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Lot 75
1943 Wireless Operator’s Distinguished Flying Cross Medal And Log Book Group Awarded to Pilot Officer Andrew Duff Todd Who Was Awarded His DFC For a Very Eventful Tour of Operations in Halifax’s With No 76 Squadron Where on Numerous Occasions His Plane Has Returned Hit by Flak and on His 4th Operation His Halifax Returned on 3 Engines. After serving with an OTU as an instructor, Todd trained to become a Pathfinder and joined 635 Pathfinder squadron in late 1944 and flew a further hard 22 missions where his Lancaster again returned with damage on different occasions and also returned with the Flight Engineer wounded. He flew other operations including a brace of 1000 bomber raids and an operation where the Master Bomber of the raid was in his crew and another two as the Deputy Master bomber during the raid on Kiel that the famous German cruiser Admiral Scheer was sunk.Distinguished Flying Cross dated 1944 to the reverse, 1939-45 star, Air Crew Europe star, Defence medal, British War medal 1939-1945. Medals are swing mounted for wear. Accompanied with the recipients original log book which covers from his initial training in 1942 to when he left the RAF in 1951, as well as two original snapshot photographs of the crew and of their Lancaster. Also accompanied by a Signaller’s brevet as well as a pathfinder tunic badge. Original Royal Mint case for the Distinguished Flying Cross.The award appeared in the London Gazette 15th February 1944: The recommendation for the award was as follows, “This officer has completed 28 sorties as a Wireless Operator/Air Gunner, a flown a total of 173 operational hours. He has carried out attacks against many of the heaviest defended targets, including Berlin, Two to Cologne, Two to Hamburg and eleven to the Ruhr. He has an outstanding fighting spirit, and has displayed initiative and determination of a very high order. He has at all times shown a very high degree of endurance and fine offensive spirit in action, and his resourcefulness and cheerfulness has inspired confidence in all those whom he has come in contact.”Remarks by the Station Commander: “A member of a very gallant crew who by his cooperation and skill in his duties has materially contributed to the success of the crew. Recommended for the award of the Distinguished Flying Cross”Andrew Duff Todd enlisted into the RAF and trained as a wireless operator and an air gunner in 1942 before being posted to No 76 squadron at RAF Linton in May 1943. Throughout his first tour, there were some very Hair raising moments such as on his 3rd operation to Essen he described it as “shaky trip! Heavy flak” and on his 4th operation to Wuppertal his Halifax was “Hit by flak” and it returned on 3 engines. Other missions includes Cologne on the 3rd of July 1943 where he reported there being “Barrage Flak” and also on an operation on the 9th July to Gelsenkirchen he reported “Heavy flak”. In the second half of his first tour, Todd also flew a mission “over the Swiss frontier” on the Le Peugeot works, as well as on a mission to Milan on the 12th August 1943 they went “over the Alps in moonlight”. On the 23rd of August 1943 his crew flew a mission to Berlin where he describes it as “a sticky trip” and that “58 missing”. He flew his final mission of his first tour on Kassel on the 3rd of October 1943, after this tour he was awarded the DFC and was screened for instructor duties with 10 OTU.After he finished his time as an instructor, Todd commenced training to become a Pathfinder and joined 635 Squadron, Pathfinder Force on in September 1944. His first operation was on the 14th October 1944 on Duisburg where he flew in the crew of the Master Bomber of that raid under Wing Commander Sidney “Tubby” Baker DSO DFC. Todd flew a further 22 operations with 635 squadron , many of them daylight, including on the 23rd of December 1944, his Lancaster returned home “Hit 6 times” with the “engineer injured”, as well as two 1000 bomber daylight raids on the 11th and 12th of March 1945 on Essen and Dortmund. He flew a further two operations flying in the crew of the Deputy Master Bomber, one on the 27th March 1945 to Paderborn and another on the 11th April 1945 to Kiel, where Todd notes that the famous cruiser Admiral Scheer was sunk. His final Operational sortie on the 25th April 1945 was on the Berchtesgaden, also known as Hitler’s “Eagle’s nest”. After a couple of sorties carried out during operation Exodus near the end of the war, the war was over. Todd carried on flying with the RAF and retired in1951.
Lot 311
A quantity of various stoneware flagons and jars including examples for The Aylesbury Brewery Company Limited, John White & Co of Leighton Buzzard, James Pettit of Aylesbury, Tadcaster Tower Brewery Co Grimsby, Robert Horne & Co Kingston, Walter and Alfred Gilbey London, W Calverley & Son North Shields etc (20) and a pestle and mortar by S Maw Son & Sons CONDITION REPORTS North Shields flagon - part of a drilled cork to the top, crack near the top of the handle. Body with many various scratches and scuffs. Various general signs of wear and tear conducive with age and use throughout. Bottom has been drilled by the back so once used as a table lamp base. Remaining flagons/jars etc all with various chips, scratches and scuffs. All show various general signs of wear and tear throughout - see images for further details. Jar marked Walter & Alfred Gilbey Pantheon Oxford Street London W approx 32 cm tall - handle missing and crack and loss to the bottom. The Robert Horne & Co Distillers Kingston of Surrey bottle - handle missing approx 49 cm tall, some crazing and possible crack to the front. The Tadcaster Tower Brewery Co Bethlehem Street Grimby bottle - various cracks to the plaque at the front, bottom has been drilled at the back as a table lamp, two chips to the rim, approx 49 cm tall. The James Pettit of Aylesbury bottle - various chips to the rim, approx 40 cm. The John White & Co Wine and Spirit Merchants of Leighton Buzzard approx 32 cm tall - a chip to the rim and The Aylesbury B22596 bottle is chipped to the rim - 26 cm tall
Lot 1083
Kelly's Heroes (1970) US One Sheet film poster, rare Jack Davis Spirit of '76 artwork, starring Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, MGM, folded, 27 x 41 inches Note that this poster features great artwork by Jack Davis (famous E.C. Comics, Mad Magazine, and TV Guide illustrator). This style of poster is far more rare than the several other styles of poster that were created for this Clint Eastwood war movie.
Lot 276
Lecky (W.E.H.) History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe, 2 vol., second edition, original cloth, fine copy, 1865 § Stowe (Harriet Beecher) Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, 2 vol., original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine faded, 1854; and 70 others, 19th century cloth, some spines faded, many in fine condition, 8vo and 12mo (74)
Lot 99
RARE SILVER SPIRIT FLASK WITH HINGED DOMED LID ENCLOSING RECESSED CORK. THE LID WITH CLOCKWISE LOCKING MECHANISM. BEARING THE MOTIF OF EDWARD PRINCE OF WALES AND THE MONOGRAM "JM".MAKER JAMES SAMUEL BELL AND LOUIS WILLNOTT. LONDON 1900.HEIGHT: 5 INCHES.WIDTH: 3 INCHES.WEIGHT: 4 TROY OUNCES.PROVENANCE: PRESENTED BY EDWARD PRINCE OF WALES TO JOHN MICHIE M.V.O. FACTOR OF THE ROYAL ESTATE OF BALMORAL AND BY DESCENT.
Lot 469
A MAHOGANY AND BRASS CAMPAIGN SPIRIT BOX, the hinged lid enclosing a velvet lined and fitted interior, with a set of four cut glass decanters in two different shapes, a cut glass bowl and a removable mahogany canister, paper label on the underside of the canister lid "GEO. AUSTIN. / CABINET MAKER / 7. ST ANDREW ST... / Dublin", the lid with a brass cartouche engraved with crest an initials, 19th century, 35.5cm wide. Provenance: Peter Bronson Collection. Illustrated on page 164 of "British Campaign Furniture, Elegance Under Canvas, 1740-1914".
Lot 121
Beswick figure, Black Beauty no. 2466, black matt, 18cm, Beswick model 'Spirit Of Nature', 18cm, Royal Doulton 'Lammtarra' on stand, 21cm, Three white Royal Doulton horses including 'Spirit Of The Wild', 'Spirit of Life' and 'Spirit of Peace' all on plinths (3) also Royal Doulton horse on stand (faults)
Lot 555
9 Asian travel works, comprising: Nishimura, Shinji A Study of Ancient Ships of Japan, part iv, Skin-Boats. Tokyo: The Society of Naval Architects, June 1931. Original green cloth gilt, dust-jacket with closed tear, slipcase; Kjellman-Göranson, Julius Axel Kina. Land och Folk... Stockholm: P.A. Huldberg, [n.d.] 19th century half calf gilt; Lauterer, Joseph China, das Reich der Mitte... Leipzig, 1910. 8vo, original paper-covered boards; Malaysia Visitors' book entitled 'Sepang, Selangor, 1st October 1949', later moving onto 'Kajang, Selangor', listing house visitors; Okakura-Yoshisaburo The Japanese Spirit. London: Archibald Constable, 1905. 8vo, original cloth; Fontpertius, F. de Chine, Japon, Siam & Cambodge. Paris, 1882. 8vo, original cloth; and 2 others (9)
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Lot 357
[Robert Riccaltoun] An Inquiry into The Spirit and Tendency of Letters on Theron and Aspasio with a View on the Law of Nature, Edinburgh printed for Hamilton, Balfour & Neill, 1762 bound with A Discourse wherein the Oneness of the Divine Essence in the Holy Trinity is defended 1722, Remark on Professor Simson's first Libel… 1729, The Proper, True and Supreme Deity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 1736 with copy of Les Jeunes Amis by Mme Elisabeth Griffin, Paris 1825 containing several engravings and a volume of Buchan's Medicine with plates (lacking preliminary pages)
Lot 2017
Silver and silver mounted wares, comprising; a spirit flask of curved rectangular form, having a pull-off beaker base and a spherical top, otherwise partly leather covered, Sheffield 1917, a rectangular cigarette case, London 1911 and a pepperette raised on four feet, with an associated silver top, (3).
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