There are 43904 lots that match your search criteria. Subscribe now to get instant access to the full price guide service.
Click here to subscribeBritains Soldiers. Scots Guards pipe band, 9 pipers, bass drummer and 6 side drummers. Coldstream Guards band, 21 figures including band master and bass drummer. Pre-WW2 4 mounted Officers of The General Staff. 2 Yeoman Of The Guard, (Beefeaters). Plus a figure of the Queen mounted on horseback. GC some chipping. 1 repainted.
Britains Soldiers. 1950’s examples. Scots Guards Review order c.1900. 6 Guardsmen with rifles, at ease, Officer with drawn sword. Officer. Colour Bearer. 2 Pioneers with axes. Infantry of the line (white facings) Review order c1900-7 Infantrymen standing to attention and a marching officer. Officer Highland Regiment review order marching, identified on base: LT LO 1R R. CAN. 81A. British R.A. India service dress standing with tropical helmet. Plus a Herald plastic Scots Guards Pipe Major, marching-repainted. In a Britains Band box, A.F. Contents VGC
2 WWII A1 posters “The Attack begins in the Factory”: landing craft, tanks and troops on a beach “The Mediterranean invasion....” and bombers over blazing city at night “The big raids on Germany continue” (HMSO 51-4265 and 68); 2 other posters, tanker to tank pipe line with caption “Lubricating oil is imported in tankers....no economy is too small to count” (51-3968) and building worker on scaffold and pilot in Spitfire “Both together - Bravo Mate, Keep it up” (51-998) VGC. (4)
An 1822 pattern staff officer’s sword, slightly curved, pipe backed blade 33”, by Lansdale & Tyler, Bedford St Covt Garden London (the style of the firm 1835-45), etched with crowned VR cypher and wreath within panels, regulation copper hilt, retaining traces of gilt, incorporating crowned crossed baton and sword, stepped pommel, ornamental backstrap, wirebound fishskin grip, in its brass mounted leather scabbard (leather AF), with 2 rings, the locket engraved with maker’s name and address as above. Basically GC (some wear and light pitting)
A scarce blowpipe, Sumpitan, of the type made by the Sakai tribe of the Malay peninsula, 83” overall, consisting of an outer tube constructed from several sections of different types of bamboo, decorated with bands of incised decoration, bound at each end with plaited rattan, the slender inner tube of smooth bamboo with carved wood mouthpiece, together with its bamboo quiver, “tolar”, bound with 3 bands of rattan and with woven lid, containing 10 darts, “langa”, with conical pith ends, each contained in its individual bamboo tube, and 6 other empty tubes. GC (rattan binding at one end of the pipe loose). See “Stone’s Glossary” p 589 for description. Plate 5
A Continental pottery tobacco jar and cover by Brothers Urbach, modelled in the form of a black boy’s head wearing a hat, 5ins high (impressed BU401 to base - see Horowitz, Page 59, figures 271 and 272 for similar examples), and two Conta & Bohme porcelain tobacco jars and covers modelled in the form of black boy’s heads - one with a pipe in his mouth, 4.5ins high - and one with a laughing open mouth, 4.75ins high (unmarked but - see Horowitz, Page 60, figures 276 and 278 respectively for similar examples)
A 19th Century Austrian pottery tobacco jar and cover by Johann Maresch, modelled in the form of a crying pig wearing a bandanna, 7ins high (impressed mark and No. 3580 to base - cover restored - see Horowitz, Page 148, for similar examples), and a Continental pottery tobacco jar and cover modelled in the form of a standing bulldog holding a pipe in one hand and a book in the other 8.5ins high (cover restored)
Two Continental pottery tobacco jars and covers - one modelled in the form of a seated elephant smoking a pipe and wearing a pink jacket, 7ins high (impressed No. 6021 to base - see Horowitz, Page 144, figure 687 for a similar example) - the other modelled in the form of a hippopotamus, 5ins high (indistinct impressed number to base - see Horowitz, Page 158, figure 707 for a similar example)
A 19th Century Staffordshire pottery cylindrical tobacco jar and domed cover printed in blue and decorated in gilt with fruiting vines on a white ground, the cover with acorn pattern finial, 9.5ins high (rim to cover and base chipped and chip to footrim), and a ditto pink glazed and gilt decorated cylindrical tobacco jar and cover, the urn pattern finial to cover with pipe tamper, 12ins high (restored), and a similar cylindrical snuff box and cover with wide circular base, 2.75ins diameter x 3ins high
A collection of 19th century and later smokers pipes to include cased meerschaum style example with white metal collar, the bowl carved with a naked maiden, meerschaum pipe head of a bearded gentleman, a Jacobs earthenware pipe bearded gentleman with turban with indistinct marks, also a Continental Pearlware style pipe with wooden and horned mouthpiece and an Eastern brass pipe with bamboo tube (5)
Loading...
