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| Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD | |||
| Arms, Armour, Militaria and Ethnographica | |||
| Auctioneer: | Tennants Auctioneers | Location: | The Auction Centre, Leyburn |
| Contact: | Telephone: +44 (0) 1969 623780 Facsimile: +44 (0) 1969 624281 | ||
| Date: | 9th December 2011 | Time: | 10:30AM |
| Details: | Viewing: Thursday 8 December 10 am to 5 pm Morning of sale from 8.00 am |
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| Auction Lots - Page 3 | |||
| 101 | |||
| 82nd Squadron RAF Burma 1944-1945:- An Observer's and Air Gunner's Flying Log Book, named to A Blackburn W/O, the first entry dated 14-7-44, the last entry dated 30-10-45, with summary from 15-4-44 to 28.3.46 (the previous log book was reported stolen).This Log book relates to the Air War in Burma, and includes the practise of "rhubarbs" using Mosquito aircraft. "Rhubarb" was the name given to the daily practise of an air operation searching the scrublands and jungle streams for evidence of enemy movement. This is described in detail in the accompanying book Wings of the Phoenix, The Official Story of the Air War in Burma, page 28. (2) £200 - 300 |
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| 102 | |||
| A Collection of Sixty Two Military Books, including reference works on cap badges, buttons, helmet plates and insignia, reading including History of the British Army, Army Life, Chindit War, Burma 1941-45 etc, in two boxes £70 - 100 |
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| 103 | |||
| A Trench Art Dinner Gong, made from a shell case applied with the badge of the West Yorkshire Regiment, and engraved "Presented to the Original 1/6 West Yorkshire Regiment Association by Members to Commemorate the Ypres Salient 1915", on a mahogany stand, 40cm; seven Pieces of Trench Art, comprising an Egypt 1941 shell vase, a coffee grinder, a miniature Australian slouch hat, three matchbox holders and a Kings Own name plate, also a white metal Burma Intelligence Corps cigarette case and a snuff box (10) £80 - 120 |
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| 104 | |||
| An Amy Johnson England to Australia Brass and Enamelled Brooch, as an aeroplane; an Amy Johnson White Metal Bar Brooch, modelled as her face surrounded by propeller blades and flanked by wings; a National Roll of Marksmen Silver Gilt and Enamel Medallion by Mappin & Webb, retailed by Fattorini, cased, also three 1940's miniature aeroplanes, an RAF sweetheart brooch and buttons, three brooches and charm and an album part filled with postcards - mainly topographical and group photographs. £100 - 150 |
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| 105 | |||
| Militaria, including a pair of 6 x 30 desert field glasses with bakelite eyepieces in Voigtlander desert camouflage case, a pair of 1915 Russian military field glasses, an Air Raid Precaution First Aid Outfit, an Australian slouch hat, two stable belts, a quantity of photographs and ephemera etc £100 - 150 |
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| 106 | |||
| Twelve Military Reference Books, on military cap badges and insignia £80 - 120 |
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| 107 | |||
| Two Books:- Head-Dress Badges of the British Army, Volume One Up to the end of the Great War and Volume Two From the End of the Great War to the Present Day, by Arthur L Kipling & Hugh L King, published London 1987 £30 - 50 |
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| 108 | |||
| A Quantity of Military Cap Badges, buttons, rank pips, cloth insignia, booklets, a mug, a plate and ephemera, some relating to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers; a Brass and Mahogany Three Draw Telescope, by Berge, London, late Ramsden, and a cased pair of military binoculars £100 - 150 |
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| 109 | |||
| A Collection of Militaria, including five Sam Browne belts, stable belts, puttees, spats, a pair of leather boots, various Army and Navy peaked caps and side caps, Merchant Navy shoulder straps etc in two boxes. £150 - 200 |
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| 110 | |||
| A 5th Manchester Regiment "Darlington Cup" 9 Carat Gold Medallion, presented 1924; a 1906 9 Carat Gold Medallion, with inscription "1906 1st Prize won by Fred Rose Kennedy's Billiard Rooms, Wigan"; three Primrose League Badges, and two Special Service bars; a Silver and Tortoiseshell Sweetheart brooch, and seven various badges and medallions. Gold weight 19.2gms £200 - 250 |
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| 111 | |||
| A Small Quantity of Militaria, including cloth insignia and rank stripes, a German 1914 Iron Cross, a boxed set of books Des Fuhrers Kampf 1940 2.Kriegs=Hilfswerk, two loose miniature books, an execution photograph including Mussolini, two propaganda postcards, a typed translation of the experience of a German Officer at the Battle of Salerno 8-14th September 1943, and five copies of The Oak December 1943 and 1944; a Christian Silver Coloured Metal Plaque, as a sunburst embossed IHS over a cloud band £50 - 60 |
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| 112 | |||
| A Ship's Account Book for Eight Voyages taken by SS Bordvick:- Voyage 1 - Wear/Mentone/Spain/Hamburg; Voyage 2 - Pelaw/Bordeaux; Voyage 3 - Howdon/Hamburg; Voyage 4 - Methil/Bayonne; Voyage 5 - Bayonne/Port Talbot (Timber); Voyage 6 - Port Talbot/Nantes; Voyage 7 - Port Talbot/Nantes; Voyage 8 - Blyth/Bayonne/Bordeaux/Newport River, no dates recorded, half maroon calf, marbled boards; a Military or Naval Scholar's Handwritten Excercise Book, containing hand coloured folding maps, and detailed accounts of military engagements and Notes on the Armed Strength of Great Britain throughout the 19th Century, marbled boards with maroon cloth spine, together with three photographs (2) £100 - 150 |
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| 113 | |||
| A Pair of First World War Trench Art Vases, made from brass shell cases, engraved in Art Nouveau script "Belgium Souvenir of the Great War Cologne and Ypres", with applied copper scalloped rims, 20cm; two Brass Miniature Kukris (4) £40 - 60 |
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| 114 | |||
| An Imperial German Porcelain Beerstein, to the 9th Wurtt.Inftr.Regt. No 127.Ulm. 1903-05, printed and painted with campfire and battle scenes, with a lithophane panel to the base, the pewter domed hinged cover with infantrymen knop and eagle thumbpiece, 29cm; an Imperial German Chromolithograph, "Kanonendonner ist unser Gruss", with superimposed photographic faces to the officer's depicted, framed and glazed (2) £100 - 150 |
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| 115 | |||
| A Silver Cromwellian Cavalry Drum Bowl, by E.A. Jones, London 1914, with beaten interior and exterior, on a raised foot, inscribed Reproduction Cromwellian Cavalry Drum 1650, hallmarked maker's mark E A Jones, London 1914, 8.5cm, 11ozs. £400 - 600 |
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| 116 | |||
| A British Leather Flying Helmet and Goggles, by D Lewis Ltd, with attached earphones £100 - 150 |
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| 117 | |||
| A Quantity of Militaria, including two Khaki drill shirts and tops, various side caps, ties, a Sam Browne, webbing, a 44 pattern man pack carrier (lacks straps), water canteen, three Second World War period wedding photographs of an RAF officer, five books Wonders of World Aviation - three volumes, and Twenty Years After - two volumes, in a leather and canvas trunk £50 - 60 |
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| 118 | |||
| Two Vickers K Machine Gun Drums, as fitted to Halifax MkIII Bombers, in relic condition (excavated on farmland near RAF Elvington); two U.S. Model 1913/17 P14 Enfield Knife/Sword Bayonets, lack scabbards; a German Model S84/98 Knife-Bayonet, by Weyersberg, Kirschbaum & Co., Solingen, with steel mounted leather scabbard; a gun stock, for a P14/17 rifle (6) £50 - 80 |
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| 119 | |||
| A George V Black Painted Tin Trunk, the hinged cover stencilled Captain R Nobel 7th Dragoon Guards £50 - 80 |
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| 120 | |||
| A Collection of Sixteen Aircraft Instruments, war time and post war af £50 - 80 |
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| 121 | |||
| A Collection of Forty Seven Die Cast Army Air Corps Recognition Models, with label of part contents to inner lid of carrying case £120 - 180 |
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| 122 | |||
| Militaria, including a boxed Lee bullet mould, a steel 25 bore bullet mould, books including Head Dress of the British Army, a horse hair helmet plume, cap tins and a reproduction brass shako plate to the 16th Lancers £70 - 100 |
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| 123 | |||
| A Victorian Blue Cloth Rear Quarter of a Shabraque to 9th (Queen's Own) Lancers, applied with the regimental device of a circular strap 'Ninth Lancers' enclosing the VR cypher overlying crossed lances below a light cavalry crown, in silver metal thread all within a double train lace border, mounted in a glazed display £100 - 150 |
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| 124 | |||
| A Queen Victoria's Boer War Christmas Tin, South Africa 1900, with chocolate contents £70 - 100 |
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| 125 | |||
| Militaria, comprising:- an unusual kit bag, to 4536873 Major H Traher of the West Yorkshire Regiment, stencilled PALESTINE, TRIMULCHERRY and BOMBAY; a pair of shoulder straps, with pips to a Captain; three British Airborne Division cloth badges and two others; a red cloth bound copy of Wingate's Phantom Army by W G Burchett, published Bombay 1944; a Chindit Ball 24th November 1951 invitation card; a First World War teak Smoker's Compendium, with barrel shape cigarette/pipe holder/match striker set with a plaque engraved "From the teak of HMS Birmingham of Dogger Bank and Jutland fame", on a dished circular ashtray base. (11) £60 - 90 |
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| 126 | |||
| A German Military Porcelain Beerstein, printed and painted with the last battlescene of the 10th Platoon of the Prince Ludwig Infantry Regiment at Ingolstadt 1904-06, in colours and gilt, the base with a lithophane portrait of King Ludwig III, the pewter domed hinged cover with seated Reservist finial and rampant lion thumbpiece, 29cm (hairline crack to base); a Painted Plaster Figural Pin Cushion, modelled as a captive kneeling Kaiser Bill, his padded posterior as the pin cushion, 8cm (2) £100 - 150 |
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| 127 | |||
| Dick Whittington - A Pantomime by Frank Kenchington (A Souvenir of Salonika Christmas 1915), written and produced by members of the 85th Field Ambulance (3rd London T) for troops of the First World War, with illustrations by C A B Jaques, with attached newspaper cutting £40 - 60 |
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| 128 | |||
| A Pratt Pottery "Crimean War" Paste Jar, of cylindrical form, printed in colours with The Dragoon Charge - Balaklava, 8cm high £350 - 450 |
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| 129 | |||
| A Victorian Cast Iron General Scarlett Doorstop, as a half length bust on a stepped rectangular plinth cast with his name, 22.5cm high **General Scarlett commanded the Heavy Brigade during the Crimean War £80 - 120 |
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| 130 | |||
| A Comic Bisque Porcelain Figure of a First World War Sailor, wearing HMS Dreadnought cap, with arms folded and dancing, the base impressed "We dont want to fight" from the music hall song "... but, by Jingo, if we do, we've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too", 18cm high. £100 - 150 |
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| 131 | |||
| A Late Victorian White Metal Plaque, of circular form, commemorating the death of Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence 1864-1892, bearing traces of gilt, 12cm diameter. **The eldest son of Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), Albert was known to his family as Eddy. He died of pneumonia in 1892. There are no other known items commemorating this event £120 - 180 |
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| 132 | |||
| A Quantity Army Film & Photographic Section SEAC Photographs 1945-46, depicting scenes in South East Asia, including the Surrender of the Japanese, the liberation of prisoners from Thanbusa Sweat Labour Camp, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten arriving in Singapore 1st December 1945, and Allied Graves lining "Death Valley" Railway in Siam, together with a small quantity of postcards, menus, invitations and ephemera relating to the RAF in Canada £80 - 120 |
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| 133 | |||
| The Space Shuttle Columbia - A Very Interesting Series of Eighteen Black and White Photographs, displayed in three glazed frames, and showing the launch, mid-flight and landing of the first space worthy Space Shuttle "Columbia" in NASA's Orbital Fleet on 12th April 1981 £100 - 200 |
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| 134 | |||
| A Foster Introscope, Serial number 111767, 6 volts, in chromed metal, with additional lenses and bulbs, in fitted wood case; a Foster Introscope, Serial number 110511, 6 volts, in three brushed steel sections, one of standard magnification, another of twice standard magnification, with electrical lead, in fitted oak case (2 - suitable for gun barrel inspection) £70 - 100 |
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| 135 | |||
| A 1920's Drum Major's Staff, with chromium plated acanthus bud pommel and ebonised metal tapering cylindrical haft (made for Darlington Jazz Band by the late Hyman Abraham circa 1925); an African Asigai, with narrow leaf shape blade, wood haft with woven brass wire grip (2) £80 - 120 |
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| 136 | |||
| A Quantity of Militaria, including buttons, cap badges, rank badges, shoulder pips and titles, cloth insignia, an RAOB neck sash and jewel, various gilt metal and enamel RAOB and society jewels etc £80 - 120 |
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| 137 | |||
| A George III Brass Gorget, with rolled edge, engraved with crowned GR flanked by laurel leaves, repaired; a Steel Artillery Gothic Sword Hilt, and a staved wood water bottle of oval section, with iron bindings af (3) £70 - 90 |
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| 138 | |||
| Five Air Ministry Aircraft Instruments, in bakelite cases comprising Climb and Descent, Brakes, Knots, Degrees and Boost (5) £60 - 80 |
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| 139 | |||
| A Pair of Second World War US Army Binoculars by Bosch & Lomb, 6 x 30, stamped DES. PAT.83934, SER.286642, with black crinkled grip, leather strap and carrying case £50 - 60 |
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| 140 | |||
| Captain Bruce Bairnsfather - "The Bystander's Fragments from France", five booklets, volumes 2,3,4,5 & 7, and Old Bill Stands By!, 1939 (6) £50 - 60 |
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| 141 | |||
| Orlando Norie - "Royal Field Artillery at Aldershot", signed watercolour, inscribed en verso, circa 1860, 33cm by 49cm, unframed; Terence Cuneo - "The Battle of Knightsbridge", signed limited edition print of 850 copies, unframed (2) £100 - 150 |
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| 142 | |||
| Picken after W (Crimea) Simpson - "The Field of Inkermann" and "The Ruins of Inkermann and City of Caverns", a pair of coloured lithographs, published 1855, framed and glazed, each with printed key to the reverse £100 - 150 |
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| 143 | |||
| An Early 20th Century Crimson Taffeta Standard, possibly to the Yeoman of the King's Bodyguard, painted with the Royal badge of a Queen's crown over a rose, thistle and shamrock and DIEU ET MON DROIT, the diagonally opposing corners painted with a white horse courant and a rose thistle and shamrock garland enclosing KGD, with fringing on three sides and gilt bullion thread tassels, 60cm by 80cm; after Bertram Park - "His Majesty King Edward VIII and the Three Royal Princes", a framed colour print; Decorations of Honour, two book plates framed as one (3) £60 - 90 |
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| 144 | |||
| A Quantity of Militaria, comprising assorted British and Foreign Fire Service badges, Second World War and later cloth insignia, Civil Defence Corps cloth breast badges, a French side cap and two books - Light Airs and Gentle Breezes - A Victorian Naval Life Story and Collectors' Coins GB 2008 £40 - 60 |
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| 145 | |||
| A Quantity of Militaria, comprising anodised, brass and white metal buttons - British and foreign military, transport, Royal Navy and Merchant Navy; Civil Defence Corps cloth badges and two books - Light Airs and Gentle Breezes - A Victorian Naval Life Story and Collectors' Coins GB 2008 £40 - 60 |
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| 146 | |||
| A Quantity of Militaria, comprising cap and other badges in brass, white metal, bimetal and anodised, including British, Danish and Canadian - no sliders, Civil Defence Corps cloth badges and two books - Light Airs and Gentle Breezes - A Victorian Naval Life Story and Collectors' Coins GB 2008 £50 - 80 |
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| 147 | |||
| A Quantity of Militaria, comprising British Military cap badges in brass, white metal and bimetal and anodised, including Royal Signals and Durham Light Infantry, Civil Defence Corps cloth badges and two books - Light Airs and Gentle Breezes - A Victorian Naval Life Story and Collectors' Coins GB 2008 £50 - 80 |
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| 148 | |||
| Militaria, comprising gilt metal thread embroidered crest to the Sergeants Mess Larkhill, framed and glazed; a cup, saucer, side plate and dinner plate with printed badges to the IX Light Infantry South Africa 1900-02 and the Parachute Regiment; two spoons and forks; four brass shell cases and a 220 Squadron RAF plaque £40 - 60 |
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| 149 | |||
| An Interesting Afghanistan 1878-80 Photograph Album, containing ninety six sepia photographs of military activities including early tanks, British soldiers interacting with friendly locals, and scenes; a quantity of books and ephemera including Monty, the Making of a General by Nigel Hamilton, Guns of Cape Ann by Kenneth Poolman, A Short History of the Queen's Ghurka Signals, Light Airs and Gentle Breezes - A Victorian Naval Life Story and Collectors' Coins GB 2008; and a colour print - Dunkirk June 1940 £40 - 60 |
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| 150 | |||
| A Brown Leather Sam Browne Belt, with brass buckles and fittings, and a leather revolver holster £50 - 80 |
| Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD | |||
| Arms, Armour, Militaria and Ethnographica | |||
| Auctioneer: | Tennants Auctioneers | Location: | The Auction Centre, Leyburn |
| Contact: | Telephone: +44 (0) 1969 623780 Facsimile: +44 (0) 1969 624281 | ||
| Date: | 9th December 2011 | Time: | 10:30AM |
| Details: | Viewing: Thursday 8 December 10 am to 5 pm Morning of sale from 8.00 am |
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