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Click here to subscribe* India - Reconnaissance Duties. A group of twenty-eight vintage b&w photos, 1928, including two air-to-air photos of Vickers Venture aircraft (one torn to lower outer corner), one of an aircraft wreckage, eleven aerial views of Bombay, Quetta, etc., plus fourteen mostly street views in Quetta, many with neat ink captions and dates to versos, one identified as number 31 (AC) Squadron, R.A.F. Quetta, approx. 15 x 29cm and similar (28)
* Italian Air Force - Felice Porro. An archive file from Caproni di Taliedo relating to Generale Felice Porro (born 1891), Commander of Squadra Aerea, c. 1920s/50s, a total of approx. eighty vintage b&w photos and sixty letters and documents tipped onto loose sheets, numerous signatures of Porro and other Italian aviation related personnel, many of the photos with captions to versos, plus some related news cuttings, etc., all mounted to rectos only, sheets loosely contained in archive folder, folio (1)
* WWI - Aerial Photos. A group of approx. 130 vintage b&w photos, mostly c. 1918, the majority of the western front showing field systems, roads, rivers, etc., occ. creases and tears, mostly approx. 16 x 22cm, many mounted, contained in a modern plastic sleeve folder, 4to (approx. 130)
Aviation history, mostly journals and pamphlets, including Air Enthusiast, c. 1980-2007, War Birds Worldwide, a complete set, nos. 1-52, 1987-2000, Air-Britain News, Historical Aviation Album, Vintage Aircraft, Aircam Aviation Series, Das Waffen-Arsenal, Wings, War in the Air, 1939-45, several issues of Flight and The Aeroplane, c. 1930s, 21st Profile, nos. 1-17, etc., all orig. printed wrappers, some contained in publisher’s binders, 4to/8vo (4 cartons)
* The Brackley Archive. A fascinating and important archive of approx. 230 manuscript letters written by Herbert Brackley to his wife, Frida, the first from Kamakura, Japan, dated 6 May 1921, the last from Christiansborg Castle, Accra, Gold Coast, dated 22 October 1948, together with an almost complete run of his pocket diaries from 1922 to 1948 (lacking only 1930), containing meticulous daily detail, mostly in pencil, also approx. 180 vintage b & w photographs of various sizes (some captioned), plus a good group of ninety-eight items of paperwork relating to Brackley’s time in Japan with the British Aviation Mission, c. 1920-23, and a further group of forty-two items of paperwork c. 1933-39 (including many telegrams) relating to his time with Imperial Airways. After the sudden death of her husband, Frida, was persuaded by his many friends and acquaintances to take the matter of his memoirs in hand and eventually, in 1952, she managed to publish a substantial tome entitled Brackles. Memoirs of a Pioneer of Civil Aviation, based mainly on extracts from his letters and diaries, a copy of which is included in this lot. (1)
* WWII Flying Boots. A pair of RAF issue sheepskin lined suede flying boots, c. 1944, size 9 stamped AM and with ref. nos 10147, E3644, 352, good original condition, together with a faded green leather suitcase containing various aviation accessories including Polaroid goggles in box, two Airlight 62 headsets, WWII(?) vintage headphones, three flight computers, MkIII D, one on knee board, etc. (-)
* Motor Racing. A group of fifty-six b&w photos, mostly c. 1940s, showing motor races, speed trials, etc., mostly vintage but including some later printings, some with captions to versos, and several with photographer’s name stamp of P. G. Neaverson to verso, mostly approx. 16 x 22cm (56)
* Motor Racing. An album containing 112 corner-mounted vintage b&w photos, c. 1950-55, mostly single car action shots at Silverstone, Brands Hatch, Goodwood, each 8.5 x 11cm, mostly mounted four to a page with full details of driver, race and date beneath, contemp. plain brown boards with ink title and pencil drawing of a motor car to upper cover, a little rubbed and soiled, oblong folio (1)
* WWI - Photography. A group of approx. fifty vintage b&w photographs, the majority portraits of British soldiers and including some studio portraits and real photo postcards, mostly single subject but including some large groups, together with a group of approx. sixty vintage small b&w photos in Egypt, immediately post-war, the majority views but including one indistinct image captioned as the landing of De Gaulle with Allenby in Alexandria, plus four contemp. unrelated photo albums containing First World War British military interest at home and abroad (a small carton)
*Beecham. An album containing sixteen mounted vintage gelatin silver prints of Beecham’s Works at St. Helen’s, Lancashire, c. 1930, mostly featuring women factory workers, on the production line, 19 x 24 cm, uncaptioned, contemp. cloth, sl. rubbed, oblong folio (1)
*Pilkington Brothers. A collection of seventy vintage gelatin silver print photos, c. 1923-30, showing the buildings and glass making at the factories in Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool (?), London, Nottingham, Sheffield, and Southampton, most with wetstamps to versos, some with captions and all with neat captions on card, tipped onto margin versos, 24 x 29cm and similar, plus a contemp. related printed leaflet. Pilkington, the largest glass manufacturer in the United Kingdom, was founded in 1826 as a partnership by the Pilkington and Greenall families, and was based in St. Helens, Lancashire. (70)
*Suffragettes. An album containing corner mounted postcards, photos, etc., a total of approx. fourteen postcards, including some real photo, approx. twenty photos, mostly later prints, but including some vintage, a postcard signed by Cynthia Asquith, an autograph letter signed from Margaret Wyndham, plus a small quantity of cuttings, magazine illustrations, postcards and photos loosely inserted, contemp. embossed cloth, rubbed, oblong folio (1)
Vintage Religious Cards. A large collection of approx. 700 religious cards, some 19th and mostly 20th c., including chromos., colour and b&w printing, largely small format and assorted into themes, including trinity, passion, visitation, angels, Virgin and child, etc., together with nine miscellaneous scrap albums, late 19th and early 20th c., containing photos, cigarette cards, scraps, etc. (2 cartons)
Ferrini (Nico) Dempsey Il Massacratore, an Italian biography from the Biblioteca dello Sport series, published in Milan; sold together with a vintage pair of Everlast boxing clubs, inscribed NT14, original lacing; the lot also including Bert & Randolph Sugar`s `The 100 Greatest Boxers of All Time. Provenance: The San Siro Museum, Milan.
LANDING NETS: (2) Vintage Allcock triangular take apart metal frame landing net, 16" across gape with early wax mesh net, fitted to 59" decorative bamboo varnished pole with brass fittings, fine and an Orvis laminated wood trout wading net with belt clip and fish measure to handle, 24" overall length.
LURES: Large collection of vintage lures incl. glass eyed Norwich Spoons, Hardy Crocodile small/large bait harness, assorted Devons incl. Spring flex, assorted Milward reversible fin and others, sole skin phantoms from 2"-4" incl. carded example by Thomas & Co., Redditch, Allcock Feathero minnow, scale spoons, quill minnows, as per image, in 2 black japanned boxes by Farlow 9.5"x6"x2" and another fine example unnamed 11"x7"x2", both with removable trays.
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