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Click here to subscribeMichelin Guide to the British Isles 1912, Royal Automobile Club Guide and Handbook 1934/1935, an unused diary for 1919, pages of advertisements and a trades and professional directory, blue cloth, "How to Drive a Motorcycle", Percival Marshall & Co., illus., advertisements, paper covers, a quantity of ordnance survey maps circa 1950s including Bartholemews, National Grid etc.
Wallace, HelenTABLE MOUNTAIN FROM GREEN POINT COMMON 1900n.p.: n.p., [circa 1900]50 by 24,5cmOil painting appropriately framed, showing tents etc. of Green Point Camp with various obsolete items of ordnance in the foreground, with a British sentry. Painting in clean bright condition. Comments: Helen Wallace, a little known South African artist, sold this oil painting of Green Point Military Camp to a Sea Point resident, Mrs Spilhaus for 2 guineas in 1902. (See Greenwall, R. - "Artists and Illustrators of the Anglo-Boer War", where the painting is illustrated on page 31 with biographical details of Wallace on page 227). Provenance: The Greenwall Collection (1)
Collection of World War One Mentioned in Despatches Certificates to Include: MID Certificate British Army S/21600 Sgt G J Walter: Army Service Corps despatch from Field Marshall Sir John D P French 30th November 1915 in original frame. MID Certificate British Army S/19238 S/QMS R Clayton: Army Service Corps despatch from General Sir Ian Hamilton 11th December 1915 for the Dardanelles (Clayton won the DCM and the French Medal of Honour (comes with copy papers). MID Certificate British Army 16140 L/Cpl R W Compton: Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry despatch from Lieutenant General Sir Percy H N Lake 24th August 1916 for defence of Kut-al-Amarah (Compton won the DCM) (comes with copy papers) note Has split in half. MID Certificate British Army 128135 Cpl R Webster : 76th A Bde RFA despatch from General Sir H C O Plummer 18th April 1918 British forces in Italy (Webster won the DCM) comes with original Envelop and copy papers. MID Certificate British Army 01023 S/Sgt E A Allen: Royal Army Ordnance Corps despatch from General F R Earl of Cavan 26th October 1918 British Forces in Italy comes in original frame with copy papers. MID Certificate British Army A/Capt S A Dearing attd Indian Army: Royal Engineers despatch from Lieutenant General W R Marshall 11th November 1918 Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force with copy papers. MID Certificate British Army 514599 Cpl J Batten: Royal Engineers 569th (Devon) Army Troop Coy despatch from General Sir E H H Allenby 5th March 1919 Egyptian Expeditionary Force in original frame with copy papers. Rare MID Certificate British Army 205470 Sgt F N Lewis: 2nd Garrison Bn Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regt despatch from His Excellency General Sir C C Monro 1st November 1919 Afghan War. MID Certificate Indian Army A/Maj R C Knight O.B.E.: Att Assyrian Btn despatch from Major General Sir G Mac Munn 12th November 1919 for Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force come with copy papers (9 in Total)
A Set of Seven Books - South Africa and the Transvaal War by Louis Creswicke, volumes I to VI and Supplementary volume VII, published Edinburgh 1900; a Set of Three Books - Japan`s Fight For Freedom, the story of the war between Russia and Japan, by H W Wilson; a User Handbook for the Ordnance Marks on Carriage and Mounting, 1957 (11)
A Victorian 1873 Tower Percussion Cap Musket, the 92cm steel barrel stamped with Ordnance markings, the lock plate stamped with a crown over 1873 and IMPROVED TOWER GUN, walnut full stock with brass fore-end tip, three brass ramrod pipes, trigger guard and butt plate, with one steel sling swivel (one missing) and steel ramrod
A SELECTION OF MAPS to include Ordnance Surveys 1910 Sheet 62, sheet, 62 and Ludlow, sheet 71, Bacons Motor Map "Midlands", Motor and Cycling Map, Mid Wales, and Motor and Cycling Map, North Wales, together with an undated (but to include Israel & Kuwait) Bartholomew coloured map of Middle and Near East "Persia, Arabia, Turkey & Egypt"
B A F PIGOTT: FLOWERS AND FERNS OF CROMER AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD, [1885], 1st edn, orig decor cl gt + C M HOARE: SHORT HISTORY OF THE PARISH OF MUNDESLEY ….., 1914, 1st edn, orig card wraps + ORDNANCE SURVEY CONTOURED ROAD MAP OF CROMER, 1922, No 58, 1” map, Popular Edition, 21” x 30” + D MAXWELL: UNKNOWN NORFOLK, 1925, 1st edn, orig cl gt, d/w + A C SAVIN: HISTORY OF CROMER, 1950 reprint, orig card wraps + WHO’S WHO IN NORWICH, 1961, orig limp rexine (6)
GEORGE III: (1738-1820) King of the United Kingdom 1760-1820. D.S., George R, as King, at the head, one page (vellum), oblong folio, Court at St. James`s, 30th March 1802. The partially printed document is a military commission appointing Thomas Cunningham to be a First Lieutenant in the Corps of Royal Engineers. Countersigned at the foot by John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham (1756-1835) British Peer and Soldier, son of William Pitt the Elder and elder brother of William Pitt the Younger. Master-General of the Ordnance 1801-06 & 1807-10. Some light age wear, otherwise VG
KITCHENER EARL: (1850-1916) British Field Marshal. A.L.S., H H Kitchener, Lieut R E, one page, folio, Kensington Museum, 11th December 1878, to Corporal Brophy. Kitchener informs his correspondent that at a meeting of the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund it was decided that Brophy should receive `a special present of any instrument you may choose to the value of £10.10 or the money to spend as you like if you prefer it in recognition of your valuable service…during the period of 5 ½ years that you have been employed on the Survey of Palestine`. With blank integral leaf. Some very light, minor age wear, otherwise VG. . . . In 1874 Kitchener was assigned by the Palestine Exploration Fund to a mapping survey of the Holy Land and over the next three years he surveyed what is today Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. Kitchener`s survey had a lasting effect on the Middle East and the ordnance survey serves as the basis for the grid system used in modern maps of Israel and Palestine.
Dr. Butler`s Atlas of Modern Geography and Atlas of Ancient Geography, two volumes, one dated 1826 five modern books on maps and four Ordnance Survey maps; Antique Maps by P.J. Radford, 1965 Map of Roman Britain, Ordnance Survey, 1956 Old Maps by P.J. Radford Maps and Map-makers by R.V. Tooley ,1962 Meiklejohn`s Intermediate School Atlas by John Bartholomew, 1953 Military Maps of Marseille - Nice 1944 East Anglia 1940 War map of Europe, Western South Wales 1940
India and the Punjab A rare cast miniature model of the famous Sikh Cannon Zamzama Inscription reads – ‘MINIATURE MODEL OF ZAMZAMA CAST AT LAHORE FOR KING AHMAD SHAH DURRANI IN 1757 AD IN COMMISSION TILL 1870 AD’ Length 23cm. Known as the BHANGIAN DI TOPH or the gun belonging to the Bhangi Misl, known as Zamzama, is a massive, heavyweight gun, an 80 pounder, 14 feet, 4 1/2 inches in length, with a bore aperture of 9 1/2 inches, cast in Lahore in copper and brass by Shah Nazir at the orders of Shah Wali Khan, the wazir of Ahmad Shah Durrani. It is perhaps the largest specimen of Indian cannon casting, and is celebrated in Sikh historical annals more as a marvel of ordnance than for its efficiency in the battlefield. In 1762, Hari Singh went into battle with Khawaja Ubed. Bhangi attacked the then-village of Khawaja Said two miles from Lahore (now part of the city of Lahore), where the Mughal governor Khawaja Ubed had his arsenal, and seized his artillery, arms and ammunition. Amongst the guns captured was the Zamzama Gun itself. It was renamed by its Sikh captors Bhangi Toap. In 1802, Maharajah Ranjit Singh, after defeating the Bhangis, captured the famed gun. He used it in the battles of Daska, Kasur, Sujanpur, Wazirabad and Multan. In the siege of Multan, the gun was badly damaged.
Bacon (George W., pub.). New large Scale Ordnance Atlas of the British Isles, n.d., c.1890, title page and front end papers with some foxing, 102 colour litho. maps and town plans (complete as list), a.e.g., upper joint weak, gilt inner dentelles, contemp. gilt dec. brown morocco, rubbed and frayed at extrems., folio, together with Bartholomew (John & Son Ltd), The Survey Atlas of England & Wales, 1939, eighty-one colour printed maps, several library labels to doublures, contemp. qtr. morocco gilt, library label at base of spine, rubbed and worn at extrems., folio. (2)
Ordnance Survey. Report on the Ordnance Survey of the United Kingdom for 1855-56, 27 pp., twenty-nine plates including maps that depict the progress of six-inch to a mile map coverage in Ireland, England/Wales and Scotland, plus numerous specimen plates demonstrating the effectivness of electrotype and photographic reductions, bound with Report on the Ordnance Survey Commission; together with Minutes of Evidence, 1858, five engraved plates incl. four folding, bound with Report of the Progress of the Ordnance Survey and Topographical Depot, to the 31st December 1858, and similar reports for the years ending 1860-1872, all reports containing folding engraved maps showing the progress of work in Ireland, England/Wales and Scotland, all works bound into two volumes, contemp. cloth, one cover detached, folio (340 x 210 mm). Rare on the market. In 1855 the Ordnance Survey had just emerged from a state of transition having been newly placed under War Office administration and with a new Inspector-General of Fortifications in Lieutenant-Colonel Henry James. The introduction to the first report in this lot, which was the very first detailed report on the Ordnance Survey presented to Parliament, lists the recent achievements of the Ordnance Survey including the six-inch to a mile mapping of Ireland completed in 1846. The Irish maps Ôhaving proved to be of such great value to the public for such numerous purposes not originally contemplated` led to the continuation of the six-inch project to Scotland and Northern England which, together with the production of one-inch maps and 1/2500 (just over 25 inches to a mile) scale maps for urban areas, meant that the Ordnance Survey was fully stretched at this time. Much of the first report therefore proposes a number of recommendations to save time and labour including a new process for producing photographically reduced one-inch maps from six-inch maps, the production of electrotypes which were exact copies of the original copper plates produced to preserve the original, and developments in printed colour (hand colouring was done by boys of 13 and 14 years old for between sixpence and a shilling a day). There are specimens of many of these proposed production methods contained within the first report and the subsequent reports each contain maps depicting the growing level of coverage. (2)
India – A rare cast model of the famous Sikh Cannon Zamzama. An early 20th Century vintage cast model of the famous Sikh Cannon the Zamzama. Inscription reads – ‘WHO HOLD ZAM-ZAMMAH THAT ‘FIRE BREATHING DRAGON’ HOLD THE PUNJAB’ The base also has images of Sikh soldiers. Length 30cm. Known as the BHANGIAN DI TOPH or the gun belonging to the Bhangi Misl known as Zamzama is a massive heavyweight gun an 80 pounder 14 feet 4 1/2 inches in length with a bore aperture of 9 1/2 inches cast in Lahore in copper and brass by Shah Nazir at the orders of Shah Wali Khan the wazir of Ahmad Shah Durrani. It is perhaps the largest specimen of Indian cannon casting and is celebrated in Sikh historical annals more as a marvel of ordnance than for its efficiency in the battlefield. In 1762 Hari Singh went into battle with Khawaja Ubed. Bhangi attacked the then-village of Khawaja Said two miles from Lahore (now part of the city of Lahore) where the Mughal governor Khawaja Ubed had his arsenal and seized his artillery arms and ammunition. Amongst the guns captured was the Zamzama Gun itself. It was renamed by its Sikh captors Bhangi Toap. In 1802 Maharajah Ranjit Singh after defeating the Bhangis captured the famed gun. He used it in the battles of Daska Kasur Sujanpur Wazirabad and Multan. In the siege of Multan the gun was badly damaged.
Militaria: a tin of military badges to include Royal Army Ordnance Corp, Royal Signals, and Warrant Officers wrist straps; a silver double photograph frame; various framed photographs of Henry Davy; a copy of the RAOC Gazette from September 1975; a presentation certificate to the Officers and Cadets of the Royal Military Academy; and a Unites States proof coin set. (q)
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