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A Pair of Elizabeth II Silver Mounted and Glass Square Spirit Decanters, One Other Decanter, and Two Gift Sets, the pair with mounts, by Israel Freeman & Son Ltd., London 1973, with slice cut bodies, and matching stoppers, 9.5ins high overall, and a silver mounted and diamond cut glass decanter, mounts by Freeman & Son Ltd., London 1975, and stopper for same, 11.5ins high, and two Elizabeth II cased gift sets, by Royal Irish Silver Co., London 1973
WW2 rare double signed resistance leaders Escaping Society cover. RAF Escaping Society Maquis D’Auvergne cover signed by Nancy Wake, the most decorated female of WWII who worked for the resistance and SOE and was known as ’The White Mouse’ by the Gestapo who put a reward of millions of Francs up for her capture. Also signed by Henri Tardivat who assisted her on many missions in occupied France and who praised her fighting spirit, amply demonstrated when she killed an SS sentry with her bare hands in order to prevent the alarm being raised during a raid. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and 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.
The Raft Book Lore of The Sea and Sky by Harold Gatty. Signed by Harold Gatty (Personal Greeting & Dedication). 152 page (19. 5cm x 14cm) softback book with very rare slipcase & map published by George Grady Press 1944. Very rare signed 1944 edition. The book is a detailed account of the facts and principles of sea navigation using the knowledge of sea and sky and the use of a good pocket watch. Includes chapters on: Lore of the Sea and Sky; Land Indications from Sea Birds; Migration of Insects; Fish and Other Surface Life; The Scent of Land; Sounds from Land; The Sky as an Indicator of Land; Direction from Waves, Wind, and Swells, Ocean Currents and the Colour of the Sea; How the Polynesians Used the Stars; Directions from the Sun and Moon; Measurement of Angles; Steering by the Stars; How Far You Are North or South; How Far You Are East or West; Ocean Temperatures, etc. The book is lavishly illustrated with photographs, diagrams, illustrations & maps (many in colour) including seabirds, clouds indicating land beyond the horizon, star diagrams, paths of stars at varying latitudes, winds and ocean currents and more. Accompanied by very rare protective slip case, two large removable foldout charts: The Gatty Star Chart, and The World Navigation Chart Map containing complete latitude and latitude adjustment tables with a 36" Harp Degree Scale printed along the lower edge, and paper/card folded ruler. Harold Gatty (born 1937 in Campbell Town, Tasmania died 1957 in Fiji) was an Australian navigator, inventor, and aviation pioneer. Charles Lindbergh called Gatty the "Prince of Navigators. " In 1931, Gatty served as navigator, along with pilot Wiley Post, on the flight which set the record for aerial circumnavigation of the world, flying a distance of 15, 747 miles (24, 903 km) in a Lockheed Vega named the Winnie Mae, in 8 days, 15 hours, and 51 minutes. Gatty began his career as a navigator in 1917, at age 14, when he was appointed a cadet midshipman at the Royal Australian Naval College. After World War I, he became an apprentice on a steamship in the Australian merchant navy, where he learned the patterns of the stars while standing watch at night. Gatty served on many ships, some sailing between Australia and California, and ran a supply shop in Sydney Harbour until 1927, when he emigrated to the United States. In California, Gatty opened a navigation school, teaching marine navigation to yachtsmen. In 1928, his attention turned to aerial navigation, particularly to trans oceanic flights, where his experience as a ship's navigator applied. Gatty is credited with inventing an air sextant which used a spirit level to provide an artificial horizon. He also invented the "aero chronometer" which offset inaccuracies introduced into observations taken in a moving plane. The most important invention of his career was the Gatty drift sight. This optical device was directed at the ground, or the tops of clouds, and used to determine the rate and direction of an airplane's drift, or movement away from its heading. The device was also used as a ground speed indicator. In 1929, Gatty navigated a Lockheed Vega on a flight from Los Angeles to New York City for Nevada Airlines, in an effort to demonstrate the feasibility of coast to coast passenger service. The flight made four stops and took 19 hours and 53 minutes, which set the transcontinental airspeed record for a commercial airliner. In 1930, Gatty prepared a coast to coast route and navigation charts for Anne Morrow Lindbergh, whom he had also taught as a student. Anne Lindbergh served as navigator with her husband Charles on a record setting cross country flight of 14 hours and 45 minutes. The next year, Wiley Post asked Gatty to accompany him on an effort to break the world record for circumnavigating the earth, which was previously set at 21 days by the Graf Zeppelin airship. Gatty accepted, hoping to demonstrate the effectiveness of his navigation methods. The journey began on 23 June 1931 at Roosevelt Field in New York and followed a 15, 000 mile course across Europe, Russia, and Siberia, due to the lack of suitable airfields nearer the equator. Post and Gatty crossed the Atlantic in a record time of 16 hours and 17 minutes and continued to Berlin, Moscow, and Khabarovsk, then crossed the Bering Sea, landing on the beach near Solomon, Alaska, then to Edmonton, Alberta, arriving finally back at Roosevelt Field after 8 days, 15 hours, and 51 minutes. The pair received a tickertape parade in New York City. A year after the circumnavigation with Wiley Post, the US Congress passed a bill allowing civilians to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross. President Hoover pinned the medals on Gatty and Post. Gatty was offered American citizenship and the newly created position of Senior Aerial Navigation Engineer for the U. S. Army Air Corps. Gatty expressed his wish to remain an Australian citizen and Congress passed a bill allowing foreign citizens to hold that post. In 1934, Gatty formed the South Seas Commercial Company with Donald Douglas, with the plan to deliver air service to the islands of the South Pacific. However, the company was soon sold to Pan Am who brought Gatty into the company to organise flight routes in that region. During the Second World War, Gatty was given the honorary rank of group captain in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and worked for the U. S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) in the South Pacific. He was later appointed director of Air Transport for the Allied forces, based in Australia, under General Douglas MacArthur. He resigned his position in 1943, as a result of difficulties with MacArthur and his organisation being disbanded. He then moved to Washington, D. C., where he authored The Raft Book, a survival guide for airmen downed at sea. The book became a success and was placed in the survival kits of all Allied airmen serving in the Pacific. After World War II, Gatty relocated to Fiji with his Dutch born second wife. Here he formed Fiji Airways which later became Air Pacific. He wrote a book on navigation, Nature Is Your Guide, which was published soon after his death from a stroke in 1957. He was buried in Fiji. Condition: Excellent Condition. Very Rare Slipcase: excellent condition; minor wear edges/corners, minor marks. Book: Softback near mint/mint condition. Pages near mint condition; very minor marks when pages viewed collectively side on (page faces unaffected), page faces very clean & bright. Chart: excellent + condition; age browning to single 'panel' (the exposed folded side). Map: excellent + condition. Ruler: excellent + condition. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and 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 Gauge One Live Steam (Spirit Fired) 0-6-2 Tank Steam Locomotive, model is kit and/or factory built to a good standard (maker unknown), single inside cylinder, usual cab controls, burner and spirit tank present - the locomotive is unsteamed, finished in overall black, unnumbered or named, locomotive is 14 inch long/6 inch high and mounted on a display plinth 6 x 16 inches.
A Gauge One Live Steam (Spirit Fired 2-6-0 Steam Locomotive and Six Wheel Tender, similar to a "Black 5", model is kit and/or factory built to a good standard - locomotive with twin outside cylinders, sprung wheels, steps, etc - tender with spirit tank; missing coupling and hand level for water pump. The locomotive is unsteamed (missing burner), finished in overall black, unnumbered or named, model is 24 inches long with tender.
More (Henry) Enchiridion metaphysicum, sive, De rebus incorporeis succincta & luculenta dissertatio, first edition, title in red and black, engraved illustrations, contemporary speckled calf, slightly rubbed, rebacked in later calf, gilt, morocco label gilt, [Wing M2654], sm. 4to, E. Fisher, for William Morden, 1671.⁂ "More consolidated his reputation as a leading philosophical mind of seventeenth-century England with his Enchiridion metaphysicum (1671). In this work he radically revises his earlier enthusiasm for Cartesianism in favour of his own theory that the operative causal agent in the natural world is an incorporeal spirit that he calls the 'Spirit of Nature' or 'Principium Hylarchicum'. In the course of this treatise he restates his theory of infinite space adumbrated in earlier writings." - Oxford DNB.
Small Collection of Misc Items. Includes Dinky Spirit Level - 11 cms In length, 1 Silver Apostle Spoon with Full Hallmarks - 11 cms In length, 1 Silver Coloured Chain - 5 cms In length, 1 Silver Coloured Malaysia Spoon - 10 cms In length, 1 Sterling Silver Pen to go on the End of a Watch Chain, Stamped Sterling Silver Made In England - 9 cms In length. ( 5 ) Items In Total.
Beswick Horse Figure 'Spirit of Freedom' mounted on a wooden base, 8'' tall, with a brass name plaque, together with a Royal Doulton horse 9'' tall, and a 9'' tall Beswick horse mounted on a wooden base. Together with Two Porcelain Horse Figures, both with damage, one a Royal Doulton bay horse 8.5'' tall with damage to leg, and one a 6'' tall Beswick horse with repair to leg.
Wilson, Woodrow, 28. Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten (1856-1924).Maschinenschr. Brief mit eigenh. Unterschrift.Washington, 8. November 1922. 24 × 17,6 cm. 1 S. auf Doppelblatt (Mittelfalte). Mit adress. und gelaufenen Kuvert (bei diesem Absender abgetrennt und lose beiliegend, etwas staubfleckig, kl. Randeinrisse).Mit gedrucktem Briefkopf 2340 S Street N W in Washington. An Charles Stucki in New York, dem er für einen Brief dankt: "It breathes a spirit of patriotism and elevated principle which is most heartening and worthy of the best traditions of the United States [...]. I do indeed admire Switzerland and wish for her in all things the highest and noblest kind of prosperity and success."
Spirit Levels R Routledge 1885 brass/rosewood 12'', 30cm (in leather case) J Casartelli & Sons brass (in wooden case) Mathieson brass/rosewood (in metal case), J Rathbone boxwood (in leather case) an unmarked brass/rosewood (5). The sprung leather strap to the case is present and attached. The left lens has three small internal black dots, but the optics are good. Generally in good condition.
A Tri-ang moulded plastic Rolls Royce Sharma RRM 1 child’s battery operated electric car, English 1989, finished in red with moulded plastic seat and steering wheel, wooden effect dashboard, chrome plastic grill with RR emblem and plastic Spirit of Ecstasy mascot, electric headlights and indicators (untested), solid plastic wheels with RR hub caps and plastic tyres, windscreen with Tax disc dated 31.12.89, l.50” (127cm), w.21” (53cm), h.18” (46cm), condition generally good used condition, lacks one side window other cracked.Please note: This item can be collected once fully paid, from TN31 6QT Appointment only after the sale, or can be shipped through Jentel Packaging t: 01268 776777 Email:enquiries@jentelpacking.co.uk or Jason Hurst Email:jasonmovesltd@gmail.com- mobile no:07341711803 for van delivery.
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