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Lot 168
JS(AC)65 10th Anniversary of Ascension Island involvement in the Liberation of the Falkland Islands 12 6 92 Ascension SSAFA Nursing and Welfare Centenary Ascension Island Signed Marshal RAF Sir K Williamson , Air Chief Marshal Sir P Harding, Air Chief Marshal Sir P Hine. Certified Copy 0896 of 1000 14 6 92 Port Stanley FDI postmark on 10th Anniv of the Liberation Falklands set of 4 Stamps 14p + 6p San Carlos,29p + 11p War Memorial , 34p + 16p The South Atlantic Medal Stamp and 68p + 32p Government House. 1892 to 1992 SSAFA Nursing and Welfare Centenary. 10th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Falklands lslands. SSAFA Caring for Service & Ex Service Families. Personally Signed by Admiral Sir Peter Herbert & Sir Rex Hunt Red flown cachet on the back Flown Tristar of No 216 from RAF Brize Norton to the Falklands. Certified Copy of 400 Good condition
Lot 171
Battle of Britain Suite Cover Signed 23 Pilots, Crew. Battle of Britain Signed 23 Battle of Britain Pilots, Crew . 1st Oct 1998 In Commemoration of the Battle of Britain Suite date stamp. In Commemoration of The Battle of Britain Suite at the Royal Star & Garter Home for disabled Ex Service Men & Women. Opened by his Royal Highness The Duke of Kent. Picture cachet of Spitfire and Group Captain Douglas Bader visiting the Home in 1945. Personally Signed ( hand Signed ) by 22 Pilots,1 Air Gunners all involved in the Battle of Britain. R C Young 23 Sqn Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot G Leggett 46 Sqn Battle of Britain fighter Pilot W H Hodds 25 Sqn Air Crew Battle of Britain in Bristol Blenheim FIt.Lt.Ludwik A.Martel (VM KW K2)603 Fighter Sqn. 1940. Battle of Britain. He joined 54 Squadron at Catterick in Mid September 1940 and moved to 603 Squadron at Hornchurch, Sqn Ldr P Kenneth William MacKenzie Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot WW11 Ace. MacKenzie was hit by heavy flak from the ground defences and ditched in the sea. He took to his dinghy, paddled to the shore and was captured. He was in various camps before finishing up at Stalag Luft 111, Sagan. And helped with the Wooden Horse Geoffrey Garside Observer 236 Sqn Battle of Britain E B B Smith 610 Sqn Pilot Battle of Britain. WW11 Ace Sqn Ldr H.M.T.Heron 266 & 46 Sqn Battle of Britain Fighter pilot Cyril B.Brown Air Commodore Battle of Britain Fighter pilot 245,253,532,Sqn. John Keatings ( Air Gunner with 219 Sqn Battle of Britain ) A G Russell 43 & 145 Squadrons Battle of Britain fighter. Joined 43 Squadron at Usworth 28 th September 1940. Alan W Gear 32 Hurricane Sqn, Battle of Britain fighter pilot Plt Off Peter Ayerst who achieved confirmed victories in the Battle of Britain and not eligible for the Battle of Britain Clasp, Sqn Ldr J G P Millard Nos 1 & 242 Squadrons Battle of Britain fighter pilot. J A A Gibson 501 Sqn New Zealander Ace with 12 Victories in Hurricane . Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot Sqn Ldr T S Pickering 501 Sqn Battle of Britain During head on attack on DO 17 Bomber over London I was shot down by front gunners of the formation aircraft on fire baled out and landed by parachute in the guards depot at Caterham E.G. Parkin, fighter pilot with 501 Sqn., Battle of Britain. Peter Raymond Hairs 501 Sqn Battle of Britain fighter pilot. K.N.T.Lee, 501 Sqn Battle of Britain, Dunkirk pilot WW11 Ace Lee took command of No 123 Squadron, returned to the desert in May 1943. During a low-level attack over the island of Crete his Hurricane was hit by ground fire and the engine failed. He managed to crash land, but was soon captured. Lee was taken to Germany and arrived in a cattle wagon at Stalag Luft III. Learning of the tunnels being dug prior to the Great Escape, he joined the men dispersing the excavated sand from bags suspended inside their trouser legs. Trevor Gray 64 Sqn Battle of Britain fighter pilot. vis Hearn awarded M M for Bravery during Battle of Britain whilst under Stuka attack on poling radar station Aug 1940. H G Whittick 604 Sqn Air Gunner Battle of Britain. Good condition
Lot 735
A Indian Model Brown Bess flintlock musket fitted with a 39" barrel and three ram rod tubes and two sling attachment, it bears an Arsenal stamp in the right side of the butt which is difficult to read, the lock bears the royal crown and the word Tower on on the tail of the lock plate, the top of the barrel has engraved into it surface "LEICES RM", it is believed that this relates to the Leicestershire & Rutland Militia formed in 1757 under the Militia Act of 1757, it is in excellent overall condition and a really nice specimen of these much sought after early military issue muskets
Lot 383
Sanford Roth (American 1906-1962) mounted photograph on card c.1956 of Elizabeth Taylor and her son Mike Jr. The image was used in Colliers Weekly and was taken during filming of 'The Giant' c.1956 stamp verso for Sanford Roth and signed by Sanford Roth on the front 35.5cm x 26cm (dimensions are of the image)
Lot 114
A GEORGE I STYLE COPPER PRINTING BLOCK, engraved with a portrait of George I and with inscription below 'George Minnikin Stationer aty Kings Head m St Martin's Le grand, near Aldersgate, makes and sells all sorts of Jap and other pap hanging ........' also bears a British Museum circular stamp, mounted on a wooden block, 23cm by 14cm
Lot 379
**A PAIR OF 22 BORE BOHEMIAN FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS BY JOHANN PETER, CIRCA 1730 with swamped barrels formed with long sighting flats, brass fore-sights, stamped with brass-lined fleur-de-lys stamp and three smaller stamps, tangs incorporating the back-sights, bevelled locks chiselled with scrolls, decorated with eagles on the tails and signed in an oval held by a lion beneath the locks all against a punched ground (one steel, one top jaw and screw, and one cock-retaining screw replaced, combs of both cocks damaged), carved moulded figured walnut full stocks (butts cracked through and repaired), full brass mounts (originally gilt), cast and chased in relief with mounted cavalrymen, scrolls and strapwork, spurred pommels with grotesque mask caps, solid side-plates and fore-end caps with profile busts, crowned escutcheons with a bust of Diana supported by lions, and brass-tipped ramrods, probably the original 32.5 cm; 12 ¾ in barrels Provenance William Randolph Hearst Russell B. Aitken, sold Christie's, New York, 4 April 2003, lot 542 Johann Christoph Peter is recorded in Carlsbad as master in 1700 and died in 1738
Lot 550
A 19-BORE BAVARIAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE FOR LARGE GAME, BY JOHANN WOLF PETER (PIERRE), ÖTTINGEN, CIRCA 1710 with burnished sighted barrel of Spanish form signed "Pierre =a=Ötting" in gold, the breech with a series of five copper-lined stamps within a gold linear frame, including a unicorn stamp and another formed as the crowned inscription "IWP/ÖET" tiered over a small device, struck with two further marks on the lower side and the bore cut with eight straight grooves, bevelled lock signed in gold en suite with the barrel and inlaid with gold linear borders, carved moulded figured walnut half-stock, brass mounts cast in low relief, with butt-plate engraved with a trophy-of-arms involving a classical warrior bust, side-plate pierced with monsters' head scrollwork supporting a vacant oval, trigger-guard with acanthus finial and engraved with a grotesque mask, three engraved faceted ramrod-pipes, pierced cartouche-shaped escutcheon with coronet, and horn fore-end cap (ramrod missing). 109.2cm; 43 in barrel
Lot 551
A PAIR OF 23-BORE BAVARIAN FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECES WITH FINELY ENGRAVED SILVER MOUNTS, BY ELFERDING, ONOLZBACH (ANSBACH), CIRCA 1725-30 each with barrel of Spanish form with three gilt lily marks and the maker's gilt stamp, a paschal lamb with the letters "EL", silver fore-sight, signed bevelled lock with engraved wavy linear borders and engraved with small leaf ornaments, carved moulded figured walnut full stock, the butt flattened along its underside, full silver mounts cast in low relief, the butt-plate and the trigger-guard each with chiselled acanthus finial, the butt-plate engraved with a bird-of-prey and with a trophy pendant from scrollwork, the side-plate flat and finely engraved with a pierced Laub und Bandelwerk pattern suspending a vacant oval and involving monsters' heads at both ends, three faceted baluster-shaped ramrod-pipes, and shield-shaped escutcheons also of silver (one barrel re-blued, the locks each acid-cleaned, the fore-ends each chipped and extensively cracked, one ramrod-pipe detached, the ramrods each missing). 110.5cm; 43 ½ in barrels (2) The maker's stamps are not previously recorded.
Lot 553
A 23-BORE BAVARIAN FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECE BY ELFERDING, ONOLZBACH (ANSBACH), CIRCA 1725-30 with blued barrel of Spanish form with three gilt lily marks and the maker's gilt stamp, a paschal lamb with the letters "EL", bevelled lock signed about the base of the pan, engraved with hunting trophies and scrolls and with a grotesque figure before a town, carved moulded figured walnut full stock, full gilt-brass mounts cast in low relief, the butt-plate and the trigger-guard each engraved and each with chiselled acanthus finial, side-plate pierced with a scrollwork design, three engraved faceted ramrod-pipes, shield-shaped escutcheon, original ramrod, and the barrel retaining the greater part of an old re-blued finish (the lock acid-cleaned, the stock repaired opposite the lock). 112.4cm; 44 ¼ in barrel The maker's stamps are not previously recorded.
Lot 554
A PAIR OF 16-BORE LIÈGE FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECES BY PHILIPPE SELIER, CIRCA 1720-30 each with two-stage barrel with turned girdle, swamped muzzle with silver "spider" sight, and the breech with brass-lined vent, brass-lined maker's stamp repeated three times (Neue Støckel 4373), one retaining much old blued finish, each with the barrel tang overlaid with brass finely engraved with acanthus patterns, gilt-brass lock with strongly bevelled edges, signed on the upper edge in front of the pan, engraved wavy linear borders enclosing finely engraved panels of scrolling acanthus inhabited by a serpent, the cock cut with a matching design, one with domed retaining screw chiselled in the form of a demon mask (the other replaced) and the steels each finely cut with a demon mask in low relief (both top jaws and screws missing, the upper part of one cock missing also), each with figured walnut half-stock carved with acanthus leaf mouldings in relief, the butt flattened along its underside, carved about the base of the comb and with a scrolling flourish to the rear of the cheek-piece (one with inactive worm damage throughout, the fore-end partly fragmented along its edge on one side), full gilt-brass mounts cast in low relief, the butt-plates and the trigger-guards finely engraved en suite with the locks, with side-plates pierced with a scrollwork design carrying a demon mask and terminating in monsters' heads, three faceted baluster-shaped ramrod-pipes, ornate cartouche-shaped escutcheons each involving a mask and coronet, plain brass fore-end caps, and one fitted with wooden ramrod (associated, the other ramrod missing). 112 cm; 44 1/8 in barrels (2)
Lot 558
A 21-BORE FLEMISH FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECE, IN THE SPANISH TASTE, EARLY 18TH CENTURY with two-stage barrel with turned girdle, swamped muzzle, brass "spider" fore-sight, a brass-filled stamp, a dog or lion, retaining traces of original blue and the tang sheathed in brass and finely engraved with acanthus ornament, brass lock with bevelled edges, engraved with a monster coiled within scrolling acanthus, the lower half of the cock also sheathed in brass, engraved with scrolls and retained by a screw with domed head cast as an expanded flowerhead, the steel chiselled in low relief and its spring enclosed by a brass fence engraved en suite with the lock, well-figured walnut half-stock carved with acanthus mouldings in low relief, the butt fluted in the so-called Madrid fashion and fitted with brass plate engraved en suite with the barrel tang, the remaining mounts also of brass and cast in low relief, with side-plate decorated with a pierced design of acanthus scrollwork involving a pair of half-putti supporting a vacant oval, trigger-guard with pierced acanthus finial involving a pair of monsters' heads and cast with a demon mask on the bow, two faceted ramrod-pipes, escutcheon formed as an elaborate armorial cartouche with coronet, and fitted with fore-end cap of engraved brass (ramrod missing). 101.6cm; 40 7/8 in barrel
Lot 559
A 29-BORE BAVARIAN FLINTLOCK RIFLED SPORTING CARBINE, CIRCA 1760 with swamped octagonal sighted barrel with maker's gold-lined stamp of Leonhard Riegel of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, decorated with a chiselled band of beadwork over the breech, rifled with seven grooves and fitted with chiselled folding back-sight, plain rounded lock, figured walnut full stock carved with a series of rococo scrollwork mouldings in low relief, including an elaborate motif about the barrel tang and the butt decorated with related designs to the rear of the cheek-piece and about the base of the comb, fitted with sliding patch-box cover carved with a flattened moulding en suite with the underside of the butt, plain gilt-brass mounts predominantly faceted and terminating in lateral fluted mouldings, solid side-plate with bevelled edges, horn fore-end cap, one sling-swivel, and iron ramrod. 63.8cm; 25 1/8 in barrel
Lot 562
A 21-BORE WALLOON FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECE WITH EARLIER VIENNESE BARREL AND LOCK BY IACOB KOCH, CIRCA 1730 the barrel and the lock each circa 1700, the barrel formed in two stages with turned girdle, swamped muzzle with engraved gilt-brass sight and the octagonal rear section with the maker's oval stamp lined in silver (Cf. Neue Støckel 7705 and 3421 for very similar stamps), rounded lock engraved with designs of scrolling foliage inhabited by exotic birds, signed "Iacob" at the rear, "Koch" about the breast of the cock and "In Wienn" beneath the pan, the cock decorated with a monster chiselled in low relief, carved moulded figured walnut half-stock (chipped extensively above the lock), full gilt-brass mounts cast in low relief, the butt-plate including masks and figures duelling with swords, the side-plate decorated with a matching figure seated within a pierced design of monsters' head scrollwork, the trigger-guard decorated with acanthus finials and a further scrollwork design involving a monster's head, three strongly shaped faceted baluster ramrod-pipes, escutcheon cast with a classical warrior bust with mask and coronet, and horn fore-end cap (the barrel and the lock with modern blued finish, the ramrod missing). 117.5cm; 46 ¼ in barrel
Lot 570
A 35-BORE BAVARIAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE BY JOHANN WOLF PETER, ÖTTINGEN, CIRCA 1725-30 with heavy swamped octagonal sighted barrel cut with the maker's brass-lined stamp, JP crowned, signed "Pierre a Oetting", cut with narrow wavy linear bands over the breech, the muzzle and the tang, numbered 1, and the bore rifled with eight narrow grooves, bevelled lock engraved with border ornament en suite with the barrel and framing engraved small motifs including an architectural landscape, carved moulded figured walnut full stock, the butt flattened along its underside, with raised cheek-piece and fitted with carved moulded cover for the patch-box, full brass mounts, the butt-plate and trigger-guard each engraved with Laub und Bandelwerk ornament, the latter with chiselled acanthus finials, the side-plate decorated in a similar fashion, pierced, cast in low relief and involving a pair of griffins supporting a cartouche, three faceted ramrod-pipes, vacant escutcheon with coronet, horn fore-end cap, and horn-tipped wooden ramrod (the stock repaired through the grip and cracked in front of the lock, the forward trigger-guard finial cracked in two places). 71.7cm; 28 ¼ in barrel
Lot 581
A 23-BORE SOUTH GERMAN PERCUSSION FOWLING-PIECE, CONVERTED FROM FLINTLOCK, SIGNED L.M. NEBER A GERABRON, CIRCA 1730 with two-stage barrel signed on the breech (maker's stamp missing), turned girdle and lightly swamped barrel with brass "spider" sight, bevelled plain lock, figured walnut half-stock carved with a series of elaborate rococo scrollwork mouldings in low relief, full brass mounts of plain faceted form terminating in raised moulded bands, including three ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end cap, and horn-tipped wooden ramrod. 93.7cm; 36 7/8 in barrel Gerabron is the neighbouring village to Langenburg; the maker is possibly unrecorded.
Lot 582
A 24-BORE BAVARIAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE BY JOHANN WOLF PETER, ÖTTINGEN, EARLY 18TH CENTURY built on an earlier heavy swamped octagonal sighted barrel with brass-lined stamp of Friedrich Bickel (Neue Støckel 57) , the bore cut with seven grooves, bevelled lock signed "Pierre a Öttingen" and engraved with wavy linear borders (the top jaw and screw associated), carved moulded figured walnut full stock (the fore-end cracked in front of the rear ramrod-pipe), the butt with patch-box fitted with sliding cover, full iron mounts, the butt-plate tang formed as an engraved serpent, the side-plate pierced and engraved with bevelled and chamfered scrolls, the trigger-guard decorated with chiselled acanthus finials, with three faceted baluster-shaped ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end cap, and original horn-tipped ramrod. 79.4cm; 31 ¼ in barrel
Lot 583
A 29-BORE BOHEMIAN PERCUSSION SPORTING RIFLE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY converted from flintlock, built on an earlier swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with nine grooves and bearing the brass-lined maker's stamp of Adam Schnepf (Neue Støckel 1016), bevelled plain lock, walnut full stock, the grip cut with patterned chequering, the cheek-piece and the patch-box cover each inset with a small shaped plaque of contrasting horn segments, plain iron butt-plate, iron trigger-guard engraved with scrolls and a monster's head, three moulded ramrod-pipes, double set trigger, white metal escutcheon, horn fore-end cap, and original mounts for a sling (the fore-sight, nipple-protector and ramrod each missing, the stock cracked opposite the lock, the set trigger incomplete). 64.5cm; 25 3/8 in. barrel
Lot 586
A 24-BORE GERMAN PERCUSSION SPORTING RIFLE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY re-built from flintlock, with earlier faceted sighted barrel, the breech section and the muzzle each octagonal, rifled with four shallow grooves and the breech with brass-lined maker's stamp of J.C. Lins and inscribed "A Zeitlofs" in silver letters, plain rounded lock (the nipple-guard incomplete), figured pale walnut full stock, the butt with chequered grip and raised cheek-piece carved with an expanded flowerhead at the rear, patch-box with sliding chequered cover, plain iron mounts of shaped outline, including three ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end cap, and original horn-tipped ramrod (the fore-end with a small heavily scored area on one side, one sling-swivel missing). 73.5cm; 28 7/8 in barrel J.C. Lins is recorded working in the town of Zeitlofs in Hessen, circa 1760-1800; his stamp, a Hessen ducal crown surmounting the tiered signature J*C / Lins is not recorded by Støckel.
Lot 103
Coin and Stamp Covers, The Royal Family (18 including one Silver); Presentation Packs and Covers, Ordinary Issue £5 Crowns (5), £2 (3), 50p (2), Britain's New Coinage 2004; Marshall Islands The World at War 4 coin set; Silver 5oz medallion, 2006 90th Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme; Monnaie de Paris, 100Fr 1994, Winston Churchill, 1Fr 1993; Alderney Concorde £5; Guernsey Silver Proof £1 1995 (unboxed); others various
Lot 5
Reggie Kray, a series of handwritten personal letters to Mick Archer (*25) and envelopes (7), 1990-91, from Gartree and postmarked Market Harborough, all signed Reg, or Reg Kray and in Kray's distinctive handwriting, the content advising Archer, a former fellow inmate to 'keep positive', and thanking him for his friendship and assistance (Archer is mentioned at length in Kary's 'Born Fighter' and is described as one of Kray's two best friends in Gartree) ; one letter with H.M. Prison Gartree stamps; als Carol Clerk referring to £100 sent to Archer 'with the compliments of Reg Kray'; als with prison stamp 5 May 1989 signed by Ron Kray, the rest in another's hand [lot]
Lot 68
Coins, Great Britain, Royal Mint, Proof Silver £5, Olympics, 2009 (4), 2010 (18 including Piedfort Countdown £5); 2012 Diamond Jubilee Gilt Silver Proof £5, boxed; Silver Proof 50p Olympics, in card holders (8); Channel Islands etc, silver proof crowns and crown sized silver medallions and silver stamp/coin covers (17); other silver Piedfort (1); Silver Proof Crowns, Revolution to Restoration (13); VE Day 0.925 silver medallion 2010 *156gm; Silver Proof Crowns, Lifetime of Service (8); Great Britain, 2001 Proof Set in plastic case as issued, no outer case; 2010 Deluxe black leather proof set; base metal commemorative crowns (*50); 2002 Queen's Golden Jubilee, coin First Day Cover album; Royal Wedding 2011 Silver Proof £5 FDC in folder no.17; USA Gold Dollar 1862, with certificate of authenticity; Miniature Gold Coins, Cook Islands $1 2008, 2009, other gold miniatures (2); Three Kings 15ct gold medallion; GB base metal £5, mostly in card as issued (10); mostly with associated Certificates; other base metal coins, medallions, covers etc [qty]
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