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Click here to subscribeLITERATURE: A good selection of individual signed cards by various novelists and writers etc., including Sean O`Casey, Daphne Du Maurier, Leslie Charteris (with pin sketch of The Saint), Clifford Bax, Bertrand Russell, H. E. Bates, Emlyn Williams, Shane Leslie, Eden Phillpotts, Laurence Housman, Robert Hichens, Gilbert Frankau, Nigel Balchin, Alec Waugh, Ruby Ayres etc. Some with additional autograph quotations. VG, 23
LITERATURE: Miscellaneous selection of signed clipped pieces, cards, A.Ls.S., T.Ls.S., some signed photographs of various sizes etc., by a wide variety of novelists and writers, and some artists, including Rudyard Kipling, Laurie Lee (10), Hilaire Belloc, Richmal Crompton (A.L.S.), Edna O`Brien, Tom Stoppard, Jeffrey Archer, Alan Ayckbourn, Wilbur Smith, John Drinkwater, Elisabeth Beresford, Antonia Fraser, Helene Hanff, Ruth Rendell, Frederick Forsyth, Ray Bradbury, Robert Hichens, Ursula Bloom, Iris Murdoch, Auberon Waugh, Gilbert & George, Jack Vettriano, Laura Knight, Terence Cuneo, Elisabeth Frink, John Everett Millais etc. Generally G to VG, 82
OPERA: Selection of signed postcard photographs, and some slightly larger, a few signed cards, by various opera singers, a few conductors, ballet dancers etc., including Dennis O`Neill, Catherine Malfitano, Bryn Terfel, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Alexander Gibson, Ryland Davies, Bernd Weikl, Fiorenza Cossotto, Felicity Lott, Elisabeth Soderstrom, Ann Howard, Dorothy Kirsten, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gilda Cruz Romo, Ruggero Raimondi, Carlo Bergonzi etc. G to VG, 116
HILL ROWLAND: (1795-1879) British Social Reformer, campaigned for a reform of the postal system based on the concept of penny postage. A.L.S., Rowland Hill, one page, 8vo (neatly trimmed), Bayswater, 13th March 1843, to John Hibbert. Hill writes, in full, `I am a candidate for admission to the Reform Club. Will you, if not inconvenient, favour me with your vote? Ballot on Wednesday next from 3 to 5 o`clock.` VG
PALMERSTON VISCOUNT: (1784-1865) British Prime Minister 1855-58, 1859-65. A.L.S., Palmerston, one page, 8vo, Admiralty, n.d. (`Saty.`), to Elliot. Palmerston states that he has looked over the list of directors which his correspondent had sent him although regrets `to find that I have not the slightest personal acquaintance with anyone of them & that consequently it will not be in my power to assist your Father in obtaining the situation he wishes`. With blank integral leaf. Together with a second A.L.S., Palmerston, one page, 8vo, Carlton Terrace, n.d. (`Saturday Evn.`), to a gentleman, informing him that `You will find me at Home Tomorrow at Three O`clock` . Some light age wear, G to VG, 2
VICTORIA CROSS: John Manners Smith (1864-1920) Lieutenant Colonel in the British Indian Army, Victoria Cross winner for his actions at Nilt Fort, India, on 20th December 1891. A.L.S., J Manners Smith, three pages, 8vo, Newbury, 7th December 1912, to Lauder. Smith states that he is pleased to hear that his correspondent has been awarded the Royal Humane Society`s medal `for your brave action in saving my life...a cutting about the presentation was sent to us today...I feel it is quite impossible to express how much I owe to you & shall never be able to discharge the debt of gratitude. The more I think of it the more I realise the risk you took for me.`; Thomas Orde Lawder Wilkinson (1894-1916) Canadian Soldier, posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions at La Boiselle, France, on 5th July 1916. Rare D.S., T. O. L. Wilkinson, in pencil, one page, small 8vo, n.p., 4th October n.y. (1915). The printed postcard takes the form of a letter giving various message options, the irrelevant ones struck through in pencil by Wilkinson. Signed and dated at the conclusion. Neatly laid down to a page removed from an autograph album; Frederick Roberts (1832-1914) British Field Marshal, Victoria Cross winner for his actions at the Indian Mutiny on 2nd January 1858. L.S., Fred Roberts, two pages, 8vo, Head Quarters Camp, 4th January 1886, to `My dear Nawab`, stating that he was disappointed to learn that his correspondent has to leave Delhi `just before our manoeuvres commence` and inviting him to the camp tomorrow morning. With blank integral leaf, laid down to a page removed from an autograph album. G, 3
AUTOGRAPHS: A miscellaneous selection of signed pieces, cards, album pages, A.Ls.S., T.Ls.S., a few signed photographs etc., by various famous people including writers, musicians and composers etc., including Storm Jameson (series of five T.Ls.S. to the author Gilbert Phelps, concerning a review, 1960), E. Phillips Oppenheim, T. P. O`Connor, Alfred Sutro, John Osborne, W. W. Jacobs, A. E. W. Mason, Hector Bolitho, Charles Wyndham, Evelyn Laye, Alan Ladd, Adolphe d`Ennery and other letters, contracts and manuscripts relating to French literature, Beniamino Gigli (2), Max Lorenz, Set Svanholm, John Coates, Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender, Camillo Hildebrand etc. FR to generally G, 94
AUTOGRAPH ALBUM: An autograph album containing over 80 signatures by various famous individuals of the 1940s, mainly entertainers but also including musicians, a few sportsmen and politicians etc., including V. K. Wellington Koo, Marjorie Lawrence, A. P. Herbert, Ivan Maisky, John G. Winant, Tessie O`Shea, Heddle Nash, Edward R. G. R. Evans, R. Stafford Cripps, Anna Neagle, H. G. Wells, Stephane Grapelli, Gerald Moore, Albert Sammons etc. The majority are on pieces neatly laid down to pages alongside magazine portraits etc. A few pages loose, G
An SFBJ Bisque Socket Head Doll, with blonde mohair wig, blue glass closing eyes, open mouth with upper teeth, on a composition body with jointed limbs, wearing a cream fur cape, neck stamped SFBJ 60 Paris, 50cm high; a Heubach Kopplesdorf Bisque Socket Head Doll, with brown mohair wig, brown glass closing eyes and open mouth with upper teeth, composition body with moving bent limbs, wearing a maroon velvet cape and bonnet, neck stamped with maker`s name 300.5/o, Germany, 37cm high; clothing, comprising two dresses, a petticoat, a brown velvet coat and bonnet (3)
1982 Northern Ireland World Cup team, a menu from the luncheon held to honour the achievement of the International Football team, in the City Hall, Belfast on 15/11/1982. The front cover has over 20 autographs including, Armstrong, Jennings, O`Neill etc, plus the President of the Irish FA, Harry H Cavan.
A Ludlow and Bishops Castle bank one pound note for Coleman and Wellings No. f9889 5th December 1825, two five pound notes, signed `L.K. O`Brien` No. J09 580344 and signed `J.S. Fforde No. 47D 339463, also two green one pound notes, Britannia type, both signed `L.K. O`Brien` No. T42J 563356 and T73J 788035, three red/brown ten shilling notes, Queen portrait type, two signed `L.K. O`Brien` No. J09 373852 and K49 366593 and `J.S. Fforde` No. 10Z 947421, plus five foreign modern banknotes (13)
A collection of late 19th Century and early 20th Century carte de visite portraits, many by local studios including Robert Selfe, J S Browne, A Squibbs, P A Sheppard, O G Smith - all from Bridgwater; A & G Taylor of Bristol; Phillips Miles & Co Bristol and others, all small size and mainly individual portraits, some family groups, some with pet dogs; some small "tin-type" portraits, some greetings cards and two leather bound photograph albums (in excess of 150 carte de visite) ++cards generally good, albums with wear
GREAT BRITAIN - banknotes: c.1940 War Issue £1, blue/pink Britannia series Peppiatt, "Jo4H 078185" and 10/- note, mauve, Peppiatt, "Y 58 D 967327"; later 10/- Britannia series note, O`Brien "K 99 Y 577214"; "Portrait" series £5 signed Hallom; another signed Gill; "portrait" series £1 signed Page, another, Somerset, 10/- Fforde; British Military Authority 1/- note c.1943; British Armed Forces special voucher £5 c.1958; and seven other BAF notes c.1950`s, 1960`s and 1970`s (18 notes in total) ++some have been folded, otherwise good, no damage
A German Mauser type Bayonet probably cut down from the Mauser 98 Long Bayonet for Turkish use, blade 25cms approx., marked "V C Schilling Suhl" and "07" under a crowned "O", steel quillon marked "BI R J 4 157" and "98" on side, 2 piece wooden grips and steel pommel, overall length 38cms approx, together with scabbard and brown leather frog ++service wear but generally in good condition, scabbard cleaned and with dents
Australian Cricket Tour to England 1938 souvenir programme (autographed inside by W J O`Reilly New South Wales); another for 1948; South African Cricket Tour 1947 souvenir programme; other souvenir programmes for Cricketers from the West Indies Tour 1957, Cricketers from New Zealand 1958 and Cricketers from South Africa 1960 and some other cricket related books and annuals ++1948 programme complete but covers off and rather delicate, others complete but with some damp damage
Football - Programmes, a folder containing 16 Brighton away games, Crystal Palace 47/8, 50/1, 51/2, 54/5, 55/6, 57/8, Leyton Orient 50/1, 54/5, 55/6, Millwall 48/9, 49/50, 50/1, 51/2, QPR 47/8, 54/5 & Southend 53/4. Sold with booklet `Stars of Football` published late 1940`s (seasons noted to most covers o/w gen gd) (17)
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