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A mid 20th Century German stamp album and contents, a modern postcard album with approximately one hundred early 20th Century cards, a George V Jubilee book and a panel card of the "Mauritania". (4).

19TH CENTURY ENGLISH SCHOOL 'Fishbourne Water', indistinctly signed, oil on canvas, 13 1/2" x 24 1/2", together with a postcard depicting roughly the same view.

A Postcard Album, Oxford interest.

Japanese lacquer postcard album containing views of Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and China

Folder of theatrical items programmes, etc, set of Gallagher's Film Star cigarette cards, signed postcard photo of Vivian Leigh

Postcard album containing views of Morecombe and Heysham (approx 288)

A Certificate of the Service of Douglas Faithful Dacombe in the Royal Navy, three Board of Trade Continuous Certificates of Discharge for Douglas Faithful Dacombe, three postcards of ships and another postcard, a quantity of British and foreign coins, including; 1951 and later Commemorative crowns and silver threepences, also an Army Service Corps badge.

2 Postcard Albums, 300 Cards Approx.

2 Victorian Postcard Albums, One Large And One Small

AN OLD POSTCARD ALBUM including cards by Donald McGill

A quantity of Nazi ephemera including three empty Gestapo files, three empty Gestapo personal files, two “Schnellbriefs’ headed Reichminister and Head of the Reichschancellery; a postcard from the Chancellery to Ernst Schnabel; a propaganda leaflet in English “Why die for Stalin?’, and other oddments

A COLLECTION OF 87 BLACK AND WHITE POSTCARD PHOTOGRAPHS OF INTERNATIONAL CYCLISTS from the 1920's and 1930's, over 40 of which have been signed in ink, including Toto Grassin the 1925 World Track Champion, Olympic Competitors, Tour De France Stage Winners, together with Romain Maes and Antonin Magne winners of the Tour de France in 1934 and 1935, (87). *** The collection was put together by a French collector, who gifted the items to a British Serviceman during the Second World War. After his death the archive was passed on through the family line.

M.C.C. TOURING TEAM to Australia and New Zealand 1954/55, a postcard photograph of the R.M.S. Orsora, signed in ink to the face by 20 of the touring party, including May, Hutton, Statham, Cowdrey, Edrich, Wardle and Loader. (See illustration).

GLAMORGAN COUNTY CRICKET CLUB, a black and white postcard team photograph 1978, signed to the reverse by ten players, including Nash, Hopkins, Wilkins, Cordle and Llewellyn, together with two cards signed by Dickie Bird and an M.C.c. Bicentenary Dinner Menu card 1987, (4).

A COLLECTION OF 25 SIGNED COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS of test cricketers, most of about postcard size, including Cronje, Waugh, Quasim, Cairns, Shastri, Greatbach, Hirwani and Viv Richards, (25).

ESSEX COUNTY CRICKET CLUB, a collection of three black and white postcard team photographs from the late 1950's-early 1960's, together with four signed postcard portraits of Preston, Taylor, Edmeades and Savill, some signatures faded, slight adhesion marks to reverse, (7).

CHELSEA F.C., 1954/55, a black and white postcard team photograph, together with a Cardiff City F.C. Handbook 1957/58, a 1966 World Cup beer mat and various other pieces to a common mount, framed and glazed.

GLASGOW CELTIC v HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN Scottish Cup Final at Hampden Park, 21 April 1956, a double sided postcard issued by the Scottish Daily Express, showing portraits of both teams.

ENGLAND RUGBY TEAM, a sepia postcard photograph of the England XV which played Wales in 1911.

THE WELSH TEAM which defeated New Zealand 16 December 1905, a black and white postcard photograph published by The WEstern Mail, overstamped in red 'Read the Evening Express', together with a match ticket for Wales v England at Swansea 1932, (2).

NEW ZEALAND v BRITISH ISLES 1904, a monochrome postcard showing a lion alongside an injured rugby player, produced following the British victory by 9 points to 3 at Wellington on 13 August, postally used. (See illustration)

A COLLECTION OF EIGHT BLACK AND WHITE POSTCARD PHOTOGRAPHS of Welsh Club and International Rugby Players by J.E. Thomas of Newport, circa 1915, including W. Onions (Newport R.F.C.), H. Wetter (Newport R.F.C.), H. Lewis (Swansea R.F.C.) and A.E. Hockey (Pontypool R.F.C.), (8). (See illustration).

ALBERT JENKINS (Llanelli & Wales), a very large postcard backed black and white photograph, together with 32 other photographs most relating to Clement's career as a player and administrator, (33).

An early 20th Century postcard album containing a large quantity of assorted cards depicting scenic views from home and abroad.

A 19th century French postcard album "Cartes Postales" containing framed continental and British postcards

A postcard album containing a selection of Kendal postcards

A postcard album containing a selection of postcards and photographs

Victorian postcard album containing seaside town scenes and south coast images, plus humour and greeting cards

Two 1st WW postcard albums with topographical views, some printed and some real photographic including sheep market at Okehampton, Victoria Hall destroyed by fire, October 6th, 1919, a smaller album of cards and a book of sample greetings cards by a firm called Peacock in to which scraps and postcards have been stuck

A 19th century ebonised and amboyna veneered stereoscopic postcard viewer, with adjustable focus and internal rotary mechanism operated by two turned knobs, with a selection of Nos Mondaines and Les Theatres de Paris cards, 44.5cm high, 29.5cm wide

Pair: Able Seaman G. E. Clark, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (22569 A.B., R.N.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (J.22569 A.B., R.N.), mounted for wear, nearly very fine (2) £30-50 Gerry Clark was born in East Ham in 1890 and was an Able Seaman in the Royal Navy during the Great War. He served aboard a British warship involved in the sinking of the German light cruiser Mainz during the battle of Heligoland Bight, 28 August 1914. He died in leigh, Essex in 1968. Sold with original photograph of the recipient; four postcard photographs - one inscribed, The Sinking of the Mainz; three other photographs; a page from a publication depicting the sinking of the Mainz and the rescue of her crew, and a recent newspaper cutting re. Able Seaman Clark and the sinking of the Mainz.

A good Fire Brigade group of six awarded to Chief Officer T. H. Mather, who commanded East Ham Fire Station at the height of the Blitz, prior to taking command of a flotilla of fire-boats at Bristol: he would later recall the devastating raid of 7 September 1940, when around 200 Eastenders were killed, and another 800 wounded, and dealing with the carnage caused by an explosion aboard a ship carrying 15,000-tons of fuel at Avonmouth Docks British War and Victory Medals (Bosn., M.F.A.); Defence Medal 1939-45; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Association of Professional Fire Brigade Officers Long Service, silver (Chief Officer, 1929), mounted as worn from two separate wearing bars (excepting the Defence Medal), generally good very fine (6) £400-450 Thomas Harold Mather was born at Port Talbot, Wales in August 1890, and first entered the Fire Brigade with an appointment in the Liverpool Fire Salvage Corps in 1912. Having then served in the Merchant Fleet Auxiliary in the Great War, he returned to his former profession with an appointment in an industrial fire brigade in Birkenhead, and thus ensued a long and memorable career best summarised by a feature which appeared in the (Portsmouth) News on 14 August 1970: Three huge fires - when the bombers set Britains biggest gas-works ablaze, when Bristol suffered its biggest petrol-ship explosion, and when 600 homes were razed in Hartlepool - were recalled by a Portsmouth man who remembers them better than most people. Drawing on a well-worn pipe in his quiet flat at Vernon Court, London Road, North End, former Chief Fire Officer Thomas Harold Mather reminisced on his 80th birthday over his career in the fire service. Mr. Mather, one of only two Honorary Life Members of Britains senior fire organisation, the Institution of Fire Engineers, made history during his career by becoming the first professional Chief Fire Officer in two local authority brigades. He remembered his three largest blazes, one of which was a peace-time fire, and two of which were wartime fires. First he recalled the "Great Hartlepool Fire" of January 1921, when flames destroyed part of Hartlepools docklands and residential areas. Mr. Mather was in charge of some of the fire-fighters, and he recalled how "great piles and stacks of pit-props and dock goods were blazing, and the great poles carrying overhead tramlines had buckled over like hair-pins. The fire swept through the docks and into houses. Before it was out, 600 families were homeless," he said. "About one square mile of the city was ablaze at one time." Later in his career, while Chief Fire Officer of East Ham in London, Mr. Mather was in charge of fire-fighting during the Blitz when the biggest gas works in Britain and two of the largest dock installations were both in his care. "On the night of 7 September 1940, the bombers hit the gas works in a particularly bad raid and before we had the fire under control, we had 40 fire engines on the scene. We suffered these kind of raids night after night until the fire service was nationalized," he said. During the latter years of the War, Mr. Mather moved to Bristol where he was in charge of 13 fire-boats - and it was there that he had "the biggest petrol fire of my whole career. It happened at Avonmouth Docks when a ship carrying 15,000 tons of petrol exploded, causing the petrol to cascade into the engine room where three engineers were drowned in petrol. The fire spread and soon the whole ship was blazing from end to end. There were fire engines on the dock side, and I had my fleet of fire-boats on the seaward side," he said. His distinguished career in the fire service started in 1912 when he joined the Liverpool Fire Salvage Corps after being in the Merchant Navy. From Liverpool he went to the Birmingham Fire Brigade, and then his maritime interests tempted him to join the Navy during World War One. While based in Portsmouth he watched as a Zeppelin flew over the city. At the end of the War, he moved to an industrial fire brigade in Birkenhead and then he made history by becoming the first professional fire chief at the Seaham Harbour Combined Fire and Ambulance Brigade. There he was in charge of two fire brigades and an ambulance. He then became the first professional Chief Fire Officer at Gellygaer, near Cardiff in South Wales, where he was in charge of a main station and six sub-stations. In 1928 he moved to the East Ham Fire Brigade as Chief Fire Officer, and there he stayed for 14 years, including the initial years of World War Two. After getting Blitz experience, he moved to Plymouth where he became Commandant of the Regional Fire School for nearly a year. Because of his maritime experience he was then moved to Bristol, where he took charge of the fleet of fire-boats. He remained there until the end of the War, and in 1946 he retired and moved to Portsmouth. Mather was awarded the Jubilee 1935 and Coronation 1937 Medals while serving as Chief Officer at East Ham (the official rolls refer); sold with original cutting of the above quoted newspaper feature, and an old picture postcard of East Ham Fire Station, the reverse ink inscribed, Supt. T. H. Mather, Fire Station, East Ham, E. 6.

Family group: Pair: Stoker 1st Class G. H. Roissetter, Royal Navy British War and Victory Medals (291605 Sto. 1, R.N.) Four: R. Roissetter, Merchant Navy Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, all unnamed, extremely fine (lot) £180-220 George Henry Roissetter was born in West Ham on 14 December 1880. He entered the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class on 8 March 1899 but was invalided on 4 August the same year. With the onset of the Great War he rejoined as a Stoker 1st Class on 2 December 1915. He served at/on Pembroke, December 1915-March 1916; Cadmus, March 1916-August 1917; Kinsha, August 1917-August 1919 and Pembroke, August 1919 until he was demobilised on 25 December 1919. Richard Joseph Roissetter was born in East Ham on 20 April 1912. At the age of 15 he joined the Merchant Navy. One of his first ships was the Highland Hope which was wrecked in the early 1930s, and then the Highland Brigade. The Highland ships sailed between London and South America, carrying both passengers and cargo. His ship was docked at Montevideo harbour when the Graf Spee sailed in for repairs after the battle of the River Plate. The crew of the pocket battleship were put ashore and traded for food and cigaretes - Roissetter receiving a Graf Spee cap band in exchange for food. He was later wounded when his ship was involved in the battle for Crete. After being treated at the Seamans Hospital. London, he served on the hospital ship S.S. Atlantis, remaining with the ship until the end of the war. Postwar he served on the R.M.S. Andes. Richard Roissetter died in 1970 Medals to G. H. Roisetter sold with original Certificate of Service; Qualifications as a Stoker Rating Certificate; Registered envelope addressed to Mr G. H. Roissetter, 20 Fabian St., East Ham, E.6; National Registration Card; Christmas Card 1916 to My Dear Wife & Children, and H.M.S. Pembroke cap band. Medals to R. Roissetter in card forwarding box, addressed to, Mr R. Roissetter, 20 Fabian St., East Ham, London, E.6 Sold with 19 postcard photographs of the Graf Spee, in port, showing battle damage and being scuttled; together with an original Panzerschiff Admiral Graf Spee cap band. The lot sold with three modern letter/notes written by the daughter of George Henry Roissetter and sister of Richard Joseph Roissetter, providing the service details for the latter. Also with a registered envelope addressed to, M. E. Roissetter, 20 Fabian St., East Ham, London, E.6; photograph of three members of the family - two in Royal Navy Ratings uniform; gilt pin-backed badge, and sundry other cards and papers including a number of low value banknotes issued by the British Military Authority and elsewhere.

Bates family group: Three: Captain F. Bates, Merchant Navy British War and Mercantile Marine Medals (Frederick Bates); France, Medal of Honour, Ministry of Marine, 2nd class, gold (F. Bates, 1915), complete with wire embroidered ribbon, in case of issue; Memorial Plaque (Frederick Bates) Pair: Telegraphist W. F. Bates, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve British War and Victory Medals (M.Z.223 Tel., R.N.V.R.) Pair: Forewoman E. Bates, Queen Marys Army Auxiliary Corps British War and Victory Medals (16065 Fwn, Q.M.A.A.C.) Pair: Gunner J. D. Dickens, Royal Artillery British War and Victory Medals (168876 Gnr., R.A.) very fine and better (lot) £600-700 Frederick Bates was born in Liverpool in 1861 and educated at the Brunswick School, Erskine Street, Liverpool and at the Liverpool Institute. He entered the Merchant Navy as an apprentice in 1876, learning his trade on the Indefatigable. In 1887 he entered service with the Moss Line as a Third Officer and in 1896 was appointed to the command of the steamer Sphynx. He subsequently commanded the Moss Line ships Osiris, Osmanli, Tabor, Menes, Seti and Mero‘. He came to public notice in 1915, when as Captain of the S.S. Mero‘, he was instrumental in rescuing over 200 passengers and crew from the torpedoed French liner Ville de la Ciotat. The ship was in the Mediterranean, en route from Japan to Marseilles, when on 24 December 1915 she was torpedoed by an Austrian submarine off Crete. The stricken liner sank quickly. Of the 135 passengers and 181 crew on board, 35 passengers and 45 crew were either killed in the explosion or drowned. Most of the survivors were picked up by the Mero‘ which bravely cruised around for about an hour and a half, finally landing 208 persons at Malta. The remainder were rescued by other vessels. For his services in rescuing a large number of passengers and crew with an enemy submarine known to be in the vicinity, he was awarded a French Medal of Honour and received a Testimonial from the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society. The attack and rescue was widely reported in the newspapers. On 2 November 1916 the Mero‘ was sunk by a German submarine. A newspaper report states that Bates suffered severely from shell shock and exposure, being in an open boat for some 36 hours before being recovered and taken into Gibraltar. The details of the loss are few but it was recorded, somewhat ungenerously, in the Digest of Admiralty In-Letters, 1916 that the ship was was prematurely abandoned by the Master who did not take the best steps to save his vessel. However, as a result of the privations he endured in the loss of his vessel, Bates began to suffer from a growing paralysis to his spine, which led progressively to his death on 17 February 1919. He was buried in Eccleston (St. Thomas) Churchyard Extension. William Frederick Bates was the son of Frederick and Maud Elizabeth Bates, born c.1895. Following his fathers profession, he served two years as a Cadet on H.M. Training Ship Conway and in 1911 began his naval apprenticeship on Messrs. Hogarths Baron Steamers. Circa 1916 he entered the R.N.V.R. The medals to Captain F. Bates sold with a number of original documents, including the recipients Certificate of Competency as Master, dated 14 February 1891; a Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society Testimonial mounted on card, to Captain Frederick Bates, S.S. "Mero‘" for Praiseworthy and Humane Service in rescuing 238 Passengers and Crew of the French S.S. "Ville de la Ciotat", torpedoed in the Mediterranean on December 24th 1915; also with Certificate of Award for the French Medal of Honour, Ministry of Marine, 2nd Class in gold, for the same event, dated 2 March 1916; two photograph albums, pre-war, containing photographs of family and places visited, one album inscribed to Maud E. Bates (wife of Captain F. Bates); several loose portrait photographs and two sketches of the recipient; plus a quantity of newspaper clippings relating to the rescue, his naval service and death. The medals to William Frederick Bates sold with his original Ordinary Apprentices Indenture (Scotland), dated Glasgow, 14 August 1911, and several postcard photographs of the recipient and the ships on which he served. Medals to Emmie Bates sold with two Q.M.A.A.C. metal badges, a cloth W.A.A.C. badge, and several postcard photographs of the recipient. In addition to the above are sundry medal card boxes of issue, lockets and badges, the booklet, To Egypt by Moss Line S.S. Mero‘; together with copied research. An impressive medal group and archive.

A quantity of cigarette, tea and trade cards, (both loose and in albums), together with a postcard album.

Two postcard albums.

Three postcard albums.

Two postcard albums.

A Postcard Album, including views of Tonbridge, Kent

A Postcard Album and contents including English and overseas views, World War I cards, humor etc.

A Postcard Album and contents of greetings cards, a number of loose postcards and associated items.

A small Postcard Album and contents including Yorkshire views and a number of loose cards.

A Postcard Album and contents of mainly French views together with a number of loose postcards etc.

Errol Flynn - A collection of books by and on Errol Flynn, including Beam Ends, reprint, Longmans, London 1937; and My Wicked, Wicked Ways, first British edition, Heinemann, London 1960; together with seventeen Warner Bros. videos; records; reproduction film still and portrait photographs (postcard size); and other items of related interest, (box).

Marilyn Monroe - A large collection of postcards and reproduction portrait, film still and poster photographs (postcard size and smaller); together with a small quantity of stamps and first day covers of related interest, (four albums).

Two early 20th Century postcard albums containing approximately two hundred period and later cards to include scenic and comic examples, together with two scrap albums,(4).

TWO POSTCARD ALBUMS, TOPOGRAPHICAL, APPROX 300 CARDS

* Japan. A collection of approx. forty-five albumen print photos, late 19th c., including people and views, mostly hand-coloured and titled in the negative, approx. 20 x 26 cm, with some postcard size or sl. smaller, loosely inserted into plastic sleeves in a modern ringbinder (approx. 45)

* Hold-to-Light. Five hold-to-light cards including Father Christmas in a motor car, together with 'Down by the River-side' (Tuck's 'Happy Little Coons' series), and a comic cat postcard in the style of Louis Wain, pub. Millar & Lang, 'National' series, G/VG (7)

Two postcard albums, early 20th century, south coast, seaside etc

Three postcard albums

*Postcard album containing views of Morecombe and Heysham (approx 288)

Small postcard album of topographical and other cards

* Autograph album. A small autograph album of film and stage stars, etc., collected by Jennifer Birkett, possibly at the Theatre Royal, Hanley, c. mid-1940s, including autographs of Owen Nares, Margot Fonteyn, Robert Helpmann, Wilfred Pickles, Lulu and Albertino, cast of the Royal Carl Rosa Opera Company, Joan Hammond, George Formby, plus many others including some signed postcards including a loose publicity postcard signed by the Beverley Sisters, orig. limp morocco, together with another autograph album from the same owner, though leaves mostly blank, orig. cloth, both oblong, 8vo (2)

Park (William). The Truth About Oscar Slater [With the Prisoner's Own Story], with a statement by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, pub. The Psychic Press, c. 1920's, portrait frontispiece, occasional pencil scoring, a few leaves loose, original cloth, spine and covers a little faded, 8vo, Interesting copy with Psychic Bookshop compliment slip tipped-in, with “sent by request of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle” inscribed in ink, additionally inscribed on ffep “E. P. Hewitt from Sir A. Conan Doyle”, both signatures secretarial. Conan Doyle took a keen interest in this famous murder case, one of the biggest miscarriages of justice of the century, together with Pearson (Edmund), Masterpieces of Murder, 1st ed., 1964, most leaves loose, original cloth, d.j., 8vo Association copy. John Creasey's annotated copy, with a postcard from Creasey addressed to Leo Harris, London, 26 July 1964, inscribed “Masterpieces of Murder, now all clear to use the lot, Yours John”, plus a small quantity of other books including Vladimir Nabokov's Nabokov's Dozen, 1st U. k. ed., 1959, six books of War & Post-War Speeches by Winston Churchill, including The End of The Begining, 1943, Victory, 1946 (two copies), Winston Spencer Churchill, Servant of Crown and Commonwealth, 1954, with facsimile “birthday present” card and letter, and a set of Kipling's Works (29)

An Art Nouveau postcard album, filled with postmarked Edwardian actresses and beauties, approximately 250

A Postcard Album, chiefly topographical of British views (1)

A green Postcard Album containing topographical, humorous and other cards (466 total) (1)

Two small Postcard Albums with topographical views, three small Photograph Albums and a Cigarette Album

Three Postcard Albums containing chiefly topographical views of Britain etc (3)