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Field Marshal Montgomery of Alamein - a Handwritten Letter dated 1st February 1959, with a Photograph, in Original Envelope, in reply to an enquiry regarding Colonel Montgomery (Uncle of the above). The original typed letter from an L.A. Ingle of Morley, states that he befriended Colonel Montgomery and his daughter on a voyage back to England from Kenya and asks if they were related, a photograph of them was included. Field Marshal Montgomery has written his reply on the reverse of the letter, stating that the Colonel was his father's brother and that his daughter Daisy Montgomery had married and become Lady Thomas. He includes her address, saying she would be very interested in the snapshot. £200 - 300
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Three Second World War RAF Pilot's Flying Log Books, to 112444 Flight Lieutenant L E Carroll, from 14th July 1941 to 24th March 1953 £100 - 150
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Two RFC/RAF Pilot's Flying Log Books, to Flying Officer P.G.Clarabut, the first entry dated 15/10/17, the last entry dated 21/10/33, together with photocopies of the log books, five RAFR Refresher Course reports from The De Havilland School of Flying dating from 1923 to 1927, and a letter dated 1993 from the above's nephew
Footnote:- Believed to have joined the RFC in 1915, after the Great War he joined the RAF as a reservist £100 - 150
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A Set of Four RAF Pilot's Flying Log Books 1930-1939, to Pilot Sergeant Thomas Richard Watkin Owens, with entries 5.5.30 to 30.9.32, 3.10.32 to 11.10.35, 11.10.35 to 31.5.37, and 1.6.37 to 27.7.39, together with two Air Ministry Pilot's Certificates and Licences date 1933 and 1939, photocopies of the log books, the Nominal Roll of the Officer's and Airman who passed out from No.3 Flying Training School RAF 29th March 1931 in which he is recorded as "Passed out with Distinguished Pass", a letter from his widow in which she mentions that he was killed in a flying accident a few days before the outbreak of war in 1939 at the age of 30 years; also, an interesting collection of mainly 1920's and 30's photographs of aircraft, many crash scenes; a letter regarding the above from Wing Commander R R Stanford-Tuck and two related published books. £300 - 500
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An Early 20th Century Verre Eglomise Glass Plaque, of shield shape, decorated with the Prince of Wales's Plumes over the legend ICH DIEN and BY APPOINTMENT, in colours and gilt, 25.5cm by 26cm; Phillipe Comte de Hardwicke, installed at Windsor Castle 23rd April 1805 with the Order of the Garter - two black and white engravings (one in reverse) of his Garter Stall Plate, 25.5cm by 18cm, in glazed frames; also, a silver plated salver and a rose bowl, each engraved with a presentation inscription (5) £100 - 150
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Wazirforce 1919-1920, Fifty-Five Sketches by Captain C.G. Borrowman 4th Gurkha Rifles, a folio of black and white caricature portraits of officers of the regiment. ("Bow Wow" Borrowman, a celebrated artist/caricaturist, was a friend of John Masters 1/4 Gurkhas, whose autobiographical army book he illustrated); South Persia Casualties - photocopied notes; five Military Books:- The Story of the Staff College 1858-1958; Parts IX & X of Naval & Military Despatches Relating to Operations in the War published in the London Gazette July 1918 to December 1918, and January 1919 to January 1920; War Service Roll of the Members of the Royal Households and Estates of the King and the Queen; and A Regimental Index to the Distinguished Conduct Medals Gazetted Between 1920 and 1997 by Spinks (7) £100 - 150
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John Frederick Young C.B.E., M.M. Airman 1916 to Air Commodore 1946 - A collection of photographs, letters, ephemera, following his long career in the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Air Force, together with his RFC cap badge and buttons, RAF cap badge and a pair of rank shoulder boards £100 - 200
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An Austro-Hungarian Ebonised Walking Cane, the large silver pommel modelled as the bust head of Emperor Franz Josef I, his stand-up collar stamped .925, R within a square, Gr.10, and with a star 30 PN within a rectangle, with brass ferrule and later rubber sabot, 95cm £100 - 150
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A Small Quantity of Militaria, including cap and collar badges, brooched military buttons, sweetheart brooches, various Hunt badges and three Japanese white metal small boxes, etc. £100 - 150
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An Interesting Album of Second World War Photographs and Postcards, compiled by a serviceman aboard HMS Unicorn during the Second World War, possibly J Johnston, comprising mainly censored images from both on board and on shore from locations including Aden, the Suez Canal, Cochin, Madagascar, Ceylon, the Maldives, Sydney, Durban and Bombay £100 - 200
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A Falklands Islands Brass 105mm Shell Case, engraved with 78 Squadron RAF badge over presentation inscription "Warrant Officer Dave 'Tigger' Michaels 1 July - November 2003. Best wishes from all the Air Crew and Groundcrew of 78 Sqn., the underside dated 1983, with deactivation certificate; a Silver Cigarette Box, rectangular, with engine turned decoration, the fascia engraved with a presentation inscription "To General Sir Campbell R.Hardy Commandant General Royal Marines...", hallmarks for Sheffield 1958; a British Army Peaked Cap, with leather chinstrap and black American cloth lining (3) £100 - 200
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The Dublin Easter Uprisings, Easter 1916
A Very Interesting Collection of Ephemera, including a coloured lithographic recruitment poster for the Irish Transport and General Workers Union by Phil Donovan, 98cm by 63cm; a Sinn Fein Rebellion Handbook, Easter 1916; The Rebellion in Dublin 1916 photo-book; three Irish Volunteers pamphlets; a typed letter signed by Francis Sheehy-Skeffington and a published Speech From the Dock; The Irish Volunteers Membership cards; The Irish Citizen Army Emergency Order for 24 haversacks with ammunition pockets; a subscription form to the Tomas Aghas (Thomas Patrick Ash) Memorial Fund Thomas Patrick Ashe was a member of the Gaelic League, the Gaelic Athletic Association, the Irish Republican Brotherhood and a founding member of the Irish Volunteers, he was only 32 when he died on September 25, 1917, after a so-called "botched" force-feeding while on hunger strike in Mountjoy prison); four Dublin Opinion magazines for 1923; etc, contained in a binder file». £400 - 600
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A Small Quantity of Militaria, including three pieces of First World War Trench Art and a plated sugar box and spoon; an Indian kukri with leather scabbard; an Irish Shillelagh; a First World War leather binoculars case dated 1916; a water canteen; and a US black leather pistol holster £70 - 100
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A Large Early Iron Cannon Ball, 19cm diameter, some impact marks £100 - 200
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A 19th Century Indian Steel Dhal, of convex circular form, chased and engraved with panels of foliage, with applied rolled edge and four rosette rivets to secure the handle - now missing, 48cm; a Copy of a Steel Cuirass, with raised medial ridge (2) £150 - 200
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A 1 1/2" Brass Single Draw Telescope, with anti-flare hood, pull-off lens cover, leather sleeve and sliding eyepiece cover, 70cm long extended; a Copy of an Eastern Brass Powder Flask, of circular form engraved with tendrils (2) £70 - 100
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A Malaysian Small Lantaka, the 22cm bronze barrel applied with cast leaves, with hinged gimbal on a later wood stand, 29cm £70 - 100
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A Small Quantity of Militaria, including a modern tinder pistol, a gun cleaning kit, a Britains diecast field gun, a glazed display of Nosler Trophy Grade inert bullets, a collection of First World War sweetheart's letters, photographs of Second World War aircraft, three pairs of cuff-links modelled as shotgun cartridges, bullets and pistols, a boxed Corgi Avro Lancaster model; also, a miniature woodworking set and various furs and skins £100 - 150
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A Collection of Military Reference Books, mainly related to edged weapons, guns and German Third Reich militaria, contained in three boxes. £100 - 150
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A First World War German Iron Cross, first class, with vertical sword shape pin, in original case; a Second World War German Military Wristwatch by Stowa, the circular black dial with luminous Arabic numerals, hands and subsidiary seconds dial, signed, in a chromed case (af); five Various Wristwatches:- a gentleman's Bulova wristwatch; a gentleman's chrome plated wristwatch signed Revue-Sport; another gentleman's wristwatch and two lady's plated wristwatches (7) £100 - 150
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Four Military Books:- Driver's Handbook for the "Churchill" (Mark IV) Infantry Tank, issued by Vauxhall Motors Ltd., April 1942; A.F.V. Recognition Part 1. September 1942, British & Allied Turreted A.F.Vs.; Arakan Assignment, The Story of the 82nd West African Division, with folding map to the inside back cover and together with a propaganda leaflet aimed against the 81st & 82nd West Africa Division fighting in Burma; an Outline of Japanese Tactics, Japanese Military Forces No.18, published for the Headquarters Allied Land Forces, Sea and General Headquarters, India, Military Intelligence Directorate, July 1945; a One Inch Second Division 85 J/10 Map of Burma, 1944 (6) £150 - 180
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A Collection of Thirty-Eight French Neolithic Knapped Flint Tools, including points and small hand axes, each with collector's ink inscriptions 'Verdier', glued into a display box £100 - 150
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A Collection of Late 19th Century/Early 20th Century Military Books and Manuals including 'Dress Regulations for the Army 1911', 'Army Appropriation Account 1884-1885' [ex Libris Dutch Parliament], and 'Conveyance of Troops by Sea, April - June 1918 (SECRET)' [ex Admiralty Library] (22) £80 - 120
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A Collection of Late 19th Century/Early 20th Century Military Books and Manuals including 'Manual of Military Engineering 1893' (a.f), 'Infantry Training 1905', 'Training - Manual Signalling (Provisional) 1915', and 'Garrison Artillery Drill Volume I 1892' (22) £80 - 120
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General Sir Douglas David Gracey KCB, KCIE, CBE, MC Interest:- four "The Pakistan Army Coronation Contingent 1953", a set of eight hand embroidered insignia worked in silver bullion thread and contained in four associated cases; also, a cased set of collar dogs and an associated envelope addressed to the above from the President's Secretariat, President's House
Footnote: General Sir Douglas Gracey was second Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army from 1948 until 1951. He was the vendor's great uncle £50 - 80
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A Late 18th Century Brass Lion Mask and Ring Door Knocker, the ring set with a later silver coloured metal plaque engraved with the inscription 'Removed from Collingwood House, Morpeth, Northumberland, 1911', 28cm by 21.5cm
Footnote:- Collingwood House was the home of Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, from 1791 to his death at sea in 1810. He partnered Lord Nelson in many of the British victories in the Napoleonic Wars £300 - 500
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A 16th Century Spaulder (Shoulder Protector), with three lames attached by rivets; also, two pairs of binoculars, one with leather case, two powder/shot measures with ebony handles, a turnscrew, two small brass spirit levels, a miniature brass tank, a clip of spent bullets and a mahogany truncheon numbered 574 in gilt (11) £150 - 200
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A Collection of Fifteen Various Modern Police Truncheons, in ebonised wood, mahogany, beech and soft woods, some with leather wrist straps, one with wall bracket; also, seven various pairs of hand cuffs, three stamped Hiatt Best, two stamped Hiatt 1960, the other two of earlier date (23) £150 - 200
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A Victorian Painted Wood Truncheon, the rounded maroon body painted with crowned VR cypher, crossed flags and inscribed DEFENDERS OF EUROPE, with red painted ribbed grip, 45cm; an Early/Mid 20th Century Mahogany Night Stick, with rounded pommel and tapering cylindrical haft, lacks ferrule, 78cm; a 19th Century "Cut-Down" Boarding Pike, with triangular section steel head, long langets, one numbered 31, the cut-down ash haft stamped with Sold-out-of-Service arrows, 46cm (3) £100 - 150
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Six Elizabeth II Police Custodian Coxcomb Helmets, with chrome coxcombs and helmet plates to:- West Yorkshire Metropolitan Police, South Wales Constabulary, Heddlu Gwent Police, Norfolk Constabulary, Northumbria Police and States of Jersey Police; a Similar pre-1953 helmet, to Wakefield City Police; a Similar Night Helmet, with blackened brass coxcomb and helmet plate (8) £150 - 200
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Nine Elizabeth II Police Custodian Coxcomb Helmets, with chrome coxcombs and enamelled chrome helmet plates to:- Staffordshire Police, Kent Constabulary, West Mercia Constabulary, Derbyshire Constabulary, Hampshire, Greater Manchester Police, West Yorkshire Police, Thames Valley Police and Essex Police (9) £180 - 250
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Nine Elizabeth II Police Custodian Coxcomb Helmets, with chrome coxcombs and helmet plates to:- West Mercia Constabulary, Dorset Police, Cleveland Constabulary, Port of Liverpool Police, Merseyside Police, Hampshire, Cheshire Constabulary, Cambridgeshire Constabulary and Gwent Constabulary; a Similar Night Helmet to Durham Constabulary, the blackened helmet plate with chrome roundel (10) £180 - 250
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Eight Elizabeth II Police Custodian Rose Top Helmets, with chrome helmet plates to:- Gloucestershire Constabulary, Warwickshire Constabulary, South Yorkshire Police, North Yorkshire Police, Lincolnshire Police, Mid-Wales Constabulary, Birmingham City Police and Sussex Police (8) £150 - 200
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Four Pre-1953 Police Custodian Rose Top Helmets, two with blackened helmet plates and chrome tops to Doncaster Police and North Riding Constabulary, one with blackened top and helmet plate to Scarborough Police, and one with blackened top and chrome helmet plate to Guernsey Police; four Elizabeth II Police Custodian Rose Top Helmets, three with chrome top and helmet plates to:-Metropolitan Police, West Midlands Police and Wiltshire Constabulary, and one with chrome and enamelled helmet plate to Bedfordshire Police (8) £150 - 200
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Eight Elizabeth II Police Custodian Rose Top Helmets, with chrome and enamel helmet plates to:- Lancashire Constabulary, Avon & Somerset Constabulary, Royal Gibraltar Police, British Transport Police, Lincolnshire Police, Surrey Constabulary, Ministry of Defence Police and Northamptonshire Police (8) £150 - 200
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Eight Elizabeth II Police Custodian Ball Top Helmets, with chrome helmet plates to:- Devon & Cornwall Constabulary, Devon Constabulary, Dyfed-Powys Constabulary, Leicestershire Constabulary, York & North East Yorkshire Police, Humberside Police, Hull City Police and Brighton Police; three Similar Helmets, with chrome and enamel helmet plates to Humberside Police x2 and Nottinghamshire Constabulary (11) £150 - 200
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Two Elizabeth II Police Caps, one to an Inspector Leeds City Police, one to Metropolitan Police; two Similar Commonwealth Police Caps, to Ontario Provincial Police and Western Australia Police; seven Similar Continental Police Caps, including Poland, West Germany, etc; two Similar US Caps, one to New York City Police (14) £100 - 150
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Seven Elizabeth II Northern Ireland Police Caps, three to the Royal Ulster Constabulary including one to a Chief Constable and one to a woman, the rest to the Northern Ireland Police Service, including two women's (7) £80 - 120
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An Early Spike Top Six Panel Police Helmet to Exeter City Police, of cork construction, with chrome spike, helmet plate and ear rosettes, with green stiffened cloth liner, and leather sweatband, lacks chinstrap; a 1960's Police Coxcomb Two Panel Helmet to City of London Police, with blackened coxcomb, helmet plate with gilt centre and C/121, with leather chinstrap and green cloth liner (2) £100 - 150
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An Elizabeth II Isle of Man Police Helmet, in white hard plastic, with chrome ball top and helmet plate; three Elizabeth II Six Panel Helmets to the New Zealand Police, two in blue cloth and one in white leatherette, with chrome helmet plates (4) £90 - 120
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A German Police Shako, with black patent finish, white metal helmet plate for Berlin surmounted by white metal and red enamel cockade, with leather chin strap and liner; a Belgian Adrian Helmet, painted black, with silver painted lion head helmet plate; a Silver Finished Fibreglass Spiked Helmet, with chrome spike, chrome and brass Security hexagonal snowflake helmet plate, with metal chin scales (3) £90 - 120
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An Italian Police Tropical Helmet, of two panel white cloth construction, with white metal T.N. helmet plate; a Swiss Tropical Helmet, of white leatherette six panel construction, with enamelled helmet plate to the canton of Genève; six Various Italian Police Helmets, in white plastic/composition; a Similar Blue Cloth Example, of six panel construction and silver plated helmet plate; a Similar Black Plastic Example, with gilt metal coxcomb and helmet plate (10) £100 - 200
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Two US Police Motorbike Helmets, one to New York City Police, the other to a Lieutenant of the Sheriff's Department; three Police Riot Helmets, to the British Police, Leeds City Police and West Germany; four Other Hats, comprising a State of Georgia 'lemon squeezer' trooper's milan straw type hat, a US stetson, a New Zealand Police furfelt hat and an Australian Queensland Police (9) £100 - 200
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A Ceremonial Spanish Guardia Civil Tricornio, in black plush with yellow braid trim, red and yellow cockade and brass button; a Similar Black Patent Tricornio, with leather sweatband; a Similar Peaked Cap, in green cloth with neck protector (3) £70 - 100
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A Second World War Zuckerman Helmet, with grey/blue paint, stencilled H.F.P. in black, the leather and webbing liner held by lacing, the inner brim stamped A.M.C./3/1941; three Folding Pocket Knives, one with Marlin spike, each with chequered black plastic grip scales; two Steel Folding Pocket Knives, stamped with broad arrow/R.B.S./1954 and 1955; a Second World War Mâchéte, with rusted blade and projecting hooked tang, two piece riveted wood grip and crushed leather scabbard; a Kukri, the horn grip with brass bolster and pommel, with leather scabbard (8) £70 - 100
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A 19th Century Indo-Persian Steel Khula Khud, with screw-in square tapering spike, the one piece domed skull chiseled and engraved with palmettes and tendrils and bearing traces of the original gold koftgari decoration, set with a single plume holder and sliding nasal guard, with chain mail neck protector £200 - 300
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A Rare First World War German Hood for a Gas Mask, in fine grey cloth, the metal eyepieces with celluloid lenses, lacking its screw-in filter, the cream cotton lining stitched with original owner's label "Thurner" £300 - 400
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An Early 20th Century German Copy of a 17th Century Peaked Morion, the two piece skull with finely welded seam to the comb, the separate brim attached to the folded edge of the skull with rivets, bearing traces of blackened finish £100 - 150
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A First World War German M1916 Helmet (Stahlhelm), with painted camouflage, the left inner brim stamped B.F.62, with remains of leather liner, lacks chinstrap £300 - 500
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A First World War German M1916 Helmet (Stahlhelm), with traces of painted camouflage, with three section cushioned leather liner, lacks chinstrap, no visible markings £300 - 400
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