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Click here to subscribeBritains boxed set 172, Bulgarian Infantry, 1930, seven Infantrymen marching at the trail and Officer with sword, with additional converted drummer, in original printer box, (very good condition, box good), (9). Please Note: We do not offer In house shipping for Toy Soldiers please see shipping information.
Britains boxed set 1437, Italian Carabinieri, 1954-59, six men marching at the slope with rifles and Officer with cane, in original ROAN box and tied to backing card, (mint condition, box good to fair some loss to label). Please Note: We do not offer In house shipping for Toy Soldiers please see shipping information.
Professionally repainted WWII Infantry Britains toy soldiers, gloss finish including thirty-seven marching with slung rifles and steel helmets, three Officer in Steel helmets and empty handed Officer in peak cap, six stretcher bears, three stretchers and three wounded men, four Tommy Gunners and four Riflemen (condition near mint), (63). Please Note: We do not offer In house shipping for Toy Soldiers please see shipping information.
Britains boxed set 315, 10th Royal Hussars, 1930s, empty handed mounted at the halt, four troopers and Officer with gold facings, in original Whisstock box with inner card and packing, (good condition few chips, box good), (5). We do not offer In house shipping for Toy Soldiers please see shipping information.
Britains boxed set 1330, Royal Engineers General Service wagon, Review order, 1950s, two horse team at the walk, olive green wagon and limber, in original illustrated box, (excellent condition, box good some wear/fading), (4).Please Note: We do not offer In house shipping for Toy Soldiers please see shipping information.
Britains boxed set 1759, Air Raid Precautions Stretcher parties, 1939-41, in anti-gas suits and with gas detector, in original illustrated box, (good condition few chips, box fair to good some wear), together with a W.D & H.O Wills Air Raid Precautions cigarette card album, all cards present, (10). Please Note: We do not offer In house shipping for Toy Soldiers please see shipping information.
Taylor and Barrett Auxiliary Fire Service, 1938, with circular sandbag reservoir, stretcher party, four firemen with trailer, pump and hoses, (excellent condition) together with six Decontamination Squad figures, (fair), )16).Please Note: We do not offer In house shipping for Toy Soldiers please see shipping information.
Collection of lead Cowboys and Indians, boxed set of Cowboys and Indians attributed to Timpo, Harvey or Benbros, mounted and on foot figures tied to inner box, (see Norman Joplin ‘The Great book of Hollow-Cast Figures page 275), (very good condition, box fair), together with a selection of Cowboys and Indians by Britians, Timpo, Benbro, Hill and others, (generally good condition some fair), (lot). Please Note: We do not offer In house shipping for Toy Soldiers please see shipping information.
Durso ten Dispatch riders, five motorbike riders in blue uniforms with white helmets and five in Khaki, together with two small scale tinplate clockwork Army lorry with mounted gun (good condition) Gama tank (lacks gun and tracks) and truck cab, (14). Please Note: We do not offer In house shipping for Toy Soldiers please see shipping information.
Britains set 83, Middlesex Yeomanry, first version 1898, fixed arm with short carbines, two mounted on Donkey horses and two on rocking horses, Officer on rearing horse with tin sword and throat plume, (good to very good condition, few chips), (5). We do not offer In house shipping for Toy Soldiers please see shipping information.
Crescent and Timpo U.S Marines and West Point Cadets, Crescent boxed set 150/36 U.S marines, seven figures tied to backing card, (excellent condition, box good), seven marching West Point Cadets, tied to backing card, (good condition, box lacks lid), and forty-eight Timpo West Point Cadets, bandsmen, mounted Officer, flag bearers and marching, (fair condition, some paint chips and loss), (62). Please Note: We do not offer In house shipping for Toy Soldiers please see shipping information.
Britains guns, boxed 2064 American 155mm gun with shell case, loader and four shells, (very good to excellent condition, box fair some wear and surface loss), boxed 9730 4.7’ Naval gun, five unboxed 4.7’ Naval guns and two Field guns, (generally good condition), (9). Please Note: We do not offer In house shipping for Toy Soldiers please see shipping information.
Britains boxed set 133, Russian Infantry, second version 1912, seven Infantrymen marching at the trail and Officer with sword, bases 16.1.1904, in original Whisstock box, (very good condition couple chips to Officer, box good to fair, some staining and splits to lid corners, small part missing), (8). Please Note: We do not offer In house shipping for Toy Soldiers please see shipping information.
Sacul Peter Pan and Captain Hook, 1953, Captain Hook with hollow-cast hat feather, together with illustrated box lid, (very good to excellent condition, Peter Pan lacks feather to cap, box lid good, little dirty, some slight wear), (2). Please Note: We do not offer In house shipping for Toy Soldiers please see shipping information.
Britains set 101, Mounted Band of the 1st Life Guards, rare second version 1899, slotted arm musicians in blue and gold coats, Drum horse, Bombardon, Euphonium, two Trombones, two Trumpets, two Clarinets, Cymbals, Fife and Bassoon, (good condition, some paint loss mainly to horses legs), (12). We do not offer In house shipping for Toy Soldiers please see shipping information.
Britains Limited Edition set 5198 Rorke’s Drift Diorama, 0989 of 2000 in original box and outer packing, (mint condition), together with Britains Toy Soldiers 1893-1932 by James Opie, two Toy Soldiers by Andrew Rose, Forces of the British Empire-1914 by Edward M Nevins and two Eagle Annuals, (7). Please Note: We do not offer In house shipping for Toy Soldiers please see shipping information.
Britains pre W.W.I Soldiers and figures, set 26, Boer Infantry eight marching, pale sand coloured uniforms, (fair to poor, paint chips one lacks rifle and two bayonets), seven marching Infantrymen from set 26 in darker uniform, (good, one lacks bayonet), set 15 Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders seven plug handed Infantrymen running at the trail, and four other plug handed figures, (fair condition four lack hands), from set 1 three mounted 1st Lifeguards and Officer on rearing horse, tin sword, (fair), from set 116 four marching Soudanese infantrymen with dated paper labels, (fair one arm loose), from set 137 Army Medical service doctor, senior medical doctor, nurses, stretcher bearers, wounded men with dated paper labels, (fair to good), two 21st Lancers active service order from set 94 and wasp-waisted Officer and trooper from ser 76 Middlesex Reg. (fair), (55). We do not offer In house shipping for Toy Soldiers please see shipping information.
Britains two boxed sets 1641, Heavy Duty underslung lorry, 1938-40, both with square noses and drivers, khaki with white treaded tyres and dark green with smooth white rubber tyres both with instructions and a boxed 1640 Searchlight, (good to fair condition, boxes fair to good, one 1641 box lid poor and end flap detached), (5). Please Note: We do not offer In house shipping for Toy Soldiers please see shipping information.
* Holman (Agnes Gladys, 1886-1966). Molly, circa 1913, watercolour on ivory, showing a young girl with blonde curly hair standing in front of a large toy donkey on wheels, reins in her right hand, left hand resting on the donkey's rump, signed lower left, small faint scratch to donkey's hind quarters, small black dot to lower part of donkey's neck, 11 x 8.5 cm, in decorative silver painted metal frame (12 x 9 cm), handwritten label to verso with artist's name, address, title of work and medium in blue ink, together with:English School. Portrait miniature of Dr. Billing, by G. Hamilton, 1830, watercolour and gouache on ivory, half-length portrait of a young gentleman with curly fair hair, dressed in a black cloak with fur collar, with window in back of frame revealing pencil inscription ‘Dr Billing G. Hamilton fecit March 1830’, 9.3 x 7.4 cm (3 5/8 x 2 7/8 ins), glazed ebonised frame (14.5 x 12.5 cm)QTY: (2)NOTE:Ivory Act 2018 self-declaration submission reference: 40ORYXC8.Ivory Act registration reference: R9KULZVA.
Collectors lot to include: vintage boxed Indian painted clay toy birds; two pairs of vintage spectacles, one box retailed CALCUTTA; two The Campden Whist Markers (one af); a cased Measham pipe with stag to bowl and amber tip (broken); an amber cheroot holder; white metal and niello vesta case (striker damaged); vintage binoculars with leather case; ceramic Woods Areca Nut Tooth Paste cover; a Tala painted money \ security box (Q)
This delightful piece features two children joyfully admiring their Christmas gifts, including a teddy bear, doll, toy plane, and ball. Crafted in fine glazed porcelain, this figurine highlights Lladro's exceptional attention to detail and ability to capture heartfelt holiday moments. Lladro backstamp. This item has its original box.Artist: Jose Luis AlvarezDimensions: 8.25"HCountry of Origin: SpainCondition: Age related wear.
The rare and important Second War St. Nazaire raid D.S.C. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Commander (E.) W. H. Locke, Royal Navy, who was Warrant Engineer aboard H.M.S. Campbeltown and taken P.O.W. after the loss of M.L. 177 Distinguished Service Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated ‘1945’, hallmarks for London 1948; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (Lt. Cdr. W. H. Locke. R.N.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed, mounted court-style as worn, good very fine or better (7) £30,000-£40,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, June 2008. D.S.C. London Gazette 11 September 1945: ‘For gallantry, determination and devotion to duty in H.M.S. Campbeltown in the raid on St. Nazaire in March 1942.’ Wilfrid Harry Locke was born in Surrey on 5 March 1910 and entered the Royal Navy in January 1926. Appointed as a Warrant Engineer in October 1941, he was placed in charge of the engine-room of the former American four-stacker Campbeltown in early 1942, which ship had been allocated a key role in forthcoming Operation ‘Chariot’, namely to ram the southern caisson of the Normandie Dock in St. Nazaire, laden with delayed action explosives, thereby destroying the facility and denying the Tirpitz use of the only suitable dry-dock on the Atlantic coast. Accordingly, over a two-week period in March 1942, the Campbeltown was fitted out at Devonport and outwardly altered to resemble a German Mowe-class torpedo boat, while internally she was fitted with a special tank containing four tons of T.N.T. and eight-hour delay fuses, which were to be activated two hours before she reached the Normandie Dock. Setting out on her final voyage with the raiding force on 26 March, she took over as Force Leader shortly after midnight on the 28th, when seven and a half miles remained in the run up the Loire. Finally, at about 0130, with less than two miles to go, the German defences awoke. C. E. Lucas Phillips takes up the story in The Greatest Raid of All: ‘A continuous stream of projectiles of all sorts was now striking the Campbeltown, but so violent was the sound of our own weapons that the ring of bullets on her hull and the crack of small shells was hardly noticed; but when larger shells shook her from stem to stern none could be unaware, and what every survivor was to remember for ever afterwards was the unchecked glow of the darts of red and green tracer flashing and hissing across her deck and the quadruple whistle of the Bofors shells. Bullets penetrated her engine and boiler-rooms, ricocheting from surface to surface like hornets, and Locke, the Warrant Engineer, ordered hands to take cover between the main engines of the condensers, except for the throttle watchkeepers ...’ With 200 yards to go a searchlight fortuitously illuminated the check-point of the lighthouse on the end of the Old Mole, enabling Lieutenant-Commander S. H. Beattie on the Campbeltown’s bridge to correct his aim on the caisson. Having then ploughed through the steel anti-torpedo net, the old four-stacker closed on her collision course at 20 knots, and every man aboard braced himself for the impact. At 0134 the Campbeltown crashed into the gate, rearing up and tearing the bottom out of her bows for nearly 40 feet. Commando assault and demolition parties streamed ashore, while below the sea cocks were opened to ensure the Germans could not remove her before she blew up. As she settled by the stern, Beattie evacuated the crew via M.G.B. 314, and Lieutenant Mark Rodier’s M.L. 177. Locke and Beattie, with some 30 or more of Campbeltown’s crew boarded the latter, and started off down river at 0157 hours. Lucas Phillips continues: ‘The boat was embarrassingly overcrowded but Winthrop, Campbeltown’s doctor, helped by Hargreaves, the Torpedo-Gunner, continued to dress and attend to the wounded both above and below deck. Very soon, however, they were picked up again by the searchlights lower down the river and came under fire from Dieckmann’s dangerous 75mm and 6.6-inch guns. Rodier took evasive action as he was straddled with increasing accuracy. The end came after they had gone some three miles. A shell ... hit the boat on the port side of the engine-room lifting one engine bodily on top of the other and stopping both. Toy, the Flotilla Engineer Officer, went below at once. Beattie left the bridge and went down also. He had no sooner left than another shell hit the bridge direct. Rodier was mortally wounded and died a few minutes afterwards ... The engine room was on fire, burning fiercely, and the sprayer mechanism for fire-fighting had also been put out of action. Toy, who had come up momentarily, at once returned to the blazing compartment but was never seen again. Locke, Campeltown’s Warrant Engineer, was able partially to repair the extinguisher mechanism. The flames amidships divided the crowded ship in two, but the ship’s company continued to fight the fire for some three hours by whatever means available. At length, when all means had failed and the fire had spread throughout the boat, the order to abandon ship was given at about 5 a.m. One Carley raft had been damaged, but few of the wounded ratings were got away on the other, and the remainder of those alive entered the icy water, many of them succumbing to the ordeal. All of Campbeltown’s officers were lost except Beattie and Locke, among those who perished being the brilliant and devoted Tibbets, to whose skill and resourcefulness the epic success of the raid was so much due and whose work was soon to be triumphantly fulfilled.’ Locke and the other survivors were rounded up by the Germans by 0930 hours, which was expected to be the last possible time for the acid-eating, delayed action fuses in Campbeltown to work. Thus it was with all the more satisfaction that at 1035 hours the British prisoners, gathered together in small groups across the St. Nazaire area, heard the terrific explosion which blew in the caisson and vaporised Campbeltown’s bows. The stern section was swept forward on a great surge of water and carried inside the Normandie Dock where it sank. Thus, the main goal of the operation was achieved for a cost of 169 dead and about 200 taken P.O.W., many of them wounded, out of an original raiding force of 611 men. Yet only six of Campbeltown’s gallant crew were eventually decorated, Beattie being awarded the Victoria Cross. For his own part, the wounded Locke was hospitalised at Le Baule and Rennes, prior to being transferred to Marlag und Milag Nord camp at Tarnstedt at the end of April 1942. Nor was he a willing prisoner, official records revealing his part in the digging of a 130ft. tunnel from the camp’s dining room in September 1943, as part of a team of 30 men. That having been discovered by the enemy, he joined a team of 60 men in April 1944 in digging another tunnel parallel to the old one, but this too was discovered when a section of the roof collapsed. He also volunteered to make a hasty exit by wire cutting, but this plan was vetoed by the Escaping Committee. His award of the D.S.C. was not gazetted until after his liberation, a distinction that prompted his former boss, Lord Mountbatten, to write in person: ‘From my personal knowledge as Chief of Combined Operations, I know how well deserved this recognition is and am delighted to see that the part you played in such a hazardous expedition has been recognised nearly four years afterwards. I hope that you have fully recovered from your captivity and should like to wis...
A mid 19th century Thüringen composition and wood British mounted Hussar soldier rocking toy, in blue uniforms with tall shako style hat with plume, brown horse on brown painted bow rocker —8 ¼in. (21cm.) high (slight excellent restoration) - see Early Toys 2, Leipold/Bickert/Kreher, 2024 - page 31, fig 7 for this actual model
A late 19th or early 20th century shepherdess squeak toy, possibly French, composition shepherdess in blue outfit holding basket with sheep with tinplate horns, cotton coats and pink ribbon trim, painted wooden base and squeaker —4 ½in. (11.5cm.) long (some wear and squeaker paper torn and needs replacing to keep toy together)
A mid 19th century Thüringen composition Soldier on horse rocking toy, with nodding head, Hussar uniform with busby, green jacket and red trousers, the brown walking horse on textured wooden base with orange painted rocker, paper sticker and pencil numbers to base —9in. (23cm.) long (horse repaired at two ankles, crazing to red parts of uniform, small repair to rocker and other slight wear) - for a similar toy see Early Toys 2, Leipold/Bickert/Kreher, 2024 - page 30, fig 1
Six early 19th century carved wooden British Napoleonic era military bandsmen, with moustaches, hair brushed onto the face, ears, busbys, red jackets with tails, green and. Gold collar, white trousers, articulated at shoulders, three with instruments, holes in teardrop bases and wire through leg to operate arms —5in. (13cm.) high (two missing part of arms and two missing hands and slight wear) - possibly of a scissor toy or something more mechanical
An early 20th century German composition Happy Hooligan bobble-head toy, the comic character with googly eyes, sprung head and arms on turned wooden base with indistinct pencil marking to base —7in. (18cm.) high - Happy Hooligan is an American comic strip, the first major strip by the already celebrated cartoonist Frederick Burr Opper. It debuted with a Sunday strip on March 11, 1900
A mid to late 19th century Erzgebirge small belt crank toy, with moving figures of a shepherd, dog and two sheep, moving from one building through fir trees to another, brightly painted wood with printed paper covered sides and pencil numbers to underside —5 ¾in. (14.5cm.) long - see Early Toys 2, Leipold/Bickert/Kreher, 2024 - page 82, fig 1 for this actual model
A mid 19th century Thüringen Dukatenscheißer man ‘shitting’ money squeak toy, the composition man with blue cloth hat, red faced, with his trousers pulled down and bottom exposed with gilt coin held between his cheeks, hinged jaw, on brown painted wooden base with squeaker —6in. (15cm.) high (jaw mechanism needs attention, glued in place, squeaker inoperative) — see Early Toys 2, Leipold/Bickert/Kreher, 2024 - page 66, fig 1 for this actual model
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