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A QUANTITY OF VINTAGE ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS including Bartholomew's Tourists and cyclists, Manoeuvre maps 1910 and others

A GROUP OF WEDGWOOD BLUE JASPERWARE including a Royal Army Ordnance Corps pin dish, and one green piece (15)

A box of assorted vintage books and annuals to include Picturegoer, The Garden for Expert and Amateur, Enid Blyton Noddy books, History of Yorkshire County Cricket 1924-1949, 1932 Yorkshire Ordnance survey, etc.

A carton of assorted Ordnance Survey Maps mainly UK.

A small selection of vintage Ordnance Survey maps and similar covering Britain and Europe.

Kleiner englischer Theodolit von Casella, um 1880L. Casella Maker to the Admiralty Ordnance London, Serien-Nr. 3.245, original geschwärztes und zaponiertes Messing, Kompaß, Ø 5 cm, versilberte horizontale und vertikale 360°-Teilung mit Nonius, Teleskop mit Zahnstangentrieb, Länge 15 cm, justierbarer 3-Fuß-Stand, mit 2 weiteren Teilen in dazugehörendem Mahagonikasten. Start Price: EUR 280 Zustand: (2-3/2-3)Small English Theodolite by Casella, c. 1880L. Casella Maker to the Admiralty Ordnance London, no. 3.245, original blackened and lacquered brass, compass, Ø 2 in., silver-plated horizontal and vertical 360° graduation with verniers, telescope with rack-and-pinion focussing, length 6 in., on adjustable tripod stand, with 2 further parts in matching mahogany case. Start Price: EUR 280 Condition: (2-3/2-3)

A collection of local ordnance survey maps, including Musbury, Colyton, Whitford etc.

THREE MID-20TH CENTURY SWAGGER STICKSwith silver pommels and collars, the spherical tops embossed with differing regiments, including 'ROYAL CORP ARMY ORDNANCE', all with Birmingham hallmarks and with maker's mark of F. Narborough, the longest 72cm to end of ferrule (3)

This lot comprises 12 letters or documents all with content relating to the Military examples include: 1703 letter from Lord John Cutts in The Hague relating to the opening of letters received. 1725 letter relating to a dispute concerning Lord Forrester addressed to Sir Spencer Compton, Paymaster General. 1725 letter to Henry Pelham (Secretary of War) relating to unserviceable members of a Regiment with three certificates signed the Commanding Officers. 1745 document in Spanish signed at Cadiz on 5th February by Francisco De Varas y Valdes and addressed to Rodrigo de Torres.  1749 certificate of a soldier's death. 1753 receipt for two barrels of Corn'd Powder from the Office of Ordnance. 1767 four page long letter from David Greene relating to the 49th Regiment and all sorts of difficulties that led the writer to have an audience with King George III to which he                 refers in this letter.  1786 receipt signed by William Scott relating to money received in 1783, paid off in 1786. There is a fine impressed seal on the front and black crown/ten pence quire mark on  back. 1795 letter from Frederick Hill-Flight on HMS Victory at Spithead (in the Solent) addressed to Charles Cox with fine curved Portsmouth on the address side. The letter requests money and states that the writer is going to the Mediterranean. Less than four months later the Victory was involved in the Battle of Hyeres in the Mediterranean.  Please see an excerpt from Lord Cutts letter to Mr Watkins below: 1703 from the Hague - Sir I have presumed to look into the packets, I used to look into by your leave and it fell out luckily that I opened Cardonel's packet for there was in it a letter from his Grace to me, one to Monsieur Geldermalsen and one to General Scolos, the Danish Lieutenant General besides two to Grosslier, all of which I took care of. You may depend upon my Secrecy as well as Honour, where is requisite; and I open no letters when I don't know the hand or when I do and think it private business. I think the Satire they send you very unkind to some of our friends; and I would advise you (as a real friend) not to show it.... -

This lot comprises twenty letters and documents (primarily letters) with much of interest in content and some postmark interest including a 1706 entire with early London triangular "Peny Post Payd". A 1717 entire from James Craggs (about to be appointed Secretary of State at War) contains interesting comments regarding problems facing King George I. Recipient or sender names include Thomas Kinsman, William Sherlock, Sir George Rooke, Francis Annesley to Edward Southwell, Joseph Warton poet (friend of Dr Johnson), Captain W. Horneck, Chancery Decree re: Debts of 3rd Duke of Leeds deceased 1734; The Reverend Mr Wind written from Admiralty 1736; Lord Viscount Dalmerreon, P. Miller/Collinson; Charles Biggs 1750; Godolphin Francis (2nd earl of Godolphin) 1678-1766; Bramham 1766 to the Most Noble the Marquis of Granby Master General of his Majesty's Ordnance, Dr Messenger Monsey (this letter relates to a letter to the Duke of Leeds intimating that his wife is gravely ill with a condition that will prove fatal, hence the sensitive approach to the Duke, Mary Godolphin daughter of the 2nd Earl of Godolphin died in the year following this letter, on 8th August 1764 and a letter from John Blair.  -

Medals (3) of 111903 Captain (Hon. Major) Edward Donald Jarvis R.A.O.C. Defence Medal 1939-1945, War Medal 1939-1945, and GVI Long Service & Good Conduct Medal with clasp 'Regular Army'. Sold with Brass R.A.S.C. shoulder title.Prior service as T/16082 Mechanist Sergeant Major in Royal Army Service Corps, commissioned Lieutenant (Mechanist Officer) R.A.S.C. on 8th January 1940. Transferred to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps on 1st October 1942.  Promoted Captain (M.O.) on 15th October 1946. Transferred from an Emergency to Regular Commission and granted Honorary rank of Major on 1st January 1949. Ceased to belong to the Reserve of Officers (age limit) on 21st April 1957.

British War Medal 1914-1920 of 2241 (040041) Private Edward Dawes of the Queen's Regiment.Transferred to the Army Ordnance Corps. Landed in Hedjaz on 10th December 1915. Discharged 1st January 1920.

Medals (3) of 04653 Lance Corporal Charles Henry Coleman A.O.C. 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal 1914-1920, and Allied Victory Medal 1914-1918. Resident of Landport, Portsmouth. Enlisted on 11 th February 1915, examined and approved as a workshop Hammerman Class 3. Landed in France on 3 rd June 1915 with R Company, Army Ordnance Corps. Admitted into hospital four times during his service. Discharged to the Reserve on 18th March 1919.

Medals (3) of Sub Conductor William George Branagh of the Indian Ordnance Department. British War Medal 1914-1920, India General Service Medal with clasp 'Waziristan 1919-1921', and Long Service & Good Conduct Medal (GV). Native of Sheerness, Kent. Prior service in 81st Battery Royal Field Artillery in India in 1911 and the I.O.D. Indian Army as Staff Serjeant (29240). Recalled to the Colours for the Second World War he was commissioned into the Royal Army Ordnance Corps as a Lieutenant (O.E.O.) on 19th May 1941, and granted the Hon. Rank of Captain on ceasing to be employed 18 months later. 

Medals (2) of 51605 (039908) Private Isaac Smith of the Royal Fusiliers (T.F.). British War Medal 1914-1920, and Allied Victory Medal 1914-1918. Transferred to the Army Ordnance Corps. Discharged on 11th April 1919.

Volunteer Brown Bess .750 flintlock musket and bayonet, 39 inch barrel, the lock with Tower GR and crown stamp, fitted with roller frizzen full stock with regulation brass furniture, the butt tang engraved with 'L. No.72 1st Reg. N&SV' fitted with a white leather sling. The bayonet of ordnance issue by Wheeler.Section 58 (2) Antique / obsolete calibre, can be owned without a licence. Buyer must be over the age of 18. 139cm long The gun is in average condition with a nice patina to the stock but overall pitting to the metalwork, it is showing signs of age and use. The bore has pitting throughout. The action cocks and releases however the main spring is not very strong spring. The stock has the typical crack between the side nail and the barrel channel. There is a repaired crack straight through the forend on both sides of the middle barrel key. There is a spliced repair to the thinnest part of the wood in this area too.  There are lots of dents and marks to the wood stock which can be seen from the images. Some screw heads show signs of being worked, there is a crack to the trigger guard either side of the first screw hole. The ramrod is a replacement. The bayonet has overall pitting. 

A WW1 ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS MEDAL GROUP OF FOUR  Awarded to S. Sjt. J.F.S. Brown R.A.M.C., comprising 1914-15 Star (21. Pte. J.S.F. Brown R.A.M.C.), British War Medal (322012 Pte. J.S. Brown R.A.M.C.), Victory Medal 322012 Pte. J.S. Brown R.A.M.C.) and Territorial Efficiency Medal (37439 S. Sjt. J.S.F. Brown R.A.M.C.), with corresponding miniatures, together with Royal Army Ordnance Corps cap badge, Silver War Badge (B300473) and Kings Own Scottish Borderers pin badge Condition Report:Available upon request

Cybergun Auto-Ordnance 1911 A1 US Army .177 CO2 air pistol with chequered faux wooden grips and multi-shot magazine, serial number 20B20239, in original box with instructions and accessories. 

Collection of approximately 80 British Corps cap badges including Army Education Corps, REME, Ordnance Corps, Military Police, plastic economy, brass, bi-metal, etc, some restrikes

A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS AND FURTHER POCKET MAPS

A late 19thC Ordnance Survey map for Highnorth Being Centre 20 Miles Round, Moreton in the Marsh and Chipping Norton, dated 1897, Retailed by Edward Stanford, 26 & 27 Cockspur St Charing Cross, 114cm x 118cm, in slip case bearing handwritten label.

THREE OLD CASES CONTAINING A COLLECTION OF MAGAZINES, LETTERS, POSTCARDS, FIVE 1950'S ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS, SCRAP BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS, newspapers with royal interest in George V, Edward VIII, and Mrs Simpson, nautical ephemera focused on SS Great Britain, a variety of 'Illustrated' magazines from the late 1930s to early 1950s, stamped envelopes and letters from 1930s to 1980s from various countries, collection of personal photos and photo albums (Bristol/Burton-on Trent) (3 Cases) (Condition Report: varying degrees of discolouring/wear across items)

An Ordnance Survey Map, Sheet SD37, illustrating Cartmel Sands and surrounding area, scale 1:25,000, framed and under glass, measuring 45cm x 55cm, & 50cm x 58cm overall

A framed Ordnance Survey Map of Herefordshire - sheet 198 and Ordnance Survey Map of Swansea, 23 1/2'' x 19 1/2''.

A QUANTITY OF ORDNANCE SURVEY GEOLOGICAL MAPS

ROBERT CARVER (C. 1730-91) A Capriccio Landscape based on Dunmoe Castle, County Meath Oil on canvas, 62 x 102cmDunmoe Castle, County Meath, started by Hugh de Lacy, captured by the Irish in 1641, attacked by Cromwell and restored under James II, was a site much visited by artists and antiquarians in the eighteenth century. Its proximity to Slane Castle, home of William Burton Conyngham (1733-1796), the collector and improver, no doubt encouraged its depiction and when a view of the castle by Thomas Roberts (1748-1777) was engraved for Francis Grose’s Antiquities it was described as ‘taken from an original in the collection of the Right Hon. William Conyngham’. As Peter Harbison has so ably demonstrated, Burton Conyngham was a collector and patron of rare judgment for eighteenth century Ireland who, almost single-handed, encouraged artists to consider the native ruins of Ireland as a subject for their landscapes which were compositionally often inspired by Claudean prototypes. His support of of young artists is most apparent in his collecting of drawings for various antiquarian enterprises. He provided financial and other support to a group of draughtsmen most notably Austin Cooper and Gabriel Beranger, as well as Angelo Maria Bigari and John James Barralet. In 1779, for example, Beranger and Bigari conducted a tour of Connacht at Burton’s behest, which has been characterised as ‘the most extensive archaeological survey undertaken in Ireland before the Ordnance Survey’. Burton’s patronage resulted in his ownership of what was described in 1787 as ‘the finest collection [of antiquarian drawings] made by excellent artists anywhere to be found’. Two views of Slane Abbey, copied by Beranger after originals by Jonathan Fisher (1735-1809) may have been a Conyngham commission, with Harbison suggesting that Fisher probably drew them while staying at Slane Castle. Roberts drawing of Dunmoe was engraved by Sparrow and also copied by Gabriel Bernager who inscribed his version with the proviso: ‘Compared on the spot 1779 and I found it exact except the colour which is blueish and not brown’.While Robert Carver was not one of Conyngham’s ‘young artists’, he was closely connected with several of The Dublin Group who were, notably Roberts – they both seem to have taught James Coy (c.1750-80) and were both intimate associates of George Mullins (fl. c.1756-c.1786). Roberts later re-used his sketch of Dunmoe Castle in an imaginary landscape (private collection) in just the same way that Carver does here, ‘illustrating how the antiquarianism of Burton’s circle was creatively adapted by the artists he patronised and how the reuse of elements of Ireland’s antiquities give…a distinctively Irish flavor to Roberts art.’ Exactly the same can be said in relation to Carver’s capriccio landscape sold here, where Dunmoe’s setting above the River Boyne is augmented with a typically Irish tower house on one bank of the river and a substantial red-brick structure and small church, on either side of a bridge, on the other. Carver, like other artists, responded to the setting with the castle ‘magnificently sited high above a bend in the Boyne’ (Casey and Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland, North Leinster, 225).Together with George Barret, Robert Carver was the leading landscape artist in Dublin in the 1750s and ’60s. He followed Barret to London in 1769 where he found fame, for his much-admired designs for the theatre, and status, as the President of Society of Artists. Although of an older generation, he was also closely connected with the talented coterie of artists who came to prominence in the 1760s and ‘70s and who, with Carver, can be seen as a closely interlocked ‘Dublin Group’ of landscape painters. No doubt his ‘generous and companionable qualities’ made him a mentor to younger painters. Carver’s easel paintings are rare and mostly date from his period in Ireland – the present work seems to be unique in including Irish architectural, or antiquarian remains. However, as more of them are identified his ability becomes apparent and the reasons become obvious for the contemporary praise which was showered on his productions. Here, the red dress of the reclining woman in the foreground provides an effective chromatic highlight at the centre of the composition, while the busy few inches of the paint surface including the figures and animals contrasts with the unbroken sheen of the river with long reflections cast by the late afternoon sun adding a slightly elegiac touch to the romantic, umbrageous Boyne landscape. Picturesque travellers in the foreground add a bucolic touch. The picture is painted in Carver’s early and tighter style, before his touch became free, and occasionally loose, from his experience of scene painting. An almost exact parallel can be found in the precise, almost schematic, rendering of light effects on the different facades on the brick building and on a mill in a River Landscape with Figures (Gorry Gallery, Exhibition, 19 May 2010).We are grateful to William Laffan for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.

Various ordnance survey maps

A handcoloured map of Helstone, two handcoloured maps of field boundaries in the Helston area, a copy map of the River Fal, various Helston related Ordnance Survey Maps etc.

An original Second War memorial scroll awarded to Pte. W.A. Williams Royal Army Ordnance Corps from Breage, Helston; original 1929 St Dunstans Blind Sailors Soldier and Airman poster and a needlework sampler depicting military scenes (3)

A WWI military issued pocket compass with silvered dial, stamped with the Board of Ordnance broad arrow above '51309', in leather case stamped 'T. French & Son Ltd, London 1916' and further stamped with the broad arrow mark, a WWII .303" rifle pull through, a priest with later red leather covering, a small knife stamped to the collar 'Hyde, Mfg. Co Made in USA' with turned wooden handle, a commemorative token depicting The Dreadnought inscribed verso 'Bert to Ethel with Love' in white metal brooch mount, and a cap badge for Clan Macpherson depicting a seated cat within a belt buckle border embossed 'Touch not the cat bota glove' (6).Condition Report: The leather bound priest has been partially re-covered with the handle end seemingly older brown leather and the upper section in oxblood red leather with the top cover appearing to be somewhat a crude restoration project.

Glass Plate Negatives. Military A collection of late 19th century, quarter plate, glass plate negatives of military interest. The plates show troops of The Black Watch and Seaforth Lancers? On exercise, possibly in Southern England. Some with civilians looking on. Soldiers marching and moving artillery on horse-drawn carts. Including an Ordnance BL 15-pounder. Some plates have small scratches. Generally good, strong images.

SMALL TUB OF ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS

Box of Military, Antique Ordnance Survey and Hydrographic Office Nautical/Maritime Navigation Maps

12 WWI period Corps cap badges: RFC officer's bronze, RFC OR's (2), Tank Corps, 16 spoke Army Cyclist Corp (2), 2nd type Army Remount Service, Army Ordnance Corps (2), Army Veterinary Corps, Army Pay Corps, and Geo V Military Police. GC £50-60

A .56" 1839 pattern percussion Sea Service or Coast Guard belt pistol, the 6" barrel bearing Tower proof and various inspectors marks, the Lovell's pattern lock bearing crown over "VR", "1855 Tower", and ordnance inspector's mark, with fullstock, brass mounts, belt hook, swivel ramrod, and lanyard ring. GWO & C, the steel parts having blackened finish. £250-350

A flintlock musketoon, converted from a Brown Bess musket, 29½" overall, cut down barrel 14" with slightly flared muzzle, rounded lock with swan neck cock and remains of ordnance inspectors mark, fullstocked with brass mounts. GWO & basically GC (worn with some defects to the fore end). £100-150

A .56" 1839 pattern percussion Sea Service or Coast Guard belt pistol, the 6" barrel bearing Tower proof and various inspectors marks, the Lovell's pattern lock bearing crown over "VR", "1855 Tower" and ordnance inspector's mark, with fullstock, brass mounts, belt hook, swivel ramrod, and lanyard ring. GWO & C, the steel parts having matt black finish. £250-350

"Great British Gunmakers 1540 -1740", by Neal and Back, 1984, number 317 of a limited edition of 750; "The Armouries of the Tower of London: The Ordnance" by Blackmore, 1976, in its original carton; and "Stone's Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms & Armour in all Countries and in all times", by G.C. Stone 1961, reprint of the 1934 original. VGC (3) £50-60

A .577/450" Mark IV Martini Henry rifle, 49½" overall, barrel 33", number N6066, with ordnance proofs and inspector's marks, the frame bearing crown over "VR/Enfield/1886/IV" and "2" stamped over "1", the left frame with large number "1714", walnut fullstock, the butt with various marks including "RP/2/1904", with upper sling swivel and original cleaning rod. GWO&C, retaining most original blued finish (some light wear). £400-600

A .56" 1839 pattern percussion Sea Service or Coast Guard belt pistol, the 6" barrel bearing Tower proof and various inspectors marks, the Lovell's pattern lock bearing crown over "VR", "1855 Tower", and ordnance inspector's mark, with fullstock, brass mounts, belt hook, swivel ramrod, and lanyard ring. GWO & C, the steel parts having matt black finish. £250-350

A .56" 1839 pattern percussion Sea Service or Coast Guard belt pistol, the 6" barrel bearing Tower proof and various inspectors marks, the Lovell's pattern lock bearing crown over "VR", "1855 Tower" and ordnance inspector's mark, with fullstock, brass mounts, belt hook, swivel ramrod, and lanyard aring. GWO & C £250-350

A .56" 1839 pattern percussion Sea Service or Coast Guard belt pistol, the 6" barrel bearing Tower proof and various inspectors marks, the Lovell's pattern lock bearing crown over "VR", "1855 Tower", and ordnance inspectors mark, with fullstock stamped with broad arrow over "BO", brass mounts, belt hook and lanyard ring. GWO&C (swivel ramrod missing, some wear and bruising to stock) £250-300

4 flintlock pistol barrels: .56" long Sea Service with ordnance proofs; .75" Volunteer 1796 pattern with Tower private proofs (rusty, tip of tang missing); 13" mid 18th century French 18 bore with ribbed breech, silver line, and engraved "Pro Tu----- Franco", and on the under side "TORCHIO"; and 7" half octagonal with silver fore sight. GC £60-80

A .56" 1839 pattern percussion Sea Service or Coast Guard belt pistol, the 6" barrel bearing Tower proof and various inspectors marks, the converted flintlock pattern lock bearing crown over "VR Tower 1847" and ordnance inspector's mark, with fullstock, brass mounts, belt hook, swivel ramrod, and lanyard ring. GWO & C, the steel parts having blackened finish. £250-350

A .577" 1853 pattern 3 band Enfield percussion rifle, 55" overall, barrel 39" with ordnance proofs, numerous inspector's marks, and government salemark, the lock bearing crown over "VR", "1856 Tower" and inspector's mark, fullstocked, the butt with "WO Pimlico 1862" stamp, brass mounts, the butt plate tang engraved "M5/1027", with sling swivels and original steel ramrod. GWO & C, the barrel retaining most original blued finish; with its triangular socket bayonet in its brass mounted leather scabbard. GC £500-800

Reprint of the first edition of the 1" Ordnance Survey map of Cromer

SIX BOXES OF BOOKS AND MAGAZINES, to include a large collection of weekly 'History of the First World War' magazines, Ordnance Survey maps, local history books, a collection of Terry Pratchett paperbacks, Titanic interest, etc. (s.d) (6 boxes)

SIX BOXES OF BOOKS AND EPHEMERA, to include a school exercise book belonging to a George Picker, who went to Leadenham School, dated October 26th 1846, with a short note about George inside, three photographs of an Edwardian gentleman, two Shakespeare Memorial Theatre/ The Royal Shakespeare Theatre season programmes from the early 1960s, an Ordnance Survey map of Ruthin and surrounding areas dated 1879, approximately one hundred and forty books in hardback and paperback formats, mainly fiction including antiquarian and vintage titles, authors to include Kathy Reichs, Lynda La Plante, Terry Pratchett and Patricia Cornwell, with some history and other titles (6 boxes) (sd)

Two David & Charles reprints of Ordnance Survey maps illustrating Kendal, & Lancaster & Blackpool, together with two others illustrating Lancaster and Barrow

Ordnance Survey of England and Wales: Complete set of the 7th Series. 190 one-inch colour maps, each dissected into 6 sections laid on linen, with numbering tabs, preserved in the publisher’s three original purpose-made wooden map chests, each with the relevant index sheet pasted to the inside of the lid. Plus 3 index maps, plus a loosely inserted letter on 'Ordnance Survey' headed paper, dated 8 July 1959 and addressed to General R L Brown, CB. CBE. This set and the following set for Scotland, being retirement presents. A VERY GOOD/FINE SET (3)

Ordnance Survey of Scotland: Complete set. 92 colour maps, each dissected into 4 sections laid on linen, with numbering tabs, preserved in the publisher’s two original purpose-made wooden map chests, each with the relevant index sheet pasted to the inside of the lid. A VERY GOOD/FINE SET (2)

MILITARY, WW2: Bridging Normandy to Berlin, 1945, folio, DW, fully illustrated; Montgomery, Major General: The Story of the Fourth Army in the battles of the hundred days, August 8th to November 11th.1918. Map volume only, with 19 folding maps Plus 5 out of 7 folding Panoramic views; Letter from R L Brown, Brigadier director of Survey Allied forces Headquarters US Army, 16 Feb 1945. Presentation copy: enclosed, and present, a copy of 'the Advance on Rome'; A collection of General Montgomery’s personal messages to the Eight Army, 1944, in plain card boards; The Italian campaign 3 Sept 1943 – 2 May 1945 Royal Armoured Corps; Two ordnance survey maps: Aldershot Command; and Syria, Beirut section; 'Utah Beach to Cherbourg'. 1 October 1947, with the maps; 'Beachheads and Mountains'. Mediterranean Theatre of Operations, U.S. Army. June 1945; 'Fifteenth Air Force A Summary of its Operations and Results'. 1 November 1943 – 8 May 19. Classified Restricted; 'Goodbye to All This' 518 Field Survey Company. Royal Engineers. Inscribed by the men to Brigadier R.Ll.Brown OBE [Our client's Grandfather, he was head of survey for the 8th Army, and at AFHQ in Italy]; & 'History of AFHQ'. 9 paperback volumes. Volume 1 classified Confidential; remaining volumes classified Restricted (qty.)

India Letter - Cape of Good Hope. 1818 (Apr 15) Entire letter to "Lieut Colonel Warre, D.Q.M. General, Cape of Good Hope" written by his mother, but headed as a free letter and signed by S.R Chapman, Secretary of the Master of Ordnance, who had unlimited franking, with red Free datestamp and scarce black oval datestamp (Jay 1424, used in the Ship Letter Office in 1813-19). Delayed for a week awaiting a suitable ship to the Cape, then handstamped with red crowned boxed "INDIA / LETTER / FREE / LONDON" datestamp (Apr 22). A remarkable item, still the only recorded example of this India Letter Free datestamp (a similar handstamp with "SHIP" at base recorded on three 1816-17 items, this possibly the same handstamp with "SHIP" excised), ex. Jay. Photo on Inside Front Cover.

LOUIS RICQUIER (BELGIAN 1792 - 1884) AND CATERINA CANETTI (ITALIAN 20TH CENTURY) PORTRAIT OF CHARLES REILLE Oil on panel Signed (lower left) 59.5 x 49.5cm (23¼ x 19¼ in.) Provenance: Sale, Daguerre, Paris, Chine - Livres - Dessins & Tableaux Anciens - Céramique - Argenterie - Mobilier & Objets d'Art - Tapisseries & Tapis, where purchased by Count Manfredi della Gherardesca, November 2016, lot 124The later addition of a red nose to the sitter by Canetti was applied after the 2016 sale.Son of Victor Reille (1776-1849), Charles Reille was a captain of the general staff (1840), an ordnance officer of the Duc de Nemours (1841), aide-de-camp to Marshal Reille (1848)Caterina Canetti is a florentine base picture restorer who Count Manfredi approached to embellish the following historical portraits to comical effect. See lots 314,319 and 346 Condition Report: UV light reveals an uneven varnish scattered across the whole surface, and a few, but minor, retouches in the background area, especially in the sky. A 3cm long thin scratch is also present on the bottom right corner. For the added clown nose, there might be the chance it can be taken off with restoration, but this would definitely imply losing part of original paint and an extra intervention of the restorer to restore the damages. In regards to how much of the original paint might be loss, such can be only determined by a restorer. Condition Report Disclaimer

British 5 Inch Shell Head well restored shell head. Black painted body with red upper rings.  Lower copper driving band.  Removable brass fuse head marked "No 101EBII WC" and various Ordnance stamps.  Fuse not fully fitted.   PAYMENT ON RECEIPT OF INVOICE PLEASE. BACS ONLY - NO CARDS ACCEPTED

Scarce Westley Richards Percussion Monkey Tail Artillery Breech Loading Carbine .451 cal., 19 1/2 inch, rifled, blued barrel.  Front blade sight.  Rear ladder sight.  Top of barrel marked "Whitworth Patent".  Square section breech with rear, lift up monkey tail loading gate marked "Westley Richards & Co".  Case hardened, military pattern lock plate marked "Westley Richards & Co" dated 1867 within a triangle.  Percussion hammer.  Polished, full stock woodwork.  Rear stamped "F.A.1886" (Field Artillery).  Brass butt plate, trigger guard and end cap.  Rear, steel sling swivel and front barrel band with side bayonet bar and lower sling swivel.  Steel ramrod.   See British Non Ordnance Military Carbines 1750-1900 for a similar example.   PAYMENT ON RECEIPT OF INVOICE PLEASE. BACS ONLY - NO CARDS ACCEPTED

Five Gun Orientated Books Including Colt Examples consisting Colts Pocket 49 by Jordan & Watt ... The Paterson Colt Book by R Wilson ... The Colt Whitney-Walker Pistol by R Whittington ... British Military Firearms 1650-1850 by Blackmore ... British Non Ordnance Military Carbines 1750-1900 by B Chisnall.  5 items. PAYMENT ON RECEIPT OF INVOICE PLEASE. BACS ONLY - NO CARDS ACCEPTED

Deactivated US Model MIAI Thompson SMG .45 ACP, 11 inch, blackened barrel with blade sight.  Blackened, square form body with side operating bolt handle.  Rear battle sight.  Body with maker "Auto-Ordnance Corporation".  Lower steel trigger guard with wooden pistol grip.  Forward wooden forend.  Removable wooden butt with steel butt plate.  Blued stick magazine.  Complete with current cert.   PAYMENT ON RECEIPT OF INVOICE PLEASE. BACS ONLY - NO CARDS ACCEPTED

Lima OO Group of 3x Ltd Edition Class 47 Diesel Loco's. Comprising 205089 BR Two Tone Green 47833 Captain Peter Manisty RN Riko Int Ltd Cert 471 of 850; 204823 47972 BR Grey / Red Technical Services - The Royal Army Ordnance Corps Beatties of London Cert 602 of 850; 204853 47803 Infrastructure Yellow Livery - A Greenhat Innovation 1994 collection No.2 219 of 500. Conditions: Excellent Plus to near Mint in Good to Excellent boxes. (3)

A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN MAPS TO INCLUDE ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS