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Fascinating Photograph Album used by Naval Intelligence (N.I.D.6 Admiralty) 1941, private photograph album compiled by an E.T.Chaplin with an address in Kensington following visits in 1935 to Constantinople, Bucharest (Romania), Odessa, Yalta, Sebastopol, Tuapse, Caucasus, Tiflis, Batum, Trebizond, Salonika etc. 49 photographs, all captioned in contemporary album with Official signed letter from the Admiralty, in which they indicate that quite a number of photographs have been copied. Unusual item.

Outstanding and Historically Interesting Luftwaffe Photograph Album, Log Book and Soldbuch of Observer Leutnant Konrad Ellermann Who Flew Operationally During the Spanish Civil War as Part of the Condor Legion and Later Flew Sea Planes in Norway, the first album in the grouping begins with a coloured illustration of the crossed flags of Spain and Nazi Germany with the slogan “Wir kampften in Spanien”, the photographs begin with scenic images taken in various parts of Spain and also Norway (Bergen), images soon become of his time in Spain with many images of aircrew wearing the Spanish pilots wing, as was common with aircrew serving with the Condor Legion, many good images of various aircraft, mostly sea planes, good air shots, damage to aircraft etc. Series of images of a funeral of a member of the Legion Condor with a written page giving full details. Good images of bomb damage, aerial images of a bombing raid, targeted ships at sea, etc. All the pages are very nicely annotated in German giving clear information about what is being shown in the images. The first album is complete with 217 images, most of which are excellent quality and interesting. The second album in the grouping relates to his WW2 service with sea planes in Norway and Narvik. Many large images of various Luftwaffe aircraft and the crews etc. Many aerial shots as the unit moved to attack the French coast, mostly Brest. As with the first album, most of the pages are beautifully annotated and he has drawn artistic images of the squadron badges in which he has served. The second album contains approximately 187 images. What makes this grouping incredibly rare is that his original Legion Condor log book is present, this log records all the operational flights he made during his time in the Spanish Civil War, including bombing raids on Barcelona, Alicante and Sagunto. The log book continues with operational sorties during WW2, in total 378 operational sorties are recorded. The last item in the grouping is his original Soldbuch, which has uniform photograph to the inside. The book is well filled out with a large amount of entries and stamps. The awards page shows the awarding of the Spanish Cross in Gold with swords, Spanish Cruz de Guerra, Spanish Medalla de la Campana, Iron Cross 2nd class, Iron Cross 1st class, Operational flying clasp in silver, Narvik shield, Operational flying clasp for bombers in Gold, Honour Goblet (Ehrenpokal), Operational flying clasp for bombers in gold with pendant and the German Cross in gold (Deutsche Kreuz). This is a truly fantastic grouping, items relating to the Spanish Civil War and the Condor Legion are extremely rare to find

Historic Trophy given to T. O. M. (Tommy) Sopwith by the Aero Club of New York, engraved "Bomb Dropping Contest Won by T.O.M.Sopwith at Nassau Boulevard Aerodrome" This handsome trophy manufactured by the famous firm of Reed and Barton of Massachusetts (producer of the Oscar statuettes) is believed to be of silver gilt and measures some 22cms x 19cms and carries their name on its base together with the number 394 and "gilt". The Nassau aerodrome in the United States closed in 1912 and Tommy Sopwith won the award there in the previous year in July 1911, whilst flying his new Howard Wright Biplane and which he wrote off shortly afterwards. The iconic Tommy Sopwith was both an accomplished pilot and founder of the Sopwith Aviation Company at Brooklands in June 1912 at the age of 24, which went on to design and manufacture the Sopwith Camel, among others, a truly classic aircraft of WWI. Tommy Sopwith lived to be 101 and was involved in both Aviation, Motor Cycling and Motoring. This unique item represents a tangible link with one of our greatest aviation pioneers.

Historic Commemorative High Quality Silver Aircraft Model Presented to "SIR THOMAS SOPWITH CBE.HON. F.R.A E.S. BY HIS COLLEAGUES IN THE HAWKER SIDDELEY GROUP TO COMMEMORATE THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GRANTING TO HIM OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB'S AVIATOR'S CERTIFICATE NOVEMBER 22ND 1910", Tommy Sopwith acquired his Royal Aero Club Certificate in 1910 (no 31) at the age of 22 and at the time his aircraft was a Howard Wright Biplane in which he established two British aviation endurance records ( The first on the 26th November 1910 by flying 107 miles in 3 hours 2 mins in his Howard Wright Biplane. Another by making the first cross-Channel passenger flight.) Later in December 1910 he won £4000 for the longest flight from England to the Continent in a British built aeroplane (169 miles/ 272 km) in 3 hours 40 mins. He used the prize money to set up the Sopwith School of Flying at Brooklands. It is this aircraft which, expertly crafted in silver and provided by Skinner & Co, 35 Bond Street London, Silversmiths (whose name appears on the underside of the base), was presented to him in 1960. Tommy Sopwith's original company, the famous Sopwith Aviation Company eventually became Hawker Siddeley, so it was particularly fitting that it was Hawker Siddeley which made this hugely significant and unique award to him. The model and its plinth weigh around 1.3 kilos and is approximately 17 cms x 21 cms. Apart from some modest movement of the model it and the base are in very good condition. Another unique item with a direct link to this world famous Aviation pioneer and manufacturer.

The Flowery 1942-4 the Scrubs "Conchie" Review by the Central Board for Conscientious Objectors June 1945. Rare "Gives to the public the contents of an underground journal published during the war in a British prison, Wormwood Scrubs" 48pp., sketches. Paper somewhat browned, covers fragile. Important item,

A "Lasser passer" of the Grand Armee for captured British Officers to go to Madrid Unescorted, having given their parole (and thence as prisoners of war to Paris) Signed by Major-General Dembouski, Polish Commander of the 5th (Polish) Corps of the Army of Spain, with a number of British Officers named including Capt Henry Stephens (66th Foot), Capt Thomas Geils, 3rd Foot Guards etc. Unusual and interesting item

A Second World War Stitched Leather Case, rectangular, with brass lock and base studs, the hinged cover with reinforced angles and labelled COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, H.M.S. BALLANTYNE, with other luggage labels, the side labelled PACIFIC SQUADRON and with a fouled anchor, 86cm by 44cm by 23cm; a Stitched Leather Double Shotgun Carrying Case, oblong, with central rolled leather handle, each end with a hinged cover with brass lock, to take 30'' barrels, stencilled in black W.A.WOOD, CUMBERWORTH, NR. HUDDERSFIELD; a Wicker Fishing Creel, with webbing strap (3). Case is structurally good, some bruising and scuffing to surface, some labels with loss. Good quality item. Gun case with some lack of stitching and scuffing to the surface. Fishing creel with later wire hinges, perished leather and webbing straps.

Ɵ Substantial fragment from two closely related codices of the Hebrew Bible, with the short weekly readings from 2 Kings and the Major and Minor Prophets, in Hebrew, manuscript on parchment[Near East (most probably Egypt or Palestine), eleventh century, or just perhaps early twelfth century] 24 leaves, each with single column of approximately 13 lines in Hebrew square script, with nikkud, headings in larger version of same script or in calligraphic flourishes in margin, some more modern (probably early twentieth-century) pencil marks, scuffs and slight damage to edges of leaves, else good condition, first 4 leaves full size:185 by 130mm., and remaining leaves with upper and lower margins slightly trimmed, thus:170 by 130mm.; cloth-covered card binding (one gathering bound upside down) A substantial fragment of a remarkably early Hebrew Bible with a provenance that definitively stretches back to the celebrated Cairo Genizah; and perhaps a hitherto unrecognised part of a sister codex to that sold in our rooms on 6 July 2016 Provenance: 1. Most probably written for use by the Jewish community of Fustat, Cairo, in either the eleventh or early twelfth century. Owel David pronounced the bifolium once in the Sassoon collection as definitely from the Cairo Genizah and "not later than the 11th century" (Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the Sassoon Library, 1932, I, pp. 27-28; it had been acquired by Sassoon in Egypt in 1922).2. Thereafter most probably entering the famous Cairo Genizah, the repository of the Jewish community located in the Ben Ezra Synagogue of Fustat (on this see lot 14), and among the leaves that spilled out onto the market after the discovery of the hoard at the end of the nineteenth century until Solomon Schechter secured the bulk of it for Cambridge University. The discovery captivated public imagination in Europe in a way comparable only to the opening of Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922. For half a century, until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, these were the oldest Hebrew manuscripts known.3. Schøyen Collection, Oslo and London, their MS 2083/1, acquired piece by piece in Sotheby's, 5 December 1995, lot 27; 18 June 1996, lot 41; and again 2 December 1997, lot 86. A further bifolium with readings from the Psalms, and with its borders trimmed away, was in the 5th sale of the collection of David Solomon Sassoon (1880-1942) at Sotheby's, 21 June 1994, lot 1 (part 9 of a composite bound manuscript [Sassoon MS 566], and now Schøyen MS 1858/9, and thus remaining with that sammelband). Text:From a remarkably early and important Hebrew Biblical codex, used for ritual weekly readings. If this fragmentary codex dates to the eleventh century then it is among the very earliest witnesses to the Hebrew Bible. If instead it is of the twelfth century then it is a direct contemporary of Maimonides (born 1135 Spain, moved to Fustat in 1168, dying there in 1204), and certainly the codex was there when he was head of the Jewish community in Fustat, working on the Mishneh Torah. It seems very likely that he saw, and perhaps even used, these leaves.Another fragment of 127 leaves from a contemporary Hebrew Bible also from Egypt, was sold in our rooms on 6 July 2016 (lot 45, realising £86,800). That was tentatively attributed to the Cairo Genizah and of near identical measurements to the present leaves. The hands of these two sections of small codices are distinct, but extremely close, and crucially the texts do not overlap. Moreover, at least two scribes were involved in the production of the present leaves. Thus, these leaves and those sold in 2016 may well be sections of a large series of volumes once used in Fustat, and divided up after the discovery of the Genizah there. If so, the present leaves are of great importance to the whole in securely locating them in the Cairo Genizah, and it should be noted that those sold in 2016 were of significant textual importance, containing a textual tradition otherwise known from only one Yemenite sixteenth-century codex.The leaves here contain readings from: 2 Kings 5:18-20; Ezekiel 22:1-5; Hosea 2:5-15; Joshua 2:16-24; Judges 11:2-12; Micah 5:10-6:8; 1 Samuel 1:20-2:12; 3:19-20; 1 Kings 7:44-51; Isaiah 43:21; 43:27; 2 Kings 7:1-14; Zechariah 2:16-17; 3:1-10; 14:4-14; Joshua 2:14-24; Micah 5:11-14; 6:1-8; 1 Kings 18:46; 19:1-21; Jeremiah 1:1-19; 2:4-9; Isaiah 1:1-27; 1 Samuel 1:2-15; Jeremiah 2:4-19; 9:22; 30:4-22; and Isaiah 1:1.To view a video of this item, click here.  

Ɵ Conflictus veris et hiemis, a verse in hexameters on the debate between Spring and Winter, attributed to Alcuin of York, with the translations and miracles of St. Lomer, with further additions of Carolingian music, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment[France (most probably Blois), c. 873 and tenth century]Fourteen leaves (plus a nineteenth-century parchment endleaf at each end), all conserved in nineteenth century and many remounted on guards and thus uncollatable, wanting 2 leaves after fol. 4 and another 2 leaves after fol. 12 as well as an 8-leaf gathering (now Vatican, Reg. Lat. 479: see below), last 4 leaves smaller than others (measuring 245 by 167mm.), the verse added to original endleaf at front in double column of 41 and 20 lines in a small and legible Carolingian minuscule with an extended ct-ligature and the characters' names in margin, one descender in lowermost line extended to form an ornate penwork leaf with a bauble mounted in its stem, and main texts relating to St. Lomer in single column of 29-36 lines in two closely related precise and refined Carolingian minuscules, both with et-ligature used integrally within words (but variant forms of capital 'q'/'Q'), the second with an NT-ligature and an uncial 'N' used in main text, crucial names in capitals, some capitals touched in red and others infilled with yellow wash, text opening major sections in capitals touched with red, rubrics of elongated red capitals, small red initials, larger initials in penwork, some with baubles set within their bodies or coloured in green and red, one large initial in delicate blank parchment penwork touched in red and set within dark brown initials terminating in floral flourishes, seventeenth-century scholarly marginalia, endleaf at front reused from a sixteenth-century French choirbook with music on a 4-line red stave, some stains to areas of text, spots from old mould damage at head, margins trimmed often to edges of text, overall good and solid condition on heavy and good quality parchment, 300 by 190mm.; nineteenth-century French brown calf over pasteboards, gilt-tooled with arched frames with floral sprays at corners, with spine gilt with "De S. Launomaro - MS IXe S" An important Carolingian monastic codex, containing a celebrated verse attributed to Alcuin, the leading intellectual light of the Carolingian renaissance, as well as the earliest witnesses to prose and musical texts relating to the Merovingian saint Lomer; this probably one of the last ninth-century codices to appear on the market Provenance:1. The main texts here on St. Lomer (also Laumer and Laudomarus) must have been written immediately after the translation of the saint's relics to a church in Blois in 874 (an event these leaves record), but before the foundation of the Benedictine abbey dedicated to the saint there in 924. Another eight leaves from the centre of this manuscript are the first part of a sammelband assembled in the seventeenth century in Italy (now Vatican, Reg. Lat. 479; A. Wilmart, Codices reginenses latini, 1937, pp. 651-2, with the whole manuscript reproduced online). Those contain the opening of the life of the saint, which ends abrubtly and is completed by the two words at the top of fol. 10r here.Crucially the opening of the text in the Vatican leaves refers to the saint as 'our patron'. In addition, there is a hitherto unnoticed contemporary or near-contemporary name added to the foot of the first of the present leaves, probably identifying "Raginoldus feldracanum" as an early user or perhaps donor of the codex. The second part of his name is hard to decipher, but a late medieval hand has added "Raginoldus feldra carutasis", suggesting Carnutum/Carnotum or Chartres as his town of origin (the monastery of Saint Martin au Val du Chartres was one of the temporary resting places of the relics and the community on their way to Blois: see N. Mars, Histoire du royal monastère de Sainct-Lomer de Blois, 1646, p. 29). His name does not occur in the published research of Dom Mars, but there is an unpublished and mostly unstudied six-volume cartulary of the eighteenth century for the house in the Archives départementales de Loir-et-Cher, ms. 11 H. 128, and search for this name there may reveal much.St. Lomer was born c. 530 at Neuville-la-Mare, north of Chartres, where he was ordained as a monk, before withdrawing into the forest of Perche where he founded the monastery of Corbion in 575, becoming its first abbot. He died in 593 while visiting Chartres and was buried near there, until monks from Corbion stole his relics a few years later to return him to his own community. Following a Viking attack on Corbion in 873/4 the community and their relics fled to Parigny near Avranches and then Le Mans before being offered sanctuary within the walled town of Blois. In the tenth century they moved outside the city walls to the church of St-Lubin, and then again in 1186 to the larger adjacent site they occupied for the remainder of the Middle Ages.2. Dom Noël Mars (1612-1702), the Benedictine monk and Maurist historian of Blois; with his marginal notes and signature, including one on fol. 10r referring to the Acta Sanctorum ordinis S. Benedicti, Paris, 1668, in which footnote 'a' on p. 338 evidently refers to this manuscript: "Haec ex MS. Historia S. Launomari Monasterii Blesensis a nostro Natale Mars erudite composite didicimus". The central leaves of the manuscript may well have become detached by the seventeenth century (see below), and Dom Mars conducted much antiquarian research in the archive of St-Lomer in the last decades of that century, and this may explain this section of it ending up in his possession. In 1789 the revolutionary government of the region suppressed the abbey, and seized its church for the parish of St-Nicholas two years later. Its goods and library were dispersed at the same time, with the Vatican leaves then beginning their journey towards Rome. Delisle notes four manuscripts in the BnF. as well as another in the collection of Herzog August in Wolfenbüttel from this medieval library (Le cabinet des manuscrits, 1868, II, p. 406).3. Louis de la Saussaye (1801-1878) of the Château de Troussay, near Blois, local historian, archaeologist, and numismatist, with a note of "un manuscrit du Xe siècle ... dant la bibliothèque de M. de la Saussaye" in Dom Mars' Histoire du royal monastère de Sainct-Lomer de Blois, p. 66, n. 2 and 7, n. 2, doubtless referring to these leaves. His sale, 30 September 1887, lot 1148.4. Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS 5577; acquired Sotheby's, 5 July 2016, lot 57.Text:Alcuin of York (c. 735-804) was the central intellectual figure of the Carolingian renaissance, and was educated in the renowned cathedral school at York under Archbishop Ecgbert (himself a pupil of Bede). By the 750s he was teaching in the school and came to the court of Charlemagne at the emperor's invitation, serving as 'master of the palace school' from 782, taking over the teaching of the emperor himself and his children, and becoming a guiding hand of the religious and intellectual revolution that was to follow. In 796, when entering his old age,... read more....  To view a video of this item, click here.

‡ The Kushim Clay Tablet, a large and remarkably fine pictographic tablet recording beer production at the brewery at the Inanna Temple in Uruk, with the apparent personal name 'Kush-im', that perhaps the first attested personal name in history, clay tablet with pictographic inscription[Sumer (Uruk), Uruk III period (thirty-first century BC.)] Square clay tablet, with a single case of pictograms in an example of expert pictographic script Uruk III, showing the production of beer from barley or corn, and its placing within the brew-house, the brewery mark and other marks probably depicting numbers, plus two further non-pictographic symbols for 'KU-SIM' probably the personal name of the recorder (or just perhaps his title), reverse blank, a few hairline cracks, else in outstanding condition, 68 by 72 by 19mm.; within morocco-covered folding case This "exceptionally fine, perfect, administrative tablet" is not only the finest such tablet in The Schøyen Collection; but it also has claim to be the earliest known record of any personal name in history Provenance:1. Most probably from the Inanna Temple archives, Uruk, and deposited there about fifty-two centuries ago. This archive is now known from 77 pictographic tablets, all apparently in the same hand, of which 25 tablets and 30 smaller fragments are in in the Freie Universität, Berlin, with a further four tablets in the British Museum and another four in the Louvre.2. From the formidable antiquities collection of Hans Erlenmeyer (1900-1967), and his wife Marie-Louise Erlenmeyer (1912-1997), housed in Basel; this piece acquired in the 1950s. In 1981 Marie-Louise Erlenmeyer founded the Erlenmeyer Foundation to promote animal and species protection.3. Sold on behalf of the foundation at Christie's 13 December 1988, lot 48, to Quaritch, London.4. Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS 1717, acquired from Quaritch in August 1993. Text:Sumer, nestled in the fertile land between the Tigris and the Euphrates, supported the growth of one of the world's earliest great civilisations from about 5500 or 4000 BC., with the city of Uruk its largest centre. The people who moved to this region, perhaps from North Africa or India, drained the marshes there to produce farmland, and developed trade and industries. As a by-product of these social and economic developments they also pushed forward record keeping through proto-writing systems, such as the present example. Uruk was larger than any other city-state in the region, and at its height around 2900 BC. probably had 50,000-80,000 inhabitants, making it the largest urban site in the world at that time. The site dwindled after 2000 BC., but was not abandoned until the Islamic conquest of the seventh century AD. Here the symbols show the viewer the entire industrial process of making beer: from an ear of barley or corn, to a brick-building with a chimney that might be the brewery itself, and finally the barley or corn within a jar signifying the beer. The dots and other impressions most probably indicate numbers, probably recording that the amounts of beer produced were vast, some 134,813 litres of barley to be delivered over 3 years (37 months). At the end of this are two non-pictographic symbols of the greatest importance (here in top left corner). They spell out the two sounds 'KU' and 'SIM', and are most probably the name of the government official responsible. As noted by Harari and publicised by National Geographic in 2015, this apparent signature lays claim to be the first personal name of any human in history, and as Kushim was most likely the scribe, this is the earliest person to employ writing who we can name. He is known from seventeen other tablets, and in some of those addressed as "Sanga" or temple administrator. None of those, however, appears to be recorded in private ownership, and this is probably the only chance to acquire any form of this fundamentally important record.  Published:H.J. Nissen, P. Damerow and R.K. Englund, Frühe Schrift und Techniken der Wissenschaftsverwaltung im alten Vorderen Orient, Berlin, 1991, no. 4.29, pp. 20, 24 and 66-67.H.J. Nissen, P. Damerow, and R.K. Englund, Archaic Bookkeeping: early writing and techniques of economic administration in the Ancient Near East, University of Chicago Press, 1993, pp. 36-37.L. Alvegård, 'Arkaisk babylonsk matematik: Talpjäser och lerbollar', Teknik & Naturvetenskap, 2 (1994), pp. 38-40.J. Curtis, 'Early Mesopotamia and Iran: Contact and Conflict 3500-1600 BC', in Mesopotamia and Iran in the Parthian and Sasanian periods : rejection and revival, c. 238 BC - AD 642; Proceedings of a Seminar in Memory of Vladimir G. Lukonin, eds. J. Curtis and V.G. Lukonin, British Museum Press, 2000, pp. 28, 64.Y.N. Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, 2011/2014 (Hebrew/English editions) 2:7. To view a video of this item, click here.

Ɵ Vergil, Georgics III:259-458 and IV:393-564, in Latin didactic hexameter verse, leaves from a decorated manuscript on parchment in situ in an Oxford binding by Dominique Pinart[England, c. 1200] Remains of two bifolia, trimmed at edges with losses to one column on each, each leaf with single column of 48 lines in an early gothic book script, with initials set apart in margin as common for verse, simple red initials with baubles and pen flicks added to their bodies, one dark pastel green initial, contemporary running titles, some contemporary marginalia, modern pencil marks giving textual notes, some staining, scuffing and small holes, else in good condition, each leaf 190 by 100mm.; in situ in binding of a copy of a printed book: William Thomas, The historie of Italie, London: Thomas Berthelet, 1549, binding of blindtooled calf, using rollstamps identified as nos. XII and XVIII in S. Gibson, Early Oxford Bindings, 1903 (see also Ker, Pastedowns in Oxford Bindings, 1955, pp. 210-11), suggesting a binding date of c. 1581 or before, sewn on 3 thongs, by Dominique Pinart, a French immigrant and the principal Oxford binder of this period, skilfully rebacked; with a letter from Neil R. Ker to a "Mr Edwards" dated 21 March 1964, noting that he had "not found Virgil before in Oxford bindings, save in one insignificant late manuscript" Provenance:1. Most probably written and decorated for English scholarly use around the turn of the thirteenth century, probably in Oxford. Later discarded and reused there for binding material at the close of the Middle Ages.2. Various English owners, with ex libris marks from "Peter ...son" in a sixteenth-century hand on the back pastedown, and another partly erased name dated 1676 on the front pastedown.3. William Charles de Meuron, 7th Earl Fitzwilliam (1872-1943): his armorial bookplate on front pastedown; his library sold in the Wentworth Woodhouse sale at Sotheby's, 27 April 1948, doubtless including this volume.4. Quaritch cat. 664 (1949), no. 289.5. Hodgson, 19 March 1964, lot 254, to "Mr. Edwards", an apparent bookseller.6. Quaritch, London, November 1991.7. Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS 1395, acquired from Quaritch. Text:The celebrated Roman poet, Vergil (70-19 BC.), wrote the Georgicsc. 29 BC. for Maecenas, the ally and political agent of Octavian, to whom it was reportedly read after his return from defeating Anthony and Cleopatra in 31 BC. The text surveys the field of agriculture, namely raising crops and trees, livestock and horses and beekeeping, set within the context of farming as a noble and senatorial pursuit in Roman society. It enjoyed great popularity and had enormous literary impact from its composition onwards, surviving in numerous fifth- and sixth-century manuscripts as well as an explosion of Carolingian witnesses, these demonstrating serious study and careful correction of the text in eighth- and ninth-century France.To view a video of this item, click here.

Kitab Alif Laila, the Book of One Thousand and One Nights, in Arabic, short quotations added to twelve cuttings recovered from Christian manuscripts, including various Bibles in Latin and a leaf from a copy of the Decretals, a Menaion and Oktoechos or Parakletike in Greek, an orthodox prayerbook and a Bible in Armenian, and a few originally blank pieces of parchment most probably from similar Christian books, manuscripts on parchment[France, Italy, perhaps England, Armenia, and Byzantium, ninth to twelfth century, with additions from the Holy Land in the late twelfth or early thirteenth century] Thirteen cuttings: (a) Matthew 11:16-19 and 12:5-25, in Latin, double column of 13 lines in a Romanesque book script, red and blue initials, northern France, mid-twelfth century, with addition of 6 lines in Arabic naskh (Thousand and One Nights); (b) Canon Law, Decretals, similar to but not identifiable as Ivo of Chartres, in Latin, single column of 13 lines in a good Romanesque bookhand, annotations in margins, headings in capitals (some touched in red), six 2-line initials, Normandy or England, first half of the twelfth century, with addition of 2 lines of Arabic naskh ("The 27th ... the two faces ... the guardian"); (c) Malachi 1:4-10; 1:14-2:20, in Latin, single column of 32 lines in a rounded bookhand, Italy, first half of the twelfth century, with addition of 6 lines in Arabic naskh ("The tenth sitting of the literal ..."); (d) Homiliary, including part of St. Gregory: Homiliae in Evangelia, Lib. II, Hom. 31, and reading from Matthew 9:9, single column of 16 lines in good Romanesque bookhand, perhaps Italy or Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, second half of the twelfth century, with addition of 5 lines in Arabic naskh (the first and second reading according to the Wazir from the Baghari); (e) Zamagirk, part of the Armenian Orthodox Prayerbook, with readings from John and Matthew, double column of 10 lines in a sloping Armenian Uncial (erkat'agir), Armenia, twelfth century, with addition of 4 lines in Arabic naskh ("The fifth part of the twistings/turnings[?]"); (f) two fragments of Psalms, with the Name 'Elijah' in Armenian, double column of 16 lines in an Armenian Uncial (erkat'agir), Armenia, twelfth century, with additions of 2 lines of Arabic naskh (from The Book of the 40 Extracts, and Book of Manliness/Chivalry) on a paper label pasted on; (g) Menaion, part of the Office of the Apostle Bartholomew, for August 25, in Greek, double column of 30 lines in Greek minuscule, Byzantium, tenth century, with addition of 15 lines of Arabic naskh in upper and side borders (part of Thousand and One Nights and a charitable donation); (h) Oktoechos or Parakletike, liturgical book of the Byzantine Church, single column of 22 lines in a sloping Greek half uncial (the so-called 'mixed script'), Byzantium, ninth century, with addition of 3 lines of Arabic naskh (parts of Thousand and One Nights); plus four further cuttings from blank sections of parchment (but most probably also from Christian books), with (1) 4 lines of Arabic naskh ("The first part of the skilled-one and ... given to his children"), (2) 7 lines of Arabic naskh (section of the ninth part of the Service of Poetry, with a charitable donation), (3) 3 lines of Arabic naskh (Thousand and One Nights), (4) 2 lines of Arabic naskh (Thousand and One Nights); almost all approximately 150 by 170mm., some with tears and losses to edges, only one with substantial losses to edges (item a) This clutch of fragments is of breathtaking importance as witnesses to the Fall of Jerusalem; and they are most probably all that remains of a series of codices left abandoned in the city by fleeing Christians when it fell to the forces of Salah ad-din in 1187, and then reused by the Muslim conquerors as wrappers for their own books Provenance:1. Almost certainly from a library in the Holy City of Jerusalem, probably that of the Holy Sepulchre itself, the epicentre of Christendom and Christian devotion. The Crusades and the fall of Jerusalem were of the greatest importance to the history of the Middle Ages and the mind of medieval man. The call to arms to take back the Holy City gripped the population of medieval Europe and drew many thousands of them to strange lands beyond the boundaries of Europe. In addition, the eventual fall of that city to the Muslim invader in 1187 was a crippling lowpoint which inspired political and religious upheaval throughout Europe. Originally these leaves were part of a range of Christian liturgical and legal books from Western Europe, Byzantium and Armenia, dating from the ninth to the mid-twelfth century. Then they were cut up and reused as wrappers on a lengthy Arabic manuscript of One Thousand and One Nights, writing sideways along their blank spaces in handsome unvocalised naskh of not later than the thirteenth century, along with later Arabic names including an apparent reference to the Damascus historian Ali ibn Asakir (d. 1176). No other site apart from the Crusader kingdom of Jerusalem, and probably the Church of the Holy Sepulchre itself, could allow for this mix of scripts. It is of importance that the earliest fragments here are Greek (identified and published by Aiuto in 2006 and 2008). The arrival of the Western Crusaders in 1099 pushed out the Greek liturgy from the Holy Land in favour of a Latin liturgy based on the Rule of St. Augustine. However, Greek observance did continue in the Kingdom of Jerusalem (see D. Galadza, 'Greek liturgy in crusader Jerusalem: witnesses of liturgical life at the Holy Sepulchre and St Sabas Lavra', Journal of Medieval History, 43, 2017). Under Western rule, Jerusalem was the cosmopolitan Christian capital of the East, principally French and Genoese, although the wife of Baldwin II, its ruler, was Armenian. It fell to the forces of Salah ad-Din in October 1187, when the last French nobleman in the city, Balian of Ibelin, negotiated a surrender and peaceful passage to the sea for its occupants. Immediately after the surrender of the city, amid widespread looting, Salah ad-Din ordered the closing of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, ultimately deciding not to destroy it, but handing it back to the Greek authorities. Other surviving books from Jerusalem, or fragments of them, testify to the carrying of valuable codices from the city by refugees (see British Library, Egerton MS 1139; Cambridge, Fitzwilliam, McClean MS 49; BnF, mss. lat. 9396 and 12056; and Vatican, cod. Vat.Lat.5974), but it should be noted that those were grand and opulent books. What we have here are more probably the last relics of the mundane books of the religious services of the city, abandoned by fleeing Christians, and picked up by some part of the Muslim conquerors and reused for their valuable parchment.2. These entering Arabic hands in the late twelfth century, perhaps passing then to a member of Salah ad-Din's Syrian forces, where they were reused as wrappers around a copy of Kitab Alif Laila, the Book of One Thousand and One Nights. When sold last in 1993, these cuttings were reported as thought to have have survived in Damascus, and this accords with the fact that in 1187 Salah ad-Din's forces were equally composed of Egyptians and Syrians, as well as the reading of the name of Ali ibn Asakir among the additions.3. Sotheby's, 6 December 1993, lot 3.4. Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS 1776, acquired in the Sotheby's sale.Read more... 

Book of the Dead, written for the deceased Anchhap, son of Djedher and Shepsepedet, part of chapter 17, in Middle Egyptian in Heiratic script, decorated manuscript on section of linen mummy wrapping[Egypt (perhaps El-Lisht, south of Cairo), early Ptolemaic (probably fourth century BC.)] Long and thin linen fragment, with single column of 17 lines in hieratic, a small hole and slight wear in places, overall in good condition, 170 by 620mm.; set in glass, and in fitted case  Provenance:1. Produced for use in the burial of an Egyptian nobleman or official named Anchhap, who perhaps lived in the region around modern Cairo: the Bonhams catalogue of the sister fragments records their reported excavation at El-Lisht.2. Almost certainly once owned and sold by the roguish Luxor antiquities dealer, Toudros Boulos (also Tawdros, Todrous and other variants: see M.L. Bierbrier, Who Was Who in Egyptology, 3rd ed., 1995, p. 417), a Copt who used his position as the Prussian and then German Consul in Luxor to sell antiquities to a wide range of European and American private clients and institutions, alongside a sideline in metalwork forgeries (produced through his training in early life as a silversmith). His son, Mohareb Toudrus took over the consulship and the family business after his father's death in 1898, until his own demise in 1937. Four other closely related sections from the same mummy wrappings are known: three now in the British Museum (EA 75197; with parts of chapters 15 and 17), and another in the American private collection of the late Victor Pafundi, Jr. (1949-2018; item reproduced in B. Briers, Egyptian Mummies, Unraveling the Secrets of an Ancient Art, 1996, fig. 12, and including a further part of chapter 17). Usually such inscribed mummy wrappings on linen measure only 1-2 m., and so the known sections here may well be almost the entirety of the original object. Those sections now in the British Museum were offered in Bonhams, 21 October 1999, lots 383 and 384, and acquired immediately after the sale by the British Museum Friends, where their link to "Zaki Todros" and his role as consul is recorded, this later corrected in the British Museum catalogue to Toudros Boulos. It is most likely that he owned all of them at one time, dividing them up and selling them to different European and American clients.2. This fragment re-emerged on the modern market in the catalogue of Jacques Schulman, Amsterdam, his list 236 (1988), no. 6.3. Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS 125, acquired from Schulman in July 1988. Text:These mummy wrappings are perhaps all that survive to record the life of Anchhap, who lived in the Ptolemaic period, in the generations after Alexander the Great's seizure of power over Egypt and installation of his general Ptolemy there as sub-ruler. The practise of writing sections of the Book of Dead directly onto the linen wrappings of the deceased began during the 30th or Sebennytian dynasty (379-343 BC.) but only became common during the Ptolemaic period (305-30 BC.). It probably descends from the earliest history of the Book of the Dead, and the practise of wrapping the body in an inscribed and illustrated shroud. Linen as a media is not as forgiving as papyrus or parchment and the quality of such examples varies greatly. That here is in a fine hieratic script, suggesting an accomplished scribe. The text here is usually named the 'Coming Forth by Day Triumphant over All Enemies', and is one of the longest and most interesting individual compositions preserved within the Egyptian Book of the Dead. It sets out a long series of religious sayings narrated by the creator-god, within a structure of internal commentary and glossing questions followed by answers, in the form: "I am that great cat beside whom the ished-tree was split in Iunu on that night of active battle, and making the guard against the rebels on that day on which the enemies of the Lord of All were destroyed. What does it mean? That great cat beside whom the ished-tree was split in Iunu is Ra himself, called Cat when Sia said of him 'that is how he is, by what he has done' and his name became Cat". Published:Online as part of the Das Altägyptische Totenbuchprojekt, Bonn (but note wrongly recorded there as among the holdings in Oslo), and TM 114017. 

The archive of the Honour of Eye, including a Letters Patent of Richard II, confirming the gift of his queen, Anne of Bohemia, of the manor and honour of Eye to Sir Michael de la Pole, dated 1383; de la Pole's subsequent deed granting part of the same to John Bacon, again dated 1383; and an early sixteenth-century secular cartulary of the entire estate-portfolio; all in Latin, French and Middle English, manuscripts on paper and parchment[England (Honour of Eye, Suffolk), fourteenth and sixteenth century] Three items: (a) large charter on parchment, containing a Letters Patent of King Richard II confirming his queen's grant of the manor and Honour of Eye to Sir Michael de la Pole, 22 long lines in a formal English secretarial hand, space left for opening initial, endorsed in English in a sixteenth-century script, in outstanding condition, the Great Seal of England in green wax, showing the king enthroned and a knight on horseback, dated 7 December 1383, 245 by 390mm., in large green cloth-covered case; (b) Deed of Confirmation of Sir Michael de la Pole of the Grant of the Manor and Honour of Eye to John Bacon, on parchment, 20 long lines in English secretarial hand, traces of red wax seal on green and purple plaited silk cords, slight flaking from ink but without affect to legibility, folds, else excellent condition, dated the Friday following the Feast of the Epiphany, "7 Richard II" (ie. 1383), 170+33 by 380mm.; (c) secular cartulary of the Honour of Eye then in the ownership of Robert Buller, on 27 leaves of paper, single column of 40 lines in a calligraphic English secretarial hand, larger script for keywords and headings, with additions by Robert Buller, watermark a glove with a 'CR' around the wrist and surmounted by a five petalled flower, inkstamp of East Suffolk records office (from temporary loan there) at foot of first leaf, bumping to edges of some leaves and small spots, else excellent condition, dated 1507-1525 with additions of 1562, 320 by 220mm., in limp vellum wrapper made from a bifolium recovered from a fifteenth-century manuscript Missal, Use of Sarum, each leaf of wrapping with double column of 33 lines, 320 by 220mm., with sixteenth-century inscription on front: "A Boke of deedes of londes in Eye" Provenance: 1. Various medieval and post-medieval owners of the Honour of Eye, Suffolk, England, including Sir Michael de la Pole (d. 1415), 2nd Earl Suffolk and 2nd Lord de la Pole. This was a feudal barony in a typically Norman form, a series of manors and estates spread across England but centred on the town and castle of Eye, usually granted to a baron by the English king for provision for knights and their military service to the crown. The term 'honour' was given to the largest of these estate arrangements - usually involving supplies for more than twenty knights and their followings. That at Eye was one of the largest baronial estates in England after 1066, with combined holdings in eight counties; and was assessed in Domesday Book as the second largest landholding in Suffolk. It was seized by the Crown in 1370, and granted to Richard II's queen, Anne of Bohemia, in 1382. The present charter confirms the grant in turn by Anne to Sir Michael de la Pole, on the understanding that he, in turn, grants the land to John Bacon, the king's secretary.2. Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS 1784; acquired from Quaritch, London, in December 1993. Text: The most interesting document here is the secular cartulary, which includes eighty-eight records of the men who held the various estates of the honour of Eye in the opening years of the sixteenth century. Within these, the last ten items form another smaller secular cartulary, being the lands owned then by Robert Buller.To view a video of this item, click here. 

Rental roll for Hackness in North Yorkshire for the years 1622-1639, in Early Modern English, manuscript on parchment[Northern England (Hackness), mid-seventeenth century] Single large rental roll on 3 membranes of parchment, listing the rents received from properties in and around Hackness, with columns marked up with amounts of money and years (marked with 'o' to show account settled), and noting a James Shore acting as owner or a steward for the owner, written in a late English secretarial hand, some damage to edges in places and fading in parts, else good condition, dated 29 September 1639 and with the opening line "The turffgraft is to be payd yearly upon Michell day", 2060 by 240mm. Provenance:1. Written at Hackness in the years 1622-1639, and thereafter becoming separated from the main archive of the manor at a later date (see below).2. Sotheby's 17 December 1991, part of lot 41, alongside the items in the previous two lots, evidently from a lawyer's archive.3. Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS 1563/3, acquired in Sotheby's. Text:The Manor of Hackness, in the parish of Scarborough, was recorded by Bede as early as the eighth century as the site of a double monastery, and the church there still has fragments of a cross of that date or a century later inscribed with a prayer to St. Æthelburh. In the later Middle Ages and Early Modern period it was a wealthy rural estate, and was the home of Lady Margaret Hoby, whose diary of 1599-1605 is the earliest known such work written by a woman. Early records are scarce for the region, but North Yorkshire Records Office do hold rentals for the estate for the periods 1605-22 (ZF/4/1/1 mic 1432) and 1650-51 (ZF/4/1/2 mic 1432), and the present manuscript is most probably from the same original archive.Please note: This item is subject to the Manorial Documents Rules. As such it cannot be taken out of England and Wales without the consent of the Master of the Rolls, and future owners must inform the secretary of the Historical Manuscripts Commission of their acquisition. 

‡ Votive text appealing to Victoria Augusta, perhaps in the name of a Roman auxiliary stationed in England and named Aufilius or Aufidius, in Latin, in Roman Capitals punched with dots into thin gold plate[probably England (perhaps Roman fort of Lanchester/Longovicium, near Durham in northern England), third century AD. (perhaps c. 270)] Thin gold plate, cut to ansate form (ie. shape of a square with a rhomboidal wing on each upright side, a shape designed for suspension), with the text "VICTORI/AE AVG/ AVF FIDI/ VS [for 'filius'].../ D D." punched into its surface in Roman Capitals using a series of dots, other dots added to 'wings' for decorative affect, three holes pierced along upper edge most probably for suspension, some traces of dents and slight damage to extremities, else excellent condition, 37 by 56mm.; in custom made glass case, within fitted blue-cloth covered case A Romano-British inscription on the rarest and most alluring of writing materials to survive from the Ancient world: gold Provenance: 1. Probably created for a high-ranking Roman auxiliary perhaps named Aufilius or Aufidius (appeals to Victoria Augusta are most commonly found on items made for the Roman military or from military sites), who appears to have been stationed in Lanchester, near Durham (see below). Such inscriptions are highly formulaic, and so we can be certain that the opening line contains a dedication to Victoria Augusta, and the last line contains the standard formula "D[ono] D[edit]" ('gave this as a gift'). Following this the first part of the central two lines might convincingly be read as "AUF[ilius/idius] FILI/US ..." (with the 'L' in the second word mistruck as an apparent 'D') and the remaining word identifying his father too abbreviated or garbled to be extrapolated here.2. Reportedly found as a stray find in vicinity of Lanchester, near Durham, in the 1940s. Lanchester (Roman Longovicium) was the site of a substantial Roman auxiliary fort on Dere Street (the Roman road connecting York to Hadrian's Wall) in the province of Britannia Inferior. The site is mentioned in both the Ravenna Cosmography and the Notitia Dignitatum. An unusually large number of altars, dedication slabs and a milestone set on the adjacent sections of Dere Street allow us to conclude that the fort was built by the Twentieth Legion, probably around 150 AD. It seems to have been the subject of rebuilding in the middle of the third century and the fourth century. At the time this object was made, stone inscriptions identify the fort as manned by Celts from the Plateau de Langres in the Bourgogne region of Gaul, near Dijon, the Cohors Primae Lingonum (First Cohort of Lingones) and the Cohors Primae Lingonum Gordiana equitata (First Cohort of Lingones, Gordian's own, part mounted), as well as a detachment of Suebians from Lusitania.3. Lennox Gallery, London, in 1996, and sold then to the present owner.4. Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS 2344. Text: While far from common, Roman metalwork objects with punched dot inscriptions are known from diverse objects, including a bronze dog or slave collar, with the inscription "Tene me ne fugio" ('Hold me, lest I flee), offered in Bonhams, 30 September 2014, lot 383, as well as small votive offerings such as the present piece. Close parallels for this item can be found in the holdings of the Ashmolean and York Museum (H4.1-2, from the Old Railway Station site, with a Greek inscription including the personal name Demetrius), but those are on more common metals such as bronze. The use of gold here suggests the wealth and influence of its original owner, and it was perhaps produced for attachment to a statue of a deity. Published:Y. Petrina, 'Kanopos oder Menoutis? Zur Identifikation einer Ruinenstätte in der Bucht von Abuqir', KLIO 90 (2008), p. 205. 

Record of testamentary charities by different testators, made to freeborn legitimate and illegitimate boys and girls in set proportions by an established charitable foundation, according to the Roman laws of Septimus Severus, in Latin, manuscript in transitional script between square and rustic Latin capitals, on bronze tablet[Mediterranean (perhaps Spain, Italy or southern France), dated to the fourth day before the kalends of November in the consulship of Claudius Pompeianus and Lollianus Avitus (ie. 29 October 209)] Large bronze tablet with losses at edges and base, remains of inscription in single column of 13 lines of Roman capitals (each approximately 9mm. high, and these lines in three sections: the first recording the charitable gift, the second discussing the town council and recording the consulships, the third recording only the date), some surface scratches, else good condition, 222 by 142 by 5mm.; in fitted case Provenance: 1. Produced for display in either a public place or a temple. Reported in 1994 as "said to be from Spain", but, as Tomlin notes in a pers. comm. in 1997, one of the donors may be identifiable with a known early third-century official from Venafro in southern central Italy. Alternatively, the provenance of the item in the French trade opens the possibility that it may be from a site on the southern coastline of that country.2. Quaritch, London, acquired by them from the French trade immediately before December 1994. 3. Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS 1976, acquired from Quaritch. Text: When complete this tablet was most probably a public record of charitable gifts by a number of donors, erected as a permanent public record by the town in which it was displayed. Suetonius records the use of such tablets in his note of Vespasian's replacement of some 3000 tablets that had previously hung in the Capitoline Hill in Rome, but were destroyed during the fires at the end of Nero's reign. Their inscription on bronze conveyed authority and permanence, and some national lawcodes, such as the Icilian Law hung in the Temple of Diana on the Aventine, and civic land registers such as those recorded at Orange in south-eastern France, were produced in that format to impart those qualities to their contents. The charitable acts recorded here must have been held in the same regard by the community that produced this grand record of them. The text of this record was reconstructed and published by Tomlin in 2000.  Published:R.S.O. Tomlin, 'An Early Third-Century Alimentary Foundation', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 129 (2000), pp. 287-292.P. Brown, Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire, 2002, p. 115, no. 15.E.A. Hemelrijk, Hidden Lives, Public Personae: Women and Civic Life in the Roman West, 2015, p. 149.C. Laes, Children in the Roman Empire: Outsiders Within, 2006, p. 280. 

RF scarce Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), 20th Mounted Infantry Boer War slouch hat badgeGood heavy cast brass sans-serif exampleFlat integral loopsVGCActual item photographed as No. 32 in MHS Bulletin No. 211 “Some Royal Fusilier Forage Cap Badges” by Douglas Twomey

Vintage mechanical movement Poljot 21 jewel stainless steel wristwatch with leather strap. P&P Group 1 (£14+VAT for the first lot and £1+VAT for subsequent lots)Condition Report: This item was working at the time of lotting.

925 silver centre seconds chronograph pocket watch with roman numeral chapter ring open face key wind with Kendal and Dent box and key. P&P Group 1 (£14+VAT for the first lot and £1+VAT for subsequent lots)Condition Report: This item was working at the time of lotting.

Cast metal Art Deco style globe lamp. This lot is not available for in-house P&P.Condition Report: All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.

Six lamps including brass and onyx examples. This lot is not available for in-house P&P.Condition Report: All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.

Bose Wave radio/CD player with remote. This lot is not available for in-house P&P.Condition Report: All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.

Projector and screen magnifier. This lot is not available for in-house P&P.Condition Report: All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.

Bose Wave radio/CD player with remote control. This lot is not available for in-house P&P.Condition Report: All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.

GPO Jive Music Centre ? 3 speed turntable: 33/45/78; CD/ MP3/ USB player; FM radio & remote control. This lot is not available for in-house P&P.Condition Report: This item was working at lotting.

Quantity of glass laboratory equipment. This item is not available for in-house P&P.

Agfa family set P projector/monitor and camera. This lot is not available for in-house P&P.Condition Report: All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.

Sony Stereo system with four speakers and a Bush turntable. This lot is not available for in-house P&P.Condition Report: All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.

GPO PR200 stereo amplifier with CD/ MP3/ USB; Bluetooth; DAB/ FM radio; twin VU meters; pair of stereo speakers; remote control. This lot is not available for in-house P&P.Condition Report: This item was working at the time of lotting.

GPO Retro Memphis Music Centre ? 3 speed turntable: MP3/USB player; FM radio with remote control. This lot is not available for in-house P&P.Condition Report: This item was working at the time of lotting.

Agfa family set P projector/monitor and camera. This lot is not available for in-house P&P.Condition Report: All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.

Sony DAB Micro HiFi Component System; with pair of stereo speakers and remote control. DAB/FM/CD/iPod. This lot is not available for in-house P&P.Condition Report: This item was working at the time of lotting. All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.

Bang & Olufsen Beogram 5000 stacking stereo system with remote control. This item is not available for in-house P&P.Condition Report: No stylus.

A VERY LARGE CHANDELIER - THE IMAGES SHOW THE ITEM IN SITU AND NOW PACKAGED IN A WOODEN TRANSIT BOX.THIS AND THE FOLLOWING ITEMS ARE THE CLEARANCE OF A HIGH QUALITY JEWELLERY SHOP

A VERY LARGE CHANDELIER - THE IMAGES SHOW THE ITEM IN SITU AND NOW PACKAGED IN A WOODEN TRANSIT BOX

A VERY LARGE CHANDELIER - THE IMAGES SHOW THE ITEM IN SITU AND NOW PACKAGED IN A WOODEN TRANSIT BOX

A VERY LARGE CHANDELIER - THE IMAGES SHOW THE ITEM IN SITU AND NOW PACKAGED IN A WOODEN TRANSIT BOX

GPO Retro Memphis Music Centre ? 3 speed turntable; 33/45/78; MP3/USB player; FM radio. This lot is not available for in-house P&P.Condition Report: This item was working at the time of lotting. All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.

Morphy Richards stainless steel bread maker and a shredder. This lot is not available for in-house P&P.Condition Report: All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.

GPO PR200 stereo amplifier with CD/ MP3/ USB; Bluetooth; DAB/ FM radio; twin VU meters. This lot is not available for in-house P&P.Condition Report: This item was working at the time of lotting.

Compaq PC with Windows 7. This lot is not available for in-house P&P.Condition Report: All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.

Toshiba stereo cassette radio and a Sony alarm clock. This lot is not available for in-house P&P.Condition Report: All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.

Blue GPO Soho 3 speed portable briefcase style record player; built in stereo speakers; auto stop (LPs only); output: RCA connectors; 3.5mm headphone jack. This lot is not available for in-house P&P.Condition Report: This item was working at the time of lotting. All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.

Three HiFi systems, Panasonic, Goodmans and Hitachi. This lot is not available for in-house P&P.Condition Report: All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.

Tower computer, music centre, video player and other electrical items. This lot is not available for in-house P&P.Condition Report: All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.

Six mixed table lamps. This lot is not available for in-house P&P.Condition Report: All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.

Seven boxes of mixed household ceramics, glass, pictures etc. This lot is not available for in-house P&P.Condition Report: All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.

Four mixed table lamps including a gilt wood example. This lot is not available for in-house P&P.Condition Report: All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.

13w fluorescent daylight lamp. This lot is not available for in-house P&P.Condition Report: All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.

1970s adjustable desk lamp. This lot is not available for in-house P&P.Condition Report: All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.

Two Roberts bedside alarm radios and a Sanyo. This lot is not available for in-house P&P.Condition Report: All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.

Dalvey Voyager timepiece and a Smiths Sectric clock. This lot is not available for in-house P&P.Condition Report: All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.

Hardwood hand painted sign with attached horseshoe. This item is not available for in-house P&P

4 x GPO162B silver cassette players/recorders. This lot is not available for in-house P&P.Condition Report: This item was working at the time of lotting.

Shelf of mixed table lamps. This lot is not available for in-house P&P.Condition Report: All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.

Sony bluetooth MP3 RDS player GTK-XIBT. This lot is not available for in-house P&P.Condition Report: All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.

Vintage fishing creel with two reels This item is not available for in-house P&P

Approximately 75 DVDs. This item is not available for in-house P&P.

Large Victorian twin handled jardiniere. This item is not available for in-house P&P