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An Early 19th Century Single Fluke Wrought Iron Harpoon, with remains of the socket attachment, lacks haft, 70cm; a 19th Century American Shoulder Whale Harpoon, after a design by Robert Brown, with hinged and sprung double flukes, the cylindrical haft centrally pierced along its length to secure the line, 66.5cm (2)Footnote:- Robert Brown of New London, Connecticut designed a shoulder gun in 1850 to fire a gun harpoon, gun lance and a bomb lance, all patented and designed specifically for his gun.

A BOXED LIMITED EDITION CORGI AVIATION ARCHIVE HEINKEL He111H-16 1:72 DIE-CAST MODEL MILITARY AIRCRAFT, A1+HK, 2./KG523, Air Launch V-1 Flying Bomb Unit, numbered AA33716, model in new condition with plastic inserts and packaging, collector card numbered 0048 of 1000, outer box slightly worn but overall good

Retro gaming & computing including a boxed Commodore Amiga Model 500; various games including Cineware 'The King of Chicago'; Image Works Back to the Future II; another Theme Park Mystery; Golden Goblins Circus Attractions Ocean F-29 Retaliator; Visual Screenshots Futuresport;anothe I Ludicrus Avesoft Colours Born to Classic; Elite Bomb Jack; 16 Bit Pocket Power Collection including Seconds Out, Football Manager, Las Vegas, Protector, Hotshot, Mousetrap, Plutos & Space Station;

1960s Folk and Rock LPs to include a Joni Mitchell's 1968 debut album first UK pressing Reprise RSLP 6293, John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers A Hard Road (1968 UK stereo repress), Groundhogs Thank Christ For The Bomb (Black Liberty LBS 83295) & Bob Dylan's John Wesley Harding. (4)

Seven records each bearing a signed element - to inc: a Cult picture disc signed by Ian Astbury, an Alan Parsons Project LP signed by Alan Parson and Eric Woolfson, Snowy White records x 2 each signed by Snowy White, Iron Butterfly LP signed by Lee Dorman, Ron Bushy, TKO record signed by Adam Bomb, Witness LP signed by Demon Johnson, an unsigned Lou Gramm picture disc.

CLASSIC PUNK / WAVE - 7" COLLECTION. A collection of 43 x 7". Artists/ Titles include Crass inc 421984/3, 421984/5, 19454U, 321984/4, 321984/7, 321984/3, 521984,1, 221984/6, 121984/1, 321984/5, 421984/1, 321984/6, Zoundz - Demystification, Chron Gen - Puppets Of War EP, Deadmans Shadow - Bomb Scare EP, Vice Squad, Undead - Undead, Abrasive Wheels - Vicious Circle, Venus and the Razorblades, G.B.H - No Survivors, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Public Image ltd and Anti Nowhere League. The condition is generally VG+ to Ex_

PUNK/ WAVE - LP/ 12" COLLECTION (A TO C ARTISTS). A smashing collection of 29 punk/ wave LPs/ 12". Artists/ titles include Angelic Upstarts - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place, Adam And The Ants - Kings Of The Wild Frontier, Bauhaus inc Ziggy Stardust, The Singles: 1981-1983. BAD inc No 10 Upping St, Just Play Music (white label). Jake Burns And The Big Wheel inc She Grew Up, Breathless, On Fortune Street. JJ Burnel - Euroman Cometh, Bow Wow Wow - When The Going Gets Tough (picture disc). Boomtown Rats, Blondie - Sunday Girl. Blitz inc Time Bomb, Blitzed - An All Out Attack. Buzzcocks inc Alive Tonight EP, A Different Kind Of Tension. Chron Gen, The Chiefs Of Relief, Cockney Rejects, Elvis Costello, The Cramps, Crass. Condition is generally VG+ to Ex+.

WW2 British Training Poster printed on oilcloth "German 2kg Anti Personnel Bomb" better known as the "Butterfly Bomb". Has original string and wood hangers. Size approx. 70cm x 55cm. Printed for the Ministry of Home Security Inspector General's Department, High Explosive Instructional Diagram No.2.

WW2 British and later mixed militaria to include: RAF Officers Field Service cap dated 1945: Rifle Brigade Beret: Midnight Blue beret: Silver ARP Wardens badge: Silver war badge: WW2 British First Aid Dressing: Brass kit bag D rings: WW2 German Incendary Bomb Tail Fin: WW2 Imperial Japanese Army NCO's rank tab: WW2 US Collar dogs officers & EM's mens, Dog Tags for Army and USMC: Current issue US Army ball point pens: WW1 Trench Art Cruifix: British Post war Civil Defence Corps Wardens Armband: Zippo Lighter 82nd Airborne: Two Pewter RAF Aircrew Figures 135mm in height: Cloth insignia: etc.

WW2 British Propaganda Psycological Warfare Leaflets dropped on German Troops in 1944. Several refer to the failed July 1944 Bomb Plot. (10)

Inert Grenades and Ordnance: Mills No 36 grenades one complete.one missing base , two rifle grenades, shells and cut away bomb fuse. 7 items Please note due to the nature of the lot, we are not able to offer in house postage. Personal collection only

BANKSY (né en 1974) (d’après) Bomb Hugger Toy - Blanc & rougeMedicom Toy Plus & BrandalismHauteur : 32 cm Dans sa boîte d'origine

BANKSY (né en 1974) (d’après) Bomb Hugger Toy – Rouge & BlancMedicom Toy Plus & BrandalismHauteur : 30 cm

A collection of various books comprising Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling and a collection of Terry Pratchett books - Wintersmith, Making Money, Snuff, I Shall Wear Midnight, The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy (Only You Can Save Mankind, Johnny and the Dead and Johnny and the Bomb), Judgement Day, Dodger, Men at Arms, Nation, Discworld Quizbook The Unseen University Challange by David Landford, The Wit & Wisdom of Discworld by Stephen Briggs, The Art of Discworld by Paul Kidby, The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter, The Folklore of Discworld by Terry Pratchett & Jacqueline Simpson, The Discworld Companion by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs and two maps of Discworld by Stephen Briggs and Terry Pratchett. (a lot) (18)

A collection of vintage Public WWII and later information booklets including Statement Relating to Atomic Bomb, HM Treasury, 1945, The Battle of Britain 1940, The First Campaign in Libya 1940-41, Signal Card 1937, Home Guard Proficiency, Front Line 1940-41 Bomber Command, Radar Reports on Science at War, Fire Over and Hitler Passes this Way, all in good to fair condition (a lot)

RARE Dambusters Operation Chastise multiple signed FDC. A 1948 Royal Wedding Canadian FDC, postmarked Feb 16, 1948. Signed in pencil by 12 members of the Dambuster squadron who served in the Canadian Royal Air Force: Joe McCarthy DSO DFC (1919 1998) Pilot, Don MacLean (1916 1992) Navigator, VERY RARE John Fraser (1922 1962) Bomb aimer, Percy Pigeon (1917 1967) Wireless operator, Harry O'Brien (1922 1985) Rear gunner, Dave Rodger DFC (1918 2004) Rear gunner, Ken Brown ( 1920 2002) Pilot, Grant McDonald (1921 2012) Rear gunner, Harvey Weeks (1919 1992) Rear gunner, Stefan Oancia (1923 1999) Bomb aimer, Fred Sutherland (1923 2019) Front gunner and Danny Walker DFC (1917 2001) Navigator. Good condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £10.

One box of various mixed scale plastic military kits to include Frog kits, Zvezda, Revell and others, specific examples to include a Frog Spitfire Mk14, and Flying Bomb plastic kit, a Bandai Panther G battle tank kit and others

Vinyl - 6 UK press Groundhogs albums to include: Scratching The Surface (Original UK 1st pressing Blue Liberty Records, LBS 83199) VG+ / VG, Thank Christ For The Bomb - 2 Copies, One Original Blue Liberty Records and one Black Liberty Records (Both Textured Gatefold Sleeve, LBS 83295) Original Copy VG / VG+, Black labels copy VG+ / VG+, Split (Gatefold Sleeve, LBG 83401) VG+ / VG+, Cross Cut Saw (UAS 29917) VG / VG, Groundhogs Best 1969 - 1972 (Double)

Vinyl - Groundhogs– Thank Christ For The Bomb on Fire Records FIRELP507M. 2019 Record Store Day limited edition reissue in slipcase. Ex+

Vinyl - U2 3 albums to include: How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (UK 2004, printed inner and 16 page 12”x12" booklet with pictures and lyrics, Island records, U2 14), EX / EX, Achtung Baby (UK 1991 with printed inner and insert, Island U2 8), VG+ / VG+, Songs Of Experience (2017, double cyan blue vinyl album, Island 5797704), still sealed

WW2 Bouncing Bomb Dambusters designer Sir Barnes Wallis signed RAF Harland Point RAF cover. Good condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £10.

Julian Trevelyan R.A. (British, 1910-1988)Kiln Firing at Night signed and dated 'Trevelyan.'43' (lower left)oil on canvas56.2 x 45.7 cm. (22 1/8 x 18 in.)Footnotes:ProvenanceWith Alex Reid & Lefevre, LondonPrivate Collection, U.K.Julian Trevelyan first visited Stoke-on-Trent in 1937, and immediately felt an affinity with the place. As he was to write in 1955, 'the concentration of smoking kilns, like so many monstrous bottles, the canals, the gaping chasms from which the clay had been extracted – all of these produced in my mind a ferment of ideas and I drew like one possessed' (Julian Trevelyan, Indigo Days: The Art and Memoirs of Julian Trevelyan, Scolar Press, Aldershot, 1957, pp.86-7). The town, teeming with activity, provided a rich source of inspiration – from the constant stacking of the kilns, to the crackling fires of the furnaces and the smoke that bellowed from them, everywhere he looked there was visual stimulation.This new source of inspiration prompted a turn away from Surrealism and collage, and back to painting. This was to prove a formative experience for him, and he later commented: 'I think I was about twenty-eight [in 1938] when I found that for the first time I was painting my own pictures without trying to please anyone but myself...they were visions of my own world...and that was all that mattered. The smoking furnaces of the potteries and the desolate landscape of slag heaps and derelict slums of Stoke-on-Trent made a deep impression on me. I became myself beside the murky canals, and from then on life was easier'. (Julian Trevelyan, letter to his wife Ursula, quoted in Philip Trevelyan, Julian Trevelyan Picture Language, Lund Humphries, Farnham and Burlington, 2013, p.118).In 1939, however, War broke out again and in the autumn of that year he joined Stanley William Hayter working on industrial camouflage, taking on commissions to conceal factories from enemy aircraft. In October 1941, Trevelyan received his call-up and became a Lieutenant in the Corps of Royal Engineers. Like all those serving in the army, Trevelyan was obliged to wear an identification disc in case he was killed in service, each one carrying the name, number and religion of each soldier – characteristically true to his artistic calling, he wrote 'Surrealist' under the latter and noted: 'I used to wonder what rites would have been performed at my burial by a conscientious commanding officer' (Julian Trevelyan, op. cit., pp.138-9).During his time in the army, which included a tour of duty to North Africa and the Middle East, opportunities and materials for painting were limited, and his mental health deteriorated, eventually resulting in him being returned to civilian life after spending time being treated in a north London institution. From 1943, he was able to return to painting and significantly to his richest source of pre-war inspiration, Stoke-on-Trent, which forms the subject of the present lot. Evocatively titled Kiln Firing at Night, here the dark kiln is dramatically lit from within by flames that lick the sides, orange sparks visibly escaping amidst the smoke that bellows from the chimney. Fed by three men who are evidently hard at work, stripped down to just trousers and caps in the intense heat, stoking the fires and carrying coal to feed it - with further kilns visible in the background - there is a sense of the relentless cycle of work that would have kept the potteries in production at all hours of the day and night. Representing a welcome return to an important subject – and fond pre-war memories of freedom and productivity, uninhibited by camouflage or touring duties and the monotony of army life – Kiln Firing at Night hails from an important period in Trevelyan's life when he could return to the sanctuary of Durham Wharf. Life, however, was still complicated by the ongoing war – and indeed in late 1943 a large unexploded bomb landed in the garden next to Durham Wharf during the night, which must have been doubly alarming given the recent arrival in August of that year that their son, Philip. The present lot thus shows the artist's determination to carry on amid the challenges of life during the war, and his continued passion for painting.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

AERONAUTICA - 'PUSS MOTH' LOG BOOK OF LT.-COMMANDER GEOFFREY RODD Two finely presented log books relating to the De Havilland aircraft D.H. 80A Puss Moth and its playboy adventurer owner Lt. Geoffrey Rodd, together approximately 680 pages, detailing all flights (departure/arrival locations, list of crew/passengers, incidents), numerous additional photographs, press cuttings, ephemera, etc relating to Rodd, Puss Moth and their adventures pasted in, contemporary blue morocco by Truslove & Hanson of Sloane Street, gilt lettered 'G-AAYB. Journey Log Book. Vol. 1[-2] July, 1930 to July, 1931 [-To]' on upper covers, oblong 4to (190 x 240mm.), July 1930-July 1931[-1933] Footnotes: 'COMMANDER GEOFFREY RODD'S AEROPLANE AND EXPERT SERVICES AS A PILOT ARE IN MUCH REQUEST BY THE FAIR SEX' - the flight log books (enlivened with photographs, press cuttings and ephemera) of a playboy pilot's De Havilland aircraft Puss Moth, from the time of his learning to fly under the tutelage of ace pilot Maxwell Hutcheon Findlay, to flights with celebrated female pilots Amy Johnson and Peggy Salaman, aerial filming for the cinema, lending his plane to collect Hollywood actress Gloria Swanson from Paris, and his tragic death, aged only thirty-two, crashing during take-off from the glamorous holiday resort of St. Moritz. Born in Australia, Rodd (1901-1933) served in the Royal Navy during the First World War, then aboard the Royal Yacht. As evidenced from these evocative albums his trajectory from amateur pilot on the waterlogged airfields of Sussex and Kent, to success in competitions, blind flying with Amy Johnson, immersion in the world of celebrities and film stars, and airfields of glitzy Biarritz over a period of under two years was astonishing. His early flights were taken in the company of his teacher at Hanworth Aerodrome, Scottish flying ace Maxwell Hutcheon Findlay (including one resulting in an official report to the Accidents Investigation Committee concerning the 'Meopham Accident', 25 Sept. 1930); flights with associates from his naval days followed, including Admiral of the Fleet Reginald Tyrwhitt (who wrote that the flight 'had entirely changed my ideas as regards travelling by air!'); increasingly confident he was soon piloting successfully at the King's Cup with Peggy Salaman (a letter signed by Peggy to Rodd after her return to England having flown from Lympe in Kent to Cape Town, November 1931 is tipped-in). Other notable notices include a report relating to a dangerous driving charge against Rodd at Blackheath (he admitted guilt); a letter of chastisement from the Chief Constable of the Hastings Police for distributing handbills (relating to the 'Navy Week at Chatham', a copy of which tipped-in) from his aeroplane (15 Aug. 1930); correspondence with the Air Ministry concerning an 'Alleged flight over prohibited area' (14 Oct. 1930) with Rodd's reply admitting the offence and apologising for his late reply due 'to a serious accident in starting 'G-AAYB' involving amputation of my right thumb' [31 Oct. 'engine back fired and propeller cut off my right thumb at top joint... fainted a couple of times', but flown back by Max Findlay]; forced landings including one due to 'stick jambing... a nut which must have caused this' (Oct. 23 1930), and 'Smoke Bomb ignited in its release box in cabin: pretty nearly choked'; 'Shoreham aerodrome flooded, but landed in field alongside' (24 Jan. 1931), piloting Vice-Admiral Snagge to the Epsom Derby; achieving the fastest time ('982.5 miles at 127.56 m.p.h.') at the Kings Cup Air Race, 24 Aug. 1931, with pasted in letters and newspaper reports on the race ('... The lady pilots fared badly, as was to be expected'); 'Night landings by Bentley's headlights' at Hanworth, 31 Oct. 1931 (several newspaper reports show images of Rodd with his chauffer John Camp, who also acted on occasions as his co-pilot); 'House Party's flight in moonlight' at Lord Willougby de Broke's aerodrome at Kineton, '12000ft. taking cinema over the clouds' (8 Apr. 1932, beside a newspaper cutting reporting on actor John Loder telling Rodd a story about Gary Cooper); 19 Apr. 1932 'For Gloria Swanson' [flight from Lymphe to Paris and return, piloted by Maxwell Findlay], '...couldn't get permission to fly under Clifton Suspension Bridge. Flew over' (9 June 1932); August 1932 extensive public displays including at Burnham, and filming at Brooklands for the film 'The King's Cup'; 19 August starts a 'Blind Flying Course' (and includes aerial photo of 'The Rude Man of Cerne Abbas'); On 28 August flies to Le Toquet with Amy Johnson (during which time his £3000 car is stolen from Park Lane, and used 'in Wandsworth smash-and-grab raid'), and on the 31st takes her 'Night flying. Aerobatics'; aerial holiday to Biarritz (newspaper reporting that he 'has been offered £200 for one portion alone of his Biarritz film...'); 'Practice blind flying in clouds', flights to Cannes, Geneva, the Alps, and on 10 January 1933 landing on frozen lake at St. Moritz, where later in the month he was killed during a failed take off from the same lake. Provenance: Sotheby's, 15 May 1969, lot 199. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. 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A Byzantine Greek fire bomb or hand grenade 9th-11th century AD. 12cm wide 13cm high From a private Gloucestershire deceased estate.

Pair: Lieutenant-Commander P. T. Brown, Royal Navy General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (Lt P T Brown RN); South Atlantic 1982, with rosette (Lt P T Brown RN HMS Antrim) mounted court-style as worn, nearly extremely fine (2) £700-£900 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, September 2002. Patrick Thomas Brown was promoted Lieutenant on 1 April 1975, and Lieutenant-Commander on 1 April 1983. H.M.S. Antrim, a County Class Guided Missile Destroyer, was commanded by Captain B. G. Young, D.S.O. As part of the advance-guard sent South, she played a prominent role in the recapture of South Georgia and assisted in the movement of S.A.S. troops. Between 20-21 May she led the Naval Forces in the Falkland Sound during the amphibious landings. At this time she was hit by a 1,000lb bomb delivered by a Dagger fighter-bomber. The bomb struck the flight deck, gashed two missiles in the magazine and came to rest in the Seaman’s After Heads, without exploding. In further attacks by Daggers she was sprayed with 30mm. shells causing two serious casualties. After 10 fraught hours the unexploded bomb was dealt with by C.P.O. Michael Fellows of the Fleet Clearance Diving Team; an action that was to earn him the D.S.C. As a result of the damage sustained the Antrim reverted to escort duties for the remainder of the campaign.

Four: Warrant Officer Class II H. G. Garwood, Royal Field Artillery Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (23727 Bomb: H. G. Garwood, 86th Bty: R.F.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (23727 Corpl: H. G. Garwood. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (44001 W.O. Cl.2. H. G. Garwood. R.A.) good very fine (4) £160-£200

Four: Bombardier G. Woodward, Royal Field Artillery 1914 Star (40097 Dvr. G. Woodward. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (40097 Dvr. G. Woodward. R.A.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Kurdistan (40097 T. Bomb. G. Woodward. R.A.) mounted court-style as worn, traces of lacquer, otherwise very fine (4) £140-£180 --- George Woodward attested for the Royal Field Artillery and served with the 2nd Brigade during the Great War on the Western Front from 11 September 1914. His Medal Index Card states that he was awarded the General Service Medal with clasp Iraq, not Kurdistan.

The mounted group of seven miniature dress medals attributed to Flight Lieutenant R. W. Powell, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who flew 116 operational sorties, the majority as a Mosquito Navigator with 109 Squadron, the original ‘Oboe’ Squadron of Path Finder Force Distinguished Service Order, G.VI.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Distinguished Flying Cross, G.VI.R.; 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; France, Republic, Croix de Guerre, reverse blank, mounted as worn; together with the recipient’s Pathfinder Force Badge (the retaining pin on this re-soldered), very fine and better (7) £240-£280 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 26 October 1945. The original Recommendation, dated 19 May 1945, states: ‘Flight Lieutenant Ronald William Powell arrived in the Squadron having already done a fine operational tour on Wellingtons and Lancasters during which time he had attacked targets ranging from Essen, Berlin, Copenhagen and Pilsen to Spezia in Italy. He has since flown on a further 87 sorties on Mosquitos as navigator and as operator of Oboe. During his tours here his attacks have included the pre-invasion targets, flying bomb sites and storage depots, tactical targets in support of the Allied armies, and a vast number of strategical attacks against German oil and industrial centres. He has cheerfully volunteered to take part in any difficult operation and was at all times ready and eager to fly. Flight Lieutenant Powell's uncanny navigational accuracy and complete grasp of the difficult manipulation of Oboe equipment has ensured the greatest possible number of successful sorties. He has placed his vast fund of knowledge at the disposal of new crews and has so striven to impart his knowledge that recent arrivals have the more quickly absorbed the niceties of our methods of operating under the prevailing difficult conditions of extreme height and extreme range. Further, Flight Lieutenant Powell has set the Squadron a magnificent example by his imperturbability under concentrated enemy anti-aircraft fire, by his readiness to be of help, by his cheerfulness and by the leading part he has taken in organising Squadron sports and activities. I strongly recommend him for the award of the Distinguished Service Order. Covering remarks by the Station Commander: Flight Lieutenant Powell has achieved exceptional skill in his work and has utilised it with unshakeable determination. He has been a driving force in his Squadron and is considered a worthy recipient of the Distinguished Service Order. Covering remarks by the Air Officer Commanding: Strongly Recommended.’ D.F.C. London Gazette 16 February 1945. The original Recommendation, dated 22 November 1944, states: ‘This navigator has now completed two operational tours with Bomber Command. His first tour of 29 sorties was carried out on heavy bombers and the list of targets he attacked include all the heaviest defended targets of Germany and the then occupied countries. Flight Lieutenant Powell’s second tour has been as a target marker on Mosquito aircraft and his record to date is one of which any man would have reason to be justly proud. His keenness for operational flying and his ability to ignore severe and persistent ground defences while carrying on with his job has been displayed on many occasions. He is most deserving of the award of the Distinguished Flying Cross. Covering remarks by the Station Commander: This officer has completed many sorties over some of the most heavily defended targets in Germany. He has displayed courage and ability of a very high order, and is recommended for the award of the Distinguished Flying Cross. Covering remarks by the Air Officer Commanding: Strongly Recommended.’ Sold with extensive research, including a photocopy of a lengthy letter written by the recipient in 1996; copied Squadron operational records for the period 12 April 1944 to 25 April 1945; a copy of the book Beam Bombers: The Secret War of No. 109 Squadron, by Michael Cumming, containing a group photograph with the recipient; and other research.

The unique and important 1936 ‘Palestine’ Military Division O.B.E., Second War R.R.C. and Second Award Bar group of ten awarded Chief Principal Matron W. M. Coulthurst, Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type, breast badge; Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.VI.R. 1st issue, silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, reverse dated ‘1942’, with Second Award Bar, reverse dated ‘1945’; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (Matron W. M. Coulthurst. P.M.R.A.F.N.S.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Jubilee 1935, mounted as originally worn by Spink & Son Ltd, St. James, generally good very fine (10) £3,000-£4,000 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 11 May 1937: ‘In recognition of valuable services rendered in the field in connection with the operations in Palestine during the period April - October 1936.’ R.R.C. London Gazette 1 January 1942. The original recommendation states: ‘Miss Coulthurst opened the R.A.F. Hospital, Littleport, at the outbreak of war with speed and efficiency. She was posted to Torquay in April 1940, and has since maintained a high standard of efficiency.’ R.R.C. Second Award Bar London Gazette 14 June 1945. The original recommendation states: ‘Operational Commands 1 August 1944 - 31 January 1945 - Middle East. This lady was appointed Chief Principal Matron in March, 1944 and since then she has visited all hospitals and units where personnel of P.M.R.A.F.N.S. are serving in the Mediterranean, Middle East, India, Iraq and Aden. She has dealt with many problems in the most tactful and understanding manner and has been a great help to the Matrons in opening up new general hospitals in India. Miss Coulthurst has been a tower of strength to the Nursing Service in overseas commands.’ Of a total of 100 R.R.C. and Bars issued, only 4 have been awarded to members of Princess Mary’s Royal Air Force Nursing Service, and the award to Miss Coulthurst was the first. Moreover, her O.B.E. (Military) was the first ever operational award to a member of the P.M.R.A.F.N.S. - the sprinkling of earlier awards having been associated with the New Year and Birthday Honours Lists. Approximately 39 General Service Medals with clasp ‘Palestine’ were awarded to P.M.R.A.F.N.S. Winifred Maud Coulthurst was born in Salford in 1887, and was appointed Sister in the Royal Air Force Nursing Service in May 1920, advancing to Senior Sister in the P.M.R.A.F.N.S. in January 1930. Coulthurst was promoted to Matron in January 1932, and Chief Principal Matron (the equivalent rank of Group Captain) in March 1944. She served in Basrah, Iraq; Aden in 1929 and in Palestine in 1936 before her initial posting of the Second War at Littleport and the Torquay Palace Hotel Convalescent Hospital. The following detail is given of her time at the latter in Sky Wards, A History of the Princess Mary’s Royal Air Force Nursing Service by Mary Mackie: ‘The Officer’s Convalescent Hospital now flourished near Torquay, in the former Palace Hotel at Babbacombe. By the end of 1939 it had achieved its full capacity of 249 equipped beds and, after minor alterations, four bedrooms on the second floor had become an operating theatre. Patients recuperating in cosy rooms holding two or three beds, rather than in crowded wards, found the hospital a pleasant spot.... Matron W. M. Coulthurst led a nursing team of twenty-one members of the P.M.R.A.F.N.S. - four senior sisters, ten junior sisters and some VAD nurses - plus a number of nursing orderlies. Other staff included R.A.F. doctors and dentists, administration and supporting personnel, and about eighty civilian ancillary workers, most of whom were former hotel employees. Altogether, Torquay gave employment to around 200 people.... The hospital became known for its lively and optimistic atmosphere. BBC correspondent Macdonald Hastings, writing in London Calling, the overseas journal of the BBC, in October 1941, describes it as being like a country club, but with incomparable amenities: ‘wooded grounds with velvet lawns, tropical trees, luxurious flower beds... golf course, tennis courts, squash courts, swimming pool, archery butts, and gymnasium.’ Against this idyllic backdrop: ‘Disaster struck on the bitterly cold, wet morning of 25 October 1942. A Sunday morning, around 1100hrs. Most of the patients were in their rooms, shaving, dressing or reading Sunday papers. Domestic staff tidied up, kitchen hands prepared Sunday lunch, and nurses readied themselves for doctors’ rounds. Fred Payne, gowned and masked, was assisting in the operating theatre. Fluffy Ogilvie was on the first floor... As Fluffy and the MO went into the patients’ room, ‘we both saw, through the large windows, German planes, with their Swastikas clearly visible. There was no time to be brave or heroic, we dived under the bed...’ After preliminary machine-gun strafing, the enemy dropped high-explosive 500 kilo bombs. The first scored a direct hit on the east wing. The second landed in the road, its blast shattering windows, doors and partitions in the west wing and severely damaging the operating theatre. Lamps over the operating table fell on to the unconscious patient and a door flew across the room and knocked out Fred Payne. The floor where Fluffy Ogilvie had taken cover lost its door and windows. Rain and cold air rushed in, but all four patients, plus doctor and nurse, had survived. The latter pair dashed out into the hall to find ‘dust and rubble everywhere and, where there had been a further room, just one big gaping hole... The first body we came to was that of ‘Tinkle’ Bell. I saw her hand and arm sticking out beneath the heavy masonry. I also saw... two bodies which seemed to be hanging from the girder. The bomb had gone through all the floors down to the basement...’ Two platoons of the local home guard had been carrying out exercises close by. Two of their number died in the attack but the rest came to help, along with local air raid precaution volunteers... Through the rubble and dust, shivering against the cold winds that swept through shattered windows and gaping holes in brickwork, men carried laden stretchers to where doctors and nurses made rapid diagnoses, applied dressings and splints, and administered what drugs they could; amid such chaos and destruction they could offer little more than first aid.... Nineteen people died, one was missing, another forty-five suffered injury. Had it not been a Sunday, casualties would have been even worse because many patients would have been in the basement gymnasium and its milk bar, which had been flattened.’ After Torquay, and advancing to Chief Principal Matron, Coulthurst say extensive overseas postings for the remainder of the war. Chief Principal Matron Coulthurst retired in January 1947. In later life she resided at Limehurst St Margaret’s Road, Altrincham, Cheshire, and died at the Royal Infirmary Manchester in April 1950. Sold with the following related items and documents: Riband bar; named Buckingham Palace enclosure for R.R.C. Second Award Bar; Air Ministry letter of appreciation on the occasion of recipient’s retirement, signed by Philip Noel-Baker, then Secretary of State for Air, dated 16 January 1947; newspaper cuttings and photographic image of recipient; with copied research.

Three: Bombardier D. Cunningham, Royal Field Artillery, who was Mentioned in Despatches India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (73506. Br. D. Cunningham 10th. Fd. By. R.A.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (73506 Bomb D. Cunningham, 2nd. Bty: R.F.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (73506 Bomb D. Cunningham. R.F.A.) edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine (3) £260-£300 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, February 1998. M.I.D. London Gazette 10 September 1901.

Pair: Bombardier A. E. Mann, Royal Field Artillery Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (1202 Bomb. A. E. Mann. 68th. Bty., R.F.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (1202 Bomb: A. E. Mann. R.F.A.) light contact marks, very fine (2) £100-£140

An interesting I.G.S. 1908-35 awarded to Wapiti Sergeant Pilot, later Commander R.N., G. A. Nunneley [O.B.E.], 39 Squadron, Royal Air Force - undoubtedly a misfit and one of life’s characters, who flew in at least 18 operational sorties on the North West Frontier in 1930, and ‘terrorised’ a cavalry parade with his flying, and the GOC Kohat District with his misplaced words of ‘amour’ India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (505375. Sgt. G. A. Nunneley. R.A.F.) mounted on card for display, good very fine £300-£400 --- George Alan Nunneley was born in Tadcaster, Yorkshire in October 1894. He joined the Royal Navy in September 1907, and was graded as Midshipman by May 1912. Nunneley advanced to Acting Sub Lieutenant in May 1914, and to Sub Lieutenant in March 1915. He moved from post to post, in one case being discharged from a posting ‘under grave suspicion of being guilty of unnatural and immoral acts’, and repeatedly applied for the Air Service. Nunneley advanced to Lieutenant in September 1916. He had applications for employment with the R.N.A.S. and transfer to the newly formed R.A.F. rejected, and was placed on the Retired List in June 1920. However, Nunneley was promoted Lieutenant Commander (Retired) in September 1924, and it was from this rank that he enlisted in the R.A.F. Nunneley enlisted in the Royal Air Force as a photographer under training in December 1925. He had in his former service displayed a keen interest in aviation, and indeed was awarded the RAEC Aeronaut’s Certificate as a Balloon Pilot following training and examination at Roehampton in July 1918. As a consequence he applied for pilot training, and was subsequently posted as a Sergeant Pilot to 39 Squadron (D.H.9a’s) at Bircham Newton in 1928. The squadron carried out intensive training having been warned of an impending move to India. The Squadron was re-equipped with Westland Wapitis, and moved to Risalpur in January 1929. Before long they were involved in operational flying on the North West Frontier, with Nunneley flying in at least 18 operational sorties between May and August 1930. It would appear that Nunneley did not let war get in the way of his life, as recorded in Ken Delve’s book The Winged Bomb - History of 39 Squadron R.A.F.: ‘On 1st January 1877 Queen Victoria was proclaimed ‘Empress of India’, thus all military establishments in India celebrated the Proclamation Day anniversary amidst much pageantry and ceremony. At Risalpur on 1st January 1930, the army units, including the cavalry in their parade uniforms, assembled on the cavalry parade ground about half a mile North of Risalpur aerodrome. The R.A.F. part of the celebration was to be a flypast by 39 Squadron. Prior to the display, Sergeant Nunneley took his Wapiti up for a post-engine-change air test. Unfortunately the engine cut out shortly after take-off with the aircraft heading towards the shining ranks of soldiers on the parade ground. The only clear space was right in front of the parade and so Nunneley positioned his machine for a forced landing. All hell broke loose with terrified horses throwing their riders and bolting off into the surrounding countryside. The dignity of the cavalry was somewhat shaken and it took days to round-up all the horses... Message dropping also had its lighter side. Sergeant Pilot Nunneley had a ‘close friend’ who was a schoolteacher at Kohat and, as the Squadron used the air-to-ground firing range at Kohat, he would often land there to visit the lady. On the return flight to Risalpur he would get his air gunner to drop a message in her garden. Unfortunately, message dropping was a delicate art. On this occasion, Nunneley was too high for accuracy and the message bag, with a three foot long multi-coloured silken streamer, overshot its target by fifty yards and landed in the rose garden of the General Officer Commanding Kohat District. This message, full of terms of endearment, was duly delivered to the GOC by his native gardener. About half an hour later Nunneley landed at Risalpur to be met by the Orderly Officer and Ordely Sergeant with orders to escort him to the CO. The GOC was not impressed with the message and had phoned Risalpur with the Wapiti was still in the air. Sergeant Nunneley was duly ‘de-briefed’!’ On reaching the age limit (39) for a Sergeant Pilot, Nunneley left the RAF to return to the R.N. Retired List in December 1932. Recalled for service with the outbreak of war in 1939, he does not appear to have been particularly enamoured with the Navy’s plans for his employment. He applied for service with the Fleet Air Arm, which was rejected and as a consequence he applied to revert to the retired list for service with the R.A.F. The latter was rejected, and whilst he did not carry out any sea-going appointments he was employed as the Executive Officer of R.N.A.S. Donibristle. Subsequently he served as Commanding Officer of R.N.A.S. Kilindini, Kenya and in the same capacity for H.M.S. Nabbington (Mobile Naval Base, New South Wales, Australia). During this time he held the rank of Acting Commander, which was later confirmed in May 1946. After the war he was employed by the Ministry of Civil Aviation as Aerodrome Commandant Grade II, Edinburgh Airport (O.B.E.). Commander Nunneley died in Truro, Cornwall in June 1974. Sold with copied service papers and research.

A good Second War ‘Southampton Blitz’ B.E.M. pair awarded to Deputy Leader R. S. Parker, Civil Defence Rescue Service, for his gallantry in rescuing a mother and her child from a collapsed house, 18 November 1940 British Empire Medal, (Civil) G.VI.R., 1st issue (Robert Samuel Parker); Defence Medal, mounted as worn, with flattened card box of issue for the latter, addressed to ‘Mr R. S. Parker, B.E.M., 7 Burlsedon Road, Bitterne, Southampton’, generally good very fine (2) £500-£700 --- B.E.M. London Gazette 10 February 1942: ‘A H.E. bomb demolished a house and fractured a gas main. Two persons were trapped in the wreckage and it was only possible to reach them by driving a vertical shaft. Space was very limited and Parker had to work in an inverted position for over fours hours. During this time he was nearly overcome by coal gas but, after a Doctor in attendance had administered oxygen to him, Parker succeeded in rescuing the victims. He showed courage and determination, persistently refusing relief during the rescue operation.’ The report of the incident provided by the Southampton A.R.P.O. and Controller adds the following detail: ‘R. Parker left Woolston Depot with Rescue Party No. 11 (he was attached to this party at the time) at 02.46 hours on November 18th 1940 for No. 48 Monaughton Road. An H.E. bomb had demolished the house and fractured a gas main. Two persons (a woman and a child) were trapped, and having been located it was decided to reach them by driving a vertical shaft. Working space was very limited and Parker elected to carry out the work himself, and despite the fact that he had to work in an inverted position and was nearly overcome with town gas, he succeeded by sheer perseverance and determination, in rescuing the trapped persons. Throughout the operations Parker persistently refused relief and Dr. Saunders, who was in attendance administered oxygen.’ Statement by Dr. Saunders: ‘A mother and her small child were completely buried by debris following the collapse of their house, an H.E. falling a few yards away. Their rescue was an extremely difficult and complex operation, which Mr Parker carried out with conspicuous skill and perseverance. The patients could only be reached by tunnelling vertically downwards, so that Mr Parker was literally upside down for several hours - the operation was greatly complicated by escaping gas and I was obliged to give continuous oxygen together with morphia injections to the trapped people via the tunnel which Mr Parker created. He had to be similarly treated with oxygen himself but despite numerous offers of rest and replacement by other workers he insisted on completing the rescue work, despite another fact that he was technically off duty for a part of the period. The excellent condition of the patients on rescue was in great part due to Mr Parker’s courage and ingenuity.’ Robert Samuel Parker resided at 7 Burlesdon Road, Bitterne, Southampton, and was a painter by trade. During the Second World War he served as a Deputy Leader, Civil Defence Rescue Service, Southampton. He rescued Mabel Walters and her 2 year old daughter from the rubble of their house, 18 November 1940. Sold with the following original related documents: named Buckingham Palace Investiture invitation, dated 23 March 1942; Letter of congratulation from Regional Commissioner, No. 6 (Southern) Region, dated 13 February 1942; Letter to the same effect from the Air Raid Precautions Controller, dated 16 February 1942; hand written letter of thanks from Mabel Walters to recipient; recipient’s National Registration Identity Card; photographs of recipient, newspaper cuttings and copied research.

A German Second World War Luftwaffe Bomber Bar in Silver. A nice early non-maker-marked Luftwaffe Bomber Bar in silver. Good finish remaining, slight toning to the right hand wing and the upper part of the rim surrounding the diving bomb. Original pin, hook and hinge, possibly nickel silver alloy construction. At present fitted into a reproduction presentation case, good condition £200-£240

WW2. Flt Lt Noel K Stansfeld Signed Signature Cutting, With Original Wartime Photo of Heinkel 111 H Which Was Shot Down by Stansfeld on 30th August 1940. Also a Aluminium Plate With Circuit Diagram taken from the Bomb Rack. Good condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £10.

Falklands War RAF Harrier pilot Nick Gilchrist signed cover. Gilchrist was about to bomb Argentina position near Port Stanley when the surrender was announced. Good condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £10.

WW2. Wg Cdr Roland Beaumont CBE DSO DFC Signed V-1 Flying Bomb Attacks FDC. British D-Day Stamp with 13 June 94 Postmark. Good condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £10.

Three Royal Air Force, Air Bombers and Air gunners flying log books, relating to a Sergeant Cyril Thomas Sayer (1870253) detailing a number of training, missions etc. Sergeant Sayer took off from Tuddenham to bomb a flying bomb site as part of operation 'Pas de Calais' in a Lancaster bomber as part of 90th squadron. He failed to return having been intercepted by a intruder shot down June 28th 1944 at Canada farm near Icklingham, near Bury St Edmonds. A flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and Flight Sergeants. Sayer, a Flight Engineer on Stirling and Lancaster and bombers, entry July 24th 1948 the flight from Ludford Magna to Pomigiliano, sold with accompanying books related to the Second World War, etc., to include Walker (David) Civilian Attack, Masters (Davis) So Few The Immortal, record of the RAF, etc.

WW2 British E.O.D Bomb Disposal Badge.

INERT WW2 German SD. II Butterfly Bomb.

Museum Quality Replica WW2 "Crabtree Discharger" Made from original plans in solid brass. Originally used by the Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal for discharging the electrical charge in German bomb fuzes.

A pastel on paper drawing by Leonard Richmond. Showing bomb damage in London during WWII. Signed to bottom left corner. In gilt frame. Dimensions of frame approx 640mm x 795mm. GC, some losses to gilt frame. £70-100

Three Dinky aircrafts to include Spitfire, Baron and Junkers Stuka with bomb and an armoured car, together with Corgi Concorde and VMMOG, all in good condition, unboxed. P&P Group 1 (£14+VAT for the first lot and £1+VAT for subsequent lots)

British WWII No.36 Mills Bomb made by VADIS. Davis & Brocklesbury., Manchester. The internal tube is dated 1944 made by (S.D.R.) and has a rare base plate marked No.36 MII SEG /43 and is made from steel instead of alloy. Scarce

British WWII No.36 Mills Bomb made by Kenrick & Sons, West Bromwich. With original factory lacquer and with matching parts apart from a replacement base plug dated 1941.

British WWII No.36 Mills Bomb made by Callenders Abbots Foundry Co. Ltd., Glasgow. Non-matching components but complete, good amount of original paint remains and come with pressure plate dated 1940 and made by Josiah Parkes & Son, Willenhall Staffordshire.

British WWI No.5 Mills Bomb, no maker on the body but it is in excellent condition with some remnants of paint and original pull ring, the base plug is for a No.23 Mk.III 1917 and made by 'JP&S' Joseph Parks & Sons.

British WWI No.23 Mills Bomb made by P.T. Co. 1917 in very good condition with remnants of original factory lacquer, it is complete with 'Drill' detonator, scarce brass base plate made 1916 by (C.A.V.), C.A. Vandervell & Co. Sadly the filler plug has been drilled through otherwise the body is in excellent condition.

British WWII No.36 Mills Bomb made by Kenrick & Sons, West Bromwich. With original factory lacquer and with matching parts apart from a replacement base plug dated 1940. In beautiful condition.

British WWII No.36 Mills Bomb made by 'T.A & S.' T. Ashead & Sons. Dudly Worcestershire. In very good condition, the spoon and filler plug non-matching but base plug made by the same maker dated 1943, possibly has been re-painted but the body is in immaculate condition and comes with a pressure plate dated 1940 made by F Parramore, Caledonian Works, Sheffield.

British WWII No.36 Mills Bomb chromed cut away which shows how the internal components work. Made by 'JPS' John Pilling and Sons Ltd of Colne Lancashire with pressure plate dated 1940 made by F Parramore, Caledonian Works, Sheffield. A fantastic looking item.

British WWII No.36 Mills Bomb made by Qualcast, Derby. With original paint and components including spoon and base plug dated 1940, replacement filler plug. Comes with a Drill detonator. In very good condition

Israeli No.36 1950s made practice Mills Bomb, in excellent condition with a good amount of white paint remaining and original filler plug and non-marked base plug.

and 3 other people posing for a group portrait at an unidentified happening. (2) Simon Vinkenoog making a speech at an anti H-bomb protest. (3-4) 2 photogr. of a theatrical performance w. Simon Vinkenoog as an onlooker. Vintage silver gelatine prints, 1 w. copyright stamp of Cor Jaring Commelinstraat verso, 1960s. 25 x 20 cm. (total 4)

Box containing shell/bomb fragments from the blitz

Postcards in album including mainly Military, patriotic, humour, real photographic bi-planes etc, shipping, naval life, war pictures, Nurse Cavell, silk bomb damage and other bomb damage, military personalities, WW1 silks, Zeppelin raid Lowestoft, railway disasters Colchester Cromer express, Scotch Express Carlisle, Salisbury disaster 1906, earthquake Jamaica and other cards.Approximately 480 cards.

JAY D. MARTIN - BY YOURSELF 7" (PROMO - TOWER 403). Another dancefloor bomb here by Jay D. Martin to include By Yourself / Hold On To Your Heart (promo, Tower 403). In VG+ condition with some hairline marks. The centre label displays some age-related wear but is still crisp.

Hot Wheels (Mattel) Redline vintage tinplate Badge / Buttons - includes Custom Firebird; Lotus Turbine; Volkswagen Beach Bomb; Rolls Royce Silver Shadow plus others, includes some Heavyweights - conditions are generally Good to Excellent Plus (some do have surface rusting on backs) - still nice bright examples - duplication - see photo. (Approximately 150 pcs)

AIRCRAFT BOMB RELEASE MECHANISM PLUS TWO OTHER ITEMS

Keith Murray (1892 - 1981) For Wedgwood, Art Deco white globular pottery vases, bomb design, green facsimile signature stamp and Wedgwood Made in England under base, 15cm high. (2)