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Burmese dha / Thai daab type sword, having 52cm long blade, the handle with wire work grip having large pommel, 81cm long, with scabbard. Provenance Brigadier Cornelius Joseph Tobin CBE of the 3rd/2nd Punjab Regiment Indian Army Ordnance Corps (1910-1998).

Military related ephemera pertaining to Brigadier Cornelius Joseph Tobin CBE of the 3rd/2nd Punjab Regiment Indian Army Ordnance Corps (1910-1998) to include The Half Yearly Indian Army List April 1945 Part I, personnel file, court inquiry proceedings transcript 'investigating the discrepancies on the books of the CAS Ordanace Depot Burma 1946', an 'account of operations by 32 Ind Corps from the start of the Assam Campaign in April 1944 until the relief of 4 corps at Imphal June 1944' with pull out maps of Assam, fighting strength tables etc. letter pertaining to an excess baggage claim from P&O for army passengers aboard SS Chusan 1956, Officers annual cricket match autographed sheet for match played at Friendly Hill Singapore July 1955, Japan Surrenders 12th Army Educational Corps, 12th Army Report upon the State of Civil Affairs Departments and Conditions in Burma on 16th October 1945, photographs including E Coy 223 BOD Singapore, India Army Signal School 1938, personal photographs of dinners and events etc. report on the Indian Parachute Brigade during the Punjab Riots 1947, etc.

Dutch Klewang naval type short sword, the curving fullered blade with ricasso stamped 'Hembrug', wooden grip with basket style guard, the interior with plaque '1-3 Inf Dep 139', blade length 61cm, sword length 74cm, with brown leather scabbard. Provenance Brigadier Cornelius Joseph Tobin CBE of the 3rd/2nd Punjab Regiment Indian Army Ordnance Corps (1910-1998).

British Isles. Walker (J. & C.). Map of the British Isles Showing the Cities, Borough & Market Towns, The Principal Villages, Railways, Mail & Turnpike Roads, Navigable Rivers & Canals with the Soundings & Sand Banks round the Coast, sold by Edward Stanford, circa 1850, engraved map with contemporary wash colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, calligraphic title, table of explanation, inset maps of the Scilly Isles and the Shetland & Orkney Islands, endpapers as advertisements for Edward Stanford, 1240 x 1065 mm, together with Cruchley (GH. F. publisher). North of England with part of Scotland from the Ordnance Survey, circa 1860, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, some dust soiling and slight staining, some staining to the verso, marbled endpapers, 1450 x 1570 mm, bound in contemporary cloth boards with gilt morocco label to the upper siding, upper board detached, bumped, worn and frayedQTY: (2)

Surrey. A collection of 19 folding maps, 18th, 19th & early 20th century, engraved and lithographic folding county and touring maps, including examples by or after Bowen, Smith, Hall, Bacon, Philips, 'Geographia', Bartholomew and Ordnance Survey, occasional duplicates, various sizes and conditionQTY: (19)

* Middlesex. A collection of 25 maps, 17th - 19th century, engraved county maps, including examples by or after Van Langeren, Luffman, Van den Keere, Owen & Bowen, Badeslade & Toms, Cary, Moll, Blome, Seller/Grose, Zatta, Osborne, Kitchin, Aiken, Perrot, Ordnance Survey, Hall, Archer, Rocque, Phillips and Moule, various sizes and condition, fourteen framed and glazed, together with another 23 British and foreign maps, including maps of London, British counties and regions, various sizes and condition, plus a copy of Thomas Chubb's 'The Printed Maps in the Atlases of Great Britain and Ireland' and a facsimile copy of Ogilby's road atlas published by Duckhams, QTY: (50)

Roscommon & Kings County: [O'Donovan (John)] Letters ... Relating to the Antiquities of the Kings County. Collected during the.. Ordnance Survey in 1839. Two vols.in one, 4to Bray 1933; also ... Relative to the Antiquities of the County of Roscommon collected during the Ordnance Survey in 1837. Lg. 4to ray 1931. All reproduced under the direction of Rev. Michael O'Flanagan. All uniform cloth. (2)

Co. Galway: [O'Donovan (John)] Letters ... relating to the Antiquities of the County of Galway, Collected during the .. Ordnance Survey in 1839, 3 vols. lg. 4to Bray 1928. Text illus. maps etc. Orig. cloth. (3)

WW2 British RAF Field Service Cap dated 1940 and complete with brass cap badge, some moth: US Army Overseas Cap with Ordnance Corps arm of service coloured piping, named to "33336734 Albert A. Smith": British Women's WVS Green Beret with WVS Civil Defence cap badge: Post War Black French Army Beret. (4)

WW2 US M1 Garand Bayonet with fullered single edged blade 250mm in length. Maker marked "UFH" for "Union, Fork & Hoe Corporation" along with US Flaming Grenade Ordnance mark. Black plastic grips. Working release catch. Overall length 365mm. Complete with scabbard with US Ordnance mark to the throat and makers mark to the plastic scabbard.

WW2 US Army Ordnance Corps Enlisted Mans Jacket with US 8th Army Shoulder Sleeve Insignia, Sgt's Stripes. Label dated 1940. Size 39S. Complete with Enlisted Man's Wool Shirt size 15-32 and Tan enlisted Man's Tie (3)

Scotland War Office Edition, Orkney Island (Mainland) - sheet 6. Ordnance survey map - published 1950, Mint condition

Pickering Yorkshire-Ordnance Survey War Office Edition Map/National Grid, sheet 92, War Office Published 1948 - 2nd Edition 1902 folded, very good.

Scotland 'Loch Roag & Tarbert' War Office Edition, sheet 13, ordnance survey map, published 1950, folded - slight tear on the bottom

Scotland - 'Ullapool & Loch Ewe' War office Edition, sheet 19, Ordnance survey map, published 1949 folded mint condition

Scotland War office Edition - ordnance Survey - sheet 4, south mainland (Shetland Islands) folded, mint condition, Fair Isle inset

A British 1907 pattern bayonet, the 43cm single edged fullered blade marked to the ricasso with a crown over GR 2 18 Sanderson with various Ordnance stamps to the opposing side, with a two piece wooden grip, housed in a steel mounted leather scabbard, 55cm.

A British 1890 pattern Cavalry Trooper's sword, the 87cm slightly curved fullered blade stamped to the forte with WD mark crown E over 30 Y.C., with various Ordnance marks to the opposing side, the steel guard with pierced Maltese Cross and leather two piece grip, housed in a steel scabbard, 101cm.

HARDY, Thomas. Dorchester (Dorset), With Its Surroundings. Ordnance Map. 1st edition, 1905-1906. One of the Homeland Handbooks series (vol. 46).8vo., original printed wrappers.Foreword by Mr Thomas Hardy. Topographical plates. Housed in a blue cloth chemiseIncludes chapters on literature about William Barnes and Thomas Hardy, "Casterbridge" and a list of places mentioned by Mr Hardy in the Wessex Novels under fictitious names.Spine a little rubbed, otherwise good.With: 1 pp. als from Thomas Hardy in ink, Max Gate, 9/7/05 acknowledging receipt of the book and thanking the author,signed 'T. Hardy'.Exlibris of Carroll Atwood Wilson and the collector Frederick Adams, Jr.Provenance: Property from the library of a Dorset Gentleman.

Late 19th century 20 bore officers percussion pistol/carbine, 10" / 25.5cm octagonal barrel with silver fore-sight and fixed rear sight on engraved tang, the lock which has been converted from flint lock is signed 'Collis' and had a sliding safety (working) behind the plain hammer, steel trigger guard with acorn finial and two steel ram-road pipes, rounded butt with a steel mount which takes the removable wooden butt extension, lock in place with a long lever, two ordnance proof marks on barrel, ram-rod missing tip, pistol 15.5" / 40cm, with stock fitted 26" / 66cm

ASSORTED GLASS BOTTLES beer, medicine, poison and others, including one aqua flask marked 'W.H. Clark / Wine Merchant / & / Contractor / Refreshment Dept / S W Rly', 14cm high (cracked); a clear flask, etched 'Ordnance', 12cm high; and a clear glass flask etched 'Prince of Wales / Kensington', 19.5cm high; together with a small quantity of other items.

A Second World War US M1 Garand bayonet by Utica Cutlery, two piece bakelite grip, housed in green plastic and steel mounted scabbard, blade marked UC US and ordnance marks, blade 24.5cm long

A collection of early 20th century British military cap badges and shoulder titles, including Machine Gun Corps, Middlesex Regiment, Tank Corps, Royal Artillery, Womans Army Auxiliary Corps, Lincolnshire, Army Ordnance Corps, Black Watch, Sherwood Foresters, Somerset Light Infantry, Royal Berkshire, Royal Warwickshire, Wiltshire etc together with a German pickelhaube emblem, Canada collar and an Australian Commonwealth Military Forces cap badge (50+)

A selection of various military cap badges including two Army Chaplain's Department badges, ATS, WAAC, Royal Military Police, Army Ordnance Corps etc.

AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF 22 BORE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS WITH BRASS BARRELS BY SAMUEL BRUNN, NO 55 CHARING CROSS, LONDON, LONDON PROOF MARKS, LONDON SILVER HALLMARKS FOR 1797, MAKER'S MARK OF MICHAEL BARNETTwith octagonal brass barrels inscribed 'No 55 Charing Cross London’, bronze fore-sights and gold-lined vents, engraved steel breech tangs incorporating the back-sights and decorated with Brittania trophies, signed engraved stepped bevelled locks fitted with engraved sliding bolt safety-catches, gold-lined pans, detents, and steel springs with roller (one cock replaced), blued set triggers, figured walnut half-stocks inlaid with chased sheet silver scrollwork enclosing a shield-shaped escutcheon behind the breech tang and with further arrangements of pineapple scrolls and foliage over the fore-ends, chequered swelling butts, engraved silver mounts comprising chased silver butt-caps, chased silver trigger-plate with pineapple finials, engraved silver trigger-guards decorated with foliage, silver fore-end caps, ramrod-pipes engraved with a sunburst and carried by a silver rib, engraved barrel bolt escutcheons, original ramrod (horn tip and the other ramrod restored), 24.7 cm barrels (2) ProvenanceW. Graham Lewis, formerly on loan to the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland (1971-2001)Sold Sotheby’s Olympia, 7th December 2001, lot 264 For the an account Michael Barnett’s work and the attribution of his marks, see Dickens 1999, pp. 86 – 117. Samuel Brunn, took over John Knubley’s business at 7 Charing Cross Road on his death in 1795. He continued as John Knubley until 1797, registered silver maker’s mark as hilt maker with Goldsmiths’ Company in 1796. Under his own name, Sword Cutler and Gunmaker, Opposite the Mews Gate, 55 Charing Cross, 1798 – 1804; 56 Charing Cross, 1805 – 1820. By Appointment to Prince of Wales, 1800 – 1811; to Prince Regent, 1812 – 1820. Contractor to Ordnance, 1797 – 1809.

A FINE 22 BORE FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE BY DURS EGG, CIRCA 1790 with rebrowned octagonal twist barrel rifled with eight grooves, fitted with reblued folding back-sight and silver-gilt fore-sight, signed ‘D. Egg, London’ in gold capital letters over the breech, inlaid with two gold lines, and struck beneath with London proof marks, gold-lined vent, engraved case-hardened breech tang decorated with foliage inhabited by two game birds and a sunburst, engraved stepped bevelled lock retaining some early case-hardening colour, decorated with a hound putting up a game bird on the tail and signed beneath the pan, fitted with blued sliding bolt safety-catch, bevelled cock decorated with a spray of foliage, gold-lined semi-rainproof pan and border-engraved steel chiseled with a central triangular panel, the interior fitted with blued main and sear spring, figured walnut half-stock, finely chequered grip, the butt with raised cheek-piece on the left, case-hardened iron mounts, comprising butt-plate engraved with a hound putting up a game-bird on the tang, trigger-plate with stylised pomegranate finial, trigger-guard with a moulded pillar at the front, engraved with a game vignette on the bow and a star on the rear scroll, fore-end-cap decorated with a sunburst, vacant gold escutcheon, silver barrel bolt escutcheons, iron sling swivels, original wooden ramrod with chequered brass tip, iron sling swivels, vacant gold escutcheon, silver barrel bolt escutcheons and some early finish throughout, 69.6 cm barrel ProvenanceBonhams 23rd April 2008, lot 371. ExhibitedThe Rowland Club, Cotswolds weekend, June 2008. Durs Egg, son of Leonz a gunmaker in Oberbuchsiten, Switzerland, was born in 1748 and, after a short stay in Paris, is recorded working with John Twigg in London around 1772. He was granted denization in 1791, worked as Gunmaker and Sword Cutler, 24 Princes Street, Leicester Fields, 1778 - 86; 1 Coventry Street, Haymarket, 1786 - 1804; 132 Strand (near Somerset House), 1804 - 16; 1 Pall Mall Colonnade, 1816 - 32. He had a factory at 35 Mansell Street, 1794 – 11, his house and workshop was at 9 Kensington Gore, 1797 – 1802 and Knightsbridge Green, 1802 - 30. He was Contractor to Ordnance, 1784 – 1820, was granted patents for a breech loading gun, waterproof locks, recoiling barrel, pistol shoulder butt, tubular sights in 1803; and improved flintlocks, 3 & 4 barrelled guns, stick gun and safety powder flask in 1812. He was Gunmaker to George IV & Duke of York. A silver-mounted flintlock breechloading rifle by Durs Egg, made around 1784, is preserved in the Royal Collection, Windsor. He became blind in 1822 and died in 1831. See Blair 1973, pp. 266-299 and 305-353.

A 16 BORE FLINTLOCK PISTOL BY RICHARD WILSON, MINORIES, LONDON, LONDON PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1750 with swamped brass barrel, inscribed 'Minories, London' in a linear panel drawn-out to a loop over the breech and struck with the barrelsmith's mark and proof marks on the left, engraved steel tang, signed rounded lock engraved with sprays of foliage and border ornament (worn, top-jaw and steel replaced), figured walnut full stock (small repairs), carved with a moulding about the barrel tang, full brass mounts comprising engraved spurred pommel, pierced rococo side-plate, trigger-guard with acorn finial, escutcheon engraved with the owner's initials 'JAB', a pair of ramrod-pipes and associated ramrod with iron worm, 20.3 cm barrel Richard (1) Wilson (1703-66) is recorded at the Minories from 1730. He was contractor to Ordnance from 1746, the East India Company 1733-6 and the Royal African Company from 1739.

A CASED PAIR OF 15-BORE FLINTLOCK BELT PISTOLS BY HAMPTON, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1815-20 with re-browned twist octagonal sighted barrels, engraved tangs decorated with foliage, signed engraved stepped bevelled locks decorated with border ornament, foliage on the tail and a sunburst behind the semi-rainproof pans, steel springs with rollers (one cock replaced one top-jaw missing), figured full stocks with chequered rounded butts (minor bruising), steel mounts comprising trigger-guards with pineapple finials and engraved bows decorated with scrollwork, belt hooks, moulded ramrod-pipes, vacant silver escutcheons, and brass-tipped ramrods with iron worms, probably original (steel parts with areas of wear and pitting): in a later lined and fitted case with a modern copper flask embossed with a trophy-of-arms, 20.6 cm barrels (2) Probably by Thomas Hampton (active 1807, died 1824) recorded in Birmingham at Love Street (1807-17) and Legge Street (1818-24) as 'Manufacture of arms to His Majesty's Honourable Board of Ordnance, and of all kinds of fine fowling pieces, guns & pistols for exportation'.

A .65 CALIBRE NEW LAND PATTERN FLINTLOCK PISTOL, CIRCA 1800 of regulation type, with tapering barrel stamped with Ordnance marks at the breech, bevelled lock with 'GR' crowned, 'Tower' and Government ownership broad arrow mark, walnut full stock with inspector's stamps, brass mounts, and restored steel stirrup ramrod, 23.0 cm barrel

A RARE .56 CALIBRE 1756/81 PATTERN LAND SERVICE FLINTLOCK PISTOL of regulation type, with tapering barrel struck with Ordnance marks at the breech, border-engraved rounded lock with 'GR' crowned and 'TOWER', rounded cock (associated), full stock (a portion of the fore-end and the area behind the lock replaced), and brass mounts (later ramrod), 30.6 cm barrel

British Forces by John Ruddle: Royal Engineers Observation Balloon with Winch Wagon and six horse team, Rifle Brigade Bugles Band and Escort, King's Royal Rifle Corps, Army Ordnance Corps and Westminster Yeomanry (Condition Very Good, six KRRC arms damaged) (97)

Six UK Ordnance Survey 1940 War Revision Maps, comprising sheet 41 - Anglesey; sheet 42 - Llandudno & Denbigh; sheet 52 - Stoke on Trent; sheet 53 - Derby; sheet 62 - Burton & Walsall; sheet 68 - Barmouth & Aberystwyth, all 1" to 1 mile; Nine RAF Edition Maps of Scotland, each ¼" to 1 mile scale, comprising Sheets 2,4,5,6,7,8,9, &10(x2 - one lacking cover), all circa 1935-1938; a UK Aeronautical War Office Map of South West England, sheet 7 - af; twelve War Office and Three Other Aeronautical Maps of Europe, each 1/500,000 scale, including Bordeaux, Brest, France - East of Paris, Norway Stieskp (German edition), Casablanca, Marrakech, Oran, Sfax, Tangier and Tunis (31 - list available)

Pair: Private A. J. Norman, Suffolk Regiment British War and Victory Medals (8698 Pte. A. J. Norman. Suff. R.) nearly very fine Pair: Private E. C. Osborne, Suffolk Regiment British War and Victory Medals (2400 Pte. E. C. Osborne. Suff. R.) generally very fine or better British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (2. Lieut. H. E. S. Cadman.; 1524 Pte. K. Appleton. Suff. Yeo.) generally very fine (6) £70-£90 --- Alfred J. Norman served during the Great War with the Suffolk Regiment and the Cambridgeshire Regiment, and was additionally entitled to the L.S. & G.C. Harold Edward Snielter Cadman served during the Great War with the 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment in Salonica from 20 February 1918. He subsequently transferred as a Lieutenant to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, and resided in Thames Ditton after the war. Kenric Appleton served during the Great War with the 1/1st Suffolk Yeomanry in the Gallipoli theatre of War from 8 October 1915. He subsequently served with the Suffolk Regiment and the Royal Engineers (entitled to Silver War Badge).

A Great War Italian theatre ‘Advance on Vittorio Veneto’ M.M. group of four awarded to Acting Corporal W. Boxall, South Staffordshire Regiment Military Medal, G.V.R. (32579 Pte. -A. Cpl.- W. Boxall 1/S/ Staff. R.); 1914-15 Star (012503 Pte. W. Boxall, A.O.C.); British War and Victory Medals (012503 A. Cpl. W. Boxall. A.O.C.) good very fine (4) £300-£400 --- M.M. London Gazette 29 March 1919. William Boxall was born in Leigh, Surrey, c.1884, and attested for the Army Ordnance Corps at Brentwood, serving with them during the Great War initially in the Balkan theatre of War from 25 November 1915. Transferring to the South Staffordshire Regiment, he saw further service with the 1st Battalion in Italy, and was awarded his Military Medal for services during the advance on Vittorio Veneto. Sold with a postcard photograph of the recipient; an original letter written by the recipient to his wife and daughter, dated 8 May [1918], from ‘somewhere on the Line in Italy’, together with two other family postcards; the recipient’s signed extract from Battalion Standing Orders for the Trenches; a newspaper cutting regarding the advance on Vittorio Veneto; and copied research.

Pair: Lieutenant E. Bryan, Royal Army Ordnance Corps British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. E. Bryan) nearly extremely fine Pair: Private W. A. Beard, East Surrey Regiment British War and Victory Medals (35046 Pte. W. A. Beard. E. Surr. R.) nearly very fine British War Medal 1914-20 (29507 Sjt. M. R. Wagstaff. York.R.); together with the recipient’s First Army Rifle Meeting 1918, silver medal, the reverse engraved ‘63350/Sgt. M. R. Wagstaff 2nd. West Yorks Regt. Fruges’, good very fine (6) £70-£90

Waterloo 1815 (Corp. James Brown Royal Artillery Drivers.) fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, edge bruise, otherwise very fine £1,000-£1,400 --- James Brown was born in the Parish of Halstead, Essex, and enlisted for the Royal Artillery at Colchester on 5 December 1800, aged 21. He served for 20 years 61 days, including 2 years’ allowance for Waterloo; was a Corporal from 1808; and was discharged from the Invalid Battalion R.A. at Woolwich on 30 November 1818, in consequence of ‘wounded shoulder, is by Order of the Honble Board of Ordnance placed upon the pension list from 8 December 1818 at one shilling and six pence per diem.’ He served at Waterloo in Captain Henry Lane’s “F” Troop, Royal Artillery Drivers. Sold with copied discharge papers.

‘During the campaign he performed many deeds of bravery, foremost among which may be specially noted - saving the life of the late Admiral (then Captain) Lushington, R.N., when that officer was unhorsed and surrounded by the enemy; and the splendid deed of heroism for which Her Majesty decorated him with the Victoria Cross, protecting at the imminent risk of his life the wounded soldiers and sailors at the Lankester Battery on the great day of Inkerman. Three times were the English forced by overwhelming numbers to evacuate this work, and the dead and wounded lay in heaps; at length, notwithstanding the order to retire, Mr Gorman, with four other brave fellows, stood their ground until reinforcements arrived, and this important post was saved.’ The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 October 1882 The fine Crimean War Naval Brigade V.C. group of four awarded to Seaman James Gorman, Royal Navy, H.M.S. Albion, who was decorated for his gallantry while defending the Right Lancaster Battery at the Battle of Inkermann on 5 November 1854 when, declining the order to withdraw and leave the wounded, he proceeded to mount the defence works banquette and, using the weapons of the disabled who he was protecting, helped repel the Russian advance ‘not trusting any Ivan to get in bayonet range of the wounded’ - his award would be listed in the notable 24 February 1857 issue of the London Gazette containing the first ever awards of the Victoria Cross and his well documented later life confirms him to have been the first Australian resident to hold the V.C. Victoria Cross, the reverse of the suspension bar inscribed ‘Seaman James Gorman’, the reverse centre of the cross dated ‘5 Nov. 1854.’; Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Jas. Gorman. Lead. Sean. H.M.S. Albion.) naming officially engraved by Hunt & Roskell as issued to the entire ship’s crew of Albion and delivered on board, 30 December 1855; China 1857-60, 1 clasp, Canton 1857, unnamed as issued; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed as issued, pierced with small ring and silver loop suspension, the three campaign medals fitted with contemporary matching chased silver ribbon buckles, pins removed from the Crimean pair, all contained in an old red leather and gilt tooled case, approx. 145mm x 60mm x 22mm, the lid embossed ‘Rewards for Valour. James Gorman. V.C.’, the interior with gilt tooling and velvet lining, two brass hasp catches, one end section of case missing, the medals with some light contact marks, otherwise very fine or better (4) £200,000-£260,000 --- V.C. London Gazette 24 February, 1857: ‘Thomas Reeves, Seaman, James Gorman, Seaman and Mark Scholefield, Seaman. At the Battle of Inkermann, 5 November 1854, when the Right Lancaster Battery was attacked, these three seaman mounted the Banquette, and under a heavy fire made use of the disabled soldiers’ muskets, which were loaded for them by others under the parapet. They are the survivors of five who performed the above action. (Letter from Sir S. Lushington, 7th June, 1856)’ Note: The Victoria Crosses awarded to Reeves and Scholefield are both held in the Lord Ashcroft Collection at the Imperial War Museum in London. James Gorman was born in London, the son of Patrick Gorman, a nurseryman and his wife Ann (née Furlong) who were married at St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster on 29 June 1829. Giving his date of birth as 21 August 1834, he was assigned on 2 March 1848 to the training ship H.M.S. Victory, Admiral Nelson’s former flagship, as a Boy Second Class, having been one of the first 200 boys to be accepted as apprentices into the Royal Navy (many years later on his marriage certificate Gorman would state his year of birth as 1835 and his father’s Christian name as James, discrepancies which are not accounted for). In September 1848 he transferred with 69 other apprentices to the 10 gun brig sloop, H.M.S. Rolla, in which ship the boys were required to cruise in the Channel until declared fit to serve aboard regular naval vessels. Gorman impressed his instructors to the degree that he was retained beyond his allotted time to act as an instructor for the next intake of apprentices, following which he was briefly appointed to H.M.S. Dragon before joining H.M.S. Howe, remaining with her until 12 July 1850. After a short stay in floating barracks, Gorman, now standing 5 feet 2 inches, with blue eyes, light brown hair and a ruddy complexion, joined H.M.S. Albion as a Boy 1st Class on 13 July 1850. Promoted Ordinary Seaman 2nd Class on 13 May 1852, just two months later he was advanced again to Able Seaman and, remaining in Albion, he would serve in this rank during the Crimean War as a member of the Naval Brigade. The Naval Brigade in the Crimea Orders for the invasion of the Crimea were received by Lord Raglan on 16 July 1854 and by early November, the allied army, having landed unopposed at Kalamita Bay, 28 miles north of Sebastopol between 14 and 18 September, had already inflicted heavy losses on the Russian Army at the Battle of Alma on 20 September and engaged them once more with indecisive results on the 25 October at Balaklava while continuing to lay siege to the port of Sebastopol. In the meantime, it had become evident from the lack of Russian naval ambition that the Royal Navy could play a larger role in the campaign and on 17 October a largely unsupported and decidedly unsuccessful naval bombardment of Sebastopol port’s coastal and harbour defences was conducted while in terms of land operations, a Naval Brigade, eventually numbering 2400 sailors, 2000 marines and nearly 160 guns, was formed for shore service. ‘The navy’s main work ashore consisted in supporting the allied artillery pounding the Russian defences or in counter-battery work. Placed under Captain Stephen Lushington, commander of Albion, seconded by Captain William Peel of the Diamond, the Naval Brigade was initially camped on Victoria Ridge, near the Woronzoff Road, just over 2 miles south of Sebastopol harbour. Its first job was simply to employ teams of ‘bluejackets’ to manhandle from the busy harbour of Balaklava the heavy siege guns and ammunition and the timber and materials necessary to construct gun emplacements. The distance was 6-8 miles, depending on the point in the front line and the men worked ceaselessly from 5.30am until after 6.30pm, often under fire. To increase the allies’ firepower ‘before Sebastopol’ heavy guns were removed from the major battleships: the powerful 8-inch guns of Albion and Retribution along with 32- and 68-pounders from Britannia, Agamemnon, Queen, Rodney, Diamond, Trafalgar, Bellerophon, Terrible, Vengeance and London; Beagle landed two of her Lancaster guns. Some ships like the Diamond which provided the first of the naval batteries under Captain Peel and immediately lost twenty 32-pounder guns, were just about stripped of their main armament. For each naval gun, the sailors brought ashore 150 rounds of shot and 30 of common shell and an appropriate supply of gunpowder. It was as Lyons recorded, a ‘Herculean’ task to get all this ordnance and ammunition ashore.’ (The Crimean War at Sea: The Naval Campaigns against Russia 1854-56 by Peter Duckers refers). The British siege positions before Sebastopol were divided into the ‘Right Attack’ and ‘Left Attack’, either side of the Victoria (or Worontzoff) ravine. The French siege positions lay between the coast near Sebastopol and then joined and secured the British left flank or ‘Left Attack’. Helping to reinforce the British right, the Naval Brigade added to the allied firepower by manning 17 guns in Chapman’s Batt...

South Africa 1834-53 (Ordnance Storehouse Man F. Short.) toned, good very fine £300-£400 --- Confirmed on the roll of the Commissariat for the Third Kaffir War and unique to this rank.

Three: Lieutenant G. N. Burdett, Indian Ordnance Department British War Medal 1914-20 (11449 S-Sgt. G. N. Burdett. R.A.); Defence Medal; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (S-Condr. G. N. Burdett, I.O.D.) nearly extremely fine (3) £100-£140 --- George Norfolk Burdett was born in the parish of Kilnasoolagh, Newmarket, County Clare, Ireland, on 9 March 1883. A labourer, he attested at London for the Royal Garrison Artillery on 9 June 1902, passing a gun laying course at Sheerness in February 1908. Posted to India, he served at Allahabad with 60th Company, Royal Garrison Artillery, before transferring as Sergeant to the Indian Ordnance Department at Ferozepore Arsenal in November 1911. He remained in India throughout the Great War, before going to Aden from 28 February 1919 to 16 December 1921. Returned to India and the Rawalpindi Arsenal as Sub Conductor, he later transferred to the Rangoon and Quetta Arsenals before being placed on retirement pay in the 1939 Indian Army List, his rank noted as Lieutenant (Assistant Commissary), Indian Army Ordnance Corps. Sold with the original card box of transmittal for the Defence Medal, addressed to: ‘Mr. G. N. Burdett, 24 Cokeham Road, Sompting, Nr. Worthing, Sussex; together with the recipient’s National Registration Identity Card, noting service as Head Warden at Sompting, dated 29 July 1943.

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Sikkim 1888 (Lieut. F. G. Smallwood No. 9/1 N.D. R.A.) mounted as worn, toned, very fine and scarce £400-£500 --- Four guns of 9/1 Northern Division Royal Artillery present on this campaign, the entire expedition under the command of Colonel T. Graham, R.A. Major Frank Graham Smallwood was Ordnance Officer at Agra and was appointed M.V.O. Fourth Class on 19 December 1905. He was promoted to Commander in the same Order on 12 December 1911, in recognition of his services as Ordnance Officer, ‘On Deputation with Coronation Durbar Camp Delhi’. Sold with original Warrant for both C.V.O. and M.V.O. together with their respective covering letters of appointment from the Secretary of the Order, Privy Purse Office, Buckingham Palace, with envelope addressed to the ‘Ordnance Department, Simla, India’.

Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (unsuccessful), (Qr. Mr. Sergt. W. H. Sidwell, 30th Nov. 1896.) lacking ribbon buckle, extremely fine £100-£140 --- R.H.S. Case No. 29240: ‘At great personal risk, gallantly attempted to rescue R. Tailford, who was unfortunately drowned at Tynemouth, 30th November, 1897.’ Quartermaster-Sergeant Sidwell, Army Ordnance Corps, and Bombardier J. Law, R.A., at great personal risk, gallantly attempted to rescue R. Tailford, who was drowned at Tynemouth on 30 November 1896. The recipient was aged 36 at the time. Tailford was seen struggling in the sea off Tynemouth at 9.30 a.m.; he was about 100 yards out in 10 feet of water. A heavy sea was running and the water was very cold. Both men went down a steep cliff and swam out to him; however owing to the rough sea they could not effect the rescue and returned to the shore in an exhausted state. The case was sent to the Royal Humane Society by the O.C. at Tynemouth.’

Badge. Royal Army Ordnance Corps Officer's cap badge circa 1920-47. Fine die-stamped gilt crowned blue enamel backed pierced Garter resting on title scroll; gilt Board of Ordnance shield to red enamel centre. Loops. VGC PAYMENT BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY ON RECEIPT OF INVOICE

Lemania. A stainless steel manual wind single button chronometer wristwatch  0552/920-3305 1275, Circa 1960 17 jewel manual wind chronograph, black dial with Arabic numerals, ordnance mark at centre with Tritrium T at 12, luminous dots, subsidiary dials for running seconds and 30 minute recording, luminous filled hands  polished case with screw on back with engraved issue numbers, single chronograph button in the band at 2, fitted associated leather strap and buckle, case, dial and movement signed 38.7mm diameter Please note that Roseberys do not guarantee working order or time keeping of any automatic, mechanical, quartz or other timepiece Please note that the watch straps for this lot will be removed at the time of purchaseCondition Report: Case is in overall ln good order with scratches and dirt commensurate with age. Dial is in good order with some discolouration to the hands, 12 and 6 and to the some of the hour markers. Watch currently running when wound and the start/stop button seem to work and reset correctly.  

Mixed maps, mainly ordnance survey land danger examples. Not available for in-house P&P

Shelf of Ordnance Survey Landranger maps (60). Not available for in-house P&P

Shelf of Ordnance Survey Explorer maps (65). Not available for in-house P&P

Belt of Second World War .30-03 Link Ammunition, cartridge cases and projectiles, bases stamped with U.S. manufacturers DEN (Denver Ordnance Plant), F A  (Frankford Arsenal), R A (Remington Arms), S L (St Louis Ordnance Plant), all dated between 1941 and 1943, 53 rounds, inert

British No.4 Mk II Spike Bayonet, together with four Second World War period matchbox holders to, the Royal Engineers, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, ARP, and Arms of Exeter (silver plated), (5)

First/Second World War Imperial Japanese Navy 47mm shell case and projectile for the QF Hotchkiss naval gun, Japanese ordnance stamps to base of shell and case case, inert

18th/19th century detached flintlock mechanism, the lock plate marked with a crown over 'GR' 'TOWER' and possibly what appears to be the Board of Ordnance broad arrow, length 17 cm

Belt of 20 mm Cannon shell cases, metal linked, seem to be a mix of British and U.S. makes, Kynoch, Dura (Detroit Harvester Corp), NECO (Milwaukie), etc, all dated between 1941 and 1941, (27 cases), together with a belt of .30-03 cartridge cases with U.S. makers DEN (Denver Ordnance Plant) and FA (Frankford Arsenal) among others, all dated between 1941 and 1943 (53 cases), inert

Belt of Second World War .30-03 Link Ammunition, cartridge cases and projectiles, bases stamped with U.S. manufacturers DEN (Denver Ordnance Plant), F A  (Frankford Arsenal), R A (Remington Arms), S L (St Louis Ordnance Plant), T W (Twin Cities Ordnance Plant), all dated between 1941 and 1943, 48 rounds, inert

1975 A.D. J.B. Harley & Yolande O'Donoghue - The Old Series Ordnance Survey Maps of England and Wales, Volume I - Kent, Essex, E. Sussex and Suffolk - hardback with dustwrapper, 47 maps, 40 pp text for reprint. 1.63 kg, 35 x 25.5 cm (13 3/4 x 10 in.).Property of an Essex collector. [No Reserve]

Miscellaneous maps, mid-20th c and later, mostly GB and Ordnance Survey, some pamphlets, etc

A collection of Ordnance Survey maps. Including Eastbourne & Hastings, Bartholomew Midlands, etc.

A group of prints and mapsincluding: Engraved plate of St. Pauls, North elevation, George Gladwin, 1826 (70 x 49 cm), rolled; The South East prospect of St. Michael’s Mount, Cornwall. May 24, 1739 (81 X 18 cm), rolled; Ordnance Survey Map of Hampstead, 1873. Three sheets joined together (106 X 67 cm); City & county of the city of Canterbury, surveyed in 1873 by W Wynne. Coloured, linen backed, folded in the middle and rolled (106 X 71 cm); Hollars' views of London for 1647, sheets 2-6. Lithograph Soc. 1907. Rolled; & Rhinebeck’ Panorama of London, London Topographical Soc. Pub. No. 125, 1981, rolled. KAY NIELSEN: Ten tipped-in colour plates, each with the description paper guard; Plus one colour plate by Jessie M King; Eight colour plates, including two by Rowlandson; Plus a colour lithograph: The British Bee Hive- a penny political picture for the people, 1867; Plus: Sixteen other engraved plates. (qty.)From the Paul Bentley collection of maps and atlases.

Five boxes of various books and Ordnance Survey maps

Five boxes containing leather bound and other books including London Illustrated News, Mrs Beatons Household management, Ordnance Survey maps etc.

ONE BOX OF ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS, over sixty Land Ranger and Ordnance Survey maps of Great Britain, to include a 1940's Hudson's plan of Birmingham, a Bartholemew's map of the English Lakes, Cheshire, together with 'Insight' maps of Germany, France, Netherlands, Portugal, etc. (s.d) (1 box)

Box of various Ordnance Survey maps