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Click here to subscribeA Dinky No.234, Ferrari racing car, blue with a yellow nose, yellow ridged hubs, generally good condition; Dinky No.230, Talbot Lago racing car, blue with matching ridged hubs, good condition; Dinky No.233, Cooper-Bristol racing car, green, lighter green ridged hubs, good-fair condition; and four other racing cars from the series (three of them repainted), all unboxed, (7). Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports.
A US WWII style steel helmet, with camouflage cloth cover and fibre liner, GC; and a small assortment of military and other badges etc, including KOSB glengarry badge, 4 chrome plated police cap badges, 4 anodised cap badges, a bracelet made from small silver Dutch coins, approx 15 other badges, and a brass cigarette lighter. Generally GC
Salyut 7 Helium Tank Salyut 7 space station artefact Salyut 7 Spacecraft - Helium Tank - fell 7th February 1991 This is a helium tank from the Russian Salyut 7-Cosmos 1686 (Kosmos 1686) spacecraft assembly, which went out of control and fell to Earth as a fireball, 3 to 4 years earlier than expected. Russian mission control put the spacecraft into a spin and tried to control the impact into the Atlantic Ocean as 70kg of fuel still remained onboard. This attempt failed and after a bright fireball that was witnessed by many local people, some fragments fell near the town of Capitan Bermudez, 250 miles from Buenos Aires, Argentina at 01:00 local time on 7th February 1991. The 14 inch diameter, 7.4kg, mostly titanium sphere is peppered with several hundred perfectly formed craters caused by tiny micrometeoroids which impacted on the surface during it`s many years in space. Opposing ends have a mounting rod and a coupling/inlet valve respectively - each has ablated heavily during re-entry and streamers of molten material have been blown back onto the leading faces of the sphere, clearly showing the orientation of flight. Dark scorching on one side of the main body is evidence that the sphere `flipped` during flight as external mountings and couplings broke/ablated away, and for a brief few moments this side was the leading edge before orienting itself once more. This dark patch of side scorching also shows a much lighter coloured `shadow` band where another part of the spacecraft, or possibly the departing mounting rod, momentarily protected this part of the sphere from scorching, and left an outline image of itself in the process. Due to its almost perfectly spherical shape and the high melting point of its titanium chemistry, the main body of the sphere escaped complete ablation of its surface, thus preserving the many micrometeoroid craters. However, the irregularly shaped mounting rod and the opposing coupling/inlet valve have a thick layer of dark fusion crust with fine flow lines that are similar to the surface of a freshly recovered iron meteorite. Some of the crater `pits` were undoubtedly caused by other parts of the spacecraft that were ablating in front of the spherical tank during atmospheric passage and also by other man-made orbiting debris from earlier space missions that impacted during its 9 plus years in space. This tank has been the subject of much research into the composition of the craters at the Natural History Museum, London. A paper entitled: "Analysis of Impact Residues on Spacecraft Surfaces: Possibilities and Problems" has been written about this Salyut helium tank and was presented at the 3rd European Conference on Space Debris, with a proceedings paper.
Art Nouveau Pewter Oil Lamp in the style of an `Aladdins Lamp` on a tall narrow stem with flared base, the oil reservoir and base with raised design of soap plant with fruit pods and stalks, the lighter finial is also pewter, 10 inches high overall, marked to base Kayserzinn 4439, in oval cartouche. Similar Designs By Joseph Maria Olbrich, (Art Nouveau And Art Deco Lamps And Candlesticks Page 115)
LANG, ANDREW (ED) "The Red True Story Book", illustrations by Henry J. Ford, Longmans Green and Co 1895, red decorated cloth with gilt pennant on front cover and a pirate with gilt titles on spine, covers a little stained, YOUNG, E.D. "The Search after Livingstone", 1868, frontis with tissue guard, illustrations, one plate loose, blue cloth, gilt decorations to front cover and spine HAY, IAN "The Lighter Side of School Life", from pastel drawings by Lewis Baumer, T.N. Foulis publisher 1914, colour illustrations on buff coloured paper, brown cloth with gilt titles, and FOUR OTHER PICTORIAL CLOTH VOLUMES (7)
A Second World War Group of Five Medals, comprising 1939-45 Star, Africa Star with bar 8TH ARMY, Italy Star, Defence and War Medals, with dog tags; a German Third Reich Army Webbing Belt, with white metal buckle, and set with fifteen mainly British cap badges; a small quantity of militaria, including cap badge, shoulder titles, pips, buttons, a printed lilac cotton Souvenir of Tripoli sampler, a brass shell case, a naval copper cigarette lighter, a mahogany cased rule; two books etc
A late Victorian silver mounted cigarette lighter with Birmingham hallmarks (the date letter rubbed), a silver vesta case in the form of a pocket flask (marks rubbed), a brass vesta case in the form of a book for the Coronation 1902 and a white metal vesta case in the form of a filing cabinet with fall front, 7cm (2.75") high
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