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History Of England Dissection Puzzle depicting Kings & Queens from William the Conqueror to George III, in original wooden box £40 - 60
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Jigsaws A Collection Of Assorted Examples including Nursery Rhymes: Miss Muffet; Mary, Mary; a boxed set; various shipping related including an Artic Scene and others (made up, a few with remains of boxes) (17) £80 - 120
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Jigsaws two large Animal examples: Elephant and Cow, both with card illustration backing £70 - 90
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Pollocks Card Theatre in original box, together with another card theatre (flat packed); Pollocks Saint George and the Dragon book, two copies of The Model Stage magazine, figures and assort other related items (qty) £80 - 120
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Souvenir Tissue 'In Affectionate Remembrance Of The Poor Colliers Who Lost Their Lives In The Disastrous Explosion At West Stanley Colliery, Durham On 16th Feb 1909 with precis of The King's Telegram and The Bishop of Durham Address and a list of the 168 men who lost their lives 13x16 1/2", 33x42cm £40 - 60
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Various Publications including Daily Mail Large Scale Military Maps (WWI): Thomas Cook/Canadian Pacific: Towards the Sunset, Empress of Scotland, To Canada Third Class; New Zealand The Land of Opportunity; CN Poster stamps British Railways (1936); The Railway Year Book 1930 and others £40 - 60
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Advertising Cards (i) Monkey Brand 'Wonit Wash Cloths' 18x13", 46x33cm (G) (ii) Wills Cigarettes 14x17", 36x43cm (G-F, some damage) (both framed and glazed) (2) £80 - 120
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Chew Friendship Cut Plug Advertising Clock with brass case 4", 10cm diameter £120 - 180
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Craven 'A' Enamel Sign 'Will Not Affect Your Throat' with red and black lettering on yellow ground and orange/red border 24x36", 61x92cm (G-F, some loss mainly to edges) £60 - 80
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Diamond Dyes Shop Cabinet with large colour illustration to front 'For Domestic and Fancy Dyeing' rear loading with five levels inside with labels listing colours to edges 16 1/2x20x9 1/2", 42x51x24cm (G-E, illustration crazed and faded) £200 - 300
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Enamel Advertising Sign Stephens Fountain Pen Ink with shaded blue ground, white lettering with black 3D effect 8 1/4x44", 21x112cm (F-G, rusting and loss to edges) £60 - 90
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Enamel Advertising Sign Stephens Fountain Pen Ink with shaded blue ground, white lettering with black 3D effect 8 1/4x44", 21x112cm (F-G, rusting and loss to edges) £60 - 90
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Fry's Chocolate Ebonised Display Cabinet, with two mirrored shelves and rear sliding doors and 'J S Fry & Sons Ltd' engraved to lower from of case 28x26x14 1/2" (G) £800 - 1200
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McVitie & Price's Digestive Biscuit Advertising Card depicting a child sitting on a biscuit tin, in original framed stamped 'McVitie & Price' to all four-sided overall 21x26", 54x67cm (G) £100 - 150
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Parkinson Sugar Coated Pills Advertising Cards R Parkinson & Sons Chemists Burnley 15x20", 38x51cm (G, framed and glazed) £70 - 100
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R Parkinson Burnley Remedies Shop Cabinet with four drawers, the cabinet is label in large gold lettering: to top and sides with company name and drawers: 'Eyes Ears', 'Lungs', 'Liver' and 'Bowels' 14 1/2x15x7 1/2", 37x38x19cm (G-E) £150 - 200
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Rizla+ Adverting Card depicting two ladies sheltering under an umbrella with 1904 Calendar printed on edges 13 1/2x17 1/2", 34x45cm; together with a further later example depicting soldiers smoking (both framed) (2) £60 - 80
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Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen Shop Display Cabinet with four shelves, rear opening door and 'Watermans Ideal Fountain Pens' on three sides of base and ink stamped 'Property of L C Sloan, London' on base 14x10x21" (WxDxH) £150 - 200
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Xtra Mex 3d Cigars Advertising Clock Cartland Six Bells, with 12" dial overall 17 1/2" with metal letters painted gold £100 - 150
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Pond Yacht an impressive single-masted example with self steering equipment, on stand with accessories 76", 193cm £300 - 500
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RMS Mauretania Bronze Nameplate Letter 'M' the letter was originally sold in 1935 at an auction by Hampton & Sons, St James. The Port and Stern nameplates were sold complete but the Starboard letters were sold individually, this 'M' was bought by a Reading Seed Merchant (Mr Martin Sutton) and was subsequently sold by the family to the current vendor 24", 62cm high sold together with a copy of 'The Cunard Turbine Drive Quadruple Screw Atlantic Liner Mauretania' 1907, a coloured photograph and cuttings relating to the original auction £5000 - 7000
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Trinity House Sand Timer glass interior with brass outer casing, stamped 'Trinity House' and '28' together with a small four draw telescope (2) £40 - 60
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Contemporary Builders Half Hull SS Admella inscribed 'SS Admella, M&AS Coy., Built By Laurence Hill & Co Port Glasgow 1857' 54", 137cm long £400 - 600
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Commonwealth
A collection of books relating to shipping in, to and from Africa, Canada (and North America, with especial reference to paddle steamers), and Australia and New Zealand with books on shipping lines such as Shaw Savill; Devitt and Moore; and The New Zealand Shipping Company. Books include:
Logan Marshall, The Tragic Story of the Empress of Ireland; The Hudson's Bay Company, A Brief History; H. Lenton Lester, High Lights in West Indies and Mexico; John Holt & Co., Merchant Adventure; Art Downs, Paddlewheels on the Frontier; New Zealand Shipping Company, The Carriage of Cargo. [44] £60 - 80
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Cunard
A collection of books on the Cunard Line, its ships, its accounts, and even its cooking. Including:
Verbatim Reports of Ordinary and Extraordinary General Meetings of Shareholders from 1878...To 1911 Inclusive; Carol Wright, Cunard Cook Book (inscribed by Wright); Around the World in the Franconia 1929; Kay Grant, Samuel Cunard; and Capt. Diggle, The Romance of the Modern Liner.
There are also two books on Q.E.1 and two on Q.E.2; two books on Mary; and three books on the Lusitania and her final voyage, including Lauriat's survivor's account. Along with three others [20] £80 - 100
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England and Wales
A collection of books on English and Welsh ship builders, owners, operators and brokers, such as histories, biographies, anniversaries and ship lists, inc.:
Capt. Proctor, Fifty Years with the Prince Line; Sir Percy Hunting, The Group and I (gift from Richard Hunting); Sir William Forwood, Reminiscences of a Liverpool Ship Owner; Charles Goodey, The First Hundred Years (Richards Shipbuilders); H.M. Le Fleming, Ships of the Blue Funnel Line; The Centenary of the Isle of Man Steam Packet Co.; Glen Line Calendar (1970); Thomas Royden & Sons, Shipbuilders (privately printed for the family); and Capt. Course, The Wheel's Kick and the Wind's Song (John Stewart Line). [37] £80 - 120
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European Shipping
De Wesembeek, Albert de Burbure
The Centenary of the Ostend-Dover Line 1846-1946. Antwerp: Imprimeries Generales Lloyd Anversois Ltd., 1946. 4to, org. wrappers in glassine dj. With the French and Belgium translations (without djs). Limited edition of 50 of each language.
Along with histories of the Compagnie Maritime Belge
1895-1945; the Compagnie de Navigation D'Orbigny 1865-1950; and K.N.S.M. 1856-1956.
With other works on German, Swiss, Dutch, French and Soviet Russian shipping including Perthes, Justus See-Atlas 1911 and Trost, Heinz Die Lauenburger Dampschiffe und ihre Nachfolger 1975 (limited edition) [32] £60 - 80
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Guide Books
Loftie, W.J.
Orient Line Guide. Sampson Low, 1888. 8vo, org. cloth; half-title after Kate Greenaway, tinted plates, maps and plans. Third ed.
Le Couteur, Wilson
The Great Outposts of the Empire. Federal-Houldershire Lines, 1907. 8vo, org. cloth; b/w photos and map to text.
Booth Line
Holiday Tours in Spain, Portugal and Madeira. Booth Steamship Company, 1913. 8vo, org. decorative cloth; 6 coloured folding maps and other b/w maps, colour plates and b/w photos to text. Sixth ed.
Compania Trasatlantica. Libro de Inormacion. Barcelona, 1921. Oblong 8vo, cloth boards richly decorated in gilt; numerous b/w photos and adverts. With the same 1919, blue cloth with central onlaid vignette. [5] £60 - 80
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India and the Far East
Brame, Alfred
The India General Steam Navigation Company Limited. Leadenhall Press, 1900. 8vo, cloth; folding frontis., plates. First ed. Seemingly rare book with loosely inserted typed letter to Hinson Antrobus (1967) from the National Central Library requesting help tracking the work and compliments slip from the library.
Along with Blake, George B.I. Centenary 1856:1956; Griffiths, P.J. A History of the Joint Steamer Companies; Muir & Davies A Victorian Shipowner (Clan Line); and Hilary Saunders, Valiant Voyaging (British India). All first eds in djs.
And books relating to Far Eastern shipping lines such as McRae and Prentice, Irrawaddy Flotilla; Francis Hyde, Blue Funnel; Capt. Williamson, Eastern Traders (Jardine, Matheson, private circ. ed,); Arthur Wardle, El Vapor Conquista el Pacifico (Chilean 1940 Spanish ed.) and Marriner & Hyde, John Samuel Swire. [23] £80 - 100
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Lloyd's
Lloyd's Register (10 vols). Dated 1920-21; 34-35; 37;38 (stamped for Dublin Port & Docks Board); 45-46 (marked Top Secret); 51-52 (A-L, M-Z); 53-54 (A-L, M-Z); and 72-73 (A-L, M-Z); all bound in leather. [10] £60 - 100
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Merchant Fleets at War
A collection of books on the wartime achievements of famous lines, such as The Ben Line, The Blue Star Line, 'Ropner's Navy' and the P&O inc. Capt. Roskill A Merchant Fleet in War and A.D. Divine The Merchant Navy Fights and Geoffrey Barley Caught by a Nazi Raider with a few on the Royal Navy. [15] £50 - 80
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Nordic Countries
Rinman, Thorsten
The Johnson Line. Rinman & Linden, 1990. 4to, org. boards in glassine wrapper; numerous photographs, with loosely inserted errata slip.
Staveseth, Reidar
Pa Nordnorsk Kjol. Vesteraalens Dampskibsseskab, 1956. 4to, blue cloth; b/w photos to text.
Lehmann, Johannes
A Century of Burmeister & Wain. Copenhagen: B&W, 1948. 4to, white paper-covered boards (spine detached at upper joint but present); b/w and colour illus. First English translation after 1943 first ed.
With six other books inc. the white ships (with loosely inserted deck plans at rear) and three smaller works inc. Clausen's Atlas for the Stockholm-Goteborg Canal (with 11 maps). [13] £50 - 70
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Royal Mail
A collection of books relating to the history, spectacular and infamous alike, including its 70th anniversary (A Link of Empire or 70 Years of British Shipping); the downfall of Lord Kyslant (Brooks' The Royal Mail Case and Green and Moss' A Business of National Importance) and its valiant war service (Leslie's The Royal Mail War Book and Bushell's Eight Bells - presentation inscription on the occasion of ringing Eight Bells at the Company War Memorial). Along with three other general books [8] £50 - 80
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Scotland
A collection on Scottish shipbuilders and shipping lines inc.:
John Rankin, A History of our Firm (authorial gift copy); John Carvel, Stephen of Linthouse (one copy gift from Sir Murray Stephen, second copy in dj); Alan Cuthbert, Clyde Shipping Company (with inserted Clyde compliments slip); Alastair Borthwick, Yarrows (in dj); L. Cope Cornford, The Sea Carriers (The Aberdeen Line) and David MacBrayne, Summer Tours in the Western Highlands & Islands of Scotland.
Along with others on the Caledonian Steam Packet (MacArthur), Paddy Henderson (Laird), Salvesen of Leith (Vamplew) and the Anchor Line (McLellan). [17] £50 - 70
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Ship Building
Various books on ship-building including firms such as Yarrows on the Clyde and Stephens of Linthouse and two volumes of the Shipbuilding and Shipping Record, 1916 and 1931. Along with others of more general interest on shipping such as L. Cornford Cope A Century of Sea Trading; Deakes and Stanley A Century of Sea Travel; and Roger Finch Pierhead Painters as well as issues of the Journal of Commerce Review and Shipping World. [46] £50 - 70
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Shipping
c. 30 works of general maritime interest, covering liners, the history of steam ships and sail and shipping lines and owners £50 - 60
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Blue Funnel Group metalware: sugar bowl with lid, ashtrays (TSS Nestor, 2xTSS Sarpedon, TSS Aeneas and TSS Ulysses) and various cutlery; ceramics: tea pot, small plate and bowl; other items: two desk lighters, set of coasters, luggage tags; and other items (qty) £70 - 100
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Booth Line Metalware Group including three Flower vases, Dish with cover, two ashtrays, four compacts, Notebook '1000 Miles Up The Amazon', Desk calendar and other items including a card picture frame 'Booth Line Royal Mail Steamers' £50 - 80
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Brass Plaque 'MV Empire MacMahon' Maiden Voyage Jan 1944 engraved with line drawing of the ship and two biplanes and signatures of the officers, with wooden backing 9 1/2x7", 24x18cmMV Empire MacMahon was one of the MAC (Merchant Aircraft Carriers) ships deployed in the Atlantic during the Second World War to counter the U-Boat threat; this ship was formally an oil tanker and was converted back in 1946 and renamed Naninia £70 - 100
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British & North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company Coffee Pot with bone handle lid; together with a WSSC coffee pot
The B&NARMSPC was formed in 1840 and renamed Cunard Steamship Company in 1878 £70 - 100
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British Shipping Paperwork including examples from Campbells, Red Funnel, Stephenson Clarke, Townsend, Cory Fleet, Ian Allan Round the Southern Fleet, The White Funnel Handbook, Souvenir Magazine of the Eagle & Queen Line, Cabin plans Jamaica Settler, The Anzio 1 disaster; Brocklebank Map of India and Pakistan, Map of greater Bombay city, SS Sibun London to West Indies Feb 1895, three Discharge Certificates, Manchester Ship Canal five maps 1894, SS Rameses Breakfast and Luncheon menus (Launched 1893, torpedoed 1918), P A Campbell White Funnel Fleet Extract Murrays Guide and others (qty) £80 - 120
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Commemorative Life Belts The Bristol Steam Navigation Co.Ltd., Strathmore 1956, Arcadia 1976, Iberia 1970, Himalaya 1964, Arcadia Cruising 1961 and Mercator, Anvers (7) £50 - 70
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Cunard Group including small tin tray RMS Aquitania, small poster Cunard Line Travellers Cheques Cashed Here', RMS Scythia compact and small tray, paperweight, RMS Caronia souvenir, three Aquitania pens, three replica Lusitania medals and a few badges £70 - 100
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Cunard Line Leaflets And Paperwork mostly relating to The Queen Elizabeth including passenger lists. menus, daily programmes, a few postcard information sheets, letters posted on board and others £40 - 60
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Cunard Queen Mary Group including ashtrays, handbells, two Daily Record Medals, pencils, tea strainers, a paperweight and others; together with a few similar items from Queen Elizabeth £70 - 100
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Cunard Related Paperwork including Queen Mary related: Passenger lists, plan of cabin class accommodation 1956, jigsaw, Masterpiece in the Making and others; Lancastria: various cruise leaflets including Gallipoli & Salonika 1936, a menu, Itineraries & rate 1935, letter dated 28 Sep 1938 informing a passenger of the cancellation of a cruise; Two plans of Carinthia, Certificate of Discharge for Cephalonia 1895, Hand written letter RMS Ausonia, two To Canada leaflets £70 - 100
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Ellerman Line Group consisting of metalware: Coffee pot, twin handled cup engraved 'The Ellerman Lines Ltd, JRE Hall Line', a set of seven sweet dishes, sugar bowl, milk jug, dish and a further sweet dish; ceramics: coffee pot, cup and saucer, saucer, plate and small bowl £60 - 80
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Ellerman Lines Group including Bakelite ashtray, Desk calendar, Bridge score book, SS City of Nagpur ashtray torpedoed and sunk by U75 in 1941, SS City of Paris teaspoon, Plant display stand, Paper knife, Ellerman & Bucknall Line note pad back and a few others £80 - 120
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French And American Shipping Paperwork including USA: Deck plans SS United States and America, Dollar Steamships Lines Passenger Fare Folder, Hand written letter from SS Minnehaha, Tourist Class on the Manhattan and Washington, SS Friesland Menus 1903, Plans SS President Madison and others; French: LPG Tanker Gay Lussac leaflet, Ligne de L'Indo-Chine 1906, Haiti booklet, North African Motor Tours, Passenger lists, Normandie Aperitif and others (qty) £70 - 100
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Furness Line Metalware Group including two ashtrays 'Walter Kidd Hi-Ex Fire Test Queen of Bermuda March 1967', two Goblets, Matchbox holder, TSS Ocean Monarch tea strainer, Cream jug, QTEV Monarch of Bermuda, sugar bowl, Coffee pot; a few ceramic items and a Bakelite ashtray £60 - 90
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