged souvenir, c. 1939-45, defused after being unearthed during construction of the Horsham Sports & Leisure Complex in 1986, mounted upon a wooden display plinth with inscribed plaque recording the event, inscribed `Disarmed by Captain Vince Jones RE Army Bomb Disposal Unit 33 Engineer Regiment - Presented to David Jordan MD of Lesser Design & Build Ltd and dated 19th Nov 1986` responsible for the construction, where several similar bombs were discovered on site (1)

*WWII Luftwaffe. Butterfly-Bomb, c. 1939-45, an original de-activated de-fused device, complete with bi-wing `propeller` and hinged outer casing, shows rusting and age-wear (1)

*WWII RAF - Spitfire. An original aircraft instrument-board time-piece, type 6A/2197, AM 106A 332, No.6059/41 Mk4, 8-day black faced with luminous dial and hands (mechanism defective); together with a bomb-aimer/navigators 8-day stop-clock `Triumph` model by Ingersoll, London (mechanism defective) in bakelite & copper clip-mount (2)

*WWII or later. A large bomb-shaped tail-cone assembly, of heavy cast alloy, four aerofoil fins with sprung-loaded construction and riveted tapered panels, in black and white painted matt finish (1)

*WWII or later. A large bomb-shaped tail-cone assembly, of heavy cast alloy, four aerofoil fins with sprung-loaded construction and riveted tapered panels, in dark-green painted matt finish inscribed and numbered DA 6278, WE-E 59051/1 Issue A, and stencilled no. 301 to base (1)

*Anonymous. Boeing B-17, BN-U No. 25177 `Fast Woman`. A fine three-view watercolour and gouache, heightened with white, together with Boeing B-29 `The Big Stick` of the 73rd Bomb Wing, 500th Bomb Group in similar medium, both approximately 16 x 21.5in (40.6 x 54.6cm) (2)

*1914-15 Star (12851 Pte C.S. Cary. R. Innis. Fus.), fine, Victory Medal (5) (7575 Sjt. M. Hanraham. R.Ir.Regt. / 5770 Pte. W. Havens. R.Ir. Regt. / 7221 Sjt. H. Williams. R.Ir.Rif. / Lieut. R.E. Coxon. / 10334 A.Sjt. M. Cullen. R.Ir.Regt.), very fine and better 57701 Private William Havens served during the Great War with 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment from 11.9.1914, on 18.10.1914 the Germans counterattacked, the Royal Irish had pushed through to LePilly but the battalion had found themselves cut off and surrounded, 30 men escaped but the majority of the battalion were taken prisoner of war including Havens, Lieutenant R. Coxon served during the Great War with the Irish Guards, and was a Bombing Officer at Loos, up until late 1915 the British had no visible hand grenades until the Battle of Loos, prior to this they used the `jam tin` bomb (2 gun cotton primers in an empty jam tin, lit by a 5 second fuse). (6)

A Wilkinson China bomb shape biscuit barrel with plated mounts transfer decorated in a floral pattern.

A 19th century French Comtoise long case clock with white enamel dial over a bomb formed trunk

A Caithness planet paperweight, a Caithness fizz bomb small glass paperweight, an abstract paperweight and a studio glass vase with an impressed dolphin pontil mark to base.

FOUR DINKY TOYS MILITARY AIRCRAFT viz Junkers HU 87B (Stuka), dive bomber with bomb, model 721, Harrier GR MK1, model 722, Spitfire MKII model, 719 (lacks roundels) and Hawker Hunter, model 736 TOGETHER WITH ELEVEN DINKY TOYS PLAYWORN VEHICLES VARIOUS to include Ford Transit Van Police Accident Unit-cream and orange with two signs, model 287 (15) EST 25-35

GREENE, Graham, In Search of A Character Two African Journals, The Bodley Head, 1961. 1st thus. in d/w. Tog.with A Sense of Reality, The Bodley Head, 1963. 1st edn. in d/w. Plus Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party, Bodley Head, 1980. 1st edn. in d/w. 3

Three Arcadian crested porcelain wares of WWI interest - Tank, battle ship and bullet to/w a model of a grenade (Mills Bomb) (4)

Album containing a collection of postcards collected in the 1950's showing 'before and after' bomb damage to Hitler's bunker and Reichstags together with a quantity of various other photographs and later coloured postcards

Geoffrey Woolsey Birks (1929-1993), After the bomb dropped, signed pencil and watercolour on paper, 29cm by 20cm

A group of fourteen FROG black and red series boxed kits, models include a Blackburn Shark, The Spirit of St Louis, a Spitfire Mark VIII, a Typhoon, a Hunter, a Corsair, a Mosquito, a Gypsy Moth, a Macchi, a second Gypsy Moth, a Spitfire and flying bomb, a Fairy Gannet, a Bleriot mark XI, and a Gloster Whittle (14)

A group of fifteen FROG boxed model aircraft to include a Buccaneer, a McDonald Voodoo, a Conveyor Delta, two Bristol 138, a Baltimore, a Fairy Delta II, a Corsair mk IV, a Jaguar, a Dornier 335, a Vickers Vimy, a Mk21 Beaufighter, a Super Sabre, Gypsy Moth, Spitfire and Flying Bomb, and a bagged Heinkel Salamander (15)

Colour Print Williams S. Philips with 5 signatures "Among the Columns" B-24s from the 409th Bomb Group fly in formation over Germany with P-51s from the 361st Fighter Squadron, 356th Fighter group fly over, signed Donald J. Straight, Commander 361st Fighter Squadron; Clinton DeWitt Burdick, Pilot 361st Fight Squadron, K.O. Dessert; Commander 409th Bomb Squadron; Edwin C. Baker, Pilot, 409th Bomb Squadron and artist, framed, print area 55h x 670, frame size 765 x 990

Colour Print Robert Taylor "Green On, Go!" Limited edition 22/50. Signed by the artist and aircraft engineer/bouncing bomb scientist Norman Boorer. Lancasters of 617 Squadron get the green light for departure on May 16th 1943 for the famous Dam Buster raid. Print size 540 x 320 overall paper size 685 x 490. Unframed

Colour Print William S. Phillips "The Beginning of the End" The B29 Enola Gay returns from her August 6th 1945 mission and sets course for Tinian Island in Marianas. This highly collectable print has the signatures of Paul Tibbets, Command Pilot; T.W.Ferebee, Bombadier; Theodore J.Van Kirk, Navigator; Morris R.Jeppson, Bomb Electronics Officer; Richard H.Nelson, Radio Operator; and the artist. Print area 400h x 595. Overall size 585 x 685. Unframed.

A Skeletonised ``Mills Bomb`` Hand Grenade, on a circular screw-in base stamped O.M.Co. 12/17, af; a Proximity Fuse; five Brass Shell Cases (7)

A Great War Group of Five to Gunner T. Haynes, Royal Field Artillery, Queen’s South Africa Medal, two clasps Cape Colony, Orange Free State (24789 Gnr. T. Haynes. 68th Bty. R.F.A.), King’s South Africa Medal, two clasps South Africa 1901 - 1902 (24789 Bomb T. Haynes. R.F.A.), 1914 Star (24789 Gnr. T. Haynes. R.F.A.), British War and Victory Medal (24789 Bmbr. T. Haynes. R.A.).View on dnfa.com

A cutaway 2. 5inch mortar bomb, the fin embossed No. 68. AT. III G. T. L 41, the body painted sand colour with a red ring.

AN INTERESTING WWII US AND JAPANESE MILITARY EQUIPMENT GROUPING. Including a new old stock Sherrill Tank Compass, model AEG-1 in original box with instructions and accompanying hardware, a Crosley remote control unit RM-29A signal phone and field phones; also a US Navy drop raft inflation cannister, a 1942 dated Naval Mae West life preserver. Together with a Japanese Ordinance (gravity bomb model) with capture papers dated June 26, 1945; and a Japanese military optical sight.

NIKOLAI KIRILLOVICH LITVINOV (Russian b. 1930)Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima-1995Oil on Masonite, unframedApparently unsigned8.8 inches x 13.9 inchesThe Seller (Unicover Corporation) reserves all rights under United States and international copyright laws. Sale of the original Artwork does not include or convey the Copyright or any right comprised in the copyright. The Buyer may not reproduce, distribute, transmit, or otherwise exploit the Artwork in any way.

German WW2 butterfly bomb in excavated condition

A sighting telescope No. 5 Mk II by Pyex Co, Cambridge, dated 1917, together with a tripod by Siemens Bros & Co Ltd, 1916, a Verner`s pattern Mk VII prismatic compass, in its leather case, dated 1915, a further compass, marked `Dennison 1917`, a cast iron model cannon, trench art, a French 75mm shell case, a bomb fragment, etc.

A Unity Toy Series tinplate trench bomb thrower, boxed (playwear, box creased, torn and scuffed, lid missing end tab).