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Lot 261
Three: 1914-15 trio, Z-1849 Pte. W.L. Sparkes, 1st Btn. Rifle Brigade. 1914-15 STAR (Z-1849 Pte. W.L. Sparkes Rif: Brig), BRITISH WAR and VICTORY MEDALS (Z-1849 Pte. W.L. Sparkes, Rif. Brig). Born: Small Heath, Birmingham. To France 27/12/14. Killed in Action 28th April 1918 and commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium. Copy M.I.C. included. Brother of: 5395 Pte. F. Sparkes Border Regt.
Lot 262
Three: 1914-15 trio, 5395 Pte. F. Sparkes, Border Regt. 1914-15 STAR (5395 Pte. F. Sparks) Bord. R.), BRITISH WAR and VICTORY MEDALS (5395 Pte. F. Sparkes Bord. R.) To Balkans 18/7/15 Note! "Sparks" on Star - 2 x M.I.C`s confirms spelling error Entitled to Silver War Badge. Copy M.I.C`s included. Brother of: Z-1849 Pte. W.L. Sparkes. Rifle Brigade.
Lot 265
Three: 1914-15 trio, R-1002 Pte. T. Shaw, 11th Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps. 1914-15 STAR (R-1002 Pte. T. Shaw K.R.Rif.C), BRITISH WAR and VICTORY MEDALS (R-1002 Pte. T. Shaw K.R.Rif.C) Born: Eccleshall, Yorkshire. To France 21/7/15. Died of Wounds 9th July 1916 and buried Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium. Copy M.I.C. included. Brother of: 72147, Dvr. C. Shaw. R.F.A.
Lot 266
Four: 1914-15 trio + Imperial Service Medal GVI, 72147 Dvr. C. Shaw, Royal Field Artillery. 1914-15 STAR (72147 Dvr. C. Shaw. R.F.A), BRITISH WAR and VICTORY MEDALS (72147 Dvr. C. Shaw R.A), IMPERIAL SERVICE MEDAL GVI (Crowned bust "FID:DEF" 1949-52 circular type) Impressed on rim (Clement Shaw), in Royal Mint case of issue. To France 13/7/15 Entitled to Silver War Badge. Copy of M.I.C. included. Brother of: R-1002 Pte. T. Shaw. Kings Royal Rifle Corps.
Lot 310
A collection of books formerly belonging to Derek Phillips who worked for The Field Magazine, comprising `The Tweeddale Shooting Club`, asesqui-centennial memoir 1790-1940, compiled and edited by Captain George Woolfe Murray, privately printed for the Tweeddale Shooting Club by Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh 1940, `An Onlooker in France` 1917-1919, by Sir William Orpen, K.B.E, R.A. printed by William`s & Norgate, London 1921, also included in this lot is a drawing of a WW1 Officer taken at Mansell Camp Somme, January 1917, together with a tight poem entitled `The Road to the War`, past by the censors from the British Front France November 1917, `The Keeper`s Book`, a guide to the duties of a game keeper by Sir Peter Jeffrey Mackie, Bart printed by GT Foulas & Company London 1924, `With a gun to the hill` by Stephen Pilkington, printed by Herbert Jenkins Ltd, London 1948, also included in this is a loose sheet from The Field requesting that Mr DA Phillips do a short review of the enclosed book, `Shoots and Shooting` by EC Keith with illustrations by JC Harrison printed by Country Life Ltd, London 1951, `The Field` 1853-1953, a centenary volume by RN Rowes, printed by Michael Joseph London 1953, includes a dedicated inscription to DA Phillips from RN Rowes dated February 9th 1953, `Elements of Shooting` by Eric Parker, with ten colour plates by the author and various diagrams, published by The Field London, `From Rifle To Camera`, by Colonel Sir James L Sleeman, published by Jarrolds London 1947, includes a loose leaf from Jarrolds the publishers sending the accompanying book for review, together with a letter from Ronald Antrobus of Eton Hall Congleton concerning the book, `Shooting Round The Year`, by Noel M Sedgwick (`Tower-Bird`), printed by Herbert Jenkins London 1952, together with a letter from the field dated 1952 asking Phil to do a review of this book, `Peter Magpie And Clarence Crow`, by Paul Lorck Eiden, with numerous cartoon illustrations, printed by John Murray, London 1949, together with other assorted books on shooting and gun dogs etc (21)
Lot 1075
A Victorian silver regimental presentation claret jug, by E.C Brown, London 1874, modelled as a drinking horn, with a dragon scroll handle, the hinged cover with a dragon finial and with a dragon lip, the horn terminates in a ram`s head motif, on the claw and bun feet, inscribed, `Western Indian Rifle Meeting 1878, Deccan Cup, won by The `Queens` Team Major Waring, Lt. and AdJ. Collins, Sergeant Harrison, Corporal Seymour, Private Turner and Private Wardle,`, on an oval ebonised plinth, height off plinth 31.5cm, approx. weight 40oz.
Lot 227
COLQUHOUN, JOHN. The Moor and the Loch, Third Edition, Edinburgh and London, 1851 -- PHILLIPPS-WOLLEY, CLIVE. Big Game Shooting. Badminton Library, 2 vols., 1894 -- HARTLEY, GILFRID W. Wild Sport With Gun, Rifle, and Salmon-Rod, Edinburgh and London, 1903 With another by the same. -- GRIMBLE, AUGUSTUS. More Leaves From My Game Book, n.d. (1917). One of 250 copies. 8vo., mostly orig. cloth. Illustrated. (6)
Lot 1037
TWO VICTORIAN CAST, REGIMENTAL FIGURE TABLE LIGHTERS each with a Martini Henry rifle & a "slave" lighter at their feet and the main lighter on their heads, each now mounted on a wooden base simply for use as a figure, one by James Barclay Hennell & the other by J. Aldwinckle & T. Slater, London 1886; approx. 8" (20 cms) high overall (2)
Lot 481
DU MAURIER DAPHNE: (1907-1989) British Author. A delightful and fascinating correspondence collection between Daphne Du Maurier, her husband General Sir Frederick ‘Boy’ Browning (1896-1965) and Reginald and Gwenllyan Davies, comprising six A.Ls.S. and two T.Ls.S. from Du Maurier and two A.Ls.S. from Browning, 48 pages (total), 8vo, various places (Hampshire, Kent and Cornwall), 28th December 1937-25th July 1973. The correspondence commences with a letter from Daphne Du Maurier, stating that a poem arrived on Christmas Eve ‘and was the making of our Yuletide….it was read aloud amid hiccough and laughter. Spurred to make some return, I fell to and send you the enclosed. Boy says it’s the rudest thing he’s ever read, but knowing that satire is the breath of yours (and my) joint nostrils, I offer it to you with no apology!’ and continues with two long letters from Browning, explaining that he is trying to turn ‘civilians in uniforms’ into instructors and further stating ‘Daphne and I are living in a few corners of this house, the rest of our furniture stacked in the drawing room. Any moment I might be shot off to the pre-battle ground the other side so we rather live from day to day. Daphne is working hard looking after a large and scattered party of families of men in the regiment so has no time for writing stories….I expect you hear or read that so and so [Leslie Hore] Belisha’s speeches about the marvellous efficiency and preparedness of the Army. Just to quote one small case out of hundred where the bastard could be caught out and kicked out for greatly misleading everyone. It was hot till two weeks ago-six weeks after the B.E.F. arrived in France that Anti-Tank rifle ammunition was issued to the troops in the line, Battalions still have no mortar ammunition and I know the 2nd Battalion are 300 Bren gun magazines deficient-this in the first contingent who might have had to fight for their lives are now but for the Grace of God and the hesitations of “Old Nasty”, as Syd Walker (B.B.C.) calls him. Keep that to yourself if you can! But if not don’t mention the source of your information. Owing to the continued, systematic and dangerous undermining of discipline which has been going on for the last two years fostered by Belisha, enthusiastically acclaimed and spread by the yellow press and not fought against by the Generals at top, the national Army, including a good percentage of the regulars, are a fundamentally undisciplined lot, unsmart in the extreme, dirty, bad mannered and semi-trained which coupled with the general shortage of weapons etc. and chaos of expansion makes the British Army unfit for war against first class troops like the Germans. Thank God for (a) the French Army (b) the Maginot Line ( c ) the rows going on between Hitler and the generals. I tremble to think what would have happened if the British Army had been faced with a battle of Mons, le Cateau, first Ypres; they would never have survived it. We are a lot of bloody amateurs….but now we are strong in the air and Turkey are alongside, Musso will mind his p’s and q’s a bit….London is a most gloomy place and thank goodness I don’t have to go there very much, England is a very different place compared (to) the haven of rest it was in the last war…’ (27th November 1939) and in the second stating that he agrees with the principle of his correspondent’s pamphlet ‘and I think it would work once the foundations of international Christianity are laid. That…is the great problem which urgently requires as well worked out a scheme as yours to bring about. It’s indeed a big task and is nothing less than the fulfilment of the Prime Minister’s policy of appeasement, which in simpler language means a change of heart among all the peoples of the earth, the most urgent change being necessary among our own race! If you could work out a scheme (I daresay the Prime Minister is urgently employed on a like problem) to bring about this change of heart you would be putting the horse in its correct relation to the cart. This sounds most awfully damping and unappreciative of your excellent scheme but if you think in a detached and analytical manner, really cold bloodedly, of the sequence of essential requirements I’m certain you will agree with me….We like our new job and it will be very interesting and being an establishment and not a fighting unit will give me a mental relaxation and such….efficiency as one possesses can be concentrated on one or more or less direct line and not be pulled in all directions trying to make two or more ends meet!’ (3rd March 1940), the remaining correspondence from Du Maurier, stating, in part, ‘Boy is a Major-General, and commands the Airborne Division. He hobnobs daily with G.O.C.s-C.I.G.s and even Winston himself! He has endless planes at his disposal (he pilots his own!) and a staff car with a loud-speaker through which he commands the populace to remove themselves from his path. Whether he will so condescend to take luncheon with the Finance Officer of the British Council I cannot say, but I rather think he will. He is inclined to favour red revolution at the moment, and a sweeping away of all inhabitants of the War Office, Admiralty, Air Ministry, and other such rusty institutions. Possibly you could act as Financial Adviser to an underground movement. For myself, I am installed with my brood of three (yes, the son was a clever coup) down here in Fowey. We have a humble cottage, but thank God minions enough to save me stirring as much as a finger! Boy tells me I am the only woman in England who does absolutely nix towards the War Effort. I retaliate, rather conceitedly, that I am bringing more dollars into this country than any other member of my low profession! At the moment I am engaged upon a tome that will be almost as long (and far more tedious) as “Gone With The Wind”. I am glad you liked the play of “Rebecca”, but personally I thought Owen Nares over acted, and he gave me embarrassment. I have not seen it since its return to London from a lengthy tour. The last book “Frenchman’s Creek”, is shortly to be filmed in the U.S.A. I forgot to tell you that Boy spent a lightening fortnight in America, where, according to the papers here, he “fished and relaxed”! The reverse was the case, as you can imagine’ (Fowey, Cornwall, 23rd August 1942), ‘I can find nothing in Mr. W. H. Smiths’ shop in Fowey to compare with what the Tate Gallery can produce…..I spent a fortnight with my General on Salisbury Plain, or rather I spent a fortnight under the same roof but scarcely set eyes on him at all. Then I dashed up to London for my law-suit….I had to answer questions before an American Consul, and the answers were sent off to America. What has happened to them I don’t know. One question was “How many novels have I read in my life, and which was the first I ever read”! I replied “Peter Rabbit at the age of three” The whole thing was quite fantastic. Meanwhile, I work like one possessed at my novel of the moment. It is to be called “Hungry Hill”, and is endless.’ (Fowey, Cornwall, 18th October 1942), ‘To add to our labours, and yet in a sense to make them more enjoyable, we have just moved into this lovely derelict mansion, the original more or less of “Manderly” in Rebecca. Its been “let” to me for a song, but I have broken myself by installing electric light and other amenities. However, once we settle down it will be a heavenly lunacy, even if I spent all my time cutting trees for fires….Boy arrived for Christmas and….we managed to have the usual tree, plum puds, turkey for the children. The latter are getting lar
Lot 95
Dallas (Donald). The British Sporting Gun and Rifle, Pursuit of Perfection 1850-1900, 1st ed., 2008, col. and b & w illusts., a.e.g., orig. half morocco gilt, large 4to, contained in slipcase, Limited edition of 100 copies (un-numbered), signed by the author, together with Medlar Press, Angling Manuscript by A.J. Lacie(?), 1843, facsimile ed., 1995, approx. 190pp. detailed manuscript notes in facsimile, numerous full-page col. and b & w plts. of original studies of fish in facsimile, contemp. black sheep, 8vo, Limited edition 1195/1489 (2)
Lot 116
A collection of 1950s NATO monochrome photographs, by SGT John V Dear depicting The National Rifle Association Annual meeting, Bisley, 1958, the Rt Hon. Harold Macmillan PM, 1959, Margaret Thatcher, London aerial views, Paris views, President Eisenhower and other leaders in the NATO Headquarters Paris, Field Marshall Montgomery of Alamein (including one signed photograph), HRH Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, Jayne Mansfield and others - approximately 95, 19cm x 24cm and smaller photographs, together with SGT Dear`s arm band and press pass
Lot 83
A Black Persian Lamb Busby to the Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort`s Own), the green cloth crown with appliqued cord figured ornament, black silk square cord plait to the front leading up to a black corded oval boss set with a metal crown and with green feather and black horse hair plume, with bugle cap badge and strung bugle side badges, black silk lining, leather sweatband and black patent leather chin strap. (slight damage).
Lot 317A
PURCHASER MUST BE 18 YEARS OR OVER A Gem .177 Calibre Break Barrel Air Rifle, the steel barrel octagonal at the breech and stamped "The Original Gem Quality, Manufactured in Germany Specially for the Introducer A.Arbenz, Birmingham", un-numbered, the walnut stock with heavy steel butt plate.
Lot 358
A 19th Century Tower Percussion Cap Brunswick Rifle, the 76.5cm steel barrel with hinged leaf rear sight and standard bayonet bar, the side lock stamped with crowned VR 1857, TOWER, walnut full stock with brass fore-end tip, ramrod pipes and double scroll trigger guard, the butt stamped with "Crow`s foot" over the letter "I" and "TOWER LONDON 1864" within a garter strap enclosing a crowned WD arrow, and set with a double compartmented patch box with brass hinged cover, steel ramrod and sling swivels with later webbing strap.
Lot 360
An Enfield Snider Conversion 1862 Three Band Rifle, the 90cm steel barrel later numbered 3554, with hinged ladder sight, the action stamped BSA Co., the lock plate stamped with crowned VR, 1862, ENFIELD, walnut full stock with brass fore-end tip, trigger guard and butt plate, with steel ramrod and sling swivels
Lot 369
A US Contract Model 1865 Spencer Repeating Carbine, the 46.5cm steel barrel with hinged ladder rear sight, the top of the receiver stamped "MODEL 1865, SPENCER REPEATING RIFLE PAT`D MARCH 6 1860. MANUF`D AT PROV. R.I. BY BURNSIDE RIFLE CO. 1865" and numbered 12582, walnut half stock with single band, steel sling ring bar and sling swivel, the steel butt plate set with swivel hinged panel.
Lot 371
A 19th Century American Percussion Cap Plains Rifle by James Bown & Son (Enterprise Gunworks), Pittesburgh: PA, the 90cm octagonal steel barrel stamped with maker`s name, "Kill Buck" trademark and date 1878, with maple half stock, brass fore-end tip, ramrod pipe, double scroll trigger guard and curved butt plate, with wood ramrod.
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