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Lot 303
A quantity of world 20th century silver coinage and medallions, countries examples include: Austria: schillings, Bahamas: 50 cents, France: centimes, francs, Germany: reichsmark, marks, Egypt, Italy, Iraq, Finland, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, Palestine, Trinidad and Tobago, Spain, South Africa, Switzerland etc. plus medallions: (a) first ascent of man 1783 Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier (b) first powered flight 1903 Wilbur and Orville Wright and others, approx 0.940 grams, 60% silver - Condition: Fine - VF
Lot 31
GB: Collection of signed special-to-event and first day covers from 1960s-90s from the world of television, spoort, sciences and the natural world. Signatories incl Angela Rippon, Alan Titchmarsh, Esther Ranzen, Brian Blessed, David Bellamy, Lester Piggot, Willy Carson, Chris Bonnington, Patrick Moore and Peter Scott.
Lot 45
GB & Tuvalu: Envelope of GB pre-decimal 1968/9 & decimal commem mostly in sets by complete stamp sheets (9 sets in all). Decimal sets are Curchill and QEII Silver Jubilee plus part sheet of wild animals FV £70+. In addition envelope of FDCs (20+) for 1976 First Stamps of Tuvalu. These are for all the post offices in the Island group with explanatory letter giving detail.
Lot 68
Iceland: Box of mint & used defin, commem, official, air and fiscal (Tollur) stamps from 1902 on in folder on stock-sheets. Some 200 covers, incl first day, 1950s-1990s. In addition, booklet and loose stamps in packets. Incl some scarcer issues such as 1930 Parliamentary Millenary Celebration & 1934 mint air.
Lot 70
GB & Regions: Box of over 200 transportation covers and cards incl Post Office historical sets, Concorde & other air, railway, TPO, sea-post and motor. Concorde, 18 total, incl Maiden flight 002, 9 Apr 69, first commercial flight London-Washington 1976 and some signed. Railway incl numerous Benham special-to-event.
Lot 765
A large selection of magic lantern slides, mainly part sets of Bamforths Life Model series showing Victorian actors in story scenes. Includes Dick and his Donkey (31), Only a Bunch of Cherries (10 black and white, 4 colour), Jessicas First Prayer (8), Coaching Days (7), Mismanaged Husband (6), Music vs Art (3), Unfinished is the Story (3), approximately 72 slide in total.
Lot 82
Australia: Comprehensive mint & used 30 page stock-book collection, 1936-63. Defins, commems, officials and postage due. Incl numerous sets and higher values to £2, "John Ash" plus se-tenant pairs, strips, blocks, Olympic mini-sheet and covers - many first day and some purposed. In general, near complete collection for period with some varieties. Needs to be seen to be appreciated.
Lot 84
GB, Br Empire/C'wealth & ROW cover/postcard accumulation in black folder, QV to early QEII period. Some 125 items of which 70+ are first day (some purposed). Wide variety incl censor, air, FPO, postage due, seapost and expedition. Incl Nawab of Amb State and QV signed military covers from India. Also KGV 1936 Hong Kong-to-Singapore first direct flight cover and NSW 1884 steamer postal cover. Much to interest on closer inspection.
Lot 971
An Atco Junior Safety First Trainer Car - these were produced in 1938 by Atco (the lawnmower manufacturers) for the purpose of training children how to drive to try and improve road safety. Two hundred prototypes were produced with the idea of providing driving lessons at schools, but after the War broke out production was halted and then after the war the idea was never pursued.
Lot 236
Various items of collectible pottery to include two Cobridge vases, height of largest 17cm, a Maling floral and green lustre vase, an Art Deco bachelor teapot, Japanese Imari plate, a Chinese pot painted with blue exotic birds in blossoms (lacking lid), a Wade NatWest Annabelle pig money bank, Royal Doulton figure of a girl feeding hens (seconds), a Maling lustre twin-handled dish, etc (15). CONDITION REPORT The Cobridge green vase is a Silver Line secondThe Cobridge vase with shell design is first quality
Lot 310
BESWICK; a Hereford Bull first version (horns protrude from ears), 1363A and a Hereford Cow 1360, both brown gloss (2). CONDITION REPORT Overall good condition throughout, with light signs of surface wear including minor crazing, light surface scratches, grubbing to the foot rim, etc. No other obvious signs of faults, damage or restoration.
Lot 432
AFTER REUBEN COLLEY (British, born 1976); two limited edition Caribbean beach scene prints on canvas, the first titled 'Blue Horizon', depicting a single catamaran moored on white beach, no.47/75, 40 x 54cm, frame size 55 x 70cm, the second titled 'Footsteps', depicting fresh footsteps on a beach, no.93/100, 49 x 47cm, each signed lower right in silver pen, in matching frames, each 65 x 52cm (2). †CONDITION REPORT This lot may qualify for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit
Lot 433
AFTER REUBEN COLLEY (British, born 1976); two limited edition Caribbean beach scene prints on canvas, the first titled 'Yellow Parasol', 28 x 28cm, frame size 44 x 44cm, the second titled 'The Pool', 28 x 46cm, frame size 43 x 52cm, signed lower right in silver pen and numbered 2/75 lower left, in matching frames (2). †CONDITION REPORT This lot may qualify for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit
Lot 434
AFTER REUBEN COLLEY (British, born 1976); two limited edition Caribbean scene prints on canvas, the first titled 'Hideaway', the second titled 'Lagoon', each 30 x 54cm, signed lower right in silver pen and numbered 15/75 lower left, in matching frames (2). †CONDITION REPORT This lot may qualify for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit
Lot 536
Two 1930s True Crime titles in Youngman Carter & Esme Roberts designed dust jackets, comprising Roland Wild; 'The Jury Retires' and Albert Lieck; 'Bow Street World London: Robert Hale and Company', 1937 & 1938, first editions. Bow Street World is the Publisher's file copy. Both jackets designed by notable artists of the period, the prolific Youngman Carter, and Esme Roberts, who also designed several posters for London Transport. CONDITION REPORT Both are slightly foxed and musty, the jackets with loss and closed tears repaired to the reverses with small pieces of archival tape.
Lot 538
Two books owned and signed by Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, of WWII 'Dam Busters' raid fame, Renalt Capes; 'Poseidon A Personal Study of Admiral Lord Nelson', 1947 first edition signed 'B. N. Wallis' to the front endpaper, and Ernest Raymond; 'In the Steps of the Brontes', signed 'B. N. Wallis" to the front endpaper'. Provenance: The books are from the estate of Harry Verdon Stopes-Roe and his wife, Mary Stopes-Roe (formerly Wallis, Mary being the daughter of Barnes Wallis). CONDITION REPORT There are pencil notes to the rear of the book relating to a baby's weight and feeding times, possibly in the hand of Barnes Wallis' son in-law, Harry Verdon Stopes-Roe. A portion of the dust jacket has been pasted across the front endpaper and pastedown below Wallis' name.
Lot 539
PEPYS, SAMUEL, LORD RICHARD BRAYBROOKE; 'Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.', London: George Allen & Company, Ltd., 1911. 'A verbatum reprint of the edition of 1848-49', though seemingly the first edition from this publisher, with reprints following in 1914 and several times in the 1920s, complete in four volumes.
Lot 540
Murray, Iain R. Dam Busters 1943 onwards and Vickers Wellington 1936 to 1953 Haynes Owners Manuals. Haynes, 2011 & 2012. First editions. Both books inscribed, the first: 'To Mary, With very best wishes. Iain R. Murray' and the second: 'To Mary, With very best wishes, Iain R. Murray Dec 2012'. The recipient of both was Mary Stopes-Roe, daughter of aeronautical engineer and designer of Dam Busters fame, Sir Barnes Neville Wallis. Both books have letters from Iain to Mary tucked in and print outs of emails from Mary to Iain.
Lot 541
IRIS MURDOCH; two signed and inscribed novels comprising a 1962 second impression of 'An Unofficial Rose', inscribed to fellow author Richard Adams to the front endpaper 'For Richard with admiration & love from Iris Dec 1984', additionally signed by Murdoch to the title page. It was evidently his pre-Watership Down fame reading copy, with 'Richard Adams 1963' written neatly in his hand to the top right of the front endpaper, and his post-fame bookplate, complete with rabbit illustration, to the front pastedown, and the uncommon first Swedish edition of 'The Philosopher's Pupil' (Filosofens Larjunge), inscribed to the title page: 'For Ingmar Björkstén with the very best wishes of Iris Murdoch + with congratulations to an honorary Englishman Stockholm Nov 1984'. Björkstén was a notable Finnish-Swedish author and Journalist (2).
Lot 542
LOWRY, HENRY DAWSON; Women's Tragedies - Keynotes series London: John Lane, 1895. First edition. 201 pages plus two publisher's catalogues to the rear, 7 & 16 pages. The ninth title in the Keynotes series, with the title page, cover and key designs by Aubrey Beardsley. A collection of short stories and sketches, some with slightly weird elements, such as a man who seems to be suffering from sleep paralysis, watching a man preparing to commit a murder, who transpires to be the man committing the murder whilst seemingly having an out of body experience. CONDITION REPORT The book is firmly bound, the extremities are bumped and rubbed, the boards are lightly marked and the spine slightly darkened. The text block is toned and dusty with minor marks and cracking at points.
Lot 545
DULCKEN, HENRY WILLIAM; 'Domestic Animals, Familiar Birds, etc., their habits and history', London: Ward, Lock & Tyler, 1865, first, or early edition. 44 pages plus 12 double page colour illustrations. Undated, but with the publisher's address noted as '158 Fleet Street', placing it before the 1878 move to Warwick House, Paternoster Row. There seem to be at least two slightly later editions in cloth which note the newer address. The book bound in the publisher's illustrated paper covered boards, with red cloth spine strip. CONDITION REPORT The text block is slightly toned, foxed and marked, with short closed tears to the edges of a few pages, minor ink marks to one plate and some pencil whirls to another, probably added by a bored child.
Lot 557
A quantity of hardback books, mainly 19th century literature, including 'Highways and Byways in Devon and Cornwall and London', three AC Blacks pictorial cover books, 'Venice' by Mortimer Menpes, 'The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám', 'The English Lakes' by A Heaton Cooper, 'Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens', by JM Barrie, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 'Chats On Old Furniture' by Arthur Hayden, 'The Lakes' by W Heaton Cooper, published by Warne, 'Winnie The Pooh' by AA Milne, 'The House at Pooh Corner' by AA Milne, Second Edition, 'When We Were Very Young', sixth edition, 'The Blue Fairy Book', Edited by Andrew Lang, fifth edition 1892, and the 'Welsh Fairy Book' by W Jenkyn Thomas fourth impression 1915. CONDITION REPORT The spine on the Lilac Fairy Book is worn, as are the front corners of the boards, it has a pencil inscription to the title page and staining to the first dozen or so pages to the bottom right. Further foxing throughout, appears to be complete but worn. The spine on the Welsh Fairy Book is flattened at the top and bottom, the opposing corners of the front and back boards are turned in. It has an inscription 'Tommy, With best love Christmas 1915' to the title page. The adhesive is starting to give from the spine to the pages of the book. There is heavy foxing to the title page and further light foxing throughout. The majority of the books in this lot appear to be in a well-used and worn condition.
Lot 581
A large collection of mixed commemorative and other medals and medallions to include an Earl of Plymouth bronze medal designed by William Bain 1833, an 1879 International Exhibition (Sydney) First Award to Nottingham Malleable Iron Co Ltd, an 1865 Reform League Edmund Beales President medallion, a Nottingham School Board Attendance Bronze Award, an Augustus Keppel medallion, an S Hobson & Son Sheffield 1812 penny, a 1797 cartwheel penny, a British 1800 George III Bronze Medal 'Preserved from Assassination', a Birmingham Town Hall commemorative coin, etc.
Lot 315
POSTCARDS - ASSORTED Approximately ninety cards, comprising real photographic views of North Street from Market House, Taunton; Lake & Gardens, Barry; Ringers at Leigh-on-Mendip, May 16, 1925; Leigh-on-Mendip Choir and Ringers, 1926; Mells Hockey First Eleven; Mells Hockey Second Eleven; Wandle Park, Croydon, from the air; and Keeper's Cottage, Longleat; with printed views of Trinity Street and Church, Frome (two); Municipal Buildings, Taunton; St. Mary's Church, Chard; and others, (album).
Lot 354
TWO 1/25 SCALE FIRST GEAR CONSTRUCTION PIONEERS DIECAST MODEL VEHICLES comprising an International S Series Tow Truck 'International Harvester', white and yellow; and an International S Series Dump Truck, black and red, each boxed. Condition Report : Tow truck with one loose front wheel and tear to box flap. Condition reports are offered as a guide only and we highly recommend inspecting (where possible) any lot to satisfy yourself as to its condition.
![[ART] Eleven assorted works, including Barnes, Susan, et al. Van Dyck. A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, first edition,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ef2edff2-1ed2-47fa-b8fe-adfa00aadb15/53db2799-828e-4cff-9787-ae060107576f/468x382.jpg)
![[SPORTING]. HUNTING Healey, John Campbell. Some Good Days with the Rochdale Harriers, first edition, Clegg, Rochdale, 1910,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ef2edff2-1ed2-47fa-b8fe-adfa00aadb15/9a7082f6-64b4-4351-8de9-ae0600c2726a/468x382.jpg)
Lot 395
[SPORTING]. HUNTING Healey, John Campbell. Some Good Days with the Rochdale Harriers, first edition, Clegg, Rochdale, 1910, scarlet cloth gilt, octavo; Ellis, Colin. Leicestershire and the Quorn Hunt, first edition, Backus, Leicester, 1951, scarlet cloth gilt, dustjacket, frontispiece, further plate and text illustrations, quarto; Bailey's Hunting Directories, 1930-1931; 1932-1933; 1934-1935; and 1949-1950; and two other works, (8).
![[SPORTING]. EQUINE Lyle, R.C., & Edwards, Lionel, illustrator. Royal Newmarket, de luxe limited edition 30/100, Putnam,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ef2edff2-1ed2-47fa-b8fe-adfa00aadb15/177d9d9b-f82a-4b68-9a20-ae0600c273af/468x382.jpg)
Lot 396
[SPORTING]. EQUINE Lyle, R.C., & Edwards, Lionel, illustrator. Royal Newmarket, de luxe limited edition 30/100, Putnam, London, 1945, full leather, top edges gilt, ten colour plate illustrations (including frontispiece, as called for), further full-page and text illustrations, quarto; Curling, B.W.R., & Edwards, Lionel, illustrator. British Racecourses, first edition, Witherby, London, 1951, scarlet cloth, dustjacket with pictorial onlay, twelve colour plates (one more than called for), quarto; McCall's Racing Chronicle or Pocket Turf Calendar for 1886; 1887; 1888; 1889; 1893; and May Part 1893, each in original cloth, each 12.5cm x 8.5cm; and four other works, (12). Condition Report : Lyle: Scuffed, with losses to spine strip and hole to lower joint; Curling: Jacket rubbed, with small losses at spine ends and corners, and with scarred patch to upper side; McCall Chronicle for 1886 lacking title label to upper cover. Condition reports are offered as a guide only and we highly recommend inspecting (where possible) any lot to satisfy yourself as to its condition.
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