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Click here to subscribeFLY RESERVOIR: Fine custom built wooden fly portable reservoir chest, 13” x 9” x 4.5”, carry handle to top, 6/0 salmon fly recessed to front hinged opening door revealing 14 slide out clip fitted trays, containing a fine collection of approx. 200 traditional salmon flies up to 7/0 incl. some gut eyed examples, couple of tray fronts require reattaching, twin pull rings to each tray, fine example.
A German Blue Roof Dolls House, with a lithographed paper mount to the front, porch by the front door and detachable steps. Front opening enclosing two rooms with papered walls and floor, an assortment of furniture including beaded chairs, piano, Waltherhaussen three drawer chest, chairs and accessories, 29cm by 20cm and 51cm high (including chimneys).
Shaw (Dr Thomas) REIZEN EN AANMERKINGEN DOOR EN OVER BARBARYEN EN HET OOSTE Uit het Engels vertaald door P. Boddaert, Med.Dr., met Aanteekeningen van de Vertaler; S. Rau, M. Tydeman en C. Saxe. 2 volumes: I. xxxvi, (viii Lyst der Inteekenaren), 365, (i printer’s colophon). II. (vi), 224, 144, (xxxii) pages, 8 engraved folding maps, 6 engraved maps, 6 engraved folding plates (including a musical score), 21 engrave plates, (all as called for in the lists of maps and plates), title page vignettes, chapter head pieces and initials, old half calf with sprinkled paper sides, red title labels on the spines, edges uncut, a few pages in volume II unopened, complete with the half title pages. Some of the folding maps and plates are torn at the first folds, pages 5-8 (A2, A3) in volume two are loose, the leather and paper sides are very worn and rubbed, the contents which are free of foxing are crisp. The Dutch translation of Dr Shaw’s second expanded edition of his Travels in Barbary and the Levant published in 1757. The author travelled from the Levant to Tunis and Algeria. A botanical section describes more than six hundred and forty species. Publisher Place: Amsterdam Publisher: Te Compagnie Publication Date: 1780 Size: 4to (280 x 220 mm) Category: Travel & Exploration Reserve: $500 Click here to view further details and images
A Good Second War 1944 `Immediate` Evader`s D.F.M. Group of Five to Stirling and Lancaster Wireless Operator, Flight Sergeant, Later Signaller 2, P. Jezzard, 622 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Who Was Killed in a Flying Accident Over the North Sea, 5.4.1948 a) Distinguished Flying Medal, G.VI.R. (1501713 F/Sgt. P. Jezzard R.A.F.) b) 1939-1945 Star c) Air Crew Europe Star d) Defence and War Medals, generally very fine, with the following related items and documents: - Caterpillar Club gold brooch badge, with `ruby` eyes, reverse engraved, `Sgt. P. Jezzard`, in Irving box, with named Membership Card, and enclosure letter, dated 21.7.1944 - `Escapers` Compass; two Silk Maps of France; Royal Air Force Escaping Society badge, gilt and two Pea-Nut Club badges - Cloth insignia including WAG Brevet - R.A.F. Navigator`s, Air Bomber`s and Air Gunner`s Flying Log Book (15.4.1943-5.4.1948), stamped `Death Presumed, Central Depository, Royal Air Force` - Letter from recipient to his family, written after he had escaped to Spain from Occupied France, dated 12.5.1944 - Congratulatory Telegram from Air Chief Marshal A.T. "Bomber" Harris, on the occasion of the award of Jezzard`s D.F.M., dated 23.11.1944 - Telegram to the same effect from the Officer Commanding 622 Squadron, dated 24.11.1944 - Telegram to recipient`s father informing him that his son is `missing` whilst on a training excercise, dated 6.4.1948 - Air Ministry letter to recipient`s father stating that Death is Presumed, dated 17.6.1948 - Letter of Condolence to recipient`s mother from Air Vice-Marshal Sir Basil Embry, dated 12.5.1948 - Several photographs of recipient, including a portrait photograph in uniform; newspaper cuttings and other ephemera (lot) D.F.M. 2.1.1945 1501713 Flight Sergeant Peter Jezzard, R.A.F.V.R., 622 Sqn The Recommendation, dated 12.11.1944, states: `This N.C.O. is now nearing completion of his first tour of operations throughout which his skill, courage and devotion to duty have been outstanding. On the night of 15th/16th March, 1944, the aircraft in which he was despatched on an operational mission to Stuttgart was so severely damaged by enemy action that the crew was ordered to bail out. Before abandoning the aircraft, however, he successfully transmitted a distress message to Base. From this ordeal, Flight Sergeant Jezzard made a successful escape from enemy occupied territory and on return to this country he immediately applied to be returned to his squadron for operational duty. Since his return in August, 1944, he has operated against many heavily defended German targets and has successfully completed several important mining missions. His resourcefulness in emergency and his determination and disregard of personal safety in face of danger is an inspiration to all and is worthy of recognition I strongly recommend an award of the Distinguished Flying Medal.` 1501713 Signaller 2 Peter Jezzard, D.F.M., a native of Prestwich, Manchester; served as a Cadet, No. 183 (1st Prestwich) Squadron A.T.C., prior to Second War service with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve; posted for training to No. 2 Radio School, Yatesbury, April 1943; after additional training at 26 O.T.U. and undertaking a conversion course on Stirlings at 1665 Conversion Unit, posted for operational flying as Wirless Operator to 622 Squadron (Stirlings and Lancasters), Mildenhall, November 1943; intially carried out 8 operational sorties with the squadron including: the Frisian Isles; Bayonne; Berlin; Schweinfurt; Augsburg, 29.2.1944, `Combat with Ju 88. Searchlights and Flak` (Log Book refers); Stuttgart (2), including 15.3.1944, when in Lancaster I LL828 JI-J piloted by Flight Sergeant P.A. Thompson, `T/o 1720 Mildenhall. Last heard on W/T at 0141 transmitting "Baling Out". Reports from the crew tell of attacks from night-fighters and from a fix taken of the wireless message it is likely the engagement took place SE of Rouen in France` (Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War refers); of the crew of seven, four (including Jezzard) managed to evade capture, whilst the remaining members were taken POW; Sergeant T.J. Maxwell, one of those to evade capture, gives the following account: `The thing about bailing out, in total darkness at night, from a crippled aircraft or splashing your 25 ton Lancaster into a raging sea swell was that you didn`t get any practice lessons beforehand, so it was a bit of a new thing. The nearest one got was about a year before was jumping off the top diving board in the warm water and brightly lit baths in Brighton in a flying suit and Mae West. Then the water had loads of noisy laughter and PT life-saving instructors to help if one got into difficulty. It was 1.30 in the morning and pitch black, the top board was about 8,000 feet vibrating and descending rapidly, and spewing fuel and oil from ruptured tanks. No friendly life-savers etc, but the reality that our fuel was being exhausted even faster than calculated had now replaced the `ditching` idea and bailing-out (and pretty soon at that) was the only option left. We, or certainly I was already well into a personal life saving preservation situation. I was personally totally disenchanted when the channel rowing excercise in total darkness was muted as a possibility. I never found the idea of hitting the English Channel at 100mph in total darkness, with sea and swell conditions unknown, and with an indeterminate amount of fuel, to be in the least appealing... Six of the crew all landed in an area 40 miles North East of Rouen and all reasonably close, within a kilometre or so of each other, but when they left the aircraft I was already on the way down some 20 kilometres further back, representing several minutes. The reason for their delay will never be known, but after 57 years almost to the day it has been established that the aeroplane crashed within a couple of miles from where some of the crew were taken POW. Of the four who returned to England on May 22nd on a DC3 from Gibraltar to Bristol (Whitchurch) I only met up later with Peter Jezzard. Both of us returned to operational flying with our original Squadron 622, Peter finishing his `tour` in November 1944 on 35 `trips` and myself on 32, finishing on New Year`s Day 1945` (Interview carried out in 2002 refers). Another member of the crew, Sergeant F. Harmsworth, gives the following account from the time after the crew had landed: `Later I met a schoolteacher who got me a change of clothes and temporary, false ID papers. He took me to a small rail station and there I bumped into my Wireless Operator Peter Jezzard. With barely a wink of recognition, we were on the train; the Frenchman [Maquis] up front, Pete in the middle, and me at the back of the coach. The train was straffed enroute by the R.A.F. guns so we hopped off the train and headed for a ditch. Later, we hopped back on the train and carried on to Paris. We got to the train station and it was very crowded with local Parisians, plus hundreds of German troops. We left the station and kept the same order of 20 ft. apart. After an hour we arrived at an apartment block and met the teacher`s cousin, a vivacious, 20 year old girl, Madeline Vuillemont, who lived with her parents... I was moved across Paris on the metro to the East End... A couple of days after I arrived, trusty John took me to a large store in town, where I stood in line with locals and stood next to German soldiers to get my picture taken in a booth... After 2 days, with good police connections, I received back my French I.D. card with other documents all duly signed and rubber-stamped... They found out it was my 20th birthday, so one night, a sign was put on the door that said, "closed for a family party." View Terms & Conditions
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