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Lot 1145
Pistol: A New Land Pattern flintlock pistol with New Land lock. Tail marked 'Tower' and 'G.R.' under Crown & inspection mark crown over '2'. Heavy brass buttcap, Brass T/Gd with acorn finial. Steel belt clip with crown stamp. Lovely walnut stock with light bruising. Barrel 9" with crown to breech. Ring necked cock. Crisp, action on first & second cock. Pistol possibly for ships service. A collectors lot in collectors condition. Superb piece
Lot 2341
GB Postal History - 1712-1884 newspapers, advertising invoices/circulars sent by post inc complete posted newspapers; POSTSCRIPT 1712 with Bishop Mark sent free; "The World" 1756, free with part Bishop Mark, Skipton CRAVEN HERALD 1853 tied 1d Red, Nenagh Guardian (Irish; 1856 - Tax Stamp for postage), 1858 I.L.N. back page to France tied 1d stars, 1865 SCOTSMAN (faults with 1d Red), battered front page 1873 PHONETIC JOURNAL with ½d Rose-Red; 1870s with bantams, etc. (17 items)
Lot 2343
GB Postal History: 1815-1885 commercial circulars and advertising envelopes with varied printed contents inc. rare 1815 "WICKES/Commercial Agent...DOVER" notice referring to forwarding goods (Dover mileage), 1815 Leith wharfingers, 1818, 1826 Edinburgh./Leith Water Co., 1837 paper size advert "specimen"; 1838 Stationer's list, 1841 Pickfords, 1855 with 1d blue Receipt stamp inside, good 1870s, etc (20 items)
Lot 1002
*British Army in India - Hyderabad. Manuscript document in Urdu, with black ink stamp at foot, on laid paper (with watermark A Gambino), some light spotting and discolouration, sheet size 212 x 212 mm (8.3 x 8.3 ins) With additional contemporary inscription in brown ink to verso 'I found this paper hidden in a recess of the wall of the Ameer Shah Daoud Khan's residence in the Fort of Hyderabad April 1st. 1844. Chas. Clough, 86 Regt.'. A rare document retrieved from the Fort at Hyderabad, where several Amirs had resided prior to the capture of the city by the British under Sir Charles Napier on 24th March 1843. The 86th Royal County Down Regiment had returned to India in 1842 to join Napier's forces involved in the annexation of the Indian province of Sind. Indeed the best known contemporary illustrations of the region were produced by an officer of the 86th Regiment, Lieutenant William Edwards, in a folio entitled Sketches in Scinde published in 1846. (1)
Lot 1008
*Mountbatten (Vice-Admiral Earl Louis, of Burma). Christmas card, signed Louis Mountbatten, ' Thank you so much for your kind letter', overlaid with Passed Censor stamp signed and dated (illegible), presented in a glazed frame with a monochrome photograph of H.M.S. Kelly 9 x 10cm plus a printed image of the ship and presumably the front of the Christmas card officially produced for H.M.S. Kelly, Fifth Destroyer Flotilla, 48 x 23cm, label verso 'sent to Vice-Admiral Sir Ballin Robertshaw 1902-71, signature faded Lord Louis Mountbatten was commander of the 5th Destroyer Flotilla on 9 May 1940 the ship was torpedoed by German E-Boat S 31 off the Dutch Coast, the ship was towed and repaired with Mountbatten retaking command of the ship in December 1940. H.M.S. Kelly was later sank during the Battle of Crete when German Dive Bombers attacked the ship on 23 May 1941. (1)
Lot 1014
*WWI - The Somme. A group of 9 picture postcards sent from the Western Front by Charles Haynes of Attercliffe, Sheffield, 2 July 1916 to 5 August 1916 (and one undated), all to his wife Emily, all uncensored and giving a first-hand account of the battle of the Somme and its aftermath, written in indelible pencil, the first postcard dated 2nd July 1916, the day after the start of the Somme offensive, 'Dearest Em, just a line to let you know I have got through the biggest battle the world has ever known, at least the first day of it, also F. Adams. We have had 36 hours of it straight off. I think we have done well. I was taking ammunition up all day long and bringing loads of wounded back on limbers. I had 40 at one trip. It was awful to see the poor fellows trying to get back to the dressing station, some with arms gone and some with legs gone and all sorts. I shall never forget it the longest day I live and yet I am glad I was in it. I wouldn't have missed it for anything. I have sent a pc to [?]. I can't write any more just now as we are standing by to take ammo up at any moment. 190 shells at a time we keep having to lift our horses as shells drop in amongst them... ', the second dated 4 July 1916, Hemmel, Somme offensive, 'Dearest darling, I am quite safe although we are going through it terrible this week. I have heard tonight our casualties in the 4 Div alone for 1st July number 5000. I received your lovely letter today dated 29th June, also Bells papers. Can't write much. Glad to hear all are well. Be brave little girl. P.S. Yes tell Ma I hope to be home to see our baby and all before long. I had a bit of shrapnel through (steel helmet) but am unhurt (tin hat saved me)', the postcard for July 7th telling of the great casualties of the Sheffield Battalion, '... there's not many left to tell the tale only 8 in one company, it has been awful ever since the 1st July. Adams and I are still together, we have all had narrow escapes and a lot killed... we are now downhearted but only a bit homesick... ', the card for 14th July noting that he has been made head waiter and caterer to the Officers' Mess which he's been on for two days, 'There is plenty to do as I have charge of whisky, all eatables and clean, silver and buy in. I expect you would laugh to see me serving a five course dinner all underground. We are just like rats in holes now all underground... ', the next card for 18th July thanking for her nice letter and longing to be with her, 'I am tired of these hundred guns going off night and day around me. I had a narrow escape again yesterday. I was coming out of the Officers' Mess with the breakfast plates when a German shell burst right 300 yards away and a large piece came whizzing over and dropped not a yard from me, a bit big enough to knock a horse out, but I am to escape somehow... Alf has joined the Flying Corps... Don't worry about me darling sweetheart... kiss the wee girls for me', the 21st July postcard talking of a bombardment the previous night when a big German 5.9 shell bursting at the back of his dugout, 'I did not hear it, they say the earth trembled' and with a P.S. asking not to destroy the postcards, the card for 5th August saying 'I am pleased to say I am quite well only oh so tired of all this, they can hear nothing here except guns firing and shells bursting around, it is a treat to see a horse up here, no living thing except rats of which we are swarmed. I am writing this in the shadow of the Old Cloth Hall which stands out against the sky all shattered and torn, it is shocking to see the houses not a brick that has not been touched. Two years today since I left you and it seems like two hundred. I would be satisfied if I could have just one day with you all to ourselves but I suppose that cannot be yet... the guns are shaking the very ground under me... ', all signed as Charlie and written across message and address panels, plus one postcard addressed to Mrs C. Haynes on active service, dated 21st December and postmarked 22nd December 1914, with censor's stamp, a final eleventh colour picture postcard of similar nature simply inscribed to verso 'Wouldn't you like to be like this pet?', all with some slight dust-soiling but generally very good An uncommon collection of uncensored postcards giving a firsthand account of the Battle of the Somme and its aftermath by an ordinary soldier. An article about these postcards was published in Picture Postcard Annual 2016, pp. 38-40. The article notes that Haynes did survive the war and took up employment as a gardener for Sir George Buckham of Springfield House in Attercliffe, and later for others in the same locality. He and Emily had two more children, Charles living to the age of 81 and Emily to 86. (11)
Lot 1021
WWII - Propaganda Leaflets. An archive of Allied Forces propaganda leaflets printed in German, early 1940s, a total of approximately 120 flyers, mostly A5 and similar sizes, pasted mostly in pairs with brown paper tape to upper margins and loosely tucked in to brown paper strips at lower margins, the majority with ink numbers and presented in two ruled ledgers, the first ledger with cyclostyled English translation tipped on to facing pages, the majority with red ink stamp at head, 'Secret/Not to be shown to the press', a few contemporary items loosely inserted, contemporary half canvas over boards order books, both with original owner's name of Nickels inscribed in block capitals to upper covers, one additionally inscribed and identifying Nickels as Senior Intelligence Officer, rubbed and soiled, folio A rare archive of propaganda leaflets used by the Allies in German occupied territories, some of the leaflets are identified as not used. (2)
Lot 1092
*Third Reich. A riding crop inset bound in cord with wooden handle inset with a copper SS Totenkopf emblem, 86.5cm long, together with two walking sticks, one with metal bust of a German soldier (probably a Veteran's stick), titled Reserve Hat Ruh (Rest for the Reserves), 95cm long, the other carved wood with enamel badge for Adolf Hitler 1933 with Swastika emblem inset with two miniature emblems for wound badge and Iron Cross with brass shell case base, 95.5cm long, a Trench Art style walking stick made from brass shell cases dated 1942, 89cm long, plus a SS style desk stamp (5)
Lot 1208
*WWI. A collection of Imperial German medals and effects relating to Chaplain A. Oeller who was attached to an Infantry Division, comprising Prussian Iron Cross, 2nd Class plus related certificate, The Honour Cross 1914-1918, Wound Badge, Chaplains Cloak cloth badge, crucifix and other items plus a monochrome postcard of the recipient seen wearing a crucifix dated 1916 with stamp 'Bayer. Res. Inf. Rgt 3. 11. Kemp. Feldpost 1. Bayer. Res. Div.' (10)
Lot 869
*Royal Flying Corps. A WWI mahogany Camera Gun plate box by Thornton Pickard, Altringham, England, with original manufacturers label, the front panel stencilled in black R.F.C., with A.I.D. 451 stamp to the cover, hinged brass arms to hold the cover on, enclosing 14 divisions for glass plates, 12cm high x 25cm wide x 10.5cm deep, see Lot 801 (1)
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