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Tang dynasty (618 – 907 AD) This cup is cast and hammered silver with a chaste and ring-punched decoration. There is a gilt handle and the body of the cup shows extensive decoration with birds, flowers and grapevines. The base has a floral decoration. Dimensions: Height 6.5cms, weight 125 grams references 1. Identical one seen in Smithsonian Luxury Goods Silver Gallery. 2. See similar Tang cup Christies New york sale 2339 Lot 1006 2010. 3. Tang cup 4.7cm Christies sale 7964 King St 10.5.11 Lot 185.
Western Han Dynasty 2nd – 1st century BC A pair of large bronze fittings. The central head has a conical hat, with detailed eyes, nose, mouth and beard. on either side of the head is a lithe dragon with powerful limbs, below which is a taotie mask ending in a beak-like ring supporting the curved handle. This has a twisted shape, and is decorated with small circular motifs. This bronze has a fine green brown patina. The reverse shows heavy corrosion. This pair of bronze fittings are unusual because of their design and size. Dimensions: Length 34cms, width 17.5cms weight 2400 grams
Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD) A gilt bronze in the form of a dragon head with jet inlaid eyes. It has a long snout, divided into three curved sections, a curled nose, elongated ears and distinctive eyes and lined eyebrows. There are long horns over the head extending beyond the ears. The fitting ends in a circular hollow ring decorated with an intricate geometric pattern. This bronze may possibly have fitted onto a chariot handle. Even though there is considerable corrosion, the remaining gilding is in excellent condition. The un- gilded base has a green, brown, red patina. Dimensions: Length 20cms, width 6.5cms, weight 820 grams Reference See Met Museum of Art online Asian bronze No 17.25.2.
*Cannon ball. A pair of presentation pieces made from cannon balls each with a silver plated flame finial and base with ring turn handle, one with circular cartouche engraved Ramadie [sic] 28-9-17, the other with engraved base 'Mesopotamia 1918, Presented to the Officer 6th Gurkhas by J.M.W.', 14cm high, together with two other cannon balls, including an 8cm high ball mounted on a mahogany stand Probably table lighters. The second Battle of Ramadi was fought in Mesopotamia on 28 / 29 September 1917, the battle was a victory for the British Army resulting in 3500 Turkish casualties and prisoners of war. (4)
*Maritime collectables. A large bronze nail engraved 'H.M.S. Nile 1839', with square section end and war department arrows, 19cm long, together with a miniature oar, nickel plate, engraved 'Bismark', the paddle engraved 'H.M.S. Dorsetshire R.M. Whaler China 1939', 21.5cm long, miniature anchor from the S.S. Orcades Mediterranean Cruise 1953, 10cm long plus a miniature souvenir P&O Line life ring from the Arcadia London 1969, 13.5cm diameter HMS Nile was built in Plymouth, launched in 1839, served in the Baltic Sea and North America, and decommissioned 1864. (4)
*WWI & Third Reich. A collection of German items including a Luftwaffe Pilot's badge, with vertical pin and 'A' mark (F.W. Assmann und Sohn), 6.7cm wingspan, together with, Knight's Cross, dated 1939 stamped 800 either side on the silver and also on the suspension ring, 50mm wide; Iron Cross, 1st class, 1939, with vertical pin back 44mm wide in Paul Meybauer case of issue; WWI Iron Cross, 2nd Class, 42mm wide; German breast Badge with skull and crossbones on a blue and yellow enamel cross with threaded post to the rear and circular screw plate, 40mm wide; Krim Shield; Stalag VIIIC POW tag (Nr16614); WWI group of three comprising 1914 Iron Cross, 2nd Class, Hamburg Hanseatic Cross, 1914, Germany Cross of Honour with Swords, mounted for wearing and other items (a small box)
*British European Airways. Four ring binder files containing an extensive record of the B.EA., Scottish Airways and Highland Airways history from the 1930s-50s, including letters, postcards, luggage labels, timetables and photographs, very well presented and captioned throughout (4)
*RAF Bomber Command No. 8 (Pathfinder Force) Group. An archive of over 1,000 mostly vintage photographs from the collection of Squadron Leader Howard Lees (1907-2006), circa 1942-46, including approximately 700 night and day bombing aerial photographs, photograph time, place, altitude, photographer, etc. details in the image at foot of each photograph, plus photographs of 63 Pathfinder HQ staff, London and Paris, aircraft, technical photos, photographs of India, Sumatra and Borneo (1945-46), etc., sizes varied from approximately 33 x 29 cm to 13.5 x 14 cm, arranged by subject in 14 folders, ring binders and packets, various sizes An important archive belonging to a technical expert whose work on aerial photography greatly helped to improve the accuracy of wartime bombing. Lees was involved in at least two important developments which helped to improve accuracy by proving or disproving whether bombers had actually been over the target as claimed. These included the two-shutter (master/slave) camera which helps eliminate the frequent ruining of images caused by ground fires and a single prolonged exposure. Another of his developments was H2S photography that enabled the RAF to bomb a target even when cloud was obscuring it; the photographic developments in which Lees was involved enabled the cathode ray tube image of the target to be recorded at the moment a bomb was released. Lees's work on H2S was so secret that he had to process the results himself, rather than allow them to be released to the station photo sections. He also designed a combined target marker and photo flash device for Mosquito bombers, which helped to improve the effectiveness of the Light Night Striking Force. Key German cities were thereafter regularly photographed at night from heights above 27,000 feet. At the end of the war in Europe Lees was posted to Burma but finding that the unit had been disbanded and that there was no one to feed or pay him he went to Bangkok and then was eventually posted to Jakarta. He was mentioned in dispatches twice and his final appointment before demobilisation in 1946 was at HQ Allied Command South-East Asia, where he was involved in the aerial survey of the region. After the war he returned to Charles Twite & Co, of Wigston, Leicester. He had begun work for this manufacturers' agents in the shoe trade as an office boy at age 16, and after returning became managing director and chairman. He worked almost until his death at the age of 97. Provenance: From the Lees family by direct descent. (a carton)
*SUMPAC - Human-Powered Flight. An archive of approximately 50 designs relating to the Mk 1 SUMPA (Southampton University Man-Powered Aircraft), circa 1960-63, mostly large-scale reproductions of designs and plans by A. Lassiere of drawings made for his M.Sc (Eng.) thesis in April 1963, many reproduced and laminated in recent years, approximately 50 x 75 cm and similar sizes, contained in a portfolio, together with 4 ring binders of Lassiere's original manuscript notes including numerous calculations In 1961, a group of pioneering aeronautical engineering students made aviation history by designing, building and flying the world's first human-powered aircraft, that is an aircraft powered solely by the human(s) on board, and without mechanical or motorised assistance to become airborne, cruise or land. The team of postgraduate students comprised Alan Lassiere, David Williams and Ann Marsden who began the work in early 1960. The single-seat aircraft was built from balsa, plywood and aluminium, and covered in nylon. It was powered by cycle pedals which gave it forward momentum on the ground and provided power to a large propeller for flight. The maiden flight on 9 November 1961 covered a distance of approximately 64 metres, just 1.8 metres above the runway. The aircraft was developed further before being retired after a crash, and is now on display in Southampton at the Solent Sky Museum. (an archive)
*WWI Photographs. An album containing photographs of nursing staff, wards and convalescing soldiers, West Suffolk General Hospital, Bury St Edmunds, circa 1914-17, possibly compiled by one of the nurses, a total of 55 photographs of various sizes pasted in and including one photograph taken at First London General Hospital, contemporary cloth, some damp marking, oblong folio, together with 2 unrelated First World War photograph albums, one containing 43 snapshots taken in France by a German artilleryman, circa 1914-16, with photographs of transports, portraits and soldiers relaxing, the third modern ring binder album containing approximately 300 small-format photographs taken by a soldier serving with the Army Service Corps in Mesopotamia (3)
*Pistol. 19th century French chatellerault percussion pistol, the 15cm circular barrel with walnut stock side plate stamped 'K' beneath crown '1857', 'HQ', rounded butt with lanyard ring, brass furniture and swivel ramrod, stamped '953' throughout, 32cm overall, chip to stock (1)

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