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Click here to subscribeA RELIC 1796 PATTERN CAVALRY TROOPER'S SWORD, 49cm blade by WOOLLEY & DEAKIN, Ordnance stamp, regulation steel stirrup hilt, one langet lacking, later leather covered grip, contained in its shortened steel scabbard applied with a white metal plaque pertaining to the Cotton Waterloo Relics sale, together with four Georgian sword blade elements and two steel scabbards. (7)
A FRENCH CHASSEUR A CHEVAL OFFICER'S SWORD, 83cm fullered blade etched with stands of arms and the motto NO ME ENBAINES SIN HONOR and NO ME SAIVES SIN RASON, regulation brass hilt, worn wire bound leather grip, together with a French Hussars type sabre, the latter with various Ordnance stamps to the underside of the hilt. Blueing refreshed on the former, scabbards lacking. (2)
SEVEN BOXES OF BOOKS, MAPS & EDUCATIONAL PAMPHLETS, miscellaneous titles in hardback and paperback formats, subjects include Music, Language, Gardening and Children's education, maps are from the Ordnance Survey, Music titles include five volumes of Grove 4thbEdition published by Macmillan and six volumes of Essays in Musical Analysis by Donald Francis Tovey (7 boxes)
ONE LEATHER SUITCASE AND ONE BOX, containing approximately thirty-five miscellaneous book titles in hardback and paperback formats, subjects include encyclopaedic and lexical works, psychology, philosophy, religion and a Roald Dahl story, a large collection of maps from the Ordnance Survey, Michelin, the RAC and others (some cloth backed) together with a set of lined curtains (1 box + loose)
A wooden and glazed display containing approx 60 Military Items including Medals, Cap Badges, Buttons and a pair of chain mail Epaulettes and two single epaulettes, cap badges include Border Regiment, Tank, British Kings Own Borderers, Cameron, Notts & Derby, East Lancs, Middlesex, Royal Sussex, Army Ordnance, Intelligence Corps etc
3 x Historical Maps comprising a large fold out Map of Roman Britain (Third Edition) published by The Ordnance Survey Chessington 1956, an Ordnance Survey Roman Britain Historical Map 5th Edition and an Ordnance Survey Roman Britain Historical Map, all three maps are in good, very good condition (see photographs. Good condition. All autographed items come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Stonehenge.- James (Col. Sir Henry) Plans and Photographs of Stonehenge, and of Turusachan in the Island of Lewis; with Notes relating to the Druids and Sketches of Cromlechs in Ireland, first edition, 9 zincographed plates or plans, 8 mounted albumen prints of Stonehenge, a very good, clean copy, neat ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, original cloth, lettered in gilt, neatly rebacked, neat repairs to corners, some light fading to covers, 4to, [Southampton, Ordnance Survey], 1867.⁂ A very good copy of this scarce and early report, an important photographic incunable.
Warfare.- Felton (Edmond) Engins invented to save much Blood and Moneyes (in these times of Warre) and to doe extraordinary good service, with the approbation of the Honourable Major Generall Skippon, and five of the Committee for the Fortifications of the City of London, 8pp., only edition, title with typographical border and lightly browned, with two 20th century manuscript sheets of notes tipped in, modern half red calf, [Wing F660], small 4to, for Thomas Underhill, 1644.⁂ Rare description of the author's "engin for warre, which will keep the horse from the foot, and secure the musketeers from all shot out of ordnance and much secure them from small shot out of ordnance...". It seems, though, that the Parliamentary military authorities failed to authorise it. Felton was the brother of John Felton who assassinated the Duke of Buckingham in 1628.ESTC locates only 3 UK copies (BL, Bodleian, Trinity College Dublin) and 2 more in America (Folger and Huntington). We have been able to trace this copy only at auction, sold in 2019.
ELIZABETH I – PRIVY COUNCIL & THE NAVYDocument signed by four members of Queen Elizabeth's Privy Council, Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex (favourite of Elizabeth I, Master of the Horse and of the Ordnance), William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (Lord High Treasurer), Charles Howard, 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham (Lord High Admiral and victor over the Spanish Armada) and Henry Carey, first Baron Hunsdon (Lord Chamberlain and patron of Shakespeare's company), confirming '...We do think fit that there be one thousand pounds payde upon this bill to... James Quarles and Marmaduke Durell esquires, By virtue of the privie seale...', the payment being a request for £3,000 revenue for 'victuals for the navye', listing the counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Hampshire and Bedfordshire and levies per quarter, docketed on verso, one page on a bifolium, dust-staining and discolouration particularly to verso where folded and exposed, folio (308 x 205mm.), dated 1 November 1595 and 12 January 1595/6Footnotes:'TO BE DELIVERED TO THE SURVEYORS OF THE VICTUALLS FOR THE NAVYE'.James Quarles (1555-1599) of Stewards, Romford, Essex and Marmaduke Darell (c.1559-1631) of Fulmer, Buckinghamshire held the post of Surveyor of Marine Victuals jointly as was customary for this office. Prior to this appointment Darell had been Clerk of the Avery to Elizabeth I, charged with keeping an account of the expenses of Mary Queen of Scots and her household whilst held at Tutbury Castle from 1585-6 (it was £3440-11s-8d), and attended her execution at Fotheringay in 1587. He held the post of Surveyor of Marine Victuals from 1595-1623.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A centre seconds stopwatch, base metal, Arabic numerals, subsidiary dial, Swiss made, cased; a set of engineers measuring compasses, cased; a pair of pince-nez, other spectacles, folding etc; a glass lens; a group of Ordnance Survey maps, Derbyshire, Hazelwood and others in a cardboard roll; qty
TWO BOXES OF EPHEMERA, containing a collection of forty+ maps (ordnance survey, Bartholomew, BP, Shell, street maps etc) four Atlases, a collection of cigarette cards in 1d albums and loose, a scrapbook, twenty-three Coventry and one Birmingham Speedway programmes from 1949 and 1952 and one Arsenal v Stoke city programme from 1947 (2 boxes)
A collection of six boxes comprised of a Mauchline ware souvenir miniature stationery chest from Inverness, a Victorian painted and printed souvenir box from Ryde Pier on the Isle of Wight, an Anglo Indian cigarette box, the interior of the lid carved with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps insignia, an Italian inlaid olive wood Sorrento ware match box with striker, an inlaid wooden cigarette box, and a rosewood box, interior lackingCONDITION REPORTS & PAYMENT DETAILSIMPORTANT* Descriptions do not include condition reports. Please contact us to if you require further information or images.* Please consider shipping costs before bidding as this may affect your decision to bid* Please familiarise yourself with our payment methods. Our preferred method of payment os by bank transfer. We do not take cash or card payments.
Victoria (Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India, 1819-1901) Commission signed appointing John Alexander McMunn Assistant Surgeon on the Medial Establishment for the Military Department of the Ordnance, D.s. "Victoria" & Lord Raglan, printed commission with manuscript insertions, folds, small ink stain, browned, 277 x 405mm., 15th October 1853.⁂ Lord Raglan gave the order for the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War.
An interesting framed Manuscript Request for ordnance ammunition for use on H.M.S. Tartar dated 1757 signed Samuel Hood, a framed Page of The Times Newspaper featuring Admiralty Report from Wednesday November 6th 1805 concerning action at Trafalgar, and a framed Engraving of The Fleet at Portsmouth 1755
BACON, G.W. (publisher). Commercial and Library Atlas of the British Isles from the Ordnance Survey. London: G.W. Bacon & Co., 1896. Folio (345 x 276mm.) Half-title, title in red and black, 68 double-paged lithographed maps, including 65 county maps, census tables, index and gazetteer to rear. (Spotting to preliminaries and rear leaves, toning.) Later red half morocco over red cloth with gilt lettering to upper cover, g.e. (rebacked, scuffing to lower cover).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
BINDINGS. - Thomas R.E. COLBY. Ordnance Survey of the County of Londonderry. Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1837. Volume 1 (of 1). 4to (265 x 203mm.) Folding engraved map of the city, 10 engraved plates including two with hand-colouring, 5 engraved plans of the city. (Lacking the geological map and half-title, intermittent spotting, sometimes heavy.) 20th century brown half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards (endpapers replaced). - And a quantity of approximately fifty further volumes, mainly of literary and historical interest. Provenance: the property of Michael Godfrey (a quantity).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
An American Civil War Merrill Carbine, Transitional Second Model, .54 calibre, the 51cm steel barrel with blade fore-sight and hinged leaf rear sight, the breech lever marked 12567 J H MERRIL BALTO./PAT.???, the first type lock plate faintly numbered 12567 on the tail, maker's markings worn, the walnut half stock with brass barrel band and curved butt plate, the left side set with saddle ring and bar, 93cmFootnote:- Possibly assigned to the Indiana Volunteers, 7th Regiment Indiana Cavalry, whose Ordnance Returns show that 779 Merrills with serial numbers between 12104 and 12767 are recorded in their inventoryAction works, holds at full and half cock. Some pitting to bore. Cleaned off fine pitting to barrel and lock plate which has erased some of the maker's marks. The loading lever and hammer have deeper cleaned off pitting. The left fore-end tip has a chip of wood missing. Minor bruising to the stock.
A .66 PATTERN 1847 PERCUSSION PAGET CAVALRY CARBINE MARKED 'R.C.H. 380', CIRCA 1848, with 16in. smoothbore barrel with faint Ordnance proofs at breech, the tang with fixed vee rear-sight and swivel rammer hinged at the muzzle, borderline engraved lock with stepped tail stamped 'TOWER', and struck with the Crown 'G.R.' cypher to the centre, regulation brass mounted full stock with side rib, the butt with an Enfield roundel dated 1848, the buttcap tang engraved 'R.C.H'. 380' (Royal Canadian Hussars?).
A RARE CRIMEAN WAR .704 PATTERN 1851 PERCUSSION RIFLE MUSKET MARKED TO THE 1ST BATTALION COLDSTREAM GUARDS, CIRCA 1853, no visible serial number, with 39in. barrel rifled with four grooves, stamped with Ordnance proofs at breech (faint), block and blade front-sight and ladder rear-sight, the Lovell's pattern bar-action borderline engraved lock with the Crown V.R. cypher on the tail and '1853 TOWER' to the centre, together with the small crown broad arrow government ownership mark, regulation brass-mounted full walnut stock, the right side of the butt stamped 'B.O.' for Board of Ordnance, the buttcap engraved '1. B. C. G. / K / 42' indicating issue to the 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, K company, gun number 42, Lovell's spring bayonet catch protruding through nosecap, complete with sling swivels and correct rod, barrel and stock refinished with loss of sharpness.
A .43 (11.15 X 60mm) MAUSER MODEL 1871/84 BOLT ACTION RIFLE MADE AT SPANDAU IN 1888, serial no. 5444/972, with 31 1/2in. barrel fully German Ordnance marked at breech and 'SPANDAU' on the knoxform, block and blade front-sight and ladder rear-sight, the action body marked on the left 'MOD 71/84' (faint and pitted) and on the right with the year of manufacture '1888', iron mounted full walnut stock, (bruised and dented) incorporating an eight round tubular magazine in the fore-end, the magazine cap with piling spike, the butt with faint Ordnance inspection stamps, complete with an old black leather sling, miss-matched bolt, the barrel recoloured over some areas of pitting. Sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament
AN 11X59mmR FRENCH MODEL 1866/74 ARTILLERY MUSKETOON MADE AT ST. ETIENNE, CIRCA 1881, serial no. 68233, with 19in. barrel fitted with block and blade front-sight and ladder rear-sights, long bayonet bar at muzzle, stamped with French proof and inspection stamps at breech and 'S-1881', the left side of the action marked 'MANUFACTURE D'ARMS / ST. ETIENNE, MLE 1866-74 / M. 80', with correct bolt with turned down handle, regulation brass mounted full walnut stock with two spring retained barrel bands, the butt with French Ordnance roundel and central Pope's plug, complete with sling swivels and rod, barrel dirty and rusted overall with some finish under dirt, the stock with some wear. Sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament
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