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Lot 1290

1936-41 range of first flight covers (15) incl. 1936 Feb 9th Imperial Airways London-Kano and onto Lagos, 1936 March 14th London-Hong Kong with scarce Aerodrome pmk, 1936 July 27th British Airways/ABA 1st night flight London-Stockholm with airport pmk & airline cachet, 1937 June 29th Imperial Airways 1st All-Up flight Southampton-Durban with Hotel arrival cachet, and another cachet, another but Southampton-Entebbe, 1940 June 4th BOAC Heston-Lisbon. Symbol: HD

Lot 1291

1942-80 range of first flight covers (49) incl. 1945 Sept 5th DDL London-Copenhagen, 1947 Jan 17th 1st Air letter service to USA Birmingham-California, 1948 March 19th BOAC Poole-Japan, 1948 July 1st All-Up first flight London-Stockholm special cover, 1953 Oct 1st All-Up first flight London-Warsaw BEA test letter- very scarce, etc. Symbol: HD

Lot 1322

1840 Aug 31st One Penny envelope Sterio A162 used to Maida Hill on the first day of the black Maltese cross obliteration, reverse T.P/Chiefe Office London cancel & clear strike of the Shield Type Au 31 1840 h/stamp. Rare item. RPS Cert. 2009. (1) Symbol: D

Lot 1327

1843 One Penny Letter Sheet Stereo A232 Forme 6 from London to Cheltenham used with a black MC inside advert for Atlas Insurance Company (MA103I) reverse bears fascinating hand written note. Vignette for envelope by W, Mulready but the first penny postage issued April 27th 1840 1d black. Symbol: D

Lot 1545

1912 (Sept) 2s SG.BB3 Downey Heads with first 1d pane detached, all panes upright wmks, usual mixed perfs, front cover detached from staple at top, otherwise fine. Cat. £1200 Symbol: B

Lot 436

A FIRST PERIOD WORCESTER RELIEF MOULDED TEA BOWL and saucer and an English, probably Coalport porcelain, milk jug possibly painted by John Rose, 40

Lot 538

A FIRST PERIOD WORCESTER LEAF SHAPED PICKLE DISH painted with `rock warbler` pattern with arrow workman`s mark, 10.5cm

Lot 613

A COLLECTION OF FIRST PERIOD WORCESTER to include a `Cannonball` pattern tea bowl, a` Mansfield` pattern tea bowl and saucer and a feather moulded floral saucer (4)

Lot 613A

A FIRST PERIOD WORCESTER `CANDLE FENCE` PATTERN TEA BOWL and saucer, and a matching coffee cup

Lot 614

A COLLECTION OF FIRST PERIOD WORCESTER to include a peony tea bowl and saucer, a dark sprig tea bowl and saucer, a chrysanthemum tea bowl and saucer and a` Man in Pavilion` tea bowl and saucer 980

Lot 615

A COLLECTION OF ROYAL WORCESTER FIRST PERIOD to include` Fence` pattern with crescent mark and letters, a` Bandstand` pattern tea bowl and saucer and a `European landscape` tea bowl and saucer (6)

Lot 616

A FIRST PERIOD WORCESTER TEA BOWL and saucer, `Birds in Branches` pattern, and another fruit sprigs pattern (4)

Lot 617

A FIRST PERIOD WORCESTER THREE FLOWERS PATTERN TEA BOWL and saucer, a `Cormorant Fisherman` pattern tea bowl and saucer and one other tea bowl `Prunus Root` pattern (5)

Lot 210

A clockwork First World War brass sight signed Allan, London with a hinged magnifier, silvered vernier scale, brass screw top cover and a tin outer case, 7cms diameter

Lot 212

East Lancashire Division, khaki drill officers service dress tunic, 42nd division, Galipoli with an American shirt, collar attached and an officers Wolsey tropical helmet, First world war, 6 7/8ths (illustrated)

Lot 216

First World War Postcard Portraits Album with 23 uniform studies 1st World War including Royal Navy Divisions, assorted Highland Regiment, some signed and dated Xmas 1918, 1915, 19cms x 14cms

Lot 219

First Wolrd War album, officer candidate school from 1916 " out with the gun teams ", Exeter, Woodbury, horse artillery, Royal Artillery pictures, Woodbury, family pictures, my Bunk, Exeter and Lark Hill, observing, map readings range finding, 18 pounders firing Okehampton fired Oak Hampton, approximately 73 photographs, the inner cover inscribed Greddington, July 1916

Lot 226

A souvenir First World War belt, attached with twenty cap and collar badges including the Welsh, Manchester, RAF, Royal Artilliary, Wiltshire, Kings, Liverpool, London Regiment, Royal Engineers, Royal Fusilliers, South Africa, Canada, Australia, South Africa Star and others 104cms (illustrated)

Lot 78

Crombie Charles "The Rules of Golf" illustrated, 24 cromolithographed plates, Perrier advertisements on verso, publishers cloth backed boards, back cover loose from plates, some pencil to first perrier front cover, some plates ink stained to outer margins, some foxing to outer margins (1905), 27.5cms x 37.5cms

Lot 1502

A first Edition of "Battle-axe Blenheims" signed by the author Stuart R Scott

Lot 518

An album of first day covers, some coins and banknotes

Lot 567

Four stockbooks of stamps and an album of first day covers and others loose

Lot 653

Three Stanley Gibbons Simplex albums including 1913 Auckland exhibition mint, 3 pence, 6 pence, first official Air Mail cover, two 1937 Health blocks of six and various miniature sheets

Lot 738

An album of GB first day covers and associated mint blocks 1991/1992

Lot 758

A keep book of GB QEII booklets, strips and first day covers

Lot 766

Two albums of mainly GB first day covers

Lot 768

An album of GB 1993/4 first day covers and associated mint blocks

Lot 770

An album of GB QEII first day covers and accompanying mint blocks

Lot 1030

A War Merit Cross first class Silver without swords, with a Bronze second class without swords and a Bronze example with swords

Lot 277

Two Delicate Chinese Jade Scent Bottles, the first celadon green and the other apple green, the vases having step ring to neck, on splayed foot, approx 7 cms

Lot 87

Simpson & Co SJHL First World War Bayonet, approx 23.5 cms

Lot 104

Two silver Masonic jewels, the first a William IV set square and compass pendant by Joseph Wilmore, Birmingham 1831, 8.5cm (3 1/4in) long excluding the swivel loop; the second formed as crossed quills, maker`s mark J.B struck twice only, with a suspension ring on chains, engraved Lodge 189, 13cm (5in) long. The second maker`s mark probably for John Brough who entered this mark in 1807.

Lot 138

Two early 18th century dated gold and rock crystal buckles, each with a two-spike tongue and anchor chape, the first rectangular and inset with gold thread over woven hair, Elizabeth 1710 with cherub heads and love hearts, the frame 3.1cm (1 1/4in) long; the second rectangular with one end curved, inset with gold thread over woven hair, Elizabeth 1720 with cherub heads, the frame 3.9cm (1 1/2in) long. The Victoria & Albert Museum have a memorial buckle similar dated 1728 (no. M.136-1975).

Lot 148

Two 19th century hardstone fob seals, the first seal with a cornelian matrix, carved with the shield with crest and motto for Sir Francis Burdett 1770-1844, 5th baronet of Bramcote, Warwickshire, the shield, augmented by the red hand of Ulster for a baronet, is of its ancient form, but at a later date its two horizontal bars were charged with six martlets. In pretence to denote his wife Lady Sophia Burdett status as heiress is the shield of Coutts, to a reeded and scrolled mount; the other seal with an initialled panel to a pierced scrolled setting. Sir Francis Burdett was married in 1793 to Sophia, 3rd daughter and co heir of Thomas Coutts, banker of London. Francis Burdett was born in 1770 and succeeded his grandfather, Sir Robert, in 1797 to the baronetcy created in 1618. He became a well-known radical Whig politician, serving as MP for Boroughbridge, Westminster and North Wiltshire where he resided at Ramsbury Manor. After his wife Lady Burdett died on the 13th January 1844, Sir Robert could not foresee any future for himself, and decided to stop eating, he died ten days later, and Sir Robert and Lady Burdett were buried on the same day in 1844 in the chancel of Ramsbury Church. Survived by one son and eventual heir, Colonel Robert Burdett, as well as five daughters. Their fifth daughter, Angela Burdett-Coutts, achieved later distinction as the richest woman in Britain and a noteworthy philanthropist. The baronetcy became extinct in 1951.

Lot 155

A south Staffordshire enamel drum shape bougie box, circa 1770, with a funnel-topped cover and ring handle, painted with rustic views within raised gilded scrolls against a grass green ground with raised white dots, gilt metal mounts, 6cm (2 1/2in) high. Provenance: The Hon. Mrs. Nellie Ionides Collection, Sotheby`s London, 17th June 1990, Lot 63. Mrs. Ionides noted that this was the first English enamel in her celebrated collection and that it had been given to her in 1903 by Mr. H. Levy.

Lot 158

A Birmingham enamel circular snuff box, circa 1750, the cover painted in muted tones with a quayside scene, the sides painted with landscapes in the German manner, the base with a spray of flowers, gilt metal mounts, 6.5cm (2 1/2in) diameter. This collector`s first purchase (note inside)

Lot 36

A pair of late George III silver wine coolers and collars by John & Thomas Settle, Sheffield 1817, embossed overall with bold foliate scrolls and rocaille work, on pedestal bases, the collars numbered 1 and 2, the liners of old Sheffield plate, the coolers and collars engraved with two crests, engraved beneath Virginia Winn from Webb- July 10th 1945, 26cm (10 1/4in) high, the coolers and collars 4079g (131.2 oz). Engraved with the crest of a griffin`s head from a mural coronet recorded for AMOND, BASQUER, BISHOP, ESSEX, GILBERT, LOCKSMITH, MOSS, REAY, STOCKDALE, THOMLINSON, UMFREVILLE, WESTCOMBE and WHEELER accompanied by a demi-lion holding a Lochaber axe possibly for MURRAY. Provenance: The wine coolers were a 35th anniversary gift from William Webb Wheeler, Jr. to his wife, Virginia (nee Burnes), and are by direct descent to the current vendors. The first Wheeler who appears on the family tree is Levi, born in 1796, next is David (1823-1861), followed by William Webb Sr., then William Webb Wheeler Jr., William Webb Wheeler III and William Webb Wheeler IV. William Webb Wheeler, Junior`s father owned the mercantile business which Jr. inherited and ran through the crash of 1929, and was renowned for building up an important library. Virginia Winn (Wynne) Burnes Wheeler was the daughter of Lewis Calvin Burnes, president of the Burnes National Bank and was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). The original immigrant to America in 1771 changed his name from Peter Burness to Burnes.

Lot 534

Two graduated coral bead necklaces, the first with beads measuring 6mm to 9mm, to an oval bead shaped clasp, stamped with Italian control marks, 35g gross, 50cm long; the second necklace with beads measuring 5.5mm diameter to 9mm diameter, 45g gross, 53cm long

Lot 723

A sapphire and diamond dress ring by Jean Schlumberger, the central cut cornered step cut sapphire weighing 30.95 carats, claw set within a pave set brilliant cut diamond mount with beaded accents, above pave set brilliant cut diamond shoulders, approximately 3.00 carats total, signed Schlumbreger on a plaque under the gallery, the shank stamped with the maker`s mark of the atelier Henri Picq, finger size K 1/2. Born in 1907, Jean Schlumberger has become recognised as one of the master jewellery designers of the 20th century. He began designing costume jewellery for Elsa Schiaparelli in Paris in the late 1930s, and gathered around him such leading socialites and style icons as the Duchess of Kent, Daisy Fellowes and Diana Vreeland, from whom he received his first jewellery design commissions. After the end of the Second World War, Schlumberger opened a workshop in New York, followed by a boutique in Paris in 1950. In 1956 he was invited to become the Vice President of jewellery design at Tiffany & Co., making his name synonymous with Tiffany`s jewellery design. The atelier of Henri Picq came to prominence in the early 20th century as the Parisian workshop that produced some of Cartier`s finest jewels, including the `Tutti Frutti` jewels of the 1920s.

Lot 92

Five George III silver wine labels or bottle tickets, the first crescent shape with a threaded border by Thomas Phipps & Edward Robinson, London 1790, engraved SHERRY, 4.3cm long; a pair of lozenge shape by John Hutson, London 1791, with bright-cut borders, pierced SHERRY and LISBON, 4.7cm long; an oval example by Thomas Halford, maker`s mark only, with a bright-cut border, engraved LISBON, 4.5cm long; and canted-rectangular by Peter, Ann & William Bateman, London 1800, engraved HOLLANDS, 3.4cm long. Thomas Halford registered this mark in August 1807.

Lot 283

Medals: the Defence Medal 39-45, British Red Cross Voluntary Service Medal (1914-18 War), Nursing Medal 39-45 and two Red Cross First Aid Award groups, all framed as one

Lot 1

Two Meissen figurines first modelled 1765, these examples late 19th / early 20th century, comprising a barefoot girl feeding a group of poultry and chicks, a shallow basket of corn held beneath her left arm, blue crossed swords and impressed 2814 to base, assembler number 73 scribed to base rim, 4½in. (11.4cm) high; the second figure of a barefoot boy feeding a group of geese from a bag of foliage, blue crossed swords, incised C41, impressed assembler`s mark 65 to base, 5¼in. (13.3cm.) high. (2)

Lot 26

Two Worcester first period tea cups vertical ribbed bodies with blue floral sprigs, solid crescent mark to bases, 2½in. (6.3cm.) high; together with a first period Worcester teapot of concave lobed form, blue floral decoration, hollow crescent to base, missing lid, 4 x 5in. (10.2 x 12.2cm.). (3)

Lot 27

A pair of first period Worcester dessert bowls late 18th century, of shallow and lobed form, pendant decoration to scalloped rim of bowl, pine cone pattern, filled crescent mark to base, 9¾in. (24.9cm.) diameter. (2)

Lot 29

A Worcester first period teapot late 18th century, ovoid form, flat lid decorated with three floral sprigs and a bud finial, blue and white geometric pattern to upper edge, fruit and flowers decorating the body and spout, plain scroll handle, filled crescent mark to base, 5¾in. (14.4cm) high.

Lot 30

Five first period Worcester dessert bowls late 18th century, lobed and scalloped rims with pendant decoration, pine cone pattern, three with filled crescent mark to base, two unfilled, 7in. (17.7cm.) diameter. (5)

Lot 35A

A first period Worcester saucer late 18th century, decorated in the three flowers pattern, serif `W` mark to base, 4¾in. (12cm.) diameter; together with a similarly decorated saucer, possibly Caughley. (2)

Lot 100

Hedley Le Noury (British, 20th century) A Sea Battle during the English civil war between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists off Castle Cornet, Guernsey signed and dated 1983 lower right 23½ x 35½in. (59.5 x 90.25cm.) * During the English Civil War, Guernsey sided with the Parliamentarians, while Jersey remained Royalist. Guernsey`s decision was mainly related to the higher proportion of Calvinists and other reformed churches, as well as Charles the First`s refusal to take up the case of some Guernsey seamen who had been captured by the Barbary corsairs.

Lot 555

A Japanese carved ivory okimono Meiji period, depicting a gentleman senior in years lovingly helping a child take his first steps, on circular base with signed with inscribed three character mark, 8¼in. (21cm.) high.

Lot 631

A Roman pottery oil lamp first century A.D., discus with embossed fan shaped emblem, bowl form nozzle, 3¼in. (8.25cm.) long; together with a glass vase, possibly Roman, elongated neck with spiral decoration, flared drum form base, 4¼in. (10.8cm.) high. (2)

Lot 699

A British First World War leather pistol holster in dark brown leather with brass fittings, stamped `G. Battle 1918`, 11in. (28cm.) long. * Condition: In very good condition. Good colour and polish to leather - a few small dings and scratches which have been polished-in. Brass fittings complete and securely attached.

Lot 159

Four Classic Novels To Include Rackundra`s First Cruise By Arthur Ranson, Through The Looking Glass And Alices Adventures In Wonderland By Lewis Carroll, Published By Macmillan & Co, 1872 (4)

Lot 233

A Group Of Seven Service Medals Including First World War General Service, Mercantile And Canadian Voluntary Service

Lot 330

A Large Quantity Of Manchester Guardian History Of The War Magazines Dating From Throughout The First World War Period

Lot 334

A Single Framed Collection Of Nine First World War Period And Earlier Campaign Medals Including South Africa Campaign With Two Bars (1901 & 1902) An India Medal With Afghanistan 1919 Bar And Others

Lot 336

A Single Frame Collection Of Seven First And Second World War Period Service Medals Including France And Germany Star, Italy Star Etc

Lot 163

Two boxes containing a quantity of postcards, first day covers, cigarette cards

Lot 182

Two trays inc. pewter chamerstick, GB stamps and first day covers, model vehicles, playing cards etc

Lot 159

Four Classic Novels To Include Rackundra`s First Cruise By Arthur Ranson, Through The Looking Glass And Alices Adventures In Wonderland By Lewis Carroll, Published By Macmillan & Co, 1872 (4)

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