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Click here to subscribeFootball vintage collection 10 programmes includes Cup Final, Testimonials and League some rare programmes dating back to the early eighties. Good Condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Shirley Eaton signed James Bond Goldfinger colour 10 x 8 inch photo, rare she has added screen name Jilly Masterton Goldfinger. Good Condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Prince Georg of Denmark signed RAF Escaping Society Escape from Denmark cover, very rare number 12 of 50. Prince George Valdemar Carl Axel of Denmark b1920 - d1986 was a Danish prince. WW2 Danish Army rising to rank of Colonel. His wife was a first cousin of Elizabeth II. Prince George himself was a second cousin of Edward VIII and George VI. He served as defence attaché to London and military, naval and air attaché at Paris. Good Condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Shirley Eaton signed James Bond Goldfinger colour 10 x 8 inch photo, rare she has added screen name Jilly Masterton Goldfinger. Photo of her on bed covered in Gold head and shoulders pose. Good Condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Shirley Eaton signed James Bond Goldfinger colour 10 x 8 inch photo, rare she has added screen name Jilly Masterton Goldfinger. Photo of her in 3/4 length standing pose covered in Gold. Good Condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Shirley Eaton signed James Bond Goldfinger colour 10 x 8 inch photo, rare she has added screen name Jilly Masterton Goldfinger. Photo of her in 3/4 length standing pose covered in Gold. Good Condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Shirley Eaton signed James Bond Goldfinger colour 10 x 8 inch photo, rare she has added screen name Jilly Masterton Goldfinger. Photo of her on bed covered in Gold head and shoulders pose. Good Condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Shirley Eaton signed James Bond Goldfinger colour 10 x 8 inch photo, rare she has added screen name Jilly Masterton Goldfinger. Photo of her in 3/4 length standing pose covered in Gold. Good Condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Multisigned RAF Escaping Society 1989 cover comm. Belgian Resistance organizations. Signed by Oliver Philpot MC DFC, escaped by tunnelling out of Stalag - Luft 111 under cover of a homemade box vaulting horse. arrived in Sweden having successfully escaped from Stalag Luft 111. W. J. Brazill DFM RAF Escaping Society Chairman Shot down 16th September 1942 Navigator on Wellington Bomber found by the Comet Line and sheltered for six weeks by Captain F H Dell JP 692 Sqn, 8 Group Bomber Command 1944 flying Mosquitos 16s shot down over Germany , Successfully evaded capture and returned to UK via Netherlands 1945 Group Captain W S O Randle CBE AFC DFM FRAeS . Pilot with Bomber Command 1941 to 1945 Nos 150 and 692 Squadrons. Shot down over Germany September 1942, Successfully evaded capture and returned to UK via Belgium, France, Spain and Gibraltar. Rare variety RAFES SC40. Only 450 issued. Details, biographies and information inside. Good Condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
ACM Sir Lewis Hodges DSO DFC signed rare variety Escape from Luxembourg cover RAFES SC6, only 145 issued. Good Condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Rare VC10 designed team multiple signed 40th Anniversary of the VC10 signed FDC No. 36 of 160. Flown in VC10 of 10 Sqn on a sortie over Brooklands. Signed by Roger Black, Jack Ratcliffe, Mike Salisbury, Jock Bryce, Eddie McNamara, Hugh Tyrer. Good Condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
A collection of ten Sporting titles etc, including 'The Sportsman's Magazine; Or, Chronicle of Games and Pastimes', London, Hodgson, volume 1, August 1823-January 1824, 6 issues in 1, engraved title page, engraved frontis of Otter Hunt at Ewton, folding engraved rowing plate "The Contest for Doggett's Coat & Badge" depicting rowing at Blackfriar's Bridge, River Thames (frontis for August 1823), plus 5 other engraved plates (frontises for the other monthly parts), one of which hand coloured entitled "Billy Winning The Match of Killing 100 Rats in Six Minutes", depicting Westminster Pit, November 13, 1823, original paper covered boards (worn), printed paper label to spine (worn), rare and short lived magazine with emphasis on pugilism, angling, cocking, hawking, coursing, and more unusually pedestrianism, rowing, aquatic sports etc; Captain L. Fitz-Barnard: 'Fighting Sports', London, Odhams, circa 1921, 1st edition, 5 coloured plates + 11 (of 12) black and white plates, original cloth gilt (worn), backstrip detached (but present); Henry James Pye: 'The Sportsman's Dictionary', London, Stockdale, 1807, 5th edition, 17 engraved plates as called for, 547pp, rebound cloth gilt, new EP's; The Earl of Lonsdale (edited), 4 titles: 'Shooting by Moor, Field and Shore', 1934, volume 3, original cloth, dust wrapper, 'Fine Angling for Coarse Fish', 1930, volume 4, original cloth, 'Hounds and Dogs', 1932, volume 13, original cloth, 'Deer, Hare & Otter Hunting', 1936, volume 22, original cloth, dust wrapper; Henry Alken: 'The National Sports of Great Britain', 1903, new edition, original cloth, printed paper label to spine; Robert Surtees: 'History and Antiquities of the County of Durham - Gateshead Section', Sunderland, 1909, pedigrees, large 4to, original quarter cloth; plus one other (10)
A rare 19th century Victorian antique Kents Improved Monroe's Patent Egg Beater and Batter Mixer ceramic pot having blue transfer printed to the both sides - Exhibitions 1851, 1862, Prize Medals awarded to G. Kent for his rotary knife cleaner & improvements in articles of domestic utility, Manufactory 199, High Holborn, London. Measures 20cm high.
John William Bailey (1831-1914) - A rare 19th Century Victorian antique stick pin having a hand painted ceramic panel depicting a black and brown spaniel, signed to the verso J W Bailey 1851, mounted within a gold stick pin with twisted centre. Bailey is a well known enamel portrait miniature artist who exhibited at the Royal Academy and who's work is housed at the V & A museum, and trained under William Essex. Measures approx 6.5cm.
LYCETT (JOSEPH)A collection of 39 views, from 'Views in Australia or New South Wales, & Van Dieman's Land Delineated, In Fifty Views, With Descriptive Letter Press', hand-coloured aquatint plates, some with accompanying letterpress descriptive text, loose [Abbey, Travel 570; Ferguson 974; Wantrup 218b], sheet 265 x 370mm., J. Souter, 1824-1825, sold as a collectionFootnotes:'Lycett was the outstanding artist of his period in Australia and his Views in Australia is a landmark in the development of the Australian illustrated book. It is the most celebrated of Australian topographical plate books, and, despite its rarity, must be considered essential to a collection' (Wantrup, Australian Rare Books).Comprises: Botany Bay, New South Wales; View of Captain Piper's Naval Villa, at Eliza Point, near Sidney; Burwood Villa, New South Wales; Lake Paterson... Hunter's River; View of the Female Orphan School, near Parramatta; View of Napean River; View of Windsor, Upon the River Hawkesbury; Liverpool, New South Wales; The Residence of Edward Riley, Wooloomooloo; View of Lake George; Kissing Point, New South Wales; View of the Heads, at the Entrance to Port Jackson; The Residence of John McArthur..., near Parramatta; Bathhurst Cataract; View on the Wingeecarrarbee River; View of Wilberforce; Parramatta; Mount Direction, near Hobart Town; Mount Wellington; Distant View of Hobart Town; View of Hobart Town (2 copies); Mount Nelson, near Hobart; View of Port Macquerie; View on the Macquerie River; View from the Top of Mount Nelson; Roseneath Ferry, near Hobart Town; View of Roseneath Ferry, from the East Side; The Table Mountain; View of Tasman's Peak; Mount Dromedary, Van Dieman's Land; Salt Pan Plain; The Western or Boundary Lake; View of the River Tamar; Ram Head Point, Port Davey; View from the Top of Constitution Hill; View of the South End of Schouten's Island; Cape Pillar, Van Dieman's Land.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
MORITZ (BERNHARD)Bilder aus Palästina, Nord-Arabien und dem Sinai, 106 plates after photographs mounted on 50 card mounts with captions, numbered 1-100 and 16a, 59b, 60a, 72a (2 photos) and 95a, one map (numbered 63a), the images of varying sizes, 16 pages of accompanying text, loose as issued in publisher's cloth-backed decorative portfolio boards, gilt lettered 'Nord-Arabien und Sinai' on upper cover, rubbed, oblong folio (290 x 390mm.), Berlin, Dietrich Riemer, 1916Footnotes:A rare photographic record of the major sites and geographic features in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Egypt and Palestine. The images - taken for the most part by Moritz but some by Turkish friends in areas where he was prohibited from going - depict pilgrims on the Hajj to Mecca, Bedouins, the building of the Hejaz railway between Damascus and the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, Jiddah, Petra, and Mt. Sinai. Moritz (1859-1939) was an Arabist and archaeologist who from 1896 to 1911 headed the Khedival Library and Archive in Cairo. It was from there that he made numerous research trips to the Sinai and Hejaz, taking the present photographs between 1905 and 1915.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
FIRST ARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1818Collection of nineteenth century microscope specimen slides, including 3 of material collected from the ocean floor during Sir John Ross's expedition with William Parry, one slide labelled 'Parry's Soundings, 674 fms, Lancaster Sound, lat. 73oN, Sept i 1818' , the other two 'Parry's Soundings 201 fms.'; along with c.34 other slides labelled 'Indian Ocean', 'H.M.S. Cyclops', 'Red Sea', 'Balsam from Lancing', 'Atlantic Ocean. HMS Porcupine 1869', '...from stomach of Scallop. Brighton, T.H. Hennah 1863' etc., some signed or initialled by Hennah, preserved in trays contained in purpose-made wooden box, a few loose; with a folder of correspondence relating to research on the soundings, c.1818-1870Footnotes:'PARRY'S SOUNDINGS': rare specimens from the ocean floor, some collected using Sir John Ross's Deep-sea Clamm, which he first used in Baffin's Bay during the Arctic expedition of 1818.According to a full report published on the Parry soundings by Rudolf Staroscik and Brian Davidson ('Parry's Soundings', in Quekett Journal of Microscopy, 2011, 41, pp.531-542), it seems almost certain that they were actually taken by Ross: 'it is clear that the material mounted on our slide labelled '674 fms' was actually obtained from a sounding made on HMS Isabella using Ross's Deep-sea Clamm on 31 August 1818. It can therefore properly be claimed that this '674 fms' slide is the most important of only four known surviving preparations of the earliest deep-sea soundings from one of the first British oceanographic expeditions. It may well also be the only remaining ocean-bottom specimen obtained using the first sounding machine capable of recovering material from great depth'.Sir John Ross had been put in command of a two-ship expedition in search of a northwest passage, Ross sailing in the Isabella and William Edward Parry in command of the Alexander. Ross was also charged with noting the currents, tides, the state of ice and magnetism, and with collecting specimens he found on the way. This he did using his Deep-sea Clamm, an early grab sampler (sounder), a model of which is illustrated on the Science Museum website. 'Ross wrote: 'The instrument was made from the model by the ship's armourer, and succeeded on the first trial'. The Clamm worked well and collected sediment as well as some biota (worms, and starfishes attached to the cable) from depths at over 1,000 fathoms. A bonus was that they could, once the instrument was on deck, insert a thermometer in the soft sediment and read a reasonably accurate temperature (in contrast to the non-insulated water samplers). Because of the weight of sampler and cable, the Clamm required a whale line 'which are two and a half inches in circumference, made of the best hemp, and very pliable and easily coiled'' (Historie van de Oceanografie Club website).Some of the resulting specimens eventually came into possession of the noted Brighton collodion and Talbotype photographer Thomas Hennah, who became President of the Brighton & Sussex Natural History Society in 1869. His microscopy presentations included subjects such as lenses, palates of Mollusca, minute crustaceans, scales of fish, methods of illumination and, in 1870, the Parry soundings. Hennah also gave practical lessons to the members in mounting, section cutting, and the preparation of objects for the microscope. Other slides in the present collection are signed or initialled by Hennah.Provenance: The 'Parry' soundings obtained by William Parry from Sir John Ross; J.C. Burrows, acquired from Parry's widow on the explorer's death; Thomas Henry Hennah (1826-1876), photographer, who mounted them along with others in the collection; William Henry Youdale (1859-1922), member of the Royal Microscopical Society, added to his collection on Hennah's death in 1876; purchased by one of the authors of the aforementioned article, c.1986.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DISCOVERY EXPEDITION 1901-04 – CHARLES ROYDSA silver sporting medal awarded to First Lieutenant Charles W.R. Royds, the obverse with expedition emblem of a penguin on an ice-floe, an iceberg behind surrounded by the raised legend 'DISCOVERY' NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1901', the reverse with raised legend 'ANTARCTIC/ SPORTS/ WON BY' engraved beneath 'LT. C.W.R. ROYDS, R.N.', diameter 28mm.Footnotes:RARE ANTARCTIC SPORTS MEDAL AWARDED TO LIEUTENANT CHARLES W.R. ROYDS, who was already a distinguished and well-travelled officer in the Royal Navy before he was picked in 1901 along with Robert Falcon Scott to serve as First Lieutenant aboard the Discovery as the expedition meteorologist. He was also 'in charge of physical training. Royds took part in the sledging programme, leading a sledging journey of exploration across the Ross Ice Shelf. Cape Royds on Ross Island was named for him' (Scott Polar Research Institute, website).The Antarctic Sporting Medals were given to serving officers on the Discovery Expedition as prizes for their sporting achievements, ranging from sledge-pulling to rifle shooting and skiing. The medals, struck in advance of the expedition, were devised as a way to keep morale high, with sporting events arranged to alleviate boredom during the long winters. For example in honour of King Edward VII's birthday on 8 November 1902, a general holiday was declared, the ship decorated with Union flags, and a sports day competition organised with events including a 'flat skis race' (won by Petty Officer Edgar Evans), a rifle shooting match and a toboggan race. It is unknown for what event, on what occasion, Royds was presented his medal. Subsequent to his Antarctic exploits he had a distinguished naval career, being appointed a Companion of St Michael and St George for his war service, prior to his retirement in 1926 on promotion to Rear-Admiral.Provenance: Vice Admiral Sir Charles William Rawson Royds (1876-1931); Christie's, London, 10 April 1997, lot 130.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
SHACKLETON (ERNEST HENRY)Poster depicting Shackleton, head and shoulders facing forward with full beard, wearing thick polar jumper, and smaller inset portrait of him with combed hair, wearing and neck tie, captioned 'The October Pearson's. Lt. Shackleton After His Journey Towards the South Pole. See His Own Story Page 346', chromolithographed poster, old folds, a 60 x 55mm. piece torn away from lower margin (just touching one letter), several other small marginal tears/minor losses, 740 x 485mm., Hill Siffken Co., 1909Footnotes:RARE POSTER advertising the publication in Pearson's Magazine of Shackleton's account of the British Antarctic Expedition, and his journey 'farthest South'. The poster depicts Shackleton both as polar hero, and urbane gentleman 'on his return to England'. Shackleton's first, abridged account of the British Antarctic Expedition ran in three parts in Pearson's Magazine, nos.165-167, September-November 1909, publicising the expedition ahead of the publication of Shackleton's The Heart of the Antarctic in late 1909.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
SELLA (VITTORIO) AND WILLIAM F. DONKIN - MOUNTAINEERINGAlbum of nineteenth century photographs of mountaineering and the Alps, comprising 139 images, many by Vittorio Sella and W.F. Donkin, mostly albumen prints, mounted on 50 card sheets (usually recto only, but using 3 versos), 22 large format by Sella (285 x 385mm., or similar) one per page, approximately 100 (typically 130 x 180mm.) mounted 4 per page, remainder varying sizes 2 per page, varying tones and fading, many subjects or photographers identified in later pencil in margins, contemporary half morocco, g.e., worn at edges, one joint split, oblong folio (365 x 465mm.), [mostly 1880s]Footnotes:RARE NINETEENTH CENTURY ALBUM OF VIEWS IN THE ALPS BY THE GREAT PIONEERS OF MOUNTAINEERING PHOTOGRAPHY. 'It is to W.F. Donkin that we owe the beginning of first-rate alpine landscape [photography]... He brought technical skill to his work as well as a wonderful eye for country... Among his contemporaries, and a friendly rival, was the greatest of all photographers of the next generation Vittorio Sella' (C. Douglas Milner, A Century of Mountain Photography, Alpine Journal, 1957).William Frederick Donkin died, aged 43, during a climbing expedition to the Caucasus in 1888. Fêted at the time of his premature death, with a retrospective exhibition of his work held at the instigation of the Alpine Club (of which he was honorary secretary from 1885-1888) and Photographic Society in 1889, Donkin has subsequently been overshadowed by the longer lived Sella. This is undoubtedly due to the lack of details known about his life (no entry on ODNB) and scarcity of his works. The current album includes many views attributed to him.Vittorio Sella's 22 large format photographs of the Alps, from his expeditions from 1882 to 1888, include: Monte Rosa and lower peak of the Rimpfischhorn (with photographer's credit stamp lower right); Aletsch Glacier and Lake Marjelen; Summit of the Matterhorn, from the Tyndall Peak; Italian Ridge of the Matterhorn; Tete Du Lion, and Dent D'Herens, from above the Col du Lion; Swiss Summit of Matterhorn, with figure (from a cracked negative); Wellenkuppe and Gabelhorn, from the Moraine of the Gabelhorn Glacier; Matterhorn from Col des Grandes Murailles; Aiguille de la Za, from its base; Highest summit of Piz Roseg; Piz Bernina; Monte della Disgrazia from the summit of Piz Roseg; Lyskamm, with three climbers on the ice; Dent d'Herens, from Tiefenmattenfoch, with three climbers on the ice; Matterhorn, from the Zmutt ravine; Matterhorn, ?from the d'Herens summit; Dent Blanche, from the arete of Dent d'Herens above Tiefenmatten Glacier; Aletsch Glacier and Eggishorn, seen from Concordia lodge; Matterhorn from Col d'Herens; Aletschhorn, from the summit of Grunhornli. Two others unidentified.Towards the end of the album are a series of nine photographs of alpine mountaineering watercolours by 'H.G.W., 1888', and several images of climbing and skating groups, and views at Davos (2 with photo credit of photo studios from Davos).Provenance: The Rucksack Club, from where purchased by the vendor.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
BOURNE (SAMUEL) AND CHARLES SHEPHERDBourne & Shepherd's Royal Photographic Album of Scenes and Personages: Connected with the Progress of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, through Bengal, the North-West Provinces, the Punjab and Nepal. With Some Descriptive Letterpress, albumen print frontispiece portrait, 140 albumen prints by Bourne and Shepherd, mounted between one and 4 per page (recto only, captions printed in red), occasional spotting, frontispiece loose, 2 plates re-inserted, modern red half morocco gilt, the publisher's gilt lettering panel preserved on upper cover, folio (370 x 270mm.), Calcutta, Bombay and Simla, Bourne and Shepherd, 1876Footnotes:VERY RARE, only one copy traced on Rare Book Hub. Published by Bourne and Shepherd, the leading nineteenth century leading photographic agency in India, the album was issued to celebrate the eight month tour of the Indian subcontinent undertaken by the Prince of Wales in 1875. The album includes photographs of significant Indian locations (including Amritsar, Lahore, Agra and Fatehpur Sikri, Delhi, Gwalior, and Benares), portraits of local princes, groups of types (including Beluchi chiefs, Dancing Gadis, Yarkandis with hunting hawks, women of Kashmire, Tibetan mendicants, and Men of Bikaner), shikar, hunting and elephants, mostly mounted.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
William Andrew Ludlow (British, 1803-1853)'Bengal Troops on the line of March, (The advanced Guard driving in an outpost of the Enemy.) A Sketch by an Officer in that Army'the full set of 18 lithographs (London, Day & Haghe, c.1840)each strip approximately 11.4 x 54.6cm (4 1/2 x 21 1/2in).12 mounted on 4 pieces of thick card, and 6 loose.Footnotes:The complete rare and large panorama depicting the trials and hazards of moving the Bengal Army - under East India Company control at this time - through the subcontinent. The plates are based on sketches by an officer, Captain Ludlow. Ludlow is listed in the East India Register and Directory as being on furlough from the Twelfth Regiment Bengal Native Infantry in 1835. Throughout the panorama, British troops are interspersed with Indian soldiers, who accounted for the large majority of the force, and figures of local interest. Inscriptions beneath each point of interest in the panorama highlight figures and scenes including a Hindu idol and priest; Hindus bathing; A skirmish; 'Cart in which Native Females ride'; 'A Swivel Gun on a Dromedary'; 'Fakeers denouncing their flying Friends'. The panorama is richly detailed and filled with figures, camels and elephants laden with baggage. When joined, the panorama extends to approximately 28 feet.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
SEYCHELLES, MAHÉ - PHOTOGRAPHYGroup of eleven views of Mahé, Seychelles, albumen prints, mounted on card, subjects identified in ink on mount, or (larger images) in pencil on verso, five images 125 x 170mm., others 93 x 120mm., [c.1900-1910] (11)Footnotes:Rare early twentieth century views of Mahé, the largest island of the Seychelles, identified images including street scenes in Victoria (2, one with Consular building), the Messageries Maritimes offices, coco de mer tree in (?)Government House gardens, European family on bridge with mountain backdrop, 'sports meeting at Mahé', and four views looking towards Victoria from the sea.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
RUGBY UNION, New Zealand tour programmes, inc. 1980, Swansea, Cardiff, Llanelli, Newport & Wales; 1983, England, South/Southwest, Midlands; 1989, Cardiff, Wales, Pontypool, Ireland, Swansea, Llanelli, Neath (with rare team insert); 1993, South West, Barbarians, Scotland, England, London & South East; 1997, England A, G to EX, 22
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