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Lot 701
A scarce blowpipe, Sumpitan, of the type made by the Sakai tribe of the Malay peninsula, 83” overall, consisting of an outer tube constructed from several sections of different types of bamboo, decorated with bands of incised decoration, bound at each end with plaited rattan, the slender inner tube of smooth bamboo with carved wood mouthpiece, together with its bamboo quiver, “tolar”, bound with 3 bands of rattan and with woven lid, containing 10 darts, “langa”, with conical pith ends, each contained in its individual bamboo tube, and 6 other empty tubes. GC (rattan binding at one end of the pipe loose). See “Stone’s Glossary” p 589 for description. Plate 5
Lot 151
A 19th Century Indonesian Blowpipe, of straight grained hardwood, with 11cm ringed brass socket to one end, 197cm long; together a bamboo quiver bound with plaited rattan and containing a number of differing types of darts, possibly Malayan or Bornean. **Collected by Captain William Chimmo of HMS Nassau on his trip to the Sulu Archipelago circa 1872
Lot 426
Antique silver single Albert chains (2), comprising graduated curb links, 11” & 12”, one fitted with two T-bars & a small swivel fastener, the other fitted with a swivel fastener & fob shields (3), one with blue enamel for `Stockport Licensed Houses Darts League` & two with gold faced shield, all shields with some wear, one with some lead solder, stamped, tested or h/m (3.34oz) (5)
Lot 387
Collection of Sporting Autographs: covering Cricket, Motorsports, Boxing, Football, Darts, Horseracing etc. together with books, programmes and other ephemera from the 1960s onwards - signatures incl. John Surtees, Agostini, Stirling Moss, 1987 England Ladies Cricket Team, 2003 Zimbabwe Cricket Team, Don Bradman, Ernie Shavers, Alan Minter, Henry Cooper, Derek Dougan, Bobby George etc. Work a look.
Lot 767
Reg Wootton ("Sporting Sam") A FOLIO OF 30 ORIGINAL ARTWORKS FOR PUBLICATION AS CARTOONS IN THE SUNDAY EXPRESS NEWSPAPER pen & ink strip cartoons, typically 13 by 33cm., 5 by 13in. Reg Wootton joined the Sunday Express in 1931 and launched "Sporting Sam" in 1933. He was also known for the character "Sporty" who appeared in Knockabout Comic and Mug and Mik in The Netherlands. Most of the artwork are dated which corresponds to the publication dates in the newspaper. Sports encompassed in the folio include swimming, pole vaulting, wrestling, athletics, hammer throwing, diving, darts, bowls, hunting, ice hockey, high jumping and tennis,
Lot 690
15 paper cartridges with lead bullets, for .36" Colt Navy percussion revolvers; an original unopened tin of 250 Joyce’s No 18 percussion caps, with outer printed paper wrapper; another tin of percussion caps; a tin for Webley .22" blank cartridges; 9 coloured darts for .22" air rifle; 2 circular tobacco tins containing a quantity of gun flints; and 5 various packets and tins of air gun pellers including unopened packet of 500 Triumph .177" pellets and empty packet for Lane’s Cat Slugs for Daisy and King air rifle. Average GC
Lot 851
A George V two-handled Trophy Cup, the half fluted body with floral and foliate matt backed frieze, and flanked by further acanthus leaf capped and reeded handles, to a spreading circular foot with oak leaf rim (stem repaired), and bearing presentation inscription "RNLI Darts League, The Margaret Westenra Challenge Cup, 1968", weight 45 oz all in
Lot 348
A rare blowpipe gadget cane early 20th century, the pull-off domed mahogany knop with slotted brass stem beneath to hold darts, revealing a polished rosewood mouthpiece above a polished bamboo shaft with brass lined pipe to the centre, exiting from beneath the screw-off brass ferrule, 35.5in. (90cm.) long.
Lot 1374a
Collection of various Vic and other later parlour games-to incl. Cased set of De La Rue & Co London "Piquet" c/w rules, score cards and pencils; Merelles formerly known as "Nine Men's Morris" c/w box c. 1880 note this game dates back to Shakespeare, F.H. Ayres "Game Of Spellicans" in original wooden case c/w ivorine sticks and makers label, Jolly Boy toy c/w instructions and a bear (both A/f) plus Globe Series "the Tail-less Donkey" c/w with pin board and tails, plus boxed set of darts, and other games.
Lot 600
A group of nine Arsenal post-war 'specials' programmes, comprising: a darts gala at the 'Old Horns' in Warner Place E2 21st February 1949, the back cover signed by Wally Barnes, Ronnie Rooke, Les Compton, Reg Lewis, Don Roper and others; a Grand Six-A-Side Charity Tournament programme played at Tooting & Mitcham 6th May 1964 featuring Arsenal, Metropolitan Police, Chelsea, Fulham, Crystal Palace, Wimbledon, Carshalton & Tooting & Mitcham; 1969 League Cup final v Swindon, signed on the back cover by the Arsenal team; the home-leg of the 1970 Fairs Cup final v Anderlecht; Arsenal v Liverpool Supporters' Clubs BBC TV It's A Knockout Cup Final Special 18th April 1971 at Eirias Park Colwyn Bay; national emergency (floodlighting ban) 4-page programme for Arsenal v Wolves played Tuesday 4th December 1973 at 2pm; Spurs v Arsenal 3rd May 1971; a multi-signed Arsenal v Spurs programme 17.4.85; and a souvenir programme for the official opening of the grandstand extension by The Princess Royal at the University of London Athletic Ground at Motspur Park on 7th February 1991, featuring various sporting events including a ULFA v Arsenal football match
Lot 869
An Indian flintlock musket dated 1811, with etched 92cm barrel flared at the muzzle, fore and black sights, 'V' spiked tang, figured walnut or similar full stock decorated in ivory with inlaid darts, botehs and rosettes stamped with circlets of lac, the East India Company lock with semi rainwater protected pan and struck with lion rampant crest, crown over 2 and date, ramrod, trigger guard with rudimentary pineapple and two wire loops, 135cm l. ++In good unrestored condition with several old scratches and marks, applied later in the 19th c with two think iron loops for a sling, the ivory parts attractively toned and in good condition
Lot 1197
The rare and important Second World War St. Nazaire raid D.S.C. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Commander (E.) W. H. Locke, Royal Navy, who was Warrant Engineer aboard H.M.S. Campbeltown and taken P.O.W. after the loss of M.L. 177 Distinguished Service Cross, G.VI.R., the reverse officially dated ‘1945’; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; Korea 1950-53 (Lt. Cdr., R.N.); U.N. Korea, mounted court-style, generally good very fine or better (7) £20,000-25,000 Only 17 Distinguished Service Crosses were awarded for the St. Nazaire raid, the vast majority to men of Coastal Forces, Locke’s award being one of just two to the Campbeltown. D.S.C. London Gazette 11 September 1945: ‘For gallantry, determination and devotion to duty in H.M.S. Campbeltown in the raid on St. Nazaire in March 1942.’ Wilfrid Harry Locke, who was appointed as a Warrant Engineer in October 1941, was placed in charge of the engine-room of the former American four-stacker Campbeltown in early 1942, which ship had been allocated a key role in forthcoming ‘Operation Chariot ‘, namely to ram the southern caisson of the Normandie Dock in St. Nazaire, laden with delayed action explosives, thereby destroying the facility and denying the mighty Tirpitz use of the only suitable dry-dock on the Atlantic coast. Accordingly, over a two week period in March 1942, the Campbeltown was fitted out at Devonport and outwardly altered to resemble a German Mowe-class torpedo boat, while internally she was fitted with a special tank containing four tons of T.N.T. and eight-hour delay fuses which were to be activated two hours before she reached the Normandie Dock. Setting out on her final voyage with the raiding force on 26 March, she took over as Force Leader shortly after midnight on the 28th, when seven and a half miles remained in the run-up the Loire. Finally, at about 0130, with less than two miles to go, the German defences awoke. C. E. Lucas Phillips takes up the story in The Greatest Raid of All: ‘A continuous stream of projectiles of all sorts was now striking the Campbeltown, but so violent was the sound of our own weapons that the ring of bullets on her hull and the crack of small shells was hardly noticed; but when larger shells shook her from stem to stern none could be unaware, and what every survivor was to remember for ever afterwards was the unchecked flow of the darts of red and green tracer flashing and hissing across her deck and the quadruple whistle of the Bofors shells. Bullets penetrated her engine and boiler-rooms, ricocheting from surface to surface like hornets, and Locke, the Warrant Engineer, ordered hands to take cover between the main engines of the condensers, except for the throttle watchkeepers ..’ With 200 yards to go a searchlight fortuitously illuminated the check-point of the lighthouse on the end of the Old Mole, enabling Lieutenant-Commander S. H. Beattie on the Campbeltown’s bridge to correct his aim on the caisson. Having then ploughed through the steel anti-torpedo net, the old four-stacker closed on her collision course at 20 knots, and every man aboard braced himself for the impact. At 0134 the Campbeltown crashed into the gate, rearing up and tearing the bottom out of her bows for nearly 40 feet. Commando assault and demolition parties streamed ashore, while below the sea cocks were opened to ensure the Germans could not remove her before she blew up. As she settled by the stern, Beattie evacuated the crew via M.G.B. 314, and Lieutenant Mark Rodier’s M.L. 177. Locke and Beattie, with some 30 or more of Campbeltown’s crew boarded the latter vessel, and started off down river at 0157 hours. Lucas Phillips continues: ‘The boat was embarassingly overcrowded but Winthrop, Campbeltown’s doctor, helped by Hargreaves, the Torpedo-Gunner, continued to dress and attend to the wounded both above and below deck. Very soon, however, they were picked up again by the searchlights lower down the river and came under fire from Dieckmann’s dangerous 75mm. and 6.6-inch guns. Rodier took evasive action as he was straddled with increasing accuracy. The end came after they had gone some three miles. A shell .. hit the boat on the port side of the engine-room lifting one engine bodily on top of the other and stopping both. Toy, the Flotilla Engineer Officer, went below at once. Beattie left the bridge and went down also. He had no sooner left than another shell hit the bridge direct. Rodier was mortally wounded and died a few minutes afterwards .. The engine room was on fire, burning fiercely, and the sprayer mechanism for fire-fighting had also been put out of action. Toy, who had come up momentarily, at once returned to the blazing compartment but was never seen again. Locke, Campeltown’s Warrant Engineer, was able partially to repair the extinguisher mechanism. The flames amidships divided the crowded ship in two, but the ship’s company continued to fight the fire for some three hours by whatever means available. At length, when all means had failed and the fire had spread throughout the boat, the order to abandon ship was given at about 5 a.m. One Carley raft had been damaged, but few of the wounded ratings were got away on the other, and the remainder of those alive entered the icy water, many of them succumbing to the ordeal. All of Campbeltown’s officers were lost except Beattie and Locke, among those who perished being the brilliant and devoted Tibbets, to whose skill and resourcefulness the epic success of the raid was so much due and whose work was soon to be triumphantly fulfilled.’ Locke and the other survivors had been rounded up by the Germans by 0930 hours, which was expected to be the last possible time for the acid-eating, delayed action fuses in Campbeltown to work. Thus it was with all the more satisfaction that at 1035 hours the British prisoners, gathered together in small groups across the St. Nazaire area, heard the terrific explosion which blew in the caisson and vaporised Campbeltown’s bows. The stern section was swept forward on a great surge of water and carried inside the Normandie Dock where it sank. Thus the main goal of the operation was achieved for a cost of 169 dead and about 200 taken P.O.W., many of them wounded, out of an original raiding force of 611 men. Yet only six of Campbeltown’s gallant crew were eventually decorated, Beattie being awarded the Victoria Cross. For his own part, Locke was incarcerated at Marlag und Milag Nord camp at Tarnstedt, and was not gazetted for his award of the D.S.C. until after being liberated, a distinction that prompted his former ‘Chief ‘, Mountbatten, to write: ‘From my personal knowledge as Chief of Combined Operations, I know how well deserved this recognition is and am delighted to see that the part you played in such a hazardous expedition has been recognised nearly four years afterwards. I hope that you have fully recovered from your captivity and should like to wish you the best of good fortune in the future.’ Locke remained in the Royal Navy after the War, seeing service aboard the Padstow Boy, Jason and the aircraft carrier Indefatigable, and was present in operation off Korea in the Hart as a Lieutenant-Commander (E.). Having then removed to the Bellerophon, he was placed on the Retired List in 1955; sold with a copy of The Art of Jack Russell, with a signed dedication to Locke’s bravery at St. Nazaire.
Lot 26
Four various Sporting Trophy Shields, formally held at The Staffordshire Regiment Museum, Lichfield-South Staffordshire Athletics, The San Miguel Shield First Battalion Staffordshire Regiments Warrant Officers' and Sergeants' Darts Competition, Inter Platoon Cross Country Trophy and North Staffordshire Regiment Inter Company Revolver Shield.
Lot 1
A Collection of Borneo Weapons and Ethnographia, comprising two bamboo blowpipes with incised bands of chevrons, three spears with iron blades-two with wooden sheaths, a bamboo fish spear with split bamboo head, two containers for darts with woven raffia covers, a bird caller, a gourd, and bamboo pipes , together with a drum shaped case and a woven hat
Lot 1
Games: two Mah-Jong sets in wooden chests, Bounce Ball, Word Making-Word Taking, Skee-ball, Find Your Partner, Puff-Darts, Tidley Winks, Chivalry, Stumpz (indoor cricket), a bagatelle board, Queen Mary, Ludo, Dominoes, Muddles, selection of music sheets, Zig-Zag Puzzle The Fire Brigade, cowboy doll, mini Rock-Ola, Marx Speedway (incomplete), two tinplate cars, ski-Looper, a cast-iron Postage Stamps sign and a polished mineral sphere P-G
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