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GROUP OF GOLD AND OTHER BROOCHES,including nine carat gold sapphire and seed pearl brooch, a nine carat gold wishbone, a gold plated army ordnance corps brooch and others, most marked for gold (10)

A box of Ordnance Survey, A to Z, AA maps etc

A box of mainly Ordnance Survey, RAC maps etc

Seven boxed Britains metal figure sets to include 3 x Limited Edition Collection 48001, 5962 Pontoon Section, 17571 Federal Ordnance Wagon 1863, 41097 Sir Thomas Strickland with Banner of St George and 41130 Winter Limited Edition 2004, vg

[MAPS] Assorted folding Ordnance Survey, Esso & Barnetts maps, including O.S. 2 1/2 inch, Landranger and Explorer series; and various road maps and town street plans, (box).

A group of Ordnance survey maps, to include Truro and Falmouth, Lands End, Shetland, Bournemouth, other maps, etc. (a quantity)

HILL A. V.: (1886-1977) British physiologist, one of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations research. Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine, 1922. A.L.S., A. V. Hill, two pages, small 4to, Burlington House, London, 10th October 1943, to [Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Francis] Pridham, on the printed stationery of The Royal Society. Hill thanks his correspondent for their letter and remarks that the passing of a lady at 82 years of age is a great loss, continuing 'I am glad to hear of your party & the 150 guests…..Yes, you are naturally more & more usefully busy now. It was a great handicap living so far away' and also enquiring 'I don't suppose you are any relation of Pridham-Wipple: I have never met him, but he is a sort of distant connection of mine'. VG Sir Arthur Francis Pridham (1886-1975) British Vice Admiral who served as Vice-President of the Ordnance Board from 1940-42 and as President of the Ordnance Committee 1942-45.

A collection of Ordnance and other maps and a small map of Jersey, 13 x 16cm Condition Report:Available upon request

A quantity of ordnance survey maps

Estate Sale Catalogues. Five estate sale catalogues from Herefordshire, late 19th century & early 20th century, including The Harewood Estates, Auctioned by Farebrother, Ellis, Clark & Co., July 1877, two tint stone lithographs of the main house, large colour lithographic folding map of the whole estate, decorative publisher's paper wrappers with some dust soiling, slim folio, with Holme Lacey, Auctioned by Knight Frank & Rutley, 29th July 1909, frontispiece of a double-page Ordnance Survey map of the area surrounding the property, some creasing and two closed tears affecting the printed image, numerous uncoloured gravures of various properties within the estate, details of acreage, tenants and rent, publisher's paper wrappers, stained, dust soiled and frayed, slim folio, with an additional smaller auction catalogue containing a lithographic folding map of the whole estate, 4to and a separate folder containing two large folding maps of the estate, plus Eaton Bishop, Kingstone & Madley, Auctioned by Messrs. Stooke & Son, 7th June 1905, two large folding colour lithographic maps of the estates, details of acreage, tenants and rent, publisher's printed paper wrappers, slim folio, with another untitled folding estate planQty: (5)

Conan Doyle (Arthur). The Great Boer War, 1st edition, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1900, 5 colour folding maps, publishers original blue cloth, minor rubbing to head & food, 8vo, together with;Holiday (Gibert), Horses & Soldiers, a collection of pictures, subscribed edition, Aldershot: privately printed by Gale & Polden, 1938, numerous colour & monochrome tipped-in plates, some light spotting throughout, publishers original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed to head & foot, large 4to, plusCaruana (Adrian B.), The Age of Evolution 1523-1715 [The History of English Sea Ordnance 1523-1875-], 2 volumes, 1st edition, Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot, 1994, black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets, large 4to, and other modern military reference & related, including publications by Oxford, Yale, H.M.S.O., Leo Cooper, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, Some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/folioQty: (6 shelves )

Cartography - Nottinghamshire - Ordnance Survey - a map of Mansfield Town Centre, supplied by Edward Stanford, Longacre, London, Cartographer to the King, sheet XXIII, published 1912, paper laid on cloth; others, Shirebrook Planning for Railway, first edition, 1875; Annesley Woodhouse; Mansfield/Woodhouse/Sutton/Skegby; Pleaseley, 1875; etc (27)

A framed Ordnance Survey map of Berwick upon Tweed, second edition 1898

A Collection of Ordnance Survey and Other Roadmaps

Ordnance Survey, Bartholomew and other vintage and modern maps.

A collection of British collar badges, including; The Hampshire Regt; 15/19th Hussars; Army Catering Corps; Royal Military Police; Adjutant General's Corps; The Queens Own Hussars; IX - XII Lancers Regt; Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps; 2nd Dragoon Guards; Army Emergency Reserve; The Royal Horse Artillery; The Queens Own Lancers; Queens Royal Irish Hussars; Yorkshire Volunteers; South Wales Borderers; Royal Tank Regt; Royal Anglian Regt; Army Apprentice School; Northern Irish Horse Regt; North Staffordshire Regt; Cheshire Regt; Royal Engineers; Highland Light Infantry; RAF Dental Branch; The Rifles; Light Infantry; Gloucestershire Regt; Queens Own Highlanders; 2nd BN Royal Anglian; Royal Logistics Corps; Mercian Regt; Royal Corps of Transport; Royal Inniskilling Regt; The Kings Own Scottish Borders; Green Howards; 18th Royal Hussars; Devonshire and Dorset Regt; Royal Army Ordnance Corps; Essex Regt; etc.

TWO PLASTIC CRATES OF ORDNANCE SURVEY FOLDED MAPS, including 1:50000, 1;25000 and 1 inch maps, a large proportion covering the Scottish Highlands and Islands, English Lake District, etc ( 2 crates)

ONE BOX VARIOUS ORNAMENTS, ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS, HOUSEHOLD SUNDRIES ETC

LARGE BOX OF ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS

Box of Ordnance Survey and Bartholomews maps. Not available for in-house P&P, contact Paul O'Hea at Mailboxes on 01925 659133

Atlas. New Large Scale Ordnance Atlas of the British Isles with Plans of Towns, &c. London: George W. Bacon. With 100 numbered maps and letterpress text. (1) Condition: Maps generally in VG, bright condition. Some sporadic light spotting.

Wicker picnic hamper, a leather briefcase and a collection of Ordnance Survey maps 

A collection of miscellaneous ephemera, to include an illustrated guide and history of Chatsworth, Ordnance Survey New Popular Edition for England & Wales Caernarvon and Tenby, Ordnance Survey Swansea and the Gower, Kodak wallet etc

A batch of eight National Grid Ordnance Survey maps of Dorstone, Peterchurch and the surrounding areas probably dating from the 1970's.

A quantity of Ordnance Survey maps to include South Devon, Warwickshire etc.

A collection of various Ordnance Survey Maps

A tub of mixed vintage ordnance survey maps

A selection of vintage Norwich and District maps and guides including Jarrolds linen backed, laid in sections, 1899 City of Norwich, 100cm x 78cm plus a 1910 ordnance survey of Norfolk, 71cm x 51cm

Large quantity of c. World War II and later Ordnance Survey maps, etc, in a wicker hamper

1955 military pocket knife, stamped "J. H. Thompson (Cutlery) Ltd Sheffield C. C. 1287", with Ordnance broad arrow and date, 9.5cm (closed), together with a Carl Schlieper Remschied Solingen twin-blade folding pocket knife, 7.7cm (closed), (2)

Ordnance Survey 1:2500 scale map sheets, covering Bywell, St. Andrews Parish Corbridge, and Ovingham in Northumberland, linen-backed in lge. half-calf bindings.

The Ordnance Survey: an Atlas of England & Wales, lge. ob. 4to, cloth, illus. with 1/4"-1 mile, linen-backed maps printed in colour, 1922; O'Donoghue (Yolande) and Harley (J.D.) The Old Series Ordnance Survey Maps of England & Wales, 3 vols, folio, cloth, illus. with facsimile maps, 1975, with d.ws; and a reproduction of John Ogilby's Britannia, ob. folio, cloth, illus. 1939.

A .750 CALIBRE PERCUSSION PATTERN 1842 RIFLED SEA SERVICE MUSKET, 30inch sighted barrel fitted with rear ladder sights, slider lacking, numerous Ordnance inspection stamps, border engraved lock dated 1857 over TOWER and stamped with a crown over VR at the tail, full stocked with regulation brass mounts, steel ramrod. See page 67 of British Military Longarms by D W Bailey for an example dating to 1855.

A .750 CALIBRE PATTERN 1842/3 SECOND MODEL PERCUSSION SAPPERS & MINERS CARBINE, 30inch sighted barrel with various Ordnance stamps at the breech, border engraved lock stamped with a crown over VR over TOWER-1843, full stocked with regulation brass mounts, steel ramrod. See page 39 of British Military Longarms 1815-1865 by D W Bailey.

A .450 OBSOLETE CALIBRE MARTINI HENRY RIFLE, 32.5inch sighted barrel fitted with ramp and ladder rear sights, the breech with multiple Ordnance marks, the action stamped with a crown over V.R over ENFIELD 1872 over II., full stocked with regulation steel mounts, modern steel cleaning rod.

A DETACHED LOCK FOR A MINIE RIFLE, border engraved lock engraved 1852 over TOWER and with a crown over VR at the tail, various Inspector's and Ordnance stamps to the back and front of the lock and hammer.

A 1908 PATTERN INDIAN CAVALRY TROOPER'S SWORD, 89.5cm blade by Wilkinson with various Ordnance stamps at the forte, regulation steel bowl guard, chequered wooden grip, contained in its Indian made steel scabbard.

AN EXTREMELY RARE 1906 PATTERN EXPERIMENTAL CAVALRY TROOPER'S SWORD, 89.5cm fullered blade by Wilkinson, 06 Pattern number to the back edge, Ordnance stamp, date stamp for 1907, regulation steel bowl guard, chequered wooden grip, contained in its steel scabbard. See pages 61 to 65 Swords of the British Army, The Revised Edition, by Brian Robson, for a discussion on this rare sword. Also see NAM 7205-7-1 for a similar example.

A 1908 PATTERN INDIAN CAVALRY TROOPER'S SWORD, 89.5cm blade by Wilkinson with various Ordnance stamps at the forte, regulation steel bowl guard, chequered grip, contained in its steel scabbard.

A 1900 PATTERN NAVAL CUTLASS, 70.5cm blade by Mole with various Ordnance stamps and dates, regulation black painted steel hilt, chequered leather grips, contained in its steel mounted leather scabbard. Chape replaced.

A BRACE OF 1856 PATTERN SWORD BAYONETS, one by Chavasse, the other with Ordnance stamps, both with scabbards. (2)

A SCARCE 1907 PATTERN HOOKED QUILLON BAYONET, dated April 1912 and with maker's mark of Sanderson and various Ordnance marks, complete with scabbard. The pommel with RIR stamps.

A Collection of Printed Books and Maps to Include Ordnance Survey, Pigeon Stud Book 1927-30 etc

Wooden ordnance box marked J. Parkes & Sons Ltd, Willenhall, 1940, with single internal tray, brass plaque to top marked 'P. Vallens ORD. ART. P/M36280', approx 50cm x 25cm x 26cm, with key and two metal handles to each end

Collection of ordnance Survey maps, various locations (qty)

SELECTION OF FIVE BOOKS, THREE PUBLIC SERVICE NOTEBOOKS (ONE HAS NOTES AT THE BACK), ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS AND FACT FIGURES & FORMULAE

EPHEMERA one Penny Red stamp with an 1878 cancel, a mid-20th century photograph of the Signal-Box at Atherstone , an L.M. & S.R rail ticket between Atherstone and Tamworth, an LMS Service information booklet, a Railway certificate for the Redemption of Land Tax 1846, a New Testament from the North Eastern Railway Hotel York, a L&NWR Pin tin and four Edward Stanford 1 Ordnance Survey Maps, no's. 154,155, 168 and 169

1930's Ordnance map of Shepton Mallet

Collection of Ordnance survey maps

William Ashford 1746-1824  "A Landscape based on Dawson Grove, Co. Monaghan, with the artist sketching, 1785" O.O.C.,   17" x 24" (42 x 62cms),  Signed (on urn pedestal) 'WAshford' and dated 1785 Bears label  J. S. Maas & Co Ltd  New Bond Street Although William Ashford is best known today for his views of Dublin, commissioned by Viscount Fitzwilliam, in the late eighteenth century he painted landscapes and houses throughout Ireland, including at Tourin on the Blackwater River, Maynooth Castle, Powerscourt, and Charleville in Co. Offaly. In the foreground of this Claudean landscape, a view of the Dawson Grove estate in Co. Monaghan, Ashford depicts an artist; presumably a self-portrait. Seated, with a large sketchbook on his knees, the artist looks across a river valley, with woods and mountains in the distance. On the right stands a large urn on a pedestal, close to the corner of a Palladian temple. While the location is identifiable, Ashford has taken some liberties with the landscape, including moving the temple?in fact a mausoleum to Lady Anne Dawson, wife of Thomas Dawson?to a new location on the hillside. Designed by James Wyatt and built in 1770, the mausoleum was (and is) on Black Island, on Dromore Lough. Ten years later, Thomas Dawson replaced the old Dawson Grove house with a new Georgian mansion. This painting was evidently commissioned not long afterwards. Thomas?s son Richard, who followed him into politics, died young, and was commemorated also with a memorial designed by James Wyatt, in this case a classical column, erected in 1809. The urn depicted by Ashford, a copy of the Borghese Urn in Rome, may once have been at Dawson Grove, or may have been introduced into the composition for artistic effect. With building projects and improvements being carried out over the course of the eighteenth century, Dawson Grove was depicted by several artists, including Paul Sandby, whose view of the mausoleum at an early stage of its construction was engraved by William Walker and published in Sandby?s 1778 The Virtuosi's Museum. The artist Thomas Roberts also painted several views of Dawson Grove in 1770. Destroyed by fire in 1846, the Georgian house at Dawson Grove was replaced by a large Victorian mansion, named Dartrey House, which in turn has since been demolished. Born in Birmingham, William Ashford moved to Dublin in 1764 where he worked in the Ordnance Office, a government post which involved touring around the country, inspecting munitions stores. Ashford sketched as he travelled, developing his skills as a topographical artist. However his first paintings were flower pieces, and it was not until 1772 that he began to exhibit landscape paintings, at the Society of Artists of Ireland. The following year he exhibited his first painting of Dawson Grove at the Society?s exhibition. From then on, Ashford became celebrated for his idealised landscapes, receiving commissions from several landowners to record their demesnes. He delighted in depicting lush, well-tended country scenes, complete with lakes, fields and trees, and would often use a building as the focal point for a composition, as in his view of Cloughoughter Castle in Co. Cavan (Fota House). Unlike many of the generation that succeeded him, Ashford was neither a revolutionary nor a Romantic painter, but one who delighted in depicting peaceful estates and houses. If he encountered distressing scenes on his travels, he left no visual record of them. Greatly esteemed in his own lifetime, in 1813 he was elected President of the Society of Artists of Ireland, and a decade later became President of the newly-founded Royal Hibernian Academy. He died at his home in Dublin, in 1824.   Provenance: Christie's London, 3 July 1964, lot 128 (as An extensive view of Dawson Grove, County Cavan, with an artist sketching below a classical urn in the grounds of the Doric Mausoleum) With J. Maas, London (according to a label on the reverse) Private Collection, Ireland. Dr. Peter Murray, 2022

Captain Richard Brydges Beechey , RHA (1808-1895)    "Sybil Head, Near the Blaskets and Dingle, West of Ireland 1884,"  O.O.C., 76cms x 115cms (30" x 45"). (1) One of Beechey's finest marine paintings, Sybil Head depicts three currachs braving rough seas beneath jagged rocks at the north west tip of the Dingle Peninsula. To the left, a sailing vessel, perhaps a naval brig, bears down on the currachs, while to the right a hooker approaches from Ferriter's Cove. Cormorants take flight and seagulls land on the rough seas. A floating tree trunk lies in the path of the brig; Beechey used details such as these to introduce a sense of danger to his paintings. To the right, a mountain, one of the 'Three Sisters', is silhouetted against the stormy sky. The subject of this painting, and the Dingle peninsula itself, had become well-known to a wider audience in the 1840?s through the work of both the Ordnance Survey and the Geological Survey of Ireland. In June 1856, the geologist George Victor du Noyer surveyed the peninsula, incorporating watercolour views of Sybil Head in his maps. He also painted two dramatic views on Inishtooskert, an island near Inish Tearaght, of sharply angled cliffs on the northern side of the island. (these watercolour map are in the collection of the Geological Survey of Ireland).   Born in London in 1808, the son of artists Sir William Beechey RA and miniaturist Anne Jessop (Lady Beechey), Richard Brydges Beechey was a naval officer who also became one of Ireland?s most accomplished marine painters. Aged thirteen he enrolled as a cadet at the Royal Naval College in Portsmouth, where art formed part of his training. Joining HMS Blossom in 1825, he served as a midshipman under his older brother, hydrographer Captain Frederick William Beechey, for three years in the Pacific. During this time, Richard Brydges painted watercolour views of Mexico and California. Landing on Pitcairn Island, he sketched a portrait of John Adams, last surviving mutineer from HMS Bounty. They then sailed north, into Arctic waters, as far as the Bering Straits, but failed in their objective of meeting up with Franklin?s second expedition, which was making its way north-west around Canada. Although it is generally stated that Beechey transferred to the Survey of Ireland in 1835, the chart of Lough Derg is titled ?Surveyed by Commander James Wolfe, Assisted by Lieutenant R. B. Beechey 1830?. This marked the beginning of years of surveying the coast and rivers of Ireland. As well as surveying, Beechey painted consistently, exhibiting both at the Royal Academy and the Royal Hibernian Academy. Seven years later, the survey of Lough Ree was complete, and their attention turned to the more hazardous West of Ireland coastline. Prompted by dangers they had encountered in navigating the coast of Cork and Kerry, Wolfe?s report, published in 1846 ?On the want of Lights, Buoys and Beacons on the Coast of Ireland? led to the building of new lighthouses on Sybil Head and at other locations. Although Beechey painted this view of Sybil Head decades later, he would likely have used notes and sketches made during his survey of the Kerry coast in the early 1840?s.   After retiring from the Navy in 1864, with the rank of Admiral, Beechey settled for a time at Monkstown, Co. Dublin and four years later was elected HRHA. In 1874, he was living at 110 Pembroke Road, and in that year painted Eagle Island, off Erris Head, West of Ireland, a work exhibited a decade later at the Royal Hibernian Academy. By 1885, he was living at Plymouth, where he continued painting. There are works by Beechey in collections both in Ireland and abroad. His Mail Boat ?Connaught? is in the National Gallery of Ireland, while a view of the Blasket Islands is in the Royal St. George Yacht Club, along with a panoramic view of Kingstown Harbour. Fastnet Rock, and Lights, off Cape Clear, shown at the RHA in 1877, is now in the collection of the Royal Ocean Racing Club, while HMS Erebus passing through the chain of bergs (1842) is in the Maritime Museum in Greenwich. Provenance: The Joe McGrath Collection, Cabinteely House, Dublin. Dr. Peter Murray, 2022

Pair: Private J. W. Webster, 7th Dragoon Guards British War and Victory Medals (D/18120 Pte J W Webster 7 D Gds) later officially impressed naming, in named card box of issue with M.O.D. enclosure letter and Registered packet addressed to the recipient in Sutton Coldfield, extremely fine (2) £30-£40 --- Medal Roll, Medal Index Card and M.O.D. letter all confirm issue of these medals in July 1980, a very late claim, his original pair having been returned under King’s Regulation Para. 1743: ‘Medals which, at the end of 10 years, still remain unclaimed, will be sent to the deputy director of ordnance stores, Royal Dockyard, Woolwich to be broken up.’

Pair: Private J. A. Elsby, Gloucestershire Regiment, attached Royal Ulster Rifles Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (2054034 Pte. J. A. Elsby. Glosters.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued, small verdigris spot to UN medal, otherwise nearly extremely fine (2) £240-£280 --- James Arthur Elsby was born at Sandyford, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, on 11 December 1920, and initially joined the 214th Field Company, Royal Engineers (Territorial Army) in 1938. Attesting for the East Lancashire Regiment on 14 January 1939, he served with the 1st Battalion as part of the British Expeditionary Force during the Second World War, and was evacuated from Dunkirk on 2 June 1940. From October 1941 he served in the Defence Platoon of the HQ 71st Infantry Brigade, landing in Normandy on 18 June 1944. Wounded or ill on 8 October 1944, he was admitted to British General Hospital, Brussels. Returning to the Defence Platoon, 71st Infantry Brigade, he was transferred to the 1st Battalion, Norfolk Regiment, in September 1945 and was discharged in July 1946. Recalled to the Colours Elsby was posted to the Gloucestershire Regiment in September 1950, and proceeded to Japan in October 1950 as part of a Reinforcement Holding Unit. As a result of the losses suffered by the Royal Ulster Rifles at the Happy Valley action on 3-4 January 1951, in which they suffered over 200 casualties, Elsby was transferred to this unit, and served with the 1st Battalion, R.U.R. in Korea from 10 January 1951. He saw action with them at the Battle of Imjin River in April 1951, before leaving Korea with other reservists in September 1951 and was discharged on 21 November of that year. Subsequently employed as a driver at the Royal Ordnance Factory, he died in Crewe on 2 September 1990. Sold with copied research, including copied Birth, Marriage, and Death Certificates.

British War Medal 1914-20 (2. Lieut. A. Matthews. R.F.C.) minor edge bruise, good very fine £100-£140 --- Arthur Matthews attested for the Army Ordnance Corps and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 11 December 1914. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps on 26 October 1916, and was posted to 9 Squadron. He was wounded in action on 29 January 1917 when his BE2e was hit by shell fire whilst on patrol.

Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Bhurtpoor (Lieut. D. Ewart, Arty.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, nearly extremely fine £900-£1,200 --- Provenance: Buckland Dix & Wood, December 1994. David Ewart was born in Camberwell, Surrey, in 1803 and entered the Bengal Army in 1819. Promoted to Lieutenant in December 1820, he served at Bhurtpoor with the 2nd Troop, 1st Brigade, Horse Artillery. Acting Adjutant 1st Brigade H.A. 14 June 1828, and 15 April 1829. Officiating Commissary of Ordnance at Cawnpore, September 1835 till March 1837. Commanded 4th Troop 2nd Brigade H.A. from March 1837 till 1844, and commanding Artillery at Ludhiana from January 1842. Lieutenant-Colonel commanding 3rd Battalion Foot Artillery, and afterwards commanded 9th Battalion. Ewart retired in May 1849, was promoted to Hon. Colonel in November 1854 and died at his home in Dumfries on 26 August 1880.

Memorial Plaque (3) (William Charles Chatfield; William Frederick Meekham; Archibald Carlyle Edwards) last in card envelope, some verdigris to reverse of first, otherwise generally very fine and better (3) £120-£160 --- William Charles Chatfield, a native of Uckfield, Sussex, attested for the Royal Sussex Regiment and served with the 13th (3rd South Downs) Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. He died of wounds on 8 September 1916 and is buried in the Couin British Cemetery, France. William Frederick Meekham was born in Hove, Sussex, and originally attested for the Army Ordnance Corps, before transferring to the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment. He served with the 15th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and died of wounds on 4 April 1918. He is buried in Roisel Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Archibald Carlyle Edwards, a native of Brighton, Sussex, attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps, and served with them during the Great War. He is listed as having ‘Died at sea’ on 4 May 1917, and is commemorated on the Savona Memorial. It is probable that he was on board the troopship SS Transylvania, sailing from Marseille to Alexandria, when, on 4 May 1917, she was struck in the port engine room by a torpedo fired by the German submarine U-63 and sank almost immediately with the loss of 412 lives.

Memorial Plaque (2) (Reginald Abbott Bunell [sic] Pitcher; William Lambkin) the first polished, the second with some small verdigris spots, otherwise very fine (2) £70-£90 --- Reginald Abbott Burrell Pitcher was born in Warbleton, Sussex on 17 July 1871, and having emigrated to Canada was living in Balmoral, Manitoba, when he attested for service with the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force on 30 March 1916. He was accepted even though he was in his mid-40s and was given a clean bill of health (apart from missing a toe), serving during the Great War on the Western Front. He survived the War and returned to Canada; however, by 1921 his health had deteriorated and he died at Westminster Hospital, London, Ontario on 12 February 1921, with the immediate cause of death listed as ‘cochexia’, a muscle wasting disease that has been associated with mustard gas poisoning. His ‘Circumstances of Casualty’ form states ‘Death due to service’, and he is buried in London (Mount Pleasant) Cemetery, Ontario. At the age of 49 he was one of the oldest recipients of a Memorial Plaque. Two men with the name William Lambkin appear on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Roll of Honour: A Lance-Corporal in the East Kent Regiment who was killed in action on the Western Front on 9 August 1915; and a Quartermaster Sergeant in the Canadian Ordnance Corps who died at home in Canada on 30 May 1917.

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Lieutt. R. M. Barrington 1st Bn. Hamps. R.) good very fine £200-£240 --- Richard Mordaunt Barrington was born on 23 February 1866, and was appointed Lieutenant in the Hampshire Regiment on 29 August 1885; Captain 19 May 1892, attached to the reorganised Ordnance Store Department, Dublin. Captain Barrington served in the Burmese Expedition in 1885-87 (Medal with Clasp). He died on 19 July 1909.

A Great War D.S.O. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel O. C. Sherwood, West India Regiment, attached Ordnance Store Department and Army Ordnance Department 1884-1904 Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Ashanti Star 1896, unnamed as issued; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Lt: Col: O. C. Sherwood. A.O.D.); 1914 Star, with clasp (Lt: Col: O. C. Sherwood. A.O.D.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Col. O. C. Sherwood.) good very fine (6) £1,400-£1,800 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 4 June 1917: ‘Oliver Caton Sherwood, Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel (Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel), Retired Pay, late Army Ordnance Department.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 10 September 1901; 22 June 1915 and 29 May 1917. Oliver Caton Sherwood was appointed Lieutenant in the West India Regiment on 23 August 1884; Captain, 19 July 1893; Major, 20 January 1898; Lieutenant-Colonel, 29 November 1900. He served with the expedition to Ashanti under Sir Francis Scott in 1895 in the Ordnance Store Department (granted the higher rate of pay, Star). Served in the South African war 1899-1900, appointed to act in a superior departmental rank from 5 January 1900 (despatches London Gazette 10 September 1901; Brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel; Queen’s medal with 2 clasps). Served with the B.E.F. in France and Flanders from 17 August 1914, attached 3rd Echelon, General Headquarters (1914 Star - clasp not confirmed).

Cartography - Nottinghamshire - Ordnance Survey - a map of Mansfield Town Centre, supplied by Edward Stanford, Longacre, London, Cartographer to the King, sheet XXIII, published 1912, paper laid on cloth; others, Shirebrook Planning for Railway, first edition, 1875; Annesley Woodhouse; Mansfield/Woodhouse/Sutton/Skegby; Pleaseley, 1875; etc (27)