A good 10 bore 1839 pattern percussion musket, 55” overall, blackened barrel 39” with ordnance inspector’s marks at the breech and with fixed block rearsight, secured to the fore end with 3 flat wedges; the transitional style lock plate with double line border, engraved with crowned “VR” over “Tower”, and with lock inspector’s mark; the dark walnut fullstock stamped on the butt with broad arrow over “BO”, number “195” and stock maker’s “T Ashton”, with regulation brass mounts, Lovell’s pattern spring bayonet catch, and steel ramrod; with its triangular socket bayonet by Salter & Co. GWO and in nicely patinated untouched condition. The blackened barrel suggests that it may have been intended for Sea Service. See front cover
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A .65” Tower light dragoon flintlock holster pistol, 15” overall, barrel 9” with ordnance proofs and engraved “W-L-D”, the rounded lock engraved with crowned “GR” and “Tower” and having swan neck cock, the walnut fullstock retaining faint trace of ordnance storekeeper’s mark and with regulation brass mounts, the trigger guard engraved “D/53”. GWO & basically GC (well worn overall,some damage to the stock).
50x American Military Uniform Patches, various periods and regiments including 2nd Chemical Mortar battalion, 731st Ordnance Battalion, 6th Army Corps, US Army Intelligence Command, 278th Infantry brigade, Philippine Combat HQ, 3rd Army Corps, 199th Infantry brigade, 300 MP POW Command, 5th Engineer Special Brigade tab, 256th Infantry brigade, 41st Division, plus others. Some duplicates and variations. (50 items)
WW1 & WW2 Home Front Lapel Badges, including various WW1 On War Service badges, gilt and enamel Army Recruiting Staff enamel lapel badge, War Munitions Volunteers, Royal Ordnance Factories cap badge, National Reserve Badges, AFS lapel badges, ARP lapel badges, WW2 Rest Centre Service, 1920’s Fascist enamel badge, plus others. Various conditions, sold as viewed. (75 items)
A collection of WW2 British Army manuals, E.M.E small arms & telecom instructions, gun drill 6-pdr gun 1942, small arms training 1942, zeroing of artillery 1942, Armourers 1931, US M1917 (enfield) 1942, British booby traps 1943, Browning .30 cal M1919A4 parts list 1942, Aids to weapon training 1942, Enemy weapons German AA & AT 1942, Small arms .303 MG 1939, Besa 7.92 MG parts list, Lewis .303 MG parts list, Small arms training Thompson 1942, Boys rifle parts list 1942, Browning .30 cal M1917 field manual, Ordnance handbook Q.F. 2pdr mark IX & X 1938, Ordnance parts list for M.L. 3in Mortar 1935, Ordnance patrs list M.L. 2in mortar 1940, Ordnance 3in smooth bore 1941, Ordnance parts list StenMK I & MK II 1942.
A 19th century Whitworth military match rifle, by Manchester Ordnance and Rifle Company, 0.451 calibre This gun takes its name from Joseph Whitworth, an eminent machine tool engineer, who developed and introduced this accurate rifle in the 1850's, replacing the Enfield. It evolved during the following decades, until muzzle loading guns were superseded in the 1870's
Late XX Century Sergeant's No.2 Dress Jacket, with medal ribbon and Ordnance collar badges; late XX Century Private's No. 2 dress and jacket with ribbon bar; late XX Century Private's No. 2 dress jacket with Divisional cloth badge on sleeve; late XX Century Private's No. 2 dress jacket and trousers and belt. (4)
A Late XX Century British Private's No. 2 Dress Tunic, with ribbon bar and Royal Ordnance Corps collar badges; late XX Century Sergeants No. 2 dress jacket, Irish Guards, with ribbon bar; late XX Century Private's No. 2 dress jacket. Green Howards collar badges and lanyard; late XX Century Royal Artillery No. 2 dress jacket with embroidered cloth sleeve badges. (5)
Near East.- Jerusalem.- Wilson (Capt. Charles W.) Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem, portfolio of plans only, 5 large folding engraved maps, dissected and mounted on linen, edged in blue cloth, all with printed label on verso, some light spotting and soiling, mostly to versos, a little staining to linen backs, small hole to plan of Jerusalem at centre of folds but no loss to maps, with an additional folding map (also on linen and edged in blue cloth but without label), loose as issued with lists of Contents to vol.1 & 3 (soiled & stained) in contemporary half roan folder with flap, title mounted on front pastedown and list of plates on inside of flap, rather worn, folio, 1865. ⁂ The plans portfolio from Wilson's epic survey, the first modern cartographic and archaeological survey conducted in Palestine and undertaken on behalf of the Water Relief Committee with the intention of providing a street-by-street guide to Jerusalem's wells, conduits, cisterns etc. Wilson went on to become a key member of the Palestinian Exploration Fund, involved in several futher surveys in the Middle East. Comprising: Plan of Jerusalem, with Contours; Plan of Jerusalem, Hill Shaded; Plan of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (2, one without label); Plan of Kubbat as Sakhra, the Citadel, &c.; Plan of the Haram, with Contours. The additional map is a revised version of the plan of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre of 1892.
Near East.- Conder (Lt. C.R.) and Lt. H.H.Kitchener. Map of Palestine in 26 Sheets from Surveys conducted for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund during the years 1872-1877, title, hand-coloured key map and 26 photozincographed map sheets with partial hand-colouring, sheets c.540 x 660mm., mounted on linen (a few conjoined), title spotted and soiled, title and key map torn and frayed at edges, maps foxed and with some surface dirt, some evidence of mildew, loose as issued in original half-morocco portfolio, worn, boards detached, lacking one flap, folio, printed by the Ordnance Survey Office, 1880; sold not subject to return

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