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Two George V silver bomb pattern table cigar lighters, probably by Grant & Son and H. Matthews, Birmingham 1929, engraved different inscriptions; and another George VI bomb pattern table cigar lighter, London 1942, with inscription, 3 1/4in. (9cms). (3)

Three George V silver bomb pattern table cigar lighters, by A. & J. Zimmerman Ltd., Birmingham 1913, of globular form with flame finials, applied Royal Artillery crest and with inscription "Presented to Major J.H. Nicholson and Officers T.R.G.A. By Capt. S.M. Todd, June 1914", 3 1/4in. (8.5cms).

2ND WORLD WAR BOMB SIGN

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast (65969 Bomb: H. Newrick, R.H.A.) good very fine £140-160

Six: Flight Lieutenant J. C. Muirhead, Royal Air Force and Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed; Air Efficiency Award, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Flt. Lt., R.A.F.V.R.); France, Croix de Guerre 1939, mounted as worn, good very fine (6) £600-800 Campbell Muirhead was born in South Africa and was educated at Portobello Secondary School and George Herriot’s in Edinburgh. He joined the Royal Air Force soon after the outbreak of war, first serving as a ground gunner. Training to become a pilot, he failed the course in Arizona but determined to become aircrew, he then trained as a bomb aimer in Canada. As a Flying Officer he was posted to No. 12 Squadron, at Wickenby, Lincolnshire, in May 1944. During his training and then during his active service in Lancasters with 12 Squadron he recorded the events, day-by-day, in a diary which he was later to publish. He completed a tour of duty comprising 30 combat operations. For his wartime services he was awarded the French Croix de Guerre. In his book, he records (post 20 August 1944): ‘Opened this diary again to record award of French Croix de Guerre with Silver Star. This to me because, as I learned, 12 Squadron had extinguished its allocation of DFCs. Ah well, at least I got a kiss with mine. From a French General.’ With two books written by the recipient: Diary of a Bomb Aimer, Training in America and Flying with 12 Squadron in WWII, by Campbell Muirhead, edited and annotated by Philp Swan, this covering the period 2- February 1942-20 August 1944; together with The Diary of a Bomb Aimer, by Campbell Muirhead - and signed by the author, ‘For Keith, my younger son. Campbell Muirhead, 1st January 1987, Swinton, Duns, Berwickshire’, this covering the period 9 May 1944-20 August 1944; both with dustjackets. With a portrait photograph of the recipient in uniform. Also with photocopied relating to his service career.

A well-documented and important Second World War C.B.E., Great War Royal Naval Division Antwerp 1914 operations D.S.C. group of ten awarded to Air Commodore C. O. F. Modin, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Royal Marines and Royal Flying Corps, who was decorated for being among a handful of men to evade internment in Holland, witnessed further action with the R.N.D. in Gallipoli and the Dardanelles, and afterwards qualified as a pilot in the R.F.C.: an Air Commodore in Singapore by 1941, he was taken P.O.W. after an A.S.R. Launch was sunk by enemy aircraft - and his subsequent experiences as a prisoner, including witness statements of war crimes, are fully described in the extensive report he delivered on his liberation The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 2nd type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, in its Garrard & Co. case of issue; Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1914; 1914 Star, with slide-on clasp (Sub. Lieut. C. O. F. Modin, R.N.V.R., Benbow Bttn. R.N.D.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt. C. O. F. Modin, R.M.); 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, the Great War awards a little polished, otherwise generally very fine or better (10) £6000-8000 C.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1941. D.S.C. London Gazette 1 January 1915. Charles Oscar Frithriof Modin was born in January 1889 and educated at Sevenoaks Grammar School and in France. A pre-war member of the London Division, R.N.V.R., who qualified as a Swedish interpreter in 1909, he was mobilised as a Sub. Lieutenant in August 1914 and, shortly afterwards, embarked for Dunkirk, and thence by rail to Fort No. 4 near Antwerp, with Benbow Battalion, Royal Naval Division. And it was in this capacity that he won his D.S.C., for withdrawing with a party of his men along the Dutch frontier and avoiding internment. An old typescript account of his journey to freedom, written by a fellow officer, is included, and from which the following extracts have been taken: ‘I shall never forget my nights at Fort 4. We didn’t know then what power was in front of us. But we did get our first knowledge of modern artillery as the German shells whizzed into us and over us. Mostly over us in Antwerp. What a sight behind us! There appeared to be a vast mileage of flames ... It was a bad night, especially when we found, at about 2 in the morning, that we had been left behind. The Division had retired, in accordance with plans, and the order hadn’t reached ‘B’ Company in Fort 4. Well, well - it was a bit of a blow, but somebody always fits into these starts. In this case it was M. [Modin]. What a small hero he was! And how some of us tried to fit in with him. That assembly in the dark. “Get’em together boys, we’ve got to get out of this somehow.” No maps, no knowledge. What a war! However, we did manage to pack ourselves together, and marched out in decent order from Fort 4. We left behind one Belgian officer of artillery (I salute that officer), who was the sole occupant. All his men had left him. And so back to Antwerp, a blaze of fire now in front of us. It was a dreadful march, with shells falling round us and whizzing over us all the time ... And so on, on. We fell in with a wretched little Belgian cyclist (we thought he was a spy) and collared him good and hearty. Anyhow, he didn’t want to guide us at all, but S. and I, with bayonets very near his left and right kidney, showed him a far better way. And so on to Antwerp ... The city was deserted. The oil tanks at Hoboken a mass of flames. The only bridge over the Sheldt (a pontoon one) sunk by Belgian gunfire. So there again, we were stuck again. Or were we? Good heavens, no! Why M., who didn’t know two words of French, got busy again and lo and behold, “Penny Steamers” and tugs appeared to take us to Fort St. Marie. It was here that I got my first wound in the War, a bit of shell that sliced my shin ... And so to Fort Marie we went, where the authorities were opening the sluices to flood the country. We disembarked, and then had to march, or walk, by which we arrived on the Belgo-Dutch frontier, where a lot of our troops were going into Holland, under orders, for internment. That was dreadful to see our fellows handing over their rifles, ammunition and equipment and so not to be lost for who knows how long? It wasn’t at all a nice idea after what we had struggled through, and didn’t appeal to M. or S., or myself at all, so we cheerfully revolted. This was rather disastrous, temporarily, because M. was promptly put under arrest for refusing to be interned ... A contretemps, this, which was soon overcome by M. and escort, silently and stealthily deserting the Dutch frontier, with about 25 other stouthearts, for pastures new. And so we met at the back of the village, in a Belgian soldiers’ billet, and eat and drank horse soup with those good lads. What a meal! It was the first, excepting raw sugar-beet, we had eaten for about four days ... But we had no maps and the idea was to get to a port - we had a very big palaver. We must keep together (this 30). We must keep near the Dutch frontier (We would not go over the Dutch frontier). And so on pave roads littered with refugees, Belgian soldiers, and every kind of “odd and end” you can imagine, we got through St. Gillaes, Waesse, Stekene, Moerbeke, a host of small villages, and then to Salzaete, where we got a train to Ostend. I believe it was the last train through, but I’ve never had this confirmed. And thus the small 30 arrived at Ostend to be welcomed by all the Staff there, and fed ... ‘ Having received his resultant D.S.C. at a Buckingham Palace investiture on 13 January 1915, Modin transferred to the Royal Marines and witnessed further active service with the R.N.D. in Gallipoli and the Dardanelles, but in 1916 he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, qualifying for his Aviator’s Certificate in January 1917. Ending the War as a Captain in the Royal Air Force, he was posted to Felixstowe in 1920, at which station he was lucky to survive a flying accident that April, Seaplane No. 4044 crashing nose first into the sea about a mile from the beach - four members of crew were killed, including the well-known aviator Squadron Leader E. R. Moon, but Modin and a fellow officer survived with minor injuries. Advanced to Flight Lieutenant in November 1923, he went on to serve in aircraft carriers on attachment to the Fleet Air Arm. Steady promotion followed, too, and he was appointed a Group Captain in 1935, his early wartime appointments including service as Station C.O. of R.A.F. Feltwell, Norfolk, scene of at least two royal visits during his period of command, one by H.M. the King and another by H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester. Further appointments in Egypt, Malta and Iraq having followed, he was appointed C.B.E. and advanced to Air Commodore in March 1941, shortly before his arrival at H.Q. Singapore as Air Officer Administration. And it was here, after attempting to escape the Japanese in an R.A.F. launch, that he was taken P.O.W. on 15 February 1942, an incident neatly summarised by Christopher Shores and Brian Cull in Bloody Shambles (Volume II - the Defence of Sumatra to the Fall of Burma): During the afternoon of the 15th, one of the Air-Sea-Rescue launches (H.S.L. 105) which had departed Singapore with A.H.Q. Staff on board, including Air Commodore C. O. F. Modin, Group Captain E. B. Rice (former A.O.C. 224 Group), Wing Commander R. A. Chignell (former O.C. Kallang) and Squadron Leaders Wilf Clouston and Frank Howell, former commanders of 488 and 243 Squadrons respectively, was attacked seven times in the Banka Strait. A direct bomb hit after about 20 minutes severely damaged the craft, a splinter kill

An outstanding Second World War Greek operations C.G.M. group of six awarded to Leading Seaman G. R. Fuller, Royal Navy, who, though badly wounded, fought his gun to the last aboard the destroyer H.M.S. Wryneck - nor did he ever complain about his stomach and thigh wounds during the 48-hour open-boat voyage that ensued Conspicuous Gallantry Medal, G.VI.R. (C/JX. 138699 G. R. Fuller, L. Smn., H.M.S. Wryneck); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45, nearly extremely fine (6) £8000-10000 C.G.M. London Gazette 11 November 1941: ‘For gallantry and distinguished services in operations in Greek Waters.’ Under which heading, and the award of the Conspicuous Gallantry Medal, appears the name of Leading Seaman G. R. Fuller: ‘Though badly wounded, fought his gun to the last, and when his ship was sunk, heartened the survivors by his courage and cheerfulness.’ George Robert Fuller was decorated for his gallantry on the occasion of the loss of the destroyer H.M.S. Wryneck on 27 April 1941, a day that cost the Navy dearly - H.M.S. Diamond and the transport Slamat being sunk on the same occasion, all three ships having come under sustained enemy air attack while conveying British troops from Greece to Suda Bay: Crete 1941 - The Battle at Sea, by David A. Thomas, takes up the story: ‘The Wryneck, in company with the Diamond, was attacked simultaneously and the pattern of attack upon her closely resembled that made upon the Diamond. Firstly came a raking of the decks with machine-gun and cannon fire, killing and wounding many of the guns’ crews in exposed positions. Secondly, there came the bombing attacks. The first bomb burst near the ship and was followed almost immediately by another explosion close alongside. The destroyer heeled over to port. The stokers’ messdeck forward was shattered and the casualties among the soldiers and the ship’s company were heavy. The Wryneck, like her consort, was also struck in the engine room and she was brought to a standstill, clearly doomed. She filled with water rapidly while the ship was abandoned. In fifteen minutes the destruction was complete. Both destroyers had gone. The Gulf of Nauplia became a scene littered with the grisly flotsam of war at sea.’ As quoted in Greek Tragedy, by Anthony Heckstall-Smith, D.S.C., and Vice-Admiral H. T. Baillie-Grohman, C.B., D.S.O., O.B.E., Fuller was among the few gunners who managed to respond to the enemy attack: ‘Like Diamond, Wryneck’s crew were fooled by the friendly markings on the wings of the fighter that came gliding down out of the sun to sweep her decks with cannon and machine-gun fire. In fact, they were taken so completely by surprise that her 4-inch guns never had a chance to come into action because their crews were all killed or wounded in a matter of seconds. But some of her close-range guns opened up before the alarm sounded on the bridge. And one of them was manned by Leading Seaman Fuller, who after being shot through the belly and thigh, kept on firing until the ship sank under him ... ‘ The Wryneck carried a complement of about 120, of whom seven were officers, including Commander R. H. D. Lane, R.N., and 98 ratings were lost in addition to the soldiers, bringing the total to approximately 950 for both ships. Only around 50 of all services were saved, in itself another chapter of courage and endurance - Greek Tragedy continues: ‘Mr. Waldron [Wryneck’s Warrant Engineer], after floating in his lifebelt for half an hour, was hauled on to a raft. Later, he was taken into Wryneck’s whaler which had been lowered soon after she was hit. Two Carley floats were taken in tow, and the whaler continued on its slow search amongst the debris and the dead and living. Its crew paddled around until both rafts were fully laden and until she had 23 men on board, including a Troop Sergeant-Major of the Gunners and Leading Seaman Fuller. That night, when darkness fell, Waldron, Fuller and Gordine and 49 sailors, together with eight soldiers were all who had survived the three ships ... Wryneck’s whaler leaked badly. For a time, the men in her took it in turns to sit on the holes made by the bomb splinters and the machine-gun bullets, while others baled her out with a tin hat. But when they had finished their search for survivors, Mr. Waldron set them to work patching the holes with a half a bar of soap and some scraps of wood. Throughout the whole afternoon of Sunday, 27 April, those who had strength enough pulled slowly on the four oars. Paddling and drifting, with the two Carley floats laden with men in tow, the whaler made its way roughly eastwards. Only very roughly, for the compass had been smashed by a cannon shell. It was hot, thirsty work rowing the heavy, water-logged boat, but there was only a damaged keg half filled with contaminated water for the 23 men. There were also two tins of biscuits, a case of bully beef, a box of Verey pistols and cartridges, and a boat’s ensign. The wind freshened considerably towards dusk and the sea rose with the wind. And as it rose, it kept picking up the Carley floats and hurling them against the whaler so that they were in danger of wrecking one another. Just before dark, Mr. Waldron was forced to cast the floats adrift for they were threatening to sink the whaler. At 2.30 the next morning, the two rafts with their 50 men were picked up by Griffin, which had been sent out from Suda in search of them. But the Griffin did not find the whaler. During the night, the wind blew hard from the west, and since there was no material from which to make a sea anchor, Waldron turned her stern to sea. The weary sailors kept enough way on her with the oars to prevent her broaching to. Then, Waldron picked a suitable star down wind, and managed to steer by it. But the weather worsened and she shipped so much water that the men worked in shifts baling her out. They were soaked to the skin and bitterly cold for most of them were wearing only their singlets and trousers. Waldron kept waking them up to take turns on the oars. Between times, they huddled together and slapped one another to keep their circulation going. For most of the night Waldron sat at the tiller or beside the coxswain with the seas and spray breaking over him as he conned the whaler by the stars. And all the time he kept Fuller warm by the heat of his own body, for Fuller had lost a lot of blood from the wounds in his belly and thigh, and was trembling with the cold. When the dawn broke, Waldron thought he recognised the hump of Milos Island against the pale sky. Although he reckoned it must be 30 miles away, he shaped course for it. Some time after sunrise, they sighted an Ajax class cruiser heading south at full speed in company with a destroyer. They fired Verey lights, flashed the lid of a tin in the sun, and waved the ensign. But the ships did not see them, and their disappointment was bitter as they watched the two ships disappear over the horizon. Later, they saw two more destroyers and three Blenheims, but they, too, failed to see the signals. Fortunately for them, several Stukas and Ju. 88s were equally unsuccessful at spotting them. During the morning, they were cheered a little when they retrieved an orange from the sea. Dividing it, they shared it amongst them to augment their meagre ration of bad water. At noon, the whaler appeared to be closing a small rocky island. And since it needed by a slight alteration of course to steer directly for it, Waldron told his men that he had made up his mind to make for it. They were all nearing the point of exhaustion, and, although he never complained, Fuller had grown so weak that Waldron doubted that he would survive another night at sea. As the whaler approached a small cove in the island at about four o’clock, they saw a caique lying at anchor, and a little group of people, standing on a narro

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Camperdown (John Tracy, Master’s Mate) nearly extremely fine £5000-6000 Ex Seaby, June 1979. John Tracy was born on 23 November 1774, a descendant of the ancient Barons of Devon. He entered the Navy in 1794, on board the Incendiary fire-ship, in which ship he was attached to the force sent in 1795 to co-operate with the French Royalists in Quiberon Bay. After serving aboard the Porcupine 24, in the Channel, he was nominated Master’s Mate of the Ardent 64, and fought in that ship and was wounded in the action off Camperdown on 11 October 1797. In consideration of the injuries he sustained on this occasion he was allotted a pension, which ceased on his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant. He was also present in Ardent in 1799 in the expedition to Holland, where he assisted in landing the troops and witnessed the surrender of the Dutch squadron under Rear-Admiral Storey. During the winter of that year a six-oared cutter, with 8 men, belonging to the Arrow sloop, in attempting to land in a heavy gale at North Yarmouth, was swamped at some distance to the shore. Two of the crew were drowned, a fate which, as it was impossible to get a boat out to their assistance, must inevitably have attended the remainder, had not Mr Tracy, who happened to be on shore, seized the beachmen’s line, fastened it round his body, and, regardless of danger, dashed in among the breakers, through which he succeeded in reaching the unfortunate men, who, having the rope then secured to them, were hauled on shore amidst the acclamations of the beholders. On 6 October 1800, Mr Tracy was made Lieutenant into the Explosion bomb, and one week later removed to the Heldin 28, in which vessel he took part, in August 1801, in Lord Nelson’s attack upon the Boulogne flotilla. Assuming command, 28 September 1803, of the Princess Augusta, a small hired cutter, of 8 guns and 25 men, he was occasionally employed in that vessel in the conveyance of despatches and other communications to Russia. He was strongly recommended also by his senior officer, Captain Robert Dudley Oliver, for valuable service he performed off Havre-de-Grace. On 13 June 1804, he had 3 or 4 men, including himself slightly, wounded, in an action of two hours and three quarters, fought near the mouth of the river Tees, with a French privateer of 14 guns, full of men, which in the end sheered off, on observing the approach of two small vessels, manned with sea-fencibles from Redcar. The Princess Augusta, in this very gallant affair, received several shots near the water’s edge, and was much shattered in her rigging. The conduct of her brave commander was highly approved by the Commander-in-Chief, Lord Keith, and the Board of the Admiralty. He afterwards, besides making prize, 28 January 1807, of the Jena privateer of 8 guns and 46 men, took within twelve months as many as 19 of the enemy’s vessels, and drove on shore on the coast of Holland and destroyed a captured brig, under a battery of 6 guns and a fire of musketry. In the affair with the Jena he was again slightly wounded; and for this and his other proceedings he had the gratification of receiving letters of a flattering nature from his Commander-in-Chief, Lord Keith and Vice-Admiral Thomas Macnamara Russell, as well as the renewed approbation of the Admiralty. On 4 February 1807, Lieutenant Tracy was removed to the command of the Linnet brig, of 12 18-pounder carronades, 2 long sixes, and 60 men. In her he was chiefly employed in blockading Havre-de-Grace, in cruising the Channel, North Sea, &c., in escorting convoy to Newfoundland, and on sea service on the coast of Ireland. On 16 January 1808 he enforced the surrender, off Cape Barfleur, after a running action of an hour and 40 minutes, of Le Courrier lugger of 18 guns and 60 men; on 30 August following he captured, near Cherbourg, the Foudroyant of 10 guns and 25 men; his vessel during the latter part of the operations connected with the expedition of 1809 to the Walcheren, occupied the advanced position in the river Scheldt, in order that she might be on the look-out for fire-vessels; and on 29 May 1812, he took, off the Start, Le Petit Charles, carrying 26 armed men. On other occasions he recaptured two brigs, made prize of a privateer and two small French sloops, and detained three Danish vessels. His performances indeed in the Linnet twice obtained for him the commendation of their Lordships. On 25 February 1813, being then in the chops of the Channel, the wind blowing hard, Lieutenant Tracy had the misfortune to be captured by La Gloire, a French 40-gun frigate, returning from a two months’ cruise. His conduct on this occasion is deserving of particular mention. La Gloire, when first discovered, was to windward. Bearing up under her fore-sail and close-reefed main-top-sail, she arrived within hail of the Linnet at 2.30 p.m., and ordered her to strike. Instead of doing so, the brig boldly crossed the bows of the frigate, and, regardless of a heavy fire which the latter commenced, obtained the weather-gage. As La Gloire outsailed the Linnet on every point, all that Lieutenant Tracy could now do was to endeavour to out-manoeuvre her. This he did by making short tacks, well aware that, owing to her great length, the frigate could not come about so quickly as a brig of less than 200 tons. In practising this manoeuvre, the Linnet had to cross the bows of La Gloire a second and a third time (the second time so near as to carry away the frigate’s jib-boom), and was all the while exposed to her fire; but which, owing to the ill-direction of the shot from the roughness of the sea, did no great execution. At length, at 3.30 p.m., having succeeded in cutting away some of the Linnet’s rigging, La Gloire got nearly alongside of her; but Lieutenant Tracy would not yet haul down the British colours. The brig suddenly bore up athwart the hawse of the frigate; and La Gloire, had she not as suddenly luffed up, must, as the French Captain, Monsieur Roussin, says, have passed completely over her. Two broadsides from La Gloire now carried away the bowsprit, fore-yard, and gaff of the Linnet, and compelled her to surrender. Such seamanship and intrepidity on the part of Lieutenant Tracy show where La Gloire would have been had he encountered her in a frigate. The Linnet was carried into Brest and her late commander, officers and crew remained as prisoners until the end of the war. Tracy, it is recorded, was detained at the fortress of Bitche, where conditions of imprisonment were particularly unpleasant, he having been sent directly there as a ‘matelot’ for ‘desertion’. On 31 May 1814, a court-martial was held on board the Gladiator, at Portsmouth, to try them for the loss of their vessel; in pronouncing its sentence, the court-martial expressed its opinion “that the capture of H.M. late gun-brig Linnet was caused by her falling in with a French frigate of very superior force, and that the conduct of the said Lieutenant John Tracy, his officers, and company was most able, judicious, and seamanlike, although they were not so fortunate as to effect their escape from so superior a force. Yet,” it went on to say, “their manoeuvres in having three times crossed the frigate’s bows, and at one time so near as to carry away her flying-jib-boom, evinced so much courage and judgement, that the court doth adjudge the said Lieutenant John Tracy, his officers, and company to be fully and most honourably acquitted.” As a reward for his skill and valour Tracy was promoted to Commander on 11 June 1814, despite which he was unable afterwards to gain employment, nor was he successful in his efforts to obtain the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital.

SMYTH, Henry DeWolf (1898-1986). A General Account of the Development of Methods of using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes under the auspices of the United States Government 1940-1945. Washington: For the War Department, 1945. 4° (264 x 198mm). Lithoprint version, diagrams in text. Original plain wrappers, stapled (very light spotting to covers). Provenance: E.L. Brady (signature on upper cover dated in a different hand October 1945). ADVANCE PRINTING OF THE FIRST DESCRIPTION OF THE TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE NUCLEAR BOMB, published on 12 August 1945, only six days after Hiroshima. Up to this point the research and development had been undertaken in conditions of the utmost secrecy and the report was also prepared in secret. However, the British and American governments decided that the widest dissemination of this 'remarkably full and candid account' (PMM) was in the public interest, and this first edition was distributed to journalists for radio use on 11 August and for press use the next day. This first edition is described as a 'lithoprint' and was printed in the Adjutant General's office in the Pentagon from a typescript (it is a 'true edition', the text retyped from the duplicated drafts which were circulated for corrections and comments). A printed edition of 60,000 copies was quickly prepared and published in mid-September and immediately became a bestseller. Norman 1962; Princeton University Library Chronicle 37, p. 206; PMM 422e. View on Christie's.com

A Corgi The Aviation Archive diecast model Avro Lancaster B.I (Special) no. 617 Squadron, Woodhall Spa, Lincs, early 1945 with `Grand Slam Bomb` (1:72 scale and boxed)

MERVYN PEAKE, 6 ttls: THE INNER LANDSCAPE, 1969, 1st edn, orig cl, d/w; A BOOK OF NONSENSE, 1972, 1st edn, orig cl, d/w; SELECTED POEMS, 1972 reprint, orig cl, d/w; THE RHYME OF THE FLYING BOMB, 1973, orig cl, d/w; SHAPES AND SOUNDS, 1974, orig pict wraps; TWELVE POEMS, 1975 (350), 4to, orig wraps, glassine d/w + THE MERVYN PEAKE REVIEW, 1975-86, Nos 1-20 compl + Folder later Newsletters etc

EIGHT BLACK AND WHITE NORWICH PHOTOS IN SIX GLAZED FRAMES, including WWII Bomb Damage, mainly 7 ½” x 9”, f/g (6)

(Albert theoretical physicist 1879-1955) [Einste (Albert theoretical physicist 1879-1955) [Einstein and the atomic bomb] 3 pieces by Einstein relating to the Atomic bomb and owned by Dr. Erdita Fried framed and glazed including: (1). Facsimile of first half of Einstein`s famous letter to President Roosevelt about the possibility of developin an atomic bomb in 1939 browned and slightly stained signed by Einstein n.d. (2). Large photograph of Einstein taken in 1940 inscribed to “Frau Fried” with two other words signed by Einstein. (3). Autograph poem signed in German to Fried thanking her for her help in a difficult task signed and dated 1941. *** Autograph poetry by Einstein is exceedingly rare. Part of the text of Einstein`s famous letter to Roosevelt about the atomic bomb concerning the element uranium in the production of energy and as a component in a nuclear bomb. Dr. Erdita Fried was a noted psychologist like Einstein an émigré to America and the two items presented to her from Einstein were for thanks in assisting him in composing letters in English relating to the atomic bomb. Fried was not specific about the assistance she rendered to Einstein other than that it pertained to matters relating to the 1939 letter. The poem reads in translation: “If a thing is horribly urgent This will cause one torment Unless one is fast assisted And thus can give it birth. You have helped me though late it was and night Quickly and with brightness. You have done it masterfully Thank you noble Maiden.”

ALBUM WITH A COLLECTION INCLUDING FRENCH WWI, BOMB DAMAGE, MILITARY, WWI SENTIMENTS ETC. (175 APPROX)

* Fretwell (Keith). Supermarine ‘Spitfire’ Mk.Va, W3185 Code D-B, orig. watercolour, airbrush and gouache, heightened with white, on card, 19.25 x 18.75in (48.8 x 47.6cm), unsigned. The personal aircraft of Wing Commander Douglas Bader when he commanded the Tangmere Wing in early 1941, this Mk VA was one of the last Spitfires built without cannon armament, which was distrusted by Bader. The aircraft was one of a batch of 450 Mk Is ordered from Vickers-Armstrongs (Supermarine) on 22 March 1940. The order was subsequently amended to cover Mk V aircraft, most were Spitfire VBs, but a small batch of Spitfire VAs were also built. Bader was flying this aircraft, which unlike others had no provision for bomb armament, when he collided with a Messerschmitt Bf.109 over France and baled out to captivity on 7 August 1941. (1)

* Republic F-105D ‘Thunderchief’. A collection of Republic Aviation official publicity photographs of this aircraft, including air-to-air aircraft portraits, bomb-bay and cockpit details, together with a collection of colour images of P-47 ‘Thunderbolt’ nose-art, official Curtiss-Wright publicity photographs, and similar material, approx. 100 images, contained in a folder (1)

Ford-Jones (Martyn R., & Valerie, A.). Oxford’s Own Men and Machines of No. 15/XV Squadron, Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force, pub. Schiffer Military History, 1999, numerous b&w illusts., inscribed by the authors to title, orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, VG, together with Thomas (Chris, & Shores, Christopher), The Typhoon & Tempest Story, pub. Arms and Armour Press, 1988, numerous b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, plus Shores (Christopher F.), Pictorial History of the Mediterranean Air War, 3 vols., pub. Ian Allan, 1972-74, numerous b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j.s, 8vo, and Bowyer (Michael J. F.), 2 Group R.A.F., A Complete History, 1936-1945, pub. Crecy Books, 1992, b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus others on the history of second world war aviation, various, including Bernard Ireland, The War in the Mediterranean 1940-1943, 1st ed., 1993, Ken Delve, The Winged Bomb, History of 39 Squadron R.A.F., 1985, Henry Probert, The Forgotten Air Force, The Royal Air Force in the War Against Japan 1941-1945, reprinted 1996, etc., mostly orig. cloth in d.j.s, 8vo/4to, generally VG (3 shelves)

* Royal Air Force Pilots Flying Logbooks. A group of four logbooks kept by Squadron Leader Maurice Victor Longbottom, commencing Bristol Flying School, Filton, 19 March 1935, flying Tiger Moths, Harts, Audax’s, Ansons, Scapa’s, London II’s and eventually Spitfires, Lockheeds, Blenheims, Wellingtons, etc., all orig. blue cloth bindings, 4to & oblong 8vo. Maurice flew over ninety different aircraft and clocked up a total flying time of just under 2, 000 hours. He was part of the team test-flying the ‘bouncing bomb’ being developed by Barnes Wallis and on 13th May 1943 he records in his logbook in red ink the first live drop of ‘Upkeep’ - only three days before the famous Dambusters Raid took place. For most of 1944 he had been regularly flight-testing Vickers new Warwick aircraft and it was while testing one of these machines on 6th January 1945 that he crashed into a railway junction at Weybridge, Surrey and was sadly killed. (4)

* Longbottom (Squadron Leader Maurice Victor). The original brass release pin (4.5cm long) from Lancaster ED 817 used for the first live drop of Barnes Wallis’s bouncing bomb ‘Upkeep’ on May 13th 1943, Maurice subsequently gave this pin to his wife, Linda, who had it engraved ‘Upkeep. First Live Drop. 13.5.43’ and on the reverse ‘ED 817/G M.V.L.’. It is interesting to note that this live drop was only three days before 617 Squadron’s epic ‘Dambusters’ raid on the Mohne and Eder dams in western Germany on 16th May 1943. (1)

* USAF WWII - Medal Awards. A group of original American Air Force medal awards to Major Thomas Dale Hutchinson USAF 1939-45, including Distinguished Flying Cross, “Purple Heart” For Military Merit, Silver Star for “Gallantry in Action” and Air Medal, all contained in original presentation cases with attendant miniature enamelled lapel badges and mounted service-dress ribbons with pin-fixing. Together with two original “stars” war-service medal awards “Good Conduct” & “European & Middle Eastern Campaign” cased with ribbon-bars in original cardstock boxes, together with a further group of related medal awards & stars etc including Purple Heart, Air Force cross, Air Medal (with oak-leaf) etc. Major Hutchinson was a Squadron Commander in the 384th Heavy Bomb Group based at Grafton Underwood leading 25 Missions over Germany & Occupied Europe. He survived, in spite of several flying incidents, to the end of the war, and these were acquired subsequently after his death in 2003. (12)

Brass roasting spit, a pair of Salter scales, 4 flat irons and a World War II period bomb (inert) together with a stoneware bowl

A WWII Bomb (inert)

A Second World War, (Typhoon) D.F.C. Group of Six to Flight Lieutenant G.E. Cassie of 263 Squadron, Distinguished Flying Cross GRVI, GRI (1945), 1939-1945 Star, Air Crew Europe Star, War Medal 1939-45, Defence Medal, Air Efficiency Award (Plt. Off. G.E. Cassie. R.AV.R.) 108836 Flight Lieutenant George Edward Cassie, 84 Group, 2nd, T.A.F., No.263 Squadron Recommendation For Award, ‘Flight Lieutentant Cassie is a Flight Commander in No.263 Typhoon Squadron who is on his second tour of operations with No.146 Wing, having completed 126 operational hours with No.193 Squadron on his first tour. He is a capable and very experienced pilot who has flown over two thousand hours, on many types of aircraft, has served for a long period as an instructor at No.1 A.A.S. and has flown nearly eight hundred hours on twin-engined aircraft. Operating from England in No. 10 Group, he carried out a large number of missions on Shipping Strikes in the Channel, Sweeps and Rangers over the Brest Peninsular and Ramrods on Flying Bomb sites in the Cherbourg Peninsular. In support of the Army in Western Europe he has achieved considerable success in leading his Flight on Armed Reconnaissances, on inInterdictionin of the enemy rail communications and in attacks on H.Q., Guns and Mortar Positions, Shipping and Barges, and concentrations of Enemy Troops. Despite the intense flak which protects these vital enemy objectives, he has invariably launched his Rockets and Bombs from minimum range. Flight Lieutenant Cassie is a keen, persevering officer who has displayed at all times a determination and tenacity which is exemplary. I therefore strongly recommend that Flight Lieutenant Cassie be awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.’, Remarks of Officer Commanding Wing: ‘This officer has a long record of exceptional devotion to duty and has at all times shown a complete dis-regard for his own safety in his determination to inflict the maximum possible damage on the enemy’, Dated 2/5/45. Remarks of Officer Commanding Wing ‘A very experienced Flight Commander who has always displayed rugged determination & courage in his eagerness to engage the enemy’, Dated 29/5/45

A type 36 Bomb hand grenade

DDS. Banksy (British, b.1975) Bomb Hugger, silkscreen printed in colours, 2003, numbered 61/600, published by Pictures On Walls, on wove paper, with full margins , 68cm x 48cm (26.75 x 19 in) Provenance: Green Leaf Bookshop, Bristol. Authenticated by Pest Control

Fifteen World War I crested china models including; Arcadian Cannister bomb, huge Tank from Southend and Carlton Black Watch Bulldog.

Hermione Hammond - Study of a Bomb-damaged Building, probably Park Lane, London, 20th Century pastel and ink, signed, approx 44cm x 29cm.

A collection of various mid 20th century WWII black and white press photographs showing severe bomb damage to London including various scenes of Londoner`s during and after air raids.

A collection of various mid 20th century WWII black and white press photographs showing severe bomb damage to London including various scenes of Londoner`s during and after air raids (larger size).

6 Dinky Aircraft. Avro York airliner (70a) in silver with ‘G-A GJC’ registration, complete with original propellers, boxed. Spitfire MK2 (719) with battery powered propeller in camouflage livery. Messerschmitt ME109 also battery powered in desert sand camouflage livery. Hawker Harrier GR M1 (722) in light metallic blue/green camouflage livery. A Phantom MK2 in unusual light brown/green camouflage livery, with bomb. Plus a Jaguar M.R.C.A. (Multi Role Combat Aircraft) in grey/green camouflage livery. GC-VGC minor chipping.

Ernest Procter (1886-1935) The bomb-damaged west front of the church at Peronne, France black chalk and watercolour, heightened with bodycolour, signed, inscribed and dated January 1919 lower left, inscribed on old label verso 50 x 32 cm (19 1/2 x 12 1/2 in)

A group of four Second World War medals, comprising 1939-45 Star, Burma Star, Defence Medal and War Medal, with the corresponding dress miniature medals, R.A.F. officer`s cap badge, bomb aimer`s wing, two parachute wings, Burma Star Association lapel badge, shoulder tabs, photographs, etc, all relating to Flight Lieutenant Albert J. Cassell R.A.F. Airborne Control Unit.

A late Victorian novelty silver and enamelled double ended scent flask, modelled as a bomb shell, makers, H.M. Emanuel & Son, Chester, 1900, 3.5in.

An aerial photograph taken by the Luftwaffe showing a 1000Kg and a 500Kg bomb dropping

Two similar photos showing London with bomb hits and a view over Hendon

Two Luftwaffe aerial photographs showing London, and the West India docks, including bomb damage

WWI British aircraft joystick with machine gun / bomb release button on end, marked John Roberts A.I.D, 61cm high

1950`s RAF bomb aimers control box dated 1955

Postcards - loose selection mainly early 1900s and undivided backs. Topographical cards from Europe and Asia plus a quantity of cards of Trinidad, French bomb damage, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, also English cards including real photographs Croydon lifeboat - carnival 1908 (3) Purley Tram Terminus, Frinton-on-Sea beach huts, plus a selection of greetings cards (qty)

Postcards in album and loose, including Louis Wain, I Knew It All the Time, poster type Regina margarine and conserves Le Soleil, East Bergholt Charabanc and other cards, crowds and fairground 1904, Kings Lynn railway smash, 1907, bomb crater in Coggeshall 1915, 1912 military funeral procession Bexhill. 1906 HMS Renown in Portsmouth, Lowestoft bombardment 1916, steam roller with men and horse and cart Woodbridge, other social history cards and topographical cards (qty)

Postcards loose accumulation including a selection of Southwold views and real photographs of Royal Sussex cyclists in Southwold leaving Southwold 1.7.15 Street Parade, on the beach 5.6.15, plus others, Military vehicles, Lowestoft bombardment, bomb crater and onlookers, April 16th air raid at Reydon, Post Office Leighton, Railway interior, Leighton, holiday makers outside `Angles` boarding establishment 1920, photo by Geo.Austin, local photographer, Leigh on Sea, Beach 1926 and Osbourne Cocklesheds with customers 1926, Mabel Lucie Attwell (x3), 1936 passengers on board Mauretania, greetings etc, reverse of some cards is correspondence between Royal Sussex soldier and his sweetheart (qty)

San Marino RAF bombing tragedy on 26th June 1944 brown figured leather photograph album containing graphic images of civilian victims and bomb damage to buildings (qty)

Clarice Cliff Bizarre, bomb-shaped dressing table vase with metal collar in crinoline lady/idyll pattern, in pastel pink and blue. Ht. 5 ins.

Clarice Cliff Bizarre, Bomb shaped vase, Blue chintz. Ht. 5.75 ins. (restored)

A Second World War `Bomber Command`, `Tallboy Bomb`, Flight Engineers Flying Log Book (1898127 F/E Sgt R.E. Phillips), October1944 - June 1945 Units Served - Dates - Aircraft Flown 1661 H.C.U. Winthorpe - 18/10/44 - 29/11/44 Stirling 5 L.F.S. Syerston - 13/12/44 - 09/01/45 Lancaster I:II 9 Sdrn. Bardney - 09/01/45 Lancaster I Extracts from log: 22nd March 1945 - `Breman : 1 Tallboy` 23rd March 1945 - `Bad Oeynhausen : 1 Tallboy` 27th March 1945 - `Farge : 1 Tallboy` The Tallboy or Bomb Medium Capacity 12,000lb, was an earthquake bomb developed by Barnes Wallis and brought into operation by the British in 1944. It weighed five tons, was carried by Avro Lancaster Bombers, and was extremely effective against hardened concrete structures, including V2 missile sites, U-Boat pens, etc Specifications Weight - 5,443 Kg (12,000lb) Length - 6.35m (21ft) Diameter - 950mm (38in.) `It was an extraordinary weapon, an apparent contradiction in terms, since it had at one and the same time the explosive force of a large high-capacity blast bomb and the penetrating power of an armour-piercing bomb. On the ground it was capable of displacing a million cubic feet (29,000 m3) of earth and made a crater which it would have taken 5,000 tons of earth to fill. It was ballistically perfect and in consequence had a very high terminal velocity, variously estimated at 3,600 and 3,700 feet (1,100m) per second (1,100-1,130m/s or about 2,500 mph/4,000 km/h), which was of course, a good deal faster than sound so that, as with the V2 rocket, the noise of its fall would be heard after the explosion` W.J. Lawrence, No 5 Bomber Group

A safety pin for a bomb with instruction tag attached and a Naval Action ration tin

A Britains `Soldiers in Action` set No.1612, British Infantry (Bomb Throwing) with Gas Masks, comprising officer and seven men, khaki uniforms, boxed (officer with broken sword); and Britains `Soldiers in Action` set No.1611, [British Infantry] Gas Mask Men (crawling), comprising eight men, khaki uniforms, boxed (box lid with two split corners), (2).

Twenty Three Boxed and Carded Unmade Airfix Plastic Model Kits, comprising eleven Collectors Series 54mm Cavalrymen, eleven carded Collectors Series Infantrymen, Bren Carrier and a Bomb Ketch by Pyro

A shellcase 18 PR MK1 dated 1906, another 1939 and another marked BSA Machine & Co, a 1943 mortar bomb and a 1942 practice bomb (5)

Fleur de Lys brass panel from House of Commons Debating Chamber, retrieved after bomb damage on 10 May 1941 and given to Guy Eden, measuring approximately 21 by 9 inches.

Greene, Graham. The Human Factor, first edition, Bodley Head, London 1978. Cloth, dustjacket, octavo; with Doctor Fischer of Geneva, or The Bomb Party, first edition, Bodley Head, London 1980. Cloth, dustjacket, octavo; and Getting to Know the General. The Story of An Involvement, first edition, Bodley Head, London 1984. Boards, dustjacket, octavo; also Rendell, Ruth. Harm Done, limited edition 41/99, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, Scorpion Press, Blakeney 1999. Quarter leatherette, octavo; Carey, Peter. The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith, first edition, Faber & Faber, London 1994. Boards, dustjacket, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo; Rushdie, Salman. The Moor`s Last Sigh, first edition, Cape, London 1995. Boards, dustjacket, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo; and eleven other assorted works, two of them signed, (17).

2 WWII A1 posters: “Back Them Up” bombers over target “Heavy Bombers of the RAF often fly total distance of near 1,200 miles..... to bomb the industrial towns of North Italy”; and “ATS: cook for the troops” cook making biscuits; in a sleeve. Near VGC (minor folding creases)

A quantity of Carltonware ceramics to include a Dreadnought HMS Tiger, Arcadian Stamford Elephant, Hastings Bomb, Two Limoges candlesticks, a Poole pottery doormouse and two ceramic pin cushions. (20)

Keith Murray for Wedgwood; a moonstone bomb vase c.1940.

Carlton crested model of german incendiary bomb similar officers cap, shell and four other pieces

Second World War Royal Canadian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, Bomb Aimer officers tunic, with cloth insignia, brass buttons by Waterbury, medal ribands and M.I.D. oakleaf

Great War period German stick bomb (inert!); shell case; three walking sticks; American Remington bayonet, stamped `1917`, in its leather scabbard (6)

An early 20th century photograph album including demolition/bomb damage London, railways etc

A Malayan Kris, with ten wave damascened steel blade and carved wood grip, with wood and brass scabbard; a Very Similar Kris and Scabbard, a stiletto dagger and a deactivated fuse bomb. (4)

WALLIS BARNES: (1887-1979) English Scientist & Inventor of the bouncing bomb used in Operation Chastise (The Dambusters Raid), 16th May 1943. Blue fountain pen ink signature (`Barnes Wallis`) on a 12mo card, with several additional words and date 3rd October 1966 in his hand. A brief printed biography and small newspaper article are neatly affixed at the base of the card. About VG